The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-03-05
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS

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The Mercier hotel, at Mlckinaw City
was destroyed by fire Friday evening.
The great strike of the timbermen on
the Gogebic range has "petered out.
The men did not get the advance asked
for.
Calumet and Red Jacket people are
thinking seriously Of consolidating
their postoflices and then applying for q
free delivery system.
Ashland is likely to have copper
boom. Very rich specimens of the
metal have been discovered at the Mon
trose mine near there.
The libel suit against Mr.. Jackman,
editor of The Marquette Times, resulted
in verdict of guilty in the curcuit
court at Marquette. Jackman will
appeal to the supreme court.
III. B. Nease g. Son of the 500 and
I Even have reorganized their Even
company under the name of the Onton-
agon River Lumber Co, with capital
of $4,000. Even mills are now in
operation,
Ithas been discovered that Sockless" "
Simpson, member of congress from
Kansas, was % years ago employed as
a deck hand on the steamer Sarah Var
Epps, plying between Green Bay and
Escanaba.
The trial of Mr.. Peaice, the woman
who testified in the Jackman libel suit,
resulted in a verdict of not guilty, in
the Marquette circuit, this week. She
admitted that her testimony against
James Russell, of the Mining Journal,
was false, but claimed it was case of
mistaken itentity.
The Current says the water is within
275 feet of the surface in the Hamilton
and 300 feet in the Ludington mine and
rising six inches an hour. No plans
for disposlng of it are yet adopted, but
there is no thought of "giving up"
when the best and cheapest method is
found it will be adopted.
Last Friday about IL o'clock fire
broke out at the Republic water works,
which also supply the miners there
with compressed air, and before it
could be extinguished the entire plant
was in ruins. It was O'Clock in the
afternoon before the flames were got
ten under control. The Ishpeming
Press says the estimated damages to
the plant is $4,000.
STATE Treaurer Frederick Breasted
of Ishpeming, was in town the other
evening and stated that he should most
emphatically decline nomination as
his own successor if iftendered him by the
approaching state democratic conven-
ton. He intimated that he was in the
hands of his friends as candidate for
congress, which will not surprise those
who have given the subject any atten-
tion whatever.-Negaunee Herald.
1t is reported that the state board of
control of penal institutions contem-
plates recommending to the next legis-
lature that the Upper Peninsula state
prison located at Marquette be abolished
and the buildings be remodeled and
oJo,to al ", tl,o ,oro of tbo ,c,ooo TJ,o
overcrowded condition of the state in
sane asylums at Kalamazoo, Pontiac
and Traverse City, it is declared makes
the establishment OF an asylum on the
Upper Peninsula imperative.
II is claimed at Lake Linden that the
Firms have raised $4,000 with which to
prosecute Marshal Mayotte for shooting
Parala on the Goth of December. 1t
will be remembered that Parala and a
companion were drunk and noisy on the
streets and the officer attempted to ar
rest them. Parala drew his knife and
had slashe1 Mayotte twice before the
latter shot the Finn in the breast. A
conorer's jury acquitted the ffiocer of
all blame, but Parala's brother caused
his arrest on a charge of murder. The
examination will be commenced on
Thursday. The excitement is intense,
the Firms declaring that Mayotte shall
be convicted, while other nationalities
declare that he shall rot. 1t is not
likely that jury can be found in
Houghton county.
A little boy choked to death while
crying at Ishpeming last Friday.
While but years and months old,
the child weighed over 80 pounds, and
had never been in good health on
account Of its abnormal size. 1t had
never bcsr r''e TO stand alone, and
required :. 80 'lcs' of attention. Its
death, while il : ..'..., ne strange, was
doubtless a Legitimate result OF the
physical popularity. The p rents had