The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-05-27

mittee declaring that William Lorimer
would not have been elected to the
United States senate in May, 1909,
had n not been for bribery and cor
ruption, and asking the national upper
house to reopen the Illinois scandal.
To this resolution was added an
amendment criticizing those senators
who bolted Albert J. Hopkins. the pri-
mary nominee, to succeed himself.
Mayor Thomas e. Knots Of Gary,
Ind, already under indictment by the
Lake county grand jury, was arrested
by deputy sheriffs on warrants charg-
ing him with embezzlement. perjury
and malfeasance in Office.
Will Rogers pleaded guilty at Las
Vegas, N. NJ, to the charge OF kidnap-
ing Waldo Rogers, the grandson Of
Henry l.. Waldorf, general solicitor
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad Joe Virgins, an ex-convict
and alleged accomplice Of Rogers in
the kidnapping, pleaded not guilty.
All records for maximum tempera-
ture on May Is went by the boards
throughout the middle west and as
far south as Memphis. Deaths and
prostrations were reported from vari-
GUS places. Chicago and vicinity being
hardest hit. In the city there were
seven deaths and dozen prostra-
tions.
Prevailing upon his twelve-year-old
son to pull the trigger, Fred Hustled,
forty-six years old. prosperous farm
err of Greenwich, Conn, believed to
be crazy, had his head blown off with
his own shotgun.
Police Commissioner Cropsey of New
York has been attacked by James
Creelman, head of the municipal civil
service board, for alleged violation Of
civil service rules. A shake-up Of the
department Is expected.
The death rate in New York Is de-
creased each year, figures showing the
rate for three months Of 1911 to be
II per 1000 as against 17.45 in 1910,
which is equivalent to the saving Of
$500 lives.
Lack of harvest hands in Canada
has caused ]. G. Upterward, a Cana
dian immigration inspector, to go to
L., 80 10 to
seeking help for the farmers of Sas-
katchewan.
The general assemblies of the Pres
byterian church and the Southern
Presbyterian church met In annual
session, the former in Atlantic City
and the latter in Louisville. Ky.
A drunken negro, recently released
from Sing Sing prison, killed two
white men, stabbed three other white
men. two Of them policemen, shot a
fourth white man and little girl. In
a wild fight when a passenger on an
elevated train at New York city at
tackled the negro for smoking on the
platform Of the train.
The ten Chicago meat packers I'M
der indictment charged with violation
of the Sherman antitrust law, won an
opportunity to reopen their case.
Judge Carpenter in the United States
district court at Chicago granted them
permission to file motion for a re-
hearing on the demurrers to the In
dictments.
The Commercial Review of Portland,
Ore, says that the outlook for a
bumper wheat crop In the Pacific
northwest states Is favorable. The
three Pacific northwest states will
raise 63,77b,000 bushels. It 10 pre-
dicted.
John Ellerman. trusted employe of
the Continental and Commercial Ma
fional bank, has Ned from Chicago In
the company. II IL said Of Miss Grace
Frost. a trained nurse, Ellerman Ia
alleged to have stolen more than ST..
SEQ from the bank.