The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-08-26
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED FROM OUR
EXCHANGES

EXCHANGES.
The two prisoners who esclped from
the Menominee jail last week have
been captured at Oshkosh.
The Ontonagon Minor enterel upon
its 39tI year with last issue. 1t is the
Oldest paper on Lake Superior.
The CalameJ & Hecla companr is
having built a brick stack $50 feet high.
The stack is already up $50 ieet.
The Menominee River Boom Co. has
this season sorted about 100000, 600
feet Of flogs, G5,000,O 900 less than during
the same time last year.
A little st. Tgnacc girl, years OF
age, swallowed . single stramonium
seed, aud it kept doctor busy for i've
hours to keep the doath angel out Of
the house
AT Osceola, Houghton Co, Sunday
evening", a lamp exploded in the house
of Michael Manly, and two little chill.
We're fatally burned. both dying dur
ing the night.
A scaffold at the NJ. L. Church,
ut Sault Ste Marie. fell Monday morn
ing, and eight workman were
precipated TO the ground. All were
injured, but only Amos Healy was Kill
led.
Ontonagon fishermen caught u white
sturgeon three feet long one day last
week. At least SO says the spoi ting
editor of the Outonagon Herald who
probably takes a good deal of water in
his whiskey.
It,hans and other foreigners in the
Upper Peninsula are preparing TO re,
turn to their native land on account OF
the difficulty of finding work there.
Two hundred of them will leave Iron
Mountain within the next two weeks.
The Lake Angeline mine will work
four days per week only from now on.
The management does this in preference
to reducing forces one-third to bring ex-
penses down to the point rendered nec-
essary by the condition of the ore mar
ket.
Fire in II slab pile came near destroy
ing T. W. Read x Co.'S mill at Michi-
CANINE, Tuesday afternoon. Luckily
the wind was blowing III favorable
direction and the mill and lumber piles
were saved. About 200 cords of slabs
were burned
Simon Oleson, of Iron River, while
in the woods. was mistaken by some
amateur hunters for bear, and they
let drive. Their aim was good and
Simon got it in the neck, but doe
tor removed the bullet, and the wound
ed man will get well.
Ontonagon people entertained the
SitIc DOuIu VI ColItCtlullo anu CiitiitiSS
royalty last week and offered the choice
of four very pretty sites for the U. z.
insane asylum. Next to L'Anse the
SENTINEL would like to see the asylum
located at Ontonagon.
At the annual meeting of Calumet 81
Hecla Mining Company's stockholders
the same directors who have served
since the company was started were
reelected. President Agassiz in his
report said that large numbers of the
employees at the mines do not under
stand English and it was probable that
the officials of the company would re-
fuse hereafter to employ men who do
not know or will not in short time
learn English.
In order to comply with the inspec,
ton laws of Michigan, as the court
directed, the $500" Railroad Co. has
asked the state board of health to
appoint inspectors of immigrants to be
stationed ut Quebec and other ports OF
entry. so that the inspectors will not be
necessary ut the 800" the company to
pay the salaries and all other expenses
of such inspectors. Secretary Baker
has notified the.ofIicials of the road that
this can be done, if the baggage of
immigrants is inspected at the ports of
entry in the manner directed by the
Michigan laws.
Thomas E. Mays, who built road
fourteen miles in length from Bessemer
to Lake Superior, will get little pay for
his labor. BY the terms OF the contract
Mays was to receive several thousand
acres of Upper Peninsula swampy lands.
He made his selections on Bois Blank
island, which, however, was last year
adiudgod in suit before the supreme
court to belong to lower Michigan
Tho state board of auditors was instrcut-