The L'Anse sentinel., 1894-10-20
PENINSULA POINTERS,
Interesting Items Clipped Culied aud Con
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! Interesting Items Clipped, Culled aud Con
densed From Our Exchanges.
! Large quantities of fine pine lumber
have been drifting ashore at Eagle river
since the recent storm.
Ground will be broken at Gladstone
soon for large staye factory, which will
begin operations in the spring.
Houghton county has clean slo0,oCG
in the treasury, something probably no
other county in Michigan can boast Of.
The truckmen and lumber pliers oil
the Diamond Match Co. at Ontonagon
struck on Monday for an increase in
wages.
Florence Campbell, 2-year-old girl OF
Grand Marais, got hold Of bottle OF car
holic acid and drank some Of the contents.
She lived but short time.
The hard iron smelling annex of the
Lake Superior Iron Works, at Hancock.
burned TO the ground Monday night.
Loss SO, 1000, partially insured.
Gladstone will have quite all addition
soon, as seventy cottages are to be built
to accomodate workmen who will be en-
poyed at the new iron furnace which is
being built there.
The Escanaba Game club will have a
bill introduced in the coming legislature
compelling every hunter who is not a
resident OF the state to pay $50 for per-
NIT to shoot deer, and making every citi-
zen game warden, with power to COM
pei every hunter to show his license.
The men employed on the ore docks OF
the Chicago IL Northwestern Co, in Es-
canada are out on a strike. They have
been receiving Sl.25 per day and asked
for Sl.65, but were refused. All hands
about 100 in number, are out. The COM
pany is criticised for its action in the
matter, bnt it is believed that the men will
be offered Sl.50, as labor is very scarce.
The Gladstone Improvement Co., last
week eyicted about thirty tenants from
houses belonging to them and located on
ground which they wished to use for
manufacturing purposes. A man was
left to watch the property. and on Sun
day the wives of score or more OF the
squatttrs attacked him with clubs and
stones, and drove him away. Police
finally quelled the riot.
Articles of association Of the Cory shin
gle company, of Chassell, have been filed.
The objects Of the company are twofold;
first, TO manufacture shingles, and sec
oud, dealing In logs and lumber. The
capital stock is SIS, 900, divided into l.
500 shares. f. l.. Partridge. of Chassell,
holds 500 shares; the Rice & Lockwood
Lumber Co., of Detroit. 332; William w.
Lockwood, l and Phillip Cory, OF Chas-
soil, l67, making the paid-up capital $40,
600. The term Of corporate existence is
Is years.
A syndicate OF Cleveland men has pur-
chased of the Alex. B. Hallowell estate
and Alfred Meajs 1850 of copper lands
In Michigan for the sum OF sS1.500. The
property is located ia the Calumet Il Hec-
la belt, and is said by experts, who have
examined the property, to be one of the
best parcels OF copper land In Michigan I.
A n extensive plant will be equipped in the
Immediate future and the mining of cop
per will be pushed. 1t is stated that a
number Of copper veins, containing large
quantities ofmass copper, having already
been opened by IL. II. Reeves, who is In
charge Of the work OF the mines for the
syndicate. The syndicate will be known
as the Cleveland mining and Developing
Co. of which VIM. Neville is president.