The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-09-05
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS.
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED FROM OUR
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postal facilities after Ost. 1st.
Work on the Ishpeming e. Negarnee
street car line was be gun this week.
Michigamme merchants have adopted
the cash system. Will they stick to it ?
The sta ie boaid of equalization has
been doing the copper country this
week.
Quinnessec has been onjo ying boo m
recently on ac,ouIt o. the foo race
held there.
Negaunee is afflicted with an epide-
mic of typhoid fever. Over fifty cases
were reported this week.
Ed. Fisher, manager of furniture
store in Ironwood, is wanted i'll that
place tor embezzlement.
Michigan's mining school has o foot
ball team, which expects to play with
the U. and Al. boys shortly.
The common council, of Red Jacket,
is about to move in the matter OF secur-
ing an electric street railway.
Burglars entered the iewelry store of
A.. Carlson, Negaunee, the other night,
and made off with about $500 worth of
goods.
A. w. Henssler, who was at one time
prosecuting attorney of Houghton
county, committed suicide at Detroit
last Saturday.
The Keweenaw Club, Houghton, is
one of the new corporations that have
filed articles. The capital stock is
placed at S50,000.
The postal officers at the 500 have
lately contiscated large number of
/ Canadian papers containing lottery
| advertisements.
L. r. Wetmore, son of g. w. Wet
J more, Marquette, Is soon to marry Miss
| T. izabeth Bislane, the Cosmopolitan
Magazine globe trotter.
Attorney G eneral Miller, Of Presi-
| dent Harrison's cabinet, is making u
tour OF tho lakes for recreation. He
was in Marquette the other day.
Supt. T.. j. Gilbert, of the Young.
| town mine at Crystal Falls, has resign
ed his position and will accept the sup
erintendency of the Pioneer mine in
Minnesota.
Roadmaster Sullivan, of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad, was thrown
I beneath the wheels of car one day last
week at Crystal Falls, and died from in
iuries received.
The SENTINEL has miss ell from its
exchange table for several weeks the
Ontonagon Miner, Iron Mountain Jour
nal and Manistique News. What is the
trouble, gentlemen?
The Newberry Furnace Co. has re-
cived the contract for furnishing water
for domestic and fire protection pur-
poses to the village of Newberry. The
company will receive $1,S00 per year.
President Agassiz, of the Calumet g.
Hecla mine, reports work in sight for 40
years. The company is incT easing its
capacity so as to double it's present out
put and thus work out the ore in sight
IN about IS years.
Five Finlanders who were suffering
from typhoid fever were brought in to
Michiyamme from the 1. II. u FL. b. II.
r. last week. A pest house was secur-
ed by the board OF health, where they
are now being taken care of.
II. b. Nease g. Son, of Sault Ste.
Marie, have purch sed a mill site on
the Ontonagon river about half mile
above Even, and it is stated that they
will put up mill there notwithstand-
ing their denial through 500 paper.
Gov. Winans, on his recent trip to
the Upper Peninsula, visited Iron
Mountain and made hi. selections for
officers for the new county of Dickinson.
| He will nol, however, announce his
appointments until October lst.
A Marinette, Wis, paper gives a dis
couraging report of the ravages oi
worms in burned pine. They are said to
be more numerous than ever, and it is
claimed the damaged timber that has
not been peeled or placed in the water
has already been spoiled.
! ~ IL S'titi tuuJ bil6 WubcE III buo Nlel'
ominee river, which flows in Michigan
and Wisconsin. has been lower this sea.
son than for 20 years, and that in some
places a single log will not float. Not
withstanding the difficulties to be con.
tended with, the boom company on that
stream has brought down logs enough
to keep the mills going. Dams have
been built and big crews employed, and
the company has gone to greatly in
creased expense. 1t is believed thai
about all of last winters log crop will
come down.
It is now said thai the claim of the
BUT heirs of Marquette for royalty
through patent on the device used il
! fi,lhg ond emptying the st. Mary
Falls II ScG will be allowed by th,
government. Representatives Of th'
departments of engine aring and justic,
are said TO have found that the deyic
in use is similar to thaS patented by Mr.
Burt when in charge of a part of tn
canal work. 1t was with reference t.
this claim that Acting Secretary Gran
OF the war department proposed fe,
weeks ago to close the canal for sn in
vestig gltion. Marine Review.