The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-02-18

committed suicide. National bank ex-
aminers. It 10 said. have been investi-
eating Mr.. Browns affairs for some
time. -
Three women were drowned ct
Sheboygan. Wis. when local street
car went through an open draw into
the Sheboygan river and became sub
merged. The cause Of the accident IL
believed by the motorman to be due
to defective working Of the brakes.
With Blucnelds. Nicaragua. given
as her destination. the gunboat Siren.
formerly owned by the United States
government. secured clearance papers
at Norfolk. Va.
Edward A. Epler. former auditor of
the Marietta, Columbus & Cleveland
railroad, who is charged with embez-
cling $4,000, escaped from the county
jail at Marietta, o.
Miss Clara Barton, founder and for
many years president Of the National
Red Cross in the United States,- Is
seriously Ill at her residence In Glen
Echo, Md.
The national house of representa-
tives passed census reapportion-
ment bill which fixes the membership
Of that body at 43S after March 3.
1918.
Frank Bernard, his wife and their
two little children were found dead In
their home on Fulton street. Brook
Ign. N. Y. the victims of escaping
gas.
President Taft has served notice on
congress through Senators Crane and
Carter that there must be vote on
the reciprocity agreement with Can
ada, or he would call congress back
In extra session almost Immediately
after March 1.
A terrific tornado Of three days
duration has passed over Reunion Is
land, a French possession In the In
dian ocean. killing scores and wreck.
ing villages, according to advices re-
ceived at Paris from the French gov.
ernor general there.
Father Gerhard, missionary. was
killed, road superintendent were
hacked to pieces and nine Germans
were shot to death on Ponape island,
Carolinas, in rising over punishment
of a native workman.
Fire. caused by blazing SCOT from
chimney falling on the roof OF the old
sulphuric acid plant OF the Standard
OIL company at Point Richmond. Cal.
destroyed that plant and tank con-
tanning 100000 gallons of crude oil
and damaged the $1,000.000 new acid
plant. .---.---, -,
Many million dollars worth OF prop
erty in the heart OF the business Sec
ton Of Brooklyn was threatened by a
fire which destroyed the five-story fac.
tory of the F. Bischoff Cocoa and
Chocolate company on Ashland place.
The loss was 100000.
The Montana house killed the wom-
ans suffrage bill by refusing to recon.
slider the veto by which It failed OF
two-thirds majority.
Favorable action OF the house OF
representatives on the Canadian reel
procity agreement was assured when
the caucus Of Democratic members
formally pledged the party to vote
for the agreement.
Seventeen residents of Pekin. Pc
orfa, Eureka and Bloomington, ILL.,.
were injured when two passenger mo-
tors on the Peoria electric terminal
railway collided on an open switch. at
South Bartonville. A broken switch
device was the cause.
Resistance to the uttermost to the
attempts to transfer from congress to
the various state legislatures the con
troll of the time and manner of elect
ing United States senators. as pro
posed by the resolution providing for
their election by direct vote OF the
people, was advocated by Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts in speech
in the United States senate.
An. explosion Of dynamite at the
mills OF the Pluto Powder company,
three miles south of Ishpeming, Mich,
killed ten men and seriously injured
another. The nitric acid house was
wrecked, and the office building bad.
ly damaged.
In gas explosion at the Wilburn
house at Carpentersville, H.. Howard
Mann and Adam Oberst we're killed
and 20 Others injured. four fatally.
The hotel was wrecked. Carpenters
Vile Is small town six miles north
of Elgin.
Chicago's fierce blizzard. which was
countrywide and held sway for nearly
SO hours, claimed a toll Of Ave lives,
caused much suffering. and entailed
heavy financial loss.
An aeroplane patrol along the Rio
Grande river Is to be established by
the wnr department to aid in main
tanning neutrality. This will be the
first appearance Of the aviator in ac-
tual military service in this country.
Two thousand citizens gave John p.
White, newly elected president of the
United Mine Workers. rousing recep-
ton when he arrived at his home In
Oskaloosa. la.
An 11-year-old girls story Of her
escape from kidnapers by hiding be-
hind the curtains of the confessional
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