The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-24
The L'Anse Sentinel.
PENINSULA POINTERS.

remove its plant from Muskegon to Sault
Ste. Marie.
Menominee, Mich, has match block
factory which employees rs men in Winter
and rs to 100 In summer.
An Iron Mountain doctor vaccinated
1877 persons In less than two hours, one
day last week. This undoubtedly breaks
the record.
j. C. Ley & Co.'S store, Hancock, was
destroyed by fire Saturday morning.
The loss is estimated at 1900; Insur-
ance s2s,70O.
James E. Dalliba, circuit court COM
missioner and one ofthe oldest attorneys
Of the Marquette county bar, died at his
home In Marquette yesterday morning.
Eugene Gill, treasurer Of Fairbank
township, Delta county, has disappeared
and $1,000 township money has gone
with him. 1t is thought he has gone to
France,
Jacobsville fishermen while fixing
their nets on the ice In Portage Lake,
Sunday, were compelled to leave them
and run for shore, as they suddenly dis
covered that the ice was moving out.
Adam Gauch. Mepominee, the father
OF the family afflicted with smallpox, ex-
pired Sunday night. His two boys and
two girls are now sick with the disease.
There is one new case besides those In
the Gauch family.
Dan Coughlin has decided not to con-
slider the offers from the manager OF
Minneapolis museum and the London,
Ont, detective force. He thinks hene
couple Of months OF quiet rest before
engaging in any business.
he latest estimate of the amount OF
logs to be banked on Menominee waters
this season is 1000, 600 as compared to
Ats, 100000 feet last year. The Kirby,
Carpenter Company will bank $4,000, 00O
feet against 100, 600, 900 a year ago.
Hercules Saliva, getting out ties Tor
Hitchcock & Hines, Chicago, at Bark river,
upper Michigan, had load Of ties hauled
which contained SEQ standard ties, weigh.
ing 10000 pounds. One team of horses
pulled the load one and half miles tc
the banking ground, the grade. of course,
being in favor of the team.
1t is said that large amount of coun.
terfeit silver Is in circulation just al
present, and considerable OF it in this
section. OF late the counterfeitng of all
denominations from dollars to dimes ha.
increased to an alarming extent, and the
government secret service seems power
less TO prevent it.-Menominee Leader.
1t is probable that the Wisconsin &
Michigan railway will extend as far south
as Peshtigo. A preliminary survey is be.
ing made for that purpose. This extern
sion would enable pine owners on the
Michigan side CT the Menominee to run
logs to the Peshtigo mills. The fine ltal-
tan hand of Isaac Stephenson can be trac-
cd in this extension scheme.
A proposition has been made before the
aver and harbor committee, at Washing
! On, for ship canal 90 connect Lake Sup
srior, at Duluth, with the Mississippi riv'
err The scheme contemp!ates canal
100 feet wide and 90 feet in depth. One
advantage set forth in the proposition is
that the flood waters OF the upptr Missis'
sippi can thus be held In reserve and pre-.
vented from sweeping down to inundate
the lower valleys.
Milwaukee contractors, who have made
Inquiries about the Wisconsin & Michi-
gan railway, promoted by John Bagley,
which is to take in his Ingalls,, White
Rapids q Northern logging road, and
connect Menominee aid Marinette with
the 500 line on the north, find that Mr..
Bagley is to himself build the road. he
has employed masons to build the bridge
abutmemts, and the contract to build steel
bridges has been let, it Is said, to the
American Bridge Co., of Chicago. 1t is
said that the intention is to run the line
% as to tap an extensive timber belt In
So vicinity Of Armstrong creek, which
Weans that the road will pass through
the north end Of Marnette county, and
possibly into the southwestern part OF
Florence county. 1t Is reported that Mr..
Bagley has secured enough iron for "a
miles Of track, but it is probable that the
first section built will not extend that fan
fron Mlis Junction.
Another swindle.