The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-09-23
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS

Negaunee had twenty-five cases of ty-
phoid fever.
Iron Mountain has 2,208 children of
school age. Menominee has about
$500.
Mrs. M 9. Belhumer has been APP
pointed postmaster at Champion, vice
L. II. Wallace, removed.
The Mineral Range railroad will pass
into the control of the South Shore
company on the 1st proximo.
Warden. Van Evera has now 112
"boarders" and the establishment under
his charge is in good shape.
There are now 112 convicts in the
Marquette prison. A new workshop 40
100 feet in size is being erected.
st. Ignace has been in darkness for
week on account of the generator at the
electric light works giving out.
Creditors of the State Bank of
Crystal Falls will lose nothing. As to
stockholders il is question of how
| much.
Tramps in the Upper Peninsula have
provided themselves with printed list
of all the towns where free meals to the
unemployed are given.
Two Marquette policemen found
themselves unable to land a peace dis
turber. A professor of hypnotism who
happined along, practiced his arts and
the man went along.
The furry in the eastern money mar
ket being over, Alger, Smith & Co.
have decided to go on with the work of
completing their railroad to Grand
Marais and building dock ut that
point.
Joe Haas, of Houghton, has herd
of deer that lie has partly domesticated
He wants to know whether he can slay
his own deer under the pesky game
law. ~
A cucumber twenty-five inches long
, was left at the Port Office last week.
That vegetable would do more mis-
chief than gallon of Jamaica ginger
could repair. Port.
Many of the cities of this peninsula
have bonded themselves for street inn
provements, just to give employment
to the idle men in the community. Es-
canada is the latest city to adopt this
method.
The postoffice on Mackinac Island
was broken into Sunday night, the safe
blown open and the cash and stamps
inside, amounting to $4,000, taken. A
strange yacht had been anchored near
the place during the night and left early
in the morning.
Shipping operations we're resumed at
the Chaplin mine at Iron Mountain Sat
urday morning, and the stock pile of
1O2, 900 tons of ore will be sent to Escan-
aba and Gladstone docks as rapidly as
possible. Forty or fifty men will be
employed. and it is expected to move
$500 tons daily. ~
The common council Of Ironwood
voted last week to purchase the Iron
wood and Hurley system of water works
for $S5, 900, payable in bonds bearing 8
per cent interest. The works have
been bonded by the company for $685.
900, which Indebtedness the city will
assume.
Smoke from forest fires, caused by
protracted drouth throughout Michigan
is making navigation at this end OF
Lake Michigan extremely dangerous.
Boats report that the smoke is so thick
at the Sturgeon Bay Canal that they
could not see both banks at the same
time.-Gladston Delta.
A fire, said to be OF incendiary origin
started at Manistique Saturday night,
between 10 and II o'clock, in Paul
Rearker's saloon, on Walnut street.
Before the conHagration was stopped,
fourteen houses we're entirely destroyed
the estimated loss being $4,000. The
| News Office and plant was destroyed,
with the exception Of a few account
books, several chairs and q numbering
machine.
Every since the robbery of the post
Office at Mackinac Island the sheriff
and local authorities have left no stone
unturned to capture the criminals, but
without avail. Early in the morn
| ing a party Of citizens and officers LETT
there on the tug Joker in pursuit OF
sailboat containing four men. The
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