The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-04-25
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS
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The Sturgeon river "drive" has s art
ed in fine shape.
Crystal Falls will spend $4,000 in
repair ing its-county jail.
The new ore docd OF Escanaba is the
largest in the world.
Ishpeming wants an opera house and
is big enough to have it.
A new telephone line is being put up
between Norway and Iron Mountain.
The Marquette County Savings bank
building to be erected will cost $780,.
600.
Dimes are becoming scarce around
the peninsula on account of the new fad
in dime savings banks.
Over 100 men have been lai off at
the Norrie mine because there is no
more room for stock pile.
The break in the 500 canal lock has
been entirely stopped and the water
has left the surrounding country.
Three miners houses were destroyed
by fire Mt the Tamarack location the
other day. Loss 50, 900; insurance
$1,1OO.
Menominee, according to the latest
census bulletin, has increased in pop
ulation 223 per cent. in the past ten
years. This beats the record of all
other Michigan cities.
The new canal and locks at the $500"
are to he made 20 feet deep and 100 feet
wide. Ninety stonecutters will be en-
ployed oil next winter at $5 day each
in preparing material.
A check for 80, 200 bearing the forged
signature of Congressman Stephenson
was received at the Menominee bank
one day last week. 1t came from the
Hot Spr ngs, Ark, through half dozen
banks.
There is hitch in the free bridge
question in Houghton. The hoard of
supervisors are authorized to raise only
$4,000 to build or buy bridge,
and the owners of the presen toll bridge
want 100000 to sell out.
The government Ii just allowed the
late Herman Hetkamp pension and
back pay amounting to $1,000. The
aid comes too late to do the oil soldier
any good. He peri,hed in the woods of
Laird township last winter.
The Upper Peninsula base ball
league has been organized. Marquette,
Ishpeming, Houghton, and Calumet
only are represented in the league
They will play no Sunday games this
season, and the salary limit has been
fixed at $50.
Charles Gardner and Geo. G. North,
brothers-in-law, living seven miles in
the woods from Trout Greek, quarreled
over Gardner's treatment of his wife,
North's sister. A fight ensued in which
Gardner hacked North's right leg from
the hip to the ankle with an ak, infict-
ing o dozen ugly gashes. North will
not recover, and Gardner is under ar
rest.
Last November the saloon of burke
& Lahti, Houghton, was burned, and
the proprietors got 81, 900 insurance
money from the Douglas agency.
Lately the partners quarreled and ugly
charges made against each other, in
consequence of which burke has been
arrested on charge of arson. It is
thought he fired the building for the
insurance.
On the books Of Justice Crary appears
an entry recording the marriage, by
him, of Bernard A. Wolf and Annie Z.
Firdler, at this city in May, 1890, the
groom being 26 years Of age and the
bride 20, both being Germans. Wolf
lived on Superior street for time and
is the August Wolf who committed the
atrocious murder at Bruce's Crossing
last week, He was held for murder in
the first degree at the examination
Wednesday and was taken to Onton-
agon that night and lodged in the
county jail. His wife is still living
here. Mining Journal.
August Wolf, the wood chopper who
murdered Gus Smith at Bruce's Cross
ing last Tuesday, now lies in the jail ut
Ontonagon awaiting trial for murder.
Wolf was arrested at Wausau, Wis. and
brought up to the state line before he
realized what he was wanted for.
Sheriff Francis, OF Ontonagon county,
was in waiting. and seized Wolf and
pulled him into Michigan. The crime
OF which Wolf is charged was most
brutal one. He was penniless and out
OF work, and Smith who was poor
woodchopper, sheltered him and fouad
him employment. This kindness Wolf
repaid by chopping Smiths head off
with an ax. The motive for the crime
was Smiths lifetime savings. There is