The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-08-06

grade crossing in Cleveland, o. Twen
ty were injured, several fatally.
The fact that the Pinkerton detec
tives. hired to ferret out the supposed
slayer Of Ira @. Rawn. president OF
the Monon railroad, who met his death
in mysterious manner at HIS Winnet
ka Qll) home on July 20. after inves'
tigating the case. came to the conclu'
sion that the case was one Of suicide
not murder, was the most Significant
fact brought out at the first session
OF the coroner's inquest into the death
of the railroad magnate.
| Nebraska Democrats at the conven-
ton minimized the action Of the dele
gates In repudiating w. J. Bryan's
county option plank. They say the
action was not reputation OF Bryan
as leader, but was merely a turn
ing down of one OF the Issues which
Bryan advocated. They add that the
plank referred only to local conditions
and that Bryan's standing is I'M
shaken.
That conditions in the west are bet
/
that the crops. in spite of the droughts,
are going to show excellent returns
for the farmers, are some OF the con-
illusions reached by President w. G.
Brown of the New York Central rail-
road, after ten days Of personal OBJ
servation in Iowa, Minnesota, the two
Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas.
After bitter wrangle In the resolu-
lions committee. the Iowa Democratic
state convention adopted local OPP
ton plank, thereby putting the liquor
question which has been a thorn In
the flesh of both parties for years,
squarely up to the people.
A sweeping general strike order, in
volving 3S locals and $4,000 men en-
gagged in the building trades was is
sued by the business agents OF the
Chicago Building Trades council aft
err long conference.
Consul Miller at Tampico. Mexico.
has telegraphed to the state depart,
ment at Washington that the British
steamship Madawaska has reported
seeing in latitude 29.38, longitude 69.56.
Greenwich west, water-logged bark.
named Come. with the stern stove In.
A Washington ID. CO. dispatch says
that newspapers in Hankow. Papeh
province, China, are opposing the for
eign loan of s40,000,000 and advise the
people to subscribe for the amount
themselves The loan is for railroad
building.
The platform convention of the Re-
publican party of Nebraska at Lincoln
adopted the platform strongly In
dorsing the administration of Presi-
dent Taft, expressing unalterable OPP
position o'the system known as Can
nonism" and hearty sympathy with the
Insurgent movement in and out OF con-
gress.
Not single complaint by the police
of the illegal sale of liquor In New
York city on Sunday was recorded
during the twenty-fQur hours ending
at midnight. This condition is UMPIRE
cedented and is the climax to three
months of the operation of Mayor
Gaynor's plan for enforcement OF the
excise law.
Chief of Poliac Steward has placed
Ethe Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures un-
| der the official ban In a sweeping or
| der, which hit at all moving picture
houses in Chicago and may bar many
plays from the melodramatlc and even
first-class theaters.
To Mrs. Florence Willis Rawn.
widow of the late l. G. Rawn. presi-
dent of the Monon railroad. who was
found dead In his summer home IN
Winnetka, ILL.,. is given all the proper
ty left by the late railroad chief, ac-
cording to the terms of his will. filed
with the assistant clerk Of the probate
court The estate is supposed to be
valued at over $1.000.000.
Rioting by Grand Trunk strike SYM
pathizers at South Bend. Ind. was
resumed when crowd of from 1900
to 1000 men and boys attempted to
burn freight car. After the car had
been burning 20 minutes the fire de-
partment extinguished the flames.
The annual meeting Of the National
Retail jewelers. association-the
largest BatnerlnB OF men Interested
in the jewelry trade ever assembled
opened in Detroit. Mich.
At the Moody Bible institute in Chi
cago a religious conference opened
modelled after the Keswick confer
ences Of England and attended by
many famous theologians.
The board of army engineers which
| investigated the gun explosion at
Fortress Monroe reported that the ac-
cident was caused by the failure Of
the safety device OF the firing mech
anish to function properly.
Nebraska Democrats wrested the
leadership of their state organization
from William ]. Bryan on the Issue
Of county option at the Grand Island
state convention. BY decisive votes
they registered their unbelief In his
present policies after listening to an
impassioned appeal from Mr.. Bryan,
who declared the liquor interests were
In an organized attempt to secure DO
litical control Of the state.