The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS


CLIPPED AND CONDENSED FROM OUR
EXCHANGES.
A Menominee baby has IA fingers
and IA toes. Aflidavits furnished.
Luce county has $4,000 acres of good
farms yet open for homestead entries.
Escanaba has shipped 2. 600, 900 tons
of ore this season.
Dickinson county may bond for
$1O0yA00 worth OF court house and
Jail.
Mar;nette and Menominee mills will
manufacture 5000, 600 feet OF lumber
this year.
A falling plank struck Edgar Eaton,
Of Nsstoria, an eleven.year-old boy,
| while Ao was picking rp,wood for fuel,
killingshim instantly.
Escanaba police arrest anv boy
| under ite years found oon the street
after 8 O'clock unless he has o written
permit fuom his parents
The Hchlesinger syndicate is extend
ing its Upper Peninsula ownings, and
now has ats eye ON the Ludington and
Haaailton mines. The latter is the
deepest nine in the world.
Ironwe0d: Henry Falls, ,,aFinlander.
while working at the bottom of the
AurOra mine on Saturday. was Instant
ly killed by heavy object failing from
the top. HIS skull was crushed.
The Sturgeon Bay s. Lake Michigan
ship canal will shortly pass into the
control of goSernmeni, an appropriation
of $4,000 having been made, to COM
plcte the purchase. This rs. theamount
expended bMi.ae canal company in ex-
cess of government aidr in constructing
the canal.
John Reiehnld and his family Of
Menominee went up the riveruabout Is
miles to pick berries, an while prepar-
ing quarters fer the day little iJonny,
aged about O years, wa udesed away.
He has not yet .ibeen fol md, although
the woods have been s, ,ounsd in all
directions and ihthought the 6llild has
ibeen devoured bs bears, as the berry
<ields are said to he full of them.
The Menomnss River Boom Com
,pany is making a good reco I'd ir sorting
aoSs. In q recent week it tuaEed out
100000 feet daSy. The sepply is
sufficient to keep the mills at: MGrinette
and Menomnee running full capacity.
Alta late date there were loEs,to' the
amount of 150, 100000 feet Move the
gap. The prospect is that ne arlyaall OF
thee600, 100000 feet of logs cut last
winter will be got Aewn to the' works,
or within easy reach this seaso n
Mas Waite Years, sn attraoti We @onn-
try teacher of Soha olcraft county,
aboMG7 years Of age. came to Nanis-
tique to attend the teachers in ntitute,
stopping with her uncle. .vhOmas
Vicentlaid claim to her. rs his W lie and
it transpires that they were m arnisd
one dayslast week. Her uncle claims
her care and refuses to let the new
made groom have her. She prefeus to
be with her uncle, at least until the
storm is over. Her husband tall1s OF
writs and lawyers, has uasde thr eats
and has attempted to get ,possession ID
his bride. Some lively scenes will
doubtless result.
The number of vessels passing
through the Sault Ste Marie canal,
into and out Of Lake Superior, for the
fiscal year ending June 30, was H..
557, an increase of 1,027 over 1891,
previously the banner year. freight
tonnage was .G,1O7 ,622 tons, ,Gn in.
crease of I7-5 per cent over any
previous years record, and the total
freight charges paid was $9,SaS. .O22
The total number of separate vessels
passing the canal was 652. of which
81 we're Canadian. the balance United
States vessels A large amount OF in
crease is due to the increase of lunkel
ship&aents from Lake Superior ports er
Chicago and eastern ports.
The lumber barge Ben Harrison,
which loaded at Ford River last week
las been the subject Of several curioul
condolences; her keel was laid on the
same day that President Hsxrison wa
nominated at Chicago; she was Launched
on the 4th March 1889, the day Of hi
first Inauguration, and her master (al
enthusiastic republican, was notified o
the denomination at Minneapolis as th,
barge was passing the Harrison stree
bridge in Chicago in tow Of the tut
Protection and guided by the tug Salts
faction, while following was the tut
Progress towing another barge, tn
Sunshine, belonging to the same feet
Iron Port.