The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-11
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS.
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED FROM OUR
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AnOtne' paper ~ bOon 10 ue eStuUiSu-
ed in Escanaba by w. J. Coan.
w. J. Halton, OF Escanaba, lost an
eye by sky-rocket Saturday night.
A change in the management of the
Chaplin mine is foretold by the Iron
Mountain papers.
The third annual state meeting of
the Sons OF st. George will be held at
Houghton July 25.
The law firm OF Stone & Gray has
been Dissolved Judge Stone will go to
Marquette to reside.
Eric Larsen and Ole Anderson were
both killed while blasting in the Chapin
mine Friday night.
Marquette "blowed in" $1,000 on the
4th of July celebration and doesn't feel
the least bit sorry about it, either.
Dyer Brothers new shingle mill on
Lake Michieamme is finished, and has
been cutting on logs bought from j. G.
Brown.
Ontonagon village wants to catch a
"fire bug and offers q rewrd of $1,000
for evidence enough to detect and
convict him.
A large force of men are already at
work in the vicinity OF Florence slash
ing down burned timber owned by
Menominee capitalists.
Three very nice young men OF Negau-
nee are mourned by numerous creditors.
They skipped out Friday night and are
supposed to be in Butte, Montana, now.
A Delta county editor has made the
discovery that water is so low in the
creeks throughout the county that the
fish have to stand on their heads to get
water in their gills.
A Marinette young lady says she made
mot enough" out of the word enough"
by taking the third, second and first
letter for the first word. and the sixth,
fourth and fifth for the second. Herald.
Edward Hawes, convict in the
Marquette prison, escaped from the
field Monday and has not been captured.
He was in for three years for burglary.
Escapes are becoming too frequent,
from that institution, to look we'll.
Raper, Chippewa county. has genu-
inc sensation in the elopement of
Edward Johnson, SO week clerk.
who left wife and four children to go
off with Mrs. Odeta Alton, wife of a
hard working farmer.
Forest fires broke out near Escanaba
again Saturday and kept the firemen
busy all day Sunday. The flames
reached so near the city that many
buildings were in danger but fortunate
ly all escaped uniniured.
If law could be passed to permit of
the convening of that legislature in Mich.
igan not oftener than once in ten years it
would lie blessing conferred on long
suffering people. Between "hawbucks"
and "squawbucks" the state law makers
have been drifting from bad to worse.
Frederick Royer, of the Sault,
Knows just what he will dault.
He had his leg cut off
nc cn,,,ca - r,o1a 1,,,x x,,.okl,
And for pile of cash he says he'll sault.
Detroit Journal.
Henry F. Anderson, who has held
position on the Crystal Falls Diamond
Drill for some time, and of late months
q partner in the business, severed his
connections with that office recently.
He intends to enter law Office for the
purpose Of becoming a full fledged
lawwer.
That rumor which has gained cur
rency affecting the credit of II. B.
Nease g. Co., lumbermen Of the"S $780,"
is baseless, and the company, which
has been in hard luck on account OF
fire, will come out stronger than ever,
as the creditors want the company to
go ahead and have given it plenty of
time to square up things.
Rumors are again rife that the
Chicago & Northwestern railway will
enter Marquette from Little Lake. A
gentleman was recently in this city to
close an important real estate deal
which has bearing on the reported
construction and is strong circum-
stantial evidence in support Of the
rumor. .-Is.il eming Democrat.
Alexander Parks, who was injured on
the South Shore road some time ego, 10
reported to have received &1,700 from
the company, the other day, in settle
ment .. his claim against the oom oany.
He thereupon p~c,edei 10 @blow
himself" aud bv tn following morning
he found bimself Ivy the waysids with
his wnd gone. He IL now ~ poor and
a. wise ~ he ever was.