The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-01-28
UPPER PENINSULA n EW
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED FROM OUR
EXCHANGES

ClSiffED AMI rhOm OUh
EXCHANGES.
No water n sight from Mack nae Is
land aud the ice in the straits is foot
aud half thick.
Charles Hoffman, II years old only,
committed suicide by shooting at Me-
1ominee On the Goth
Michieamme holds the head OF the
class-the thermometer show ed "A de-
greee below on the 14lh.
Another gang Of counterfeiters las
been broken M at Superior. They
made dollars, halves, quarters and
dimes.
Habbell's mill. Ontonagon county,
viii soon have a postoffiGe, which will
be named Rnbicon. An express Office
will also be established there.
Cities and villages all over the
Upper Peninsula are having much
trouble with frozen water pipes.
The remedy is easily suggested-put
them Down deeper.
The body OF an unknown Eian was
fo'And in snow bank beside the @. &
n. w. road near Quinnesec OH the 18th.
The mau had been hit by an engine
but persisted by freezing.
st. ignace may have summer hotel,
ii the saints have faith enough to fur
nish a site for it and pnt up good
part of the money necessary. Most
any town could, on the same terms.
They do things after rather u cur
ious fashion in Negaunee. Twelve
years ago Alex. Mcdonald was in
jured in mine accident there, and has
been allowed to run saloon without
q license ever since.
The Mining Journal has it from
COOL authority that tine Quincy Min
ing e,mnauy will build it's own smelt
ting works on the newly acquired
land between the Franklin stamp mill
and the Lake Superior Iron works.
B. p. Emo, the manager and report
ed financial backer OF the pedestrians
who held a six-day go-ss-you- please
contract ut Houghton last week has
skipped ont with the funds. and the
pedestrians have sworn out warrant
for his arrest on the chnge of embez-
element.
Jack Carkeek. the ex.champion
wrestler of the world and formerly q
resident of this peninsula, has been
appointed assistant secretary and phys
ical director of the Y. M. G. A. at
Stockton, CAL, Carkeek abandoned
the mat about..two years ago and be-
came temperance lecturer.
Dan Bannerman, of Crystal Falls,
has turned his saloon into reading
room under the management ef tue
W. G. Il. u. TO u Drill reporter who
asked what it all meant. Dan replied:
1T means simply that this bar-room is
closed by the grace of God. The
devil has run it long enough; now we'll
give God chance"
Fred Peterson, young SweJe grocer
at Carney died in ike poor house at
Menominee Saturday from self starva-
tion- He lived sixteen days without
food or water. Persusasion and force
we're used TO make him take nousish-
ment but of no avail Three months
ngo he wrote to his old sweetheart in
Sweden and told her to come to his
.Some in Michigan. She did so but on
her arrival for some unknown reason
refused to wed him and tins led to his
suicide hv starvation.
Ten horses belonging to Paul N.
Minckler, lumberman who has con
tcact o cut and put in large quantities
of logs on certain disputed canal lands
two miles north of Iron river, Mich,
were poisoned by unknown parties
(supposed to have been irate home
steaders who claim the lapdsD, last
Sunday night. Five of the horses died
and the others rendered valueless.
They broke into the stable and mixed
poison with the animals food. Nr.
Minckler has been obliged to suspend
operations owing to lack of horses
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Reminder Of Northerner.