The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-02-20
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The Imperial mine, near Michigan
me, has been closed.
Ishpeming's new A. o. U. w. lodge
will dedicate q new hall Thursday even
ing.
Swindlers are gulling Upper Penin-
sula people with bogus tickets in mutual
benefit associations.
Monday night the mercury dropped
to 10 degrees below zero at Michi-
CANINE, and "A below at Even.
A Watersmeet woman stole $3.50
from her husband and departed. He
says he will forgive her if she will only
stay away.
Carl Schulde's stock Of merchandise
ut Iron Mountain has been sold under
a mortgage held by the First National
Bank for $500.
John Medlin, q miner in the Blue
mine, near Negaunee, fell down shaft,
175 feet, Monday, and was instantly
killed. He leaves wife and one child.
Eddie Tipping, aged IA, while skat-
ing near the ore dock at st. Ignace
Monday evening all alone, got out on
slush ice and went through. The body
has not yet been recovered.
Chas H. Watson has purchased n
one-half interest in the Crystal Falls
Diamond Drill. He has been employed
on the paper in an editorial capacity
for some time. He and Atkinson make
o good team.
Anthony Broad. mine inspector of
Marquette county, was stricken with
paralysis, caused by an eruption of q
blood vessel in the brain, last Monday,
and little hope is entertained for his
recovery.
The Cheboygan Lumber Company
has secured $4,000 verdict against
the Delta Transportation Company be-
cause spark from the steamer Minnie
Ms stack set fire to their dock and
lumber piles.
Big copper mine companies are go
ing to keep the product of the mines
q secret. The Calumet & Hecla has
taken the initiative. 1t is believed the
market can better be controlled with
the figures Withheld.
r. McFarlane, OF the steamer st.
Ignace. has an old penny in his poss-
ession which was taken from old Fort
Michilimackinac of massacre fame. II
bears date 1877 and was found by
William Harris.
The shingle mill built and operated
by Dyer Bros. &. Co., on Lake Mich
igamme, near Champion, during last
season, was shut down in the fall, a-d
the mill changed hands on mortgage.
The property is now owned by the
Browne, Champin Lumber Company,
which will operate it this winter, start
ing up this week.
The sharper who prints couterfeit
bills played for sucker at the 500.
but caught man whose eye-teeth are
fully developed. He introduced a strip
of white paper, the size Of a bank note,
turned the crank and ont rolled 20
bill. This he handed to his intended
victim with the remark that it wonld
be taken at any bank in the state. "All
right, said the victim. "I'm going to
Detroit in month or so, aud I'll try it
down there" and so lie folded the bill
aud placed it in his pocket and walked
away.
Jadge Bundy, in the Ashland circuit,
denied motion for change of venue
in Ed Bakers second trial for bank
robbery. The trial will begin Monday
before Judge Parish. Judge Bundy
also rendered decision that news-
paper cannot be forced to disclose the
authorship of editorials and that the
paper is responsible for their publica-
tion. The decision was made on the
application Of Bakers attorneys for an
order to force an Ashland paper to dis
close the author OF an editorial on the
question of q new trial for Baker.
William Coulter, the murderer Of
his aged father, and the man from
whom Miss Eva Ousick, the revivalist,
secured confession, was arranged
before the circuit court Of Chippewa
county charged with perjury. He en-
tered the courtroom praying to God
to give him more light, and express
ing himself willing to submit to any
sentence the court would give him t.
pay the penalty of his crime. The sher-
III was obliged to remove him from
from the courtroom to quiet him, he
was SO cxcised and prayed SO loudly.
On beins r,-tlrne.i to the courtroom
Judge Steerc asked him IL he was
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