The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-03-19
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS
cLiPpED AND CONDENSED FROM OUR
EXCHANGES.

Anthony Broad, inspector OF mime
for Marquette county. died at his hom
in Negaunee last Sunday, of paralysi
OF the brain.
A franchise has been granted to til,
Gladstone electric light and power com
pany, which will undertake to illumi
nate the gloom that hangs over tina
place.
The village marshal of Even La.
issued his ukase that no more gamb
ling "goes" in that village He says
they may play poker if they want TO-
but they mustn't gamble.
Marquette's prison warden says Coul
ter, who confessed to the murder of hi.
father in Chippewa county, is sane. per
fectly sane, just as sane as any mar
within the prison walls.
NJ. FL. Crocker, the Ironwood attor
ney. has returned from the Dwight
institution cured of the drink habit
The proceedings to disbar him have
been dropped for the present.
Ishpeming eggs are retailing at IL
cents dozen. 1t is not intimated
that Ishpeming eggs are ancient relics,
hence it must be taken as granted that
they belong to the present age.
A skye old boy named George Grofl
was run over by the street cars at Mar
inette, the other day and his head
severed from his body. This is the
second death by the street cars in that
city.
They put up straight Democratic
ticket ut the Lake Linden election with
the usual result--it was knocked out.
The attempt to wiring in local elections
on national party issues seldom sue
ceeds, and 1t is good thing it does.
Lake Angeline, near Ishpeming, is
to be pumped dry at the expense of
three mining companies interested. 1t
is estimated that the lake contains one
billion gallons OF water and that it will
take four months to complete the job.
A Houghton attorney asks the su-
preme court to restrain the cutting Of
some II claims OF pine which the Dia-
mond Match Co. bought of homestead
ers. The sellers failed to pay their
taxes and the purchasers refuse to pay
the same.
The average cost of producing cop
per at the Allonez last year was 1871
cents per pound and the average price
realized was 124 cents per pound. At
that rate it will be some little time
before the stockholders become wealthy
from dividends from that mine.
Honest John Mills, at one time a
well known character on the Upper
Peninsula, is now preaching the gospel
at Jacksonville, Florida. The Ishpem-
ing Press thinks that if Honest John is
as effective in moving an audience as
he was here at moving buildings and
stray property he will be howling
success.
Alger county society is all torn up
over scandal in which Z. G. Cox,
sheriff of the county, and his wife's
sister are, or were, the principal actors.
Cox and his sister-in-law were discover
ed by Mrs. Cox .dagra,ste delicto,
and the gay sheriff now fingers behind
the prison bars, he having been arrest
ed on complaint of his wife.
An extensive scheme has been made
public for an electric car line around
Cheluamegon Bay, connecting Ashland,
Washburn and Bayfield,. Contracts
have already been let for a bridge
across Fish creek and the new company
will probably have over fifty miles of
track. 1t is understood that prominent
eastern capitalists are interested in the
scheme.
A terrible case of brutality is re-
ported from South Lake Linden. A
13-year old girl named Eva Vasseur
was confined o few days ago, and a
still born child was the result. The
next day the girl died. It is now
claimed that death resulted from abuse
received at the hands of her step father
Nose Bonville, and that he was the
cause of the girls ruin. An investi-
cation is being made.
Supervisor Scott, of Hancock, won't
stand any back talk about assessments.
One of his constituents who thought
himself unjustly assessed called at the
supervisors Office the other day, and
expressed an opinion out loud that the
supervisor, and the other town officers
as we'll, was horse thief. Archie's
boot c,l'cr took raise about that
time ar. e e., ;n"ed taxpayer found
himself in !. ~ middle Of the
street. He h.s . ods.S suit for his