The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-07-15

lands OF Nevada.
Domestic
Counsel representing j. ogden Ar
mour, Edward Tilden and other pack
ers indicted for violating the Sher-
man antitrust act, appeared before
Judge George A. Carpenter in the
United States district court and en-
tered pleas OF not guilty for their elf
ents. The packers did not appear In
court.
Pope Plus X, in an autograph let
ter received by the apostolic delegate
to Washington, applauds the lead
taken by the United States In the
worldwide campaign for international
peace. Although the pontiff does not
mention President Taft specifically by
name. copy Of the letter was for
warded to the White House.
Fire which started in the kitchen
OF the dining room building at the
Ionia (Mich.) prison for the criminal
insane threatened for time to reach
the main prison. Spontaneous COM
bustion is supposed to have been the
cause. The loss on the burned build
ing and contents is $4,000.
Judge Ebert H. Gary's plan for the
practical elimination of competition
in the manufacture Of steel was
unanimously approved by representa-
tives of the leading steel companies Of
the world at the conference In Brus-
sells. A committee was appointed to
consider plan of organization and
report later.
To prevent William Mullen. farm
er of Springfield, ILL.,. from attacking
his own wife with a knife, William
Corris OF Chicago, a stenographer. shot
and killed Mullen. Corris gave him.
self up to Sheriff Mester.
Kaylor, Pa, mining town, was
practically wiped out by fire, which 10
supposed to have originated from
Roman candle. The loss Is $115,000.'
.
Commander Alfred A. Pratt, u. 8.
~, died at Mare Island (Cal.) hospital,
three days after having been retired by
the "plucking board" OF the navy de-
partment. Pratt was born at Syca-
more, H., thirty-eight years ago.
Unless slight barometric depres-
sion, forming in the northwest. grows
to a full-fedged rainstorm, there Is
no immediate prospect OF rescue
from the abnormal temperatures and
oppressive humidity prevailing over
the whole country which have col
lected record-breaking toll Of death
and suffering.
Forest B. Henry of Berlin, N. j., and
Thomas Ogden Of Linwood. N. j.,
were killed and II others injured when
q Pennsylvania train for Atlantic City
sideswiped a local passenger at Luz
castor, near Camden, N. ]. Railroad
ofYicials say the accident was due to
the mistake of brakeman In throwing
q wrong switch.
For the sixth time In recent years
Chicago skyscrapers aided In sui
eide, when George A. Wright, thirty
nine years old. leaped over the railing
of the fifteenth floor of the Masonic
temple and fell $50 feet to the rotunda
on the main floor. Excessive heat II
believed to have made Wright insane.
Summary punishment was meted out
to Kingsley Odds, a prospector. held
at Globe, Ariz., in prison for the
murder Of two little girls. Lulu and
Myrtle Goswick, daughters Of his
partner. Odds was shot by an UNI
known man, who. after breaking into
the courthouse. had worked his way
to the cell where the murderer was
locked up.
Bert Curry, Kansas City aeronaut.
and a man who got tangled in the
ropes Of his balloon, were carried up
100 feet with the gas bag afire at
Topeka. The air craft fell and both
were shaken and scratched, but win
recover.
Frank e. Jones, president Of the de- |
funct American Electric Fuse COM
pany Of Muskegon, Mich, changed his
plea to guilty in the superior court at
Grand Rapids to the charge OF fraud
in connection with the transactions
Of the concern.