The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-07-15
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS
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EXCHANGES.
It's now proposed to furnish Iron
WOOD with pure water, by pumping it
from Lake Superior.
Judge Iiaire presided last week at
the circuit court for Baraga county,
and disposed several civil suits.
Inc Buffalo syndicate of mines near
Negaunee, Lave reduced their force,
aud 1T is reported they may shut down
before long.
John Gray, of Iron Mountain, was
last week, while swimming near the
hydraulic falls, seized with the cramp
and drowned.
A 3yeNr-old daughter of Thomas
Hancock fell down an abandoned mine
Shaft at Champion, distance of 13O
feet. The child had several bones bro
ken, but wi! recover.
Upper Peninsula people wonder what
has become of the Iron Mountain &
Menominee road. The projected line
was to be begun by July 1st or all
rights forfeited. Not spade has been
turned.
The Prince of Wales mine, which
was closed down some time ago, re-
sumed work Monday morning. The
Grand Rapids and Winthrop also
started up Monday. The outlook
brightens.
Simeon Rickard was entombed in
drift at section 16 of the Lake Super
ior property last week. When re-
lieved from his position, he complained
of pain in his head, and it is feared
his skull is fractured.
There are about 200 families in
destitute circumstances at Ironwood,
with little or no money to relieve
them. The county board has been
called together for the purpose of
formulating some plan of relief.
The South Shore line has laid off 80
men at i.s Marquette shops on ac-
count of the dullness of business. The
men will be taken back as soon as the
business warrants. Another batch is
to be laid off within couple of davs.
An attempt was made Monday morn.
ing by $50 men composing tho furni-
ture crew of the state house of correct
ion at Ionia, Mich, to escape, as re-
suit Of which one prisoner lies dead
and another mortally wounded. The
attempt was unsuccessful.
Jerry O'Donnell, the man sent to the
penitentiary for three years, for at
tempting to bribe the jury in the Gro
min case at Chicago, was to have been
married at Calumet last Thursday, but
at the time set mass was being said
for the repose of his soul. He died very
suddenly.
The state board of health has been
notified that on the steamship Elbe,
infected with scarlet fever, there were
immigrants for Detroit, Osceola, Ne
gaunee, Muskegon, Ishpeming, Mar
quette, Crystal Falls, Oscoda, Wake
field, Houghton, Bay City, Grand
Rapids and Escanaba.
An Independent italian Political
club has been organized at Red Jacket
for the purpose of educating its mem
bers on thespolitical situations of the
country and to have all who join it be-
come citizens of the United States. !
The club starts out with $50 members |
and will probably have double that
number before many months.
A number or Iron Mountain men
have engaged q big "bus" and four
horses and will drive to the Worlds
Fair. The distance is about $50 miles |
and they will make it at the rate Of
about 50 miles per day. They leave
Aug Is. Banners will be pasted on
the "bus" advertising the city from
which the men hail.
The late superintendent of the
water works at Ironwood, through
whose carelessness it is claimed the
typhoid fever got such hold upon
the people of that place. has been ar
rested on charge of murder. His
examination will take place at Besse-
mer. as The authorities are afraid he
might be lynched if he were taken
back to Ironwood.
Some time ago Frank Racine was
divorced from his wife on the ground
that she had transferred her affeo-
tions to Joseph Polite. Racine re-