The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-01-14

Guiding of an extended Investigation
by the senate of the Lorimer scandal
In which Senator Holstlaw confesse,
he received $500 for his vote.
Twelve years at hard labor In thu
prison, and thence until the cost o
prosecution IL paid" was the sentence
pronounced on James ]. Gallagher
who shot Mayor Gaynor, in the cour
Of oyer and terminer in Jersey City.
The federal government brough
suit In the United States circuit cour
at New York under the Sherman anti
trust law against 43 of the principa
transatlantic steamer lines. which ar,
estimated to control 80 per cent. of thu
steerase traffic, worth to them $55,
100000 a year. Twelve officers Of the
defendant companies, all residents II
America, are named as co-defendants
Secretary of the Interior Ballingei
has been advised that an approximate
addition of $500 day has been made
to the governments revenue from the
lease of Indian oil lands in Oklahoma
and Kansas. through the advance In
the price of crude oil.
| Deputy sheriffs arrested Chill Rossi
in Seattle just as he reached for q
decoy money package placed under
the Spokane avenue bridge in answer
to letters demanding $4,000 from Fred
Marine, a prosperous Georgetown
Italian.
The first human remains from the
old battleship Maine were brought to
| the surface In Havana harbor by a
| dredge. They consisted of two ribs
and some small bones. apparently
bones of the hand.
After a nine-hour battle with armed
police and two detachments of the
Scots Guards, supported by rapid-fire
guns, two men, Peter the Painter"
and Dutch Fritz" members Of band
of alien desperadoes which killed three
policemen and wounded Ave some
weeks ago when the members were
caught attempting to rob the safe OF a
jeweler in Houndsditch, persisted by
fire after being riddled with bullets In
London, Eng.
Southern Pacific train No. 1, the
Overland limited, west-bound, was
held up by two masked bandits at
Reese, nine miles west Of Ogden,
Utah. William Davis, a negro porter.
was shot and Instantly killed, and A.
w. Taylor, another porter, was slight
ly wounded. One hundred passengers
on the train were relieved of their val
uables.
Fire and panic which occurred while
a New Years religious celebration was
In progress In church near San Luis
Potosi, Mex, caused the death of II
persons and seriously injured more
than eighty, mostly women and chill
dren.
With the administration of oaths of
office as members Of the Supreme
court to Associate Justices Willis Van
Devanter and Joseph r.. Lamar, the
tribunal at last has it's ranks complete
for the first time in 10 months.
According to dispatch from Puerto
Barrios, Honduras. the gunboat Hor-
net has captured Truxillo, Honduras.
When the land forces reached Ruatan
they were joined by the troops of the
government garrison and the revolu-
tionists accomplished their purpose
without firing shot.
That the planet Venus Is inhabited
is the message given the world with
the advent OF the new year. And,
furthermore, It is said that the hab-
itats probably are intelligent beings
This information comes from Thomas
Jefferson Jackson See, astronomer In
charge of the United States navy OBJ
servatory at Mare Island, Cal.
Arch Hoxsey. the aviator, was killed
worlds altitude record of 11,474 feet.
Hoxsey was descending from flight
made In the face of a gale. The aero
plane seemed to have been caught in
vortex of contrary air currents in a
treacherous atmosphere and was
whirled over and over as It came
tumbling toward the earth. Hoxsey
was dead when taken out of the
wreckage Of his machine.
Mrs. Augusta e. Stetson. the ex-
communicated former leader Of the
First Church of Christ. Scientist, in
New York. proclaims her belief n
the imminent resurrection in the SEM
blance of human form Of Mary Baker
Eddy, the discoverer of Christian
Science, who. the world believes"
died on December 3.
Eight men we're killed and two in
jured in the Lick Ford mine of the
Red Jacket Coal company near Thack-
er, w. Va, when a mine car ran away.
knocking props down and allowing
thousands of tons of coal to fall on
the victims.
A monarchist plot to overthrow the
Republic of Portugal has been discov-
cred at Lisbon; scores have been ar
rested and the ringleader has already
been executed. This news was re-
ceived by the Portuguese minister,
viscount De Alte. at Washington. His
brief of1icial message also stated that
the plot had been suppressed.
Production Of coal In the United
States during 1910 was between 49,
000,70O and 100000 short tons,
against ass, 715.704 short tons In 1909.
and approximately within one per
cent. of the maximum record Of $780,
38S.424 tons. produced In 1907.