The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-02-27
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS
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Hancock has decided to have S3O,oOo O
worth of sewers before the rains come |
next fall
w. p. Healy. once prominent attor-
nov OF the U. p. is now sojourning In {
Algiers, Africa.
Marquette, Menominee and Sault
Ste Marie are beihg flooded with "gree2
goods" circulars.
IT'S said that Ex governor Swine
ford is again to enter the newspaper
field. ihis time at Superior, Wis.,,
where he will conduct democratic
weekly.
Calumet & Hecla has declared
dividend of $5 per share payable March
! l6 to stock OF record Feb. 20. This
makes s37, ,35O,OOO distributed by the
company.
It turns out upon examination OF the
record, that Coulter was not really
guilty, as he confessed himself, and
his trial and sentence goes for nothing:
he cannot be held.
Citizens of Ashland held mass
meeting Saturday night to denounce
the corruption Of the county officers and
passed resolutions asking Judge Parish
to summon grand jury to investigate
the boodlers at once.
E.B. Howard is appointed collect
or of tho port of Marquette (and dis
trict of Superior) vice &. \. Osburn,
deceased. Mr. Howard was special
deputy under Cot. Osburn, and the
appointment is in the regular line OF
promotion.
A correspondent of Iron Ore, speak
ing of the Michigan gold mine. insists
that superintendent, mining captain,
two engineers, two backsmiths aud
. one laborer, above ground, and only
four miners underground, "is not
proper distribution of muscle.
Michigan's mining school has 6S
students. This is larger number than
is enrolled at any other institution IN
5 the country in mining engineering
courses. The question of lengthening
J. the course to four years, instead Of
three as now, is agitating those inter-
ested.
Pins for a hotel sanitarium IN
Mountain Park, ut Marquette, have
: been adopted and contractors are at
work preparing their bids. 1t Will
I have frontage of 320 feet, with o
! mean depth of l25 feet, five stories II
the center, four in the wings, and is tc
be completed by July l.
Measles have become epidemic in th'
CITY and are said to affiict more thar
half the families of the place. ther'
being hundreds of cases. AS yet III
serious results have been reported. In
attendance at the public schools ha
- been reduced by one half while mum
.. Der of the teachers arc on the sick list
" Herald, Negaunee.
Evans, treasurer of Iron Mountain
I'D used city funds to pay his persona
- debts and John r.. Wood, his bankt
IN and bondsman. preferred charges an
demanded to be relieved from respons
bility as bondsman. Mr.. Evans mad
- his account good so that his bondsmf
me and the city are oil right, but it WI
. not business, as he acknowledges.
The Northern Land & aiming cor
ne pany filed articles Of association wi
- the county clerk last week. The cal
tai stock OF the company is $4,000
1000 shares. The following are q
=. principal shareholders: T.. Bollma
III Paul Roehm, G. A. Wright, Joseph
Hambitzer, Roger @. Williams, Wi
les. lam d. Caverly and John A. Camera
A wood-chopper named Saunde
ms was caught by falling tree near Sen
..., and impaled by limb that pierced
side and pinned him to the grour
:, A surgeon pulled it out. and it "
IL supposed the wound would prove fat
~ but Saunders is now walking arou
re the Bessemer country using the Lin
for cane. 1t was an inch and q h
p in diameter.
80 An Ironwood store building, the fl
Aocr OF which was occupied as O sale
and tho second story as residence
Charles de Longcamps, was burr
Saturday night and three children W
70 burned to death. The fire origina
in the kitchen from an explosion
kerosene and spread like fash thro'
the building. The mother, with
weeks old babe in her arms, and
iii two eldest children were rescued
iii oreat --'f-. Albert, Marie
- Charles, years, fe'p
lively. were Lu,..ei the Duildi
w;.h. Several prominen' cii1ens were seri'