The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-05-28
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Inere are now 10 stuuentS enrou0u
in the Michigan Mining school at
Houghton.
The 500 fish hatchery Is new one
but it produced this spring l2,000. 900
whitedsh. 10, 900 brook front, 200, 900
salmon trout. All were placed in q.
p. waters.
The Houghton county baseball league
has been organized with Hancock, CAL
umet and Lake Linden clubs. The
Houghton club did not join but it is
expected to come in later.
Burglars tried to crack the safe in
Kesrney's store, Republic. few nights
ago, They succeeded in forcing q
vault door and gathered in s15, but
did not get into the safe.
The Chaplin mine, at Iron Mountain,
employees only 7S0 men; last season II
employed over 1900. There are at
present only about 1900 men employed
in the mines adjacent to Iron Noun
tain, while last season there were
$500.
Charles Slater who was arrested at
Eagle Mills, Monday, charged with
criminal assault had q hearing before
Justice Primeau Thursday morning.
The the charge was modified and .
fine of 800 imposed which was
promptly paid.
Captain Sam Roberts, OF the Riverside
mine, near Republic, was instantly
killed last Saturday afternoon
by falling fifty feet to the bottom
of shaft. He was q well-known
mining man, having formerly been
captain of the Detroit and Winthorp
mines.
A strike Of 200 miners at the Calumet
& Hecla was settled at noon Saturday
by Superintendent Duncan, who re-
quested the mon to wait for President
Agassiz, who will reach there this
month. The men claim they wait too
long for transportation to the surface
after work is done.
The 500 Paper Company, OF Niagara
Falls, N. Y, which recently purchased
$4,000 acres Of spruce and cedar lands
near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, will erect
Q mill at the mouth of the Waisks river.
ton miles above the 500, with . capacity
of cutting 200 cords of pulp wood q day.
Logs will be fioated to the mill in long
lengths.
Jackson stockholders in the Long
year Mesaba iron and lumber company
have for five years put up their good
dollars for explorations without CLEAN
of hope. Word now comes thata dia-
mond drill has struck 20 foot vein of
fine ore. They own $4,000 acres Of
mineral land 60 miles north Of Duluth.
The house Of Benjamin Van Luden,
20 miles north OF the $500" bnrned
Wednesday night. Mrs. Van Luden
was alone with her six children at the
time, and in carrying them out her
clothing caught fire. She paid no at
tention to her own condition, and when
the last child was carried out her clothes
were in flames. She was 80 terribly
burned that she died soon after. The
children are but little injured.
The examination OF DR.. J. Pflugen,
of Luxemborg, Wis, for malpractice
and causing the death of Mrs. Bishop,
at Interior, was held on Thursday, and
he was discharged, there being no
evidence to fix any guilt on him to hold
him for trial. He was afterwards ar
rested for practicing in the state without
certificate, and was fined $25 and
cost, which he paid and left for his
home on Friday -Ontonagon Miner.
The good women of Manistiaue
turned out the other night and pulled
. troupe of English gaiety girls down
from their perch on the bill-boards,
and whenever the paste proved too ad-
hesive they took pot OF red paint and
gave them some flaming skirts. The
troupe came the next day, and that
evening the manager hung out this
sign, STANDING room only.
The Board OF Control Of the Michi-
gan Mining School have elected a.
spccessor to DIR. Keller, in the chair Of
chemistry, DR.. Geo. A. Koenig, Of the
University Of Pennsylvania. DR..
Koenig is doctor Of philosophy and
graduate of Heidelberg University, has
studied chemistry under Bunsen. Of
Heidelberg. and Rose and Rammelsberg
Of Berlin also, mstallurgy and mining
at the celebrated Mining Academy Of
Freiberg, and mechanical engineering
at Carlsruhe. His training is thus very
broad in the lines Of work followed at
this school, which will enable him to
understand the needs Of his pupils.