The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-02-25
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS
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street cars at Menomines the other
day and will probably die.
Soldiers state that the snow is feet
deep on the level at New Fort Brady
flights, Sauit Ste. Marie.
The residence of Mrs. Londraville, st.
Ignace. together with portion Of her
household goods and 800 in bills, was
burned Tuesday afternoon.
The 1000 barrels OF oil lost off the
Northerner last fall floated to the foot
OF the lake and large share of the
lot has been chopped out OF the ice and
hauled away.
Tony Fassbender. brakeman on the
D., S. s. & A. railroad, fell between
the cars last Friday and was instantly
killed. He was an old brakeman on
the road and married man.
A receiver has Been asked for the
Lake Superior Publishing Company,
of which j. Maui ice Finn is president,
by the secretary of the company and
ether principal stockhoider.
The merchant tailoring establishment
of Torrance & Conway, Ishpeming, was
closed Tuesday by mortgages held by
Field, Benedict 81 Co. No statement OF
assets and liabilities is available.
The county seat war at Marquette
has opened up ufresh and with pros
pect that Ishpeming aad Negaunee will
pull together to get the county build
ings located between the two cities.
Nellie Cudlip, an eighteen-year old
girl of Opechee. gave birth to child
on the public highway with the ther-
mometer 10 degrees below zero. last
Saturday, and yet both mother and
child will survive.
A man who lives at Even under
stands that the state pays bounty OF
81 900 apiece on triplets and asks the
legislature for 81, 900 for his three girls
born last September. Mr.. Chamber
lain presented his petition.
Light keeper Hosea Smith reports
at the 500 that he met man crawling
around on his hands and knees in the
snow several miles up the river, last
Friday. He refused all assistance, but
nothing has been heard of him since.
The bill creating the new county of
Iron with Hurley as the county seat has
passed the Wisconsin legislature and
become law. The governor will ap-
point the county officers and there is
much specializing as to who they will
be.
J. G. Hill & Co., of st. Paul, have
just closed negotiations for the
purchase of 22,000,00O feet of logs
from Cook Bros, of Oconto, which are
banked on the Men ominee and
tributaries. The price is $13 a thous-
and. The lumber will be manufaetur-
ed at Menominee.
Prof. G. Gignac, of st. Anne's acad-
emy, of Lake Linden, is among the
missing. 1t is said that he skipped out
in time to escape o coat of tar and
feathers, charges of outrageous conduct
toward the children under his care
having been made against him.
The Upper Peninsula Business col
lege offers one months tuition in the
night school free to the boy or girl
under II years Of age, sending in the
first correct answer to the following
problem: eff hen and half lay an
egg and half in day and half,
how many eggs will six hens lay in
seven jays?"
Fire in the Hartman block at Hough-
ton Monday morning did damage esti-
mated at $4,000. Half of that amount
is on the building, which is gutted.
The Pabst brewing company lost
s. 800 on beer stored in the basement,
while M. J. Dillon, the saloon man, is
out $4,000 on stock and fixtures. L.
Croze lost $500 on saloon stock. The
amount of insurance on building was
$4,000.
The mammoth car ferry and ice
crusher Ste. Marie, built by the De-
troit Dry Dock company for the Mich
igan Central, the Grand Rapids &
Indiana and the Duluth, South Shore
& Atlantic railroads for transferring
cars across the straits Of Mackinac,
was successfully launched into the De-
troit river Thursday. The Ste. Marie
is the largest boat of her kind on the
lakes, having keel 269 feet inc hes
in length. Her breadth is 81 feet
inches and she has draught Of II feet.
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