The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-06-06
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EXCHANGES.
Iron Mountain is to have q paid fire
department.
Ishpeming may not have an electric
street railway but she will have elec-
trio lights.
Frank E. Munson. one of the ten
survivors of the ill-starred Jeanette
expedition, is living in Manistique.
Diphtheria and scarlet fever are prevail
ent in Red Jacket. There were eighty
cases of contagious diseases reported last
month.
Inside of sixty days Ironwood and
Hurley, says the Ironwood Times,
will be connected by an electric street
railway.
Dickinson, the new county Just
created by the legislature, is the S4th
in the state. and starts out with popu-
lation OF l5,000 people.
The Lake Superior Ministerial As
sociation, embracing membership OF
nearly fifty preachers, will meet at
Calum t June 8 and 10.
Coulter, the $500" man charged with
the murder OF his father at that place
some months ago, was tried and acquit-
ted last week The jury are severely
criticised by the press of that city.
The Manistique News is stirring up
the dens in that locality with a red hot
poker. The outcome will determine
whs ther Manistique is fit place for
respectable people to live in.
Marriage licenses are not reauir-
ed in Wisconsin, so Florence Justice
OF the peace, with an eye to business,
advertises to perform marriages scien-
tifically and exped,tiously. Michigan
couples spliced on short notice."
The spring of 81 has been disas.
trous one to log drivers in this locality.
All of the logs on the Paint river and
tributaries are hung up and it is
thought no effort will be made to move
them this year. Continued rains might
alter present plans. Diamond Drill.
There is beautiful little lake near
Man stique which is surrounded by a
clean and inviting sand beach, but the
sands are so treacherous that animals
or men venturing upon the beach almost
immediately sink out OF sight. 1t has
been called the Lake of Death.
The Houghton mining school closed
It's spring term aud annual examina-
tions Saturday and the students given n
vacation until June 30, when the field
work and summer term opens. A large
number OF the boys found employment
in the smelling works at Houghton.
The third McDougall steamer was
launched at West Superior on the 23rd
and christened G. w. Wetmore. She
is designed for the salt water trade.
Dimensions: 165 feet long over all, SO
feet beam, and % feet hold. Sheis
designed to make about thirteen miles
per hour loaded.
They are having monkey and parrot
OF time at Nlanistique, just now. The
polndmaster has seized the mayors
horses, the sheriff has arrested the
drummer boy of the Salvation army
and an alderman is in trouble for kiss.
ing pastors wife ut social, and they
say the end is not yet.
The st. Ignace News says the stories
coming from Trout Lake concerning
robberies and confidence schemes are
greatly exaggerated; that any person
minding his own business is as safe with
a Doodle there as in st. Ignace. And, we
might add, he would be as safe in st.
Ignace as in Trout Lake.
Including the large sale announced
recently, about 6OO,O tons of Norrie
ore have been sold by the Metropolitan
Iron & Land company, up to the pres
ent time this season. The ore has been
sold at $3.50 per ton. It is stated that
the Colby syndicato's mines, the Colby,
Tilden, Aurora, Palms, Comet, and
Superior, will not produce more than
275, 900 tons, this year, on account Of
the stagnans condition OF the iron
market. Last year these six mines pro-
duced about 100000 tons. Evening
Wisconsin.
For some time bear has been noticed
prowling around the Finn settlement
at the Highway crossing, says the CAL
umet News. Yesterday three cubs we're
discovered and taken possession Of
while the mother was away. On her
return, she tracked the captors Of her
young, but on getting within reach, was
shot by one of the residents, who had
loaded mp his gun with large balls. It
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