The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-02-06
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS

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Michael Kinney, employed in thu
Lake Superior mine, was killel Tues,
day by remaining too long near
blast.
Stack Bros. hall and saloon at South
Lake Linden was totally destroyed by
fire Sunday morning. Loss $1,000
Insurance $4,000.
Col. @. Y. Osburn. collector of the
port of Marquette and prominent
political light of the Upper Peninsula,
died at his home at Marquette last
Thursday.
The trial of Michael Kotilla, charged
with attempting to kill Marshal May
otte, of Lake Linden, was concluded
last Friday. The jury returned ver-
dict of not guilty.
The Mackinaw division of tie Michi-
gan Central has lent the most of it's
engines to help raise the grain blockade
on the main line and the log business is
paralyzed as result.
Sturgeon Bay citizens will construct
a steam ice boat large enough to carry
% ras engers and 25 tons of freight. IL
is proposed to rnn it from Sturgeon
Bay to Green Bay blythe way of Men
omince.
Frank Flakehstein, alias Stein. alias
Bohn, who is wanted at Iron Mountain,
for the murder of Patrick Carey, near
Sago!a, on December 30, was arrested
In Chicago Monday night and has made
a full confession of his crime.
W. H. Merritt, bookkeeper for A. u.
Brd, Menominee grocer. has embez-
zle ] about 800 OF his employers s money
and disappeared. He leaves young
wife and several creditors to mourn his
absence. Merritt was reformed"
gambler.
The officers of Ironwood have made
another raid on the gambling dens and
'arieties of that city. In consequence
! hsfs sf feyh, haasc aasclSss the border. When the
excitement abates the emigrants will
luietly move back. Great place, that.
Mr.. Manville jerks, deputy collector
If internal revenue for the eighth divis
on of the first district of the state OF
Michigan, rendered his resignation to
Collector Jas. FL. Stone, Of Detroit,
last November, to take effect on the |
q rst inst. Mr.. Ed. i. Douglass, OF
Houghton, has been appointed to fill
the vacancy.
Escanaba is to have another paper
and the Iron Port intimates that it will
be the organ of the A. p. A. We pre-
sumo Bro. Van Duser arrives at tins
conclusion on something OF the same
principle the man we once heard OF
recommended a "coon" dog-he wasn't
good for anything else, so he ought to
be ayluable in hunting coons.
John Pomeroy, farmer OF School
craft township, writes the Torch Lake
Times that he raised and sold last sea-
son off If one and one-half acres OF
ground, 200 bushels of carrots; 2CO
bushels of beets; 200 heads of cabbage; ;
so bushels parsnips; 100 bushels OF
'turnips; 10 bushels of radishes; 20
bushels of peas and beans; 100 lunches
OF leeks; 500 lunches Of onions; 100
lunches of radishes; 800 lunches OF
rhubarb, and about $25 worth of small
stuff. Mr.. Pomeroy does not state Just
how much cash the one and one half
acres netted HIM.
McDougall, the whaleback yard man
ager, has returned from New York,
where, at q meeting of the directors of
the American Steel barge company, lie
was employed to spend $1,0OO,O0O il
the construction of whalebacks for the
company own use, they finding 1t
more profitable to operate the boats
than to make them for other parties.
Arrangements we're made for number
of the directors as separate body t.
purchase the great passenger whale
back now building for service during
tho worlds fair. 1t will be operated
by this new company.
A gentleman who has just returned
4 from Manistique says that there is n
doubt about the construction of th
Weston road from Manistique throug
to the ..arnrette iron range, the pre-
iminai. " ~ which have bee
noticed la j. ~, time to time
The road vii. - ~, -Larquette bu
will not be far south of the city. pa
sing through Chocolay towrsA' IN
striking the South Shore ro,. .. Eagl
: Mills and terminating at Nesaunee.
will traverse the finest farming countr
on the Upper Peninsula and will ope