The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-07-22
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED FROM OUR
EXCHANGES.

John Yermotte,a French Canadian
resident OF Chasscl, wa arrested last
Monday charged with setting fire to the
house OF his brother-in,law. Jus tice
Finn, of HaucocE. held him to the cir
cult eou;t under 81, 1000 bonds.
NJ. L. ministers OF the Upper PENN
sula nave abandoned the idea of hold
ing campmeeting at. Deer Lake this
year. The reasons assigned Tor this
conclusion are the hard times and the
counter attraction Of The World Fair.
The Calumet q Hecla, and other
copper mines III this district, are dis.
charging all Hurgarians and Italians
in and about the mines. 1t is claimed
that these nationalities are very trouble
some in causing strikes and other dis
turbances.
The Lake Superior Iron Company,
employing nearly l,200 men, will re-
duce their force one. third, and will al
50 cut the wages Of employees retained
on or before July 30 This leaves on
ly one large iron mine in the district
employing the regular force of miners.
Supt. Curry has returned from New
York where he attempted to arrange
| for the resumption Of work ut the Big
Norrie mine, bat was unsuccessful and
the mine will work the present force of
a few hundred men only until fall, or
perhaps longer. There are only 800
men nov employed in the mines there.
WeIlen, the coordination train
wrecker and informer, was driven from
the woods, where lie had been hiding
for several weeks, by the flies and
mosquitoes and was captured in a
nearly starving condition. 1t was also
found that he had been wounded the
leg by one OF the sherilf's shots when
he escaped.
Joseph McGirr committed suicide at
Sault Ste Marie Thursday night in O
methodical manner. He wrote q note
i'll which lie said that he was going to
drown himself because of business
troubles, went TO the end of an unused
dock, took off his colt and vest, placed
the note upon them and presumably
jumped in, bat the body has not been
recovered.
Lillian SuUlter, an orphan girl Il
years of age, committed suicide at
Mlckinac Island last Monday. She
had attended dance the previous
night in company with a soldier named
Badgley She left Il letter stating that
Badgley had outraged her and that she
could not live to bear the shame The
brute has uecn arrested but he cal
never received his just deserts at the ba
OF justice.
The new club house of the Huron
Mountain Sh poting and Fishing Clul
at the mouth Of Pine river on Hurol
bay, was formally opened last Monday
It is built of selected Norway logs
with a frontage OF 104 feet, and wall
over twenty-five feet in height. Th
club holds in fee or by lease the hunt
ing and fishing privileges of betwee'
COCO and 1000 acres of land, control
Pine river and Pine lake, Trout lake
Howe lal1o and many others IN the VI
cinity.
Judge Marshall has entered u
Judgment for S34l.000 in favor OF tin
Land s. River Improvement Co. III 1t
attachment suit against the West Su
, perior Iron g. Steel Co. This place
the Land Co. in position to get on
an execution and to proceed with tn
sale of the plant by the sheriff. Ih
eale however, must be advertised 10
twenty DAYS, after which time 1t WI
mass into the hands of the Steel CC
:, and work resumed soon thereafter
Superior Telegram.
: Supt Cole has returned to Negaulne
from Milwaukee, where ho conforrc
with Ferdinand Schlossinger, presiden
: of the Buffalo Mining Company, an
: head of the Schlessinger syndicate
!, It is expected that money for the pay
ment of all claims on which the attacl
ments we're based will be forthcomin
: in few days. Other creditors mani
q fest no nneasiness, and the gener'
Is opinion is that tho embarassment WI
Is be speedily relieved. Dispatches iroi
I. Iron Mountain say that tho employ
= = Of theChapin mine there, operated
. the syndicate, will be paid month
wages on Wednesday, which IS q favo
d abb, indication of the syndicate's abil
@ @le ty to weather the storm.
{, Deputy sherifls are swarming over u
G.tIaoinner SyudlC0