The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-01-23
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS

UPPER PENINSULA NEWS
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ExcHANaEs.
The straits Of Mackinac are frozen
over and teams cross In safety. a
johnson & Butler, Happening mer-
chants have assigned. Liabilities,
about $1,000.
The Florence high school burned to
the ground ON Wednesday last. Loss
$4,000 covered:by Insurance.
Editor Sessions Of the Conglomerate,
Is growing much worse, and . speedy
recovery is no longer expected.
Negaunee is to have another news
paper. II will be published by Stewart
Bros. who now have . job Office in that
city.
There are five hundred men out OF
employment at Iron Mountain caused
by the flooding Of the Ludington and
Hamilton mines.
Judge Of Probate OF Escanaba, has
been Officially invited 10 refund $500, TO
which extent he is said TO have over
drawn his salary between 1884 and
1890.
@. g. Baker, of Ironwood, caught
his foot in a carrier used to convey
fuel to saw mill furnace and being
unable TO extricate himself was burned
alive.
The coronor's Inquest in the killing OF
Alex Perula rendered verdict TO the
effect that he was killed by . bullet
from the revolver in the hands Of
Marshal Mayotte, but that neither
party could be censured.
II is said that William Coulter, who
was recently tried for murder for the
killing of his father and was acquitted,
and who after wards confessed his crime
at revival meeting. is insane. He has
been arrested for perjury and admits
the charge. HIS mother died in an in
sane asylum.
Warien Mslmburg has appointed Mr..
William 10th, well known resident Of
Ishpoming and formerly assistant post
master Of that city, ss agent for the
Marquette prison. Mr.. 10th will
travel through the peninsula selling
the product OF the prison factory.
The prosecuting attorney Of Luce
county has an effective way Of convict
ing, or at least OF getting evidence to
convict, prisoner. He takes the sus.
pected criminal from the jail 10 his pri.
vate Office, lays revolver in handy
place in plain sight. and then tells him
TO confess. Under such circumstances
the prisoner would must likely own up
to anything.
On the H. & @. railway Sunday, an
engine An train oomiug down Swede-
town hill. struck team of horses and
sleigh instantly killing one horse and
injuring the other so badly that recove-
~ was impossible, and TO relieve the
animal Of pain he was shot. John
Sherk was engineer. Fortunately the
occupant Of the sleigh. . Finlandsr,
escaped without injury.
Monday night boiler explosion
occurred in the Tam rack house. With
out warning, the dome ON one OF the
boilers blew OF sending brick and
mortar in all directions. Alexander
Dicks. one of the firsmen, received
some slight scalp wounds, the other
ran and was not hurt. The accident
caused but short delay in the work
ings.
While Tim OKeef was coming out
Of the Quincy mine in . skip Saturday,
he met with an accident that will prob.
ably prove fatal. It seems that one
wheel had left the track and in look
ing over the side of the skip one Of
the timbers caught his head. His
companion pulled the bell cord and
stopped the skip but the results viii
undoubtedly prove fatal.
Samuel Stocker, who was killed In
the Queen mine st Negsunee, was
buried Monday. Stocker and WI
liam Tink were going into The drift
and stopped . moment 10 examine The
timbsrs. Atthst instant big timber
fell. separating the men and letting the
rock upon them. Tink extricated him
self, and force of men worked four
hours before Stocker's body was re-
covered,
A sensation was caused in the circuit
court of Manistique. the other day, by
an announcement from Judge Stesre
that Attorney General Ellis would take
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