The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-09-09
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Jessieville near Ironwood, has MANY
cases OF typhoid fever, due to infected
well water.
VIM. Hall has been appointed post
master at Bruce's Crossing vice H. H.
Fuller, resigned.
The appointment of John Power, of
Escanaba, as district attorney for the
western district of Michigan is said to
be assured
One day last week 2S9 persons made
application for relief at Ironwood, claim
ing to be without the commonest neces-
saries of life.
The woods near Iron Mountain are
swarming with men cutting their win
ter's wood, and it doesn't belong to
them, either. One man has lost every
tree on 40-acre tract,
The coroner's jury which investigated
the murder of the two Finland
ers near Calumet holds Patrick
O'Brien and David Wear responsible,
with Frank E. Lovejoy and Joseph
Simmons as accessories.
G.. W. Boynton, of the Mackinac
Transportation Co., and l.. r. Boynton
captain of the Algomah, trace their
family clear back to 1907. William and
John Boynton came to Massachusetts,
in 1888. They have 5000 living de.
scendants in the United States.
Rudolph Kauth, aged Is, was drown
ed in Portage Lake Saturday afternoon
while in bathing with two other boys.
He could not swim and got beyond his
depth. The body is not yet recovered,
although friends and the life saving
crew have been at work since the acci
dent happened.
The libel suit of Thibault VS.. Sessions
and Phipps, OF the Calumet Conglom-
crate, occupied the attention of the
Houghton circuit court two days this
week. The jury found the defendants
guilty and assessed damages at 81 900,
which will make quite hole in the
Conglomerate's stockpile this year.
The Lake Angeline mine, employing
700 men, which has been working two
thirds time for nearly month, and
which it was feared would close down
entirely, has put men at work on full
time and will make no further reduc-
tions. A general improvement in the
of the iron mining district is
An Iron Mountain laboring man out
Of work was recently arrested for killing
a deer out of season. He was fined $50
for the offensc, but when the Judge
heard that the act was done to save bis
seven children from starving, he remit
ted the fine aud costs, gave him back
the venison, which had been confiscated
md told him to go shoot another deer
when the meat was used up.
The proposition of Ishpeming to issue
. special bond for street improvement
% employ idle men was defeated last
Monday the adverse vote being cast
by miners owning houses,
Who thought the plan Of the city to en-
,loy the destitute at 81 per day was
scheme to lower wages all around.
The defeat of bonding will render it
necessary to open soup houses month
,r two earlier.
A double murder occurred Sunday
hight at John Simmons temperance
aloon on the road from Hancock to
Calumet, about four miles west of the
after place. The victims were John
,alo and Iwar Peurale, both single who
,ame week ago from Minnesota. The
ugular vein and carotid artery were
evered in both men by the stab of a
lnife. Matt Hergonen was also dan
stabbed but will recover.
Simmons kept an unlicensed saloon
md disreputable place. There is no