The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-01-24
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED FROM OUR

Marquette, died at his home in Ban
croft last Tuesday
The 500 has a lady so modest that
when she refers to the late Indian
chiefsh calls him Sitting OK"
Capt. Charles Cox, of the Cambria
mihe, Negaunee, lied suddenly of
heart failure last Wednesday.
Max Fisher, clothing dealer of Han
cock, made an assignmeutCfor the bene
fit of creditors last Monday. Liabili-
ties $4,000.
David Nj. Ford, superintendent of the
Michigan gold mine, died at Ishpeming
last Wednesday. He had been i'll only
since Sunday last.
Louis Deschamps, pioneer of the
Upper Peninsula, and ut one time re
sident of L'Anse, died at his home in
Lake Linden last Wednesday.
A dwelling house occupied by Larry
Hind, Commonwealth, was burned to
the 81 ound and his four year old son
cremated in it, Monday afternoon.
The new county, which is proposed
to be carved ont of Menominee, Iron
and Marquette will be called Dicken-
son Qn honor Of our own Don Nd if
the scheme materiGlizes
Joseph II. Thomas, tho murderer of
Michael Downy, was convicted at the
last term of the Ontonagon circuit caurt
and sentenced to twenty-five years in
the state prison at Marquette.
The owners of the Crystal Falls Cycle
sent Chas. II. Watsoa to that place to
try and start the paper Taylor wrecked.
Watson found i. gone beyond resuscita-
ton and gave it up as bad job.
The Calumet Conglomerate has
changed its day OF publication to Satur-
day in order, as Editors Sessions and
McGrAw say, to comply with the custom
Of reading papers Saturday and Sun
day.
Elias Peteri was killed i'll the Allan
tic mine last Monday night by blast
HIS partner, Nat Fo-si, was injured o
badly that he cannot live Five sticks
OF dynamite exploded. Both men are
married.
The HoushtoA county board of sup.
erv sors will submit to the people of
THAI county proposition to iesuc bonds
in the some of $4,000 with which to
establish free bridge between Hough-
ton and Hancock.
G. p. Black, at one time a prominent
attorney of Marquette, is to be married,
Jan 2S, to sister of Hon. James NJ.
Turner, at Lansing. Black is widow
er and a prominent attorney and demo-
cratic politician of Tuscola county.
An explosion of a stick of giant pow
der ut the Sampson mine, Gogebic
range, seriously injured five men. A
man by the name of Miller was blown
through the roof 'of the engine house
into the Dir, distance of fifty feet, and
will not recover. The loss to the mine
is estimated at $1,000. Several accid-
cnts Of this kind have occurred of late
OH the range through carelessncss.
Fred iagard Lansing, Mich,
wrote man on tho register at S. NJ.
Stepliensons lotol in Menomincc the
other night and then hc won't TO his
room, turned the gas on and lay down
to die. His program misclrried, as he
had told Marine!te friend of his inten-
tion and that friend gave the snap away
to the police and they broke open his
door just in time to save his life.
A stick of dynamite was found under
one of the boilers used at the Millie
mine, Iron Mountain, last Saturday,
and found Just in time to prevent an
explosion. Supt. Kennedy recently
several men, and it is sup
posed that Que OF these men attempted
to blow up the plant. Had the dyna-
mite gone of the plsto that knew the
engine house onco would have boen
nothing but hole in tho ground, and
it is probable that several ooplc would
have been Killed.