The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-27
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A Aspeckled trout weighing five and
one-half pounds was taken Friday in
Cherry Creek. Marquette.
With one band saw the Lea Ingram
Lumber Company, of Iron River, Wis.,,
IN lO bours cut 92,100 feet OF lumber,
recently.
There are still about 25 claims sub
lect to homestead ntry within radius
OF seven or eight miles of this village.
Each claim is we'll timbered with hard.
wood and before long will be valuable.
-Ontouagon Herald.
Barrels of kerosene thrown over
board from the steamer Northerner in
Keweenaw Bay last fall, last week
reached the $780," and as it went over
the rapids was gathered in by the
natives who will have enough oil to last
them for months.
The business men of Calumet have
started II fund for the benefit of the
families of the unfortunate miners who
were killed in the recent mine disaster.
Undoubtedly the owners and officers of
the mine will express their sympathy
in substa'. tial manner.
The plant of the Daily Herald and
Lake Superior Democrat the property
of j. Maurice Finn, were sold at Ish-
peming Thursday to satisfy the
demands of creditors. Luther Nj.
Packard, of Menominee, bid in the
plant for $1,000 to satisfy mortgage
held by himself.
Lake Linden school ma'ams are re-
quired to sign contract which con-
tains clause that they will not marry
within the year which they have hired
to teach. The school board, it is said,
we're forced to require such contract
as the girls were marrying too fast.
Now watch for rush of pretty school
ma ANS to the copper country town.
Frank Ties, an Escanaba young boy,
went to see his father, who is an
engineer at the coal derricks. When
the latter started for home ut night he
crossed the railroad track and there
found the mutilated body of his son,
who had been killed by the cars. He
wrapped the remains in his overcoat
and took them home.
The Calumet s. Hecla Co. has decid-
ed to pay to the widows Of the miners
killed May IA 5000 each, $500 to
every orphan and 81, 900 to relatives Of
every single man. Besides these
amounts, the relatives of every one OF
the unfortunate men will receive $500
from the Miners club, q mutual in
surance association.
Postmaster Silvoli, of Red Jacket,
was found short in his accounts by
postoffice Inspector Pulcifer and
removed from his office one day this
week. The bondsmen made good the
shortage, about $4,000. Ex-postmaster
Grierson is installed as postmaster in
his place. Silvola is not accused of any
dishonesty and no criminal proceedings
will be instituted.
Tommy Modesh, the Marquette In
dian in whose possession was recently
found an immense quantity and variety
of stolen goods, pleaded guilty to the
charge of burglary and was sentenced
to 10 years in states prison. The
charge of burglary was founded on
his forced entrance Of the episcopal
rectory two years ago and looting OF
the bishops room of all articles that
could conveniently be carried away.
The pioneer furnace at Negaunee
owned by the Cleveland Cliff Com.
pany will close down this week per-
manently. It is the Oldest furnace
in the Lake Superior district and has
turned out over s3O,OOO,OOO worth Of
pig iron. 1t has been in operation
forty-one years. The closing down of
the pioneer furnace will leave only
one charcoal furnace OF nineteen in the
Upper Peninsula in blast.
The 225 trammers employed in the
Calumet and Hecla mine refused to go
to work on their regular shift at IL
o'clock Sunday night aud the mine did
not start until Monday morning, when
the day men came on. The manager
ment demande OF the men an agree
ment to work as usual next Sunday
midnight. One hundred and fifty en-
ployed in the Hecla and South Hecla
t.~cccbas agraad but seventv-fivo at