The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-11-11
PENINSULA News.
Items Of Interest Taken From Our
Exchanges and Condensed.

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planning on the erection of a syna
gogue in that city next year.
Florence county, Wis, farme, .
are shipping their sugar beets tc
the Menominee factory. The yielG
is said to be good. The company
pays for beets so delivered, at the
rate of A.75 ton, and pays the
freight.
Governor Warner will arrive in
the upper peninsula for bis hunting
trip Monday. November 18th. He
will be accompanied by several OF
bis friends, and expects to enjoy the
trip, which will be his first deer
hunting experience.
Ira Boughton. of Pentoga, Iron
county, shot and killed two large
white birds on Indian lake last week
Tuesday. They are supposed to be
a specie of pelican. They measured
z feet 4 inches from tip to tip of the
wings, and stood four feet and four
inches high. He took them to a
taxidermist to have them mounted.
William M. Lyon has been ap-
pointed to succeed Francis ].
Nicholas, resigned. as manager of
the Calumet Evening News, and
other interests OF the Mining Gaz-
cite Company in Calumet. Mr..
Nicholas sewers his connection with
the company to take the position Of
chief clerk in the Office Of John W.
Wagner, purchasing agent for the
Copper Range Consolidated COM
pany, at Houghton.
Foster & McPhee, Newberry job
bers, lost scow load of camp supplies
last Monday night in peculiar
manner. A scow had been loaded
with supplies Monday which was to
be foated down the Taquamenon
river to their camp the following
day. During the night, the water
10 the river, which was unusually
high, suddenly dropped and the
scow, which was pulled up close to
the shore, listed to one side, allow
ing the water to run over the top.
Among the cargo was barrel of
lime and kerosene. The Stacking of
the lime set fire to the oil, and all of
the supplies were either burned or
rlined. The scow was not damaged
to any great extent. The loss will
amount to about 5000.
The walls of the Miners National
bank building, at Ishpeming, were
rent asunder by an explosion OF gas
confined to the basement, shortly
after 3 o'clock Sunday morning last,
involving over two dozen people,
mostly church goers returning from
an early mass, in one Of the most
shocking disasters that has ever oc-
Cured in Marquette county, there
having been three killed and four
teen injured, caused by falling wreck
age. Fortunately, fire did not break
out, else the horror OF the happen
ing would have been greatly in
creased. The explosion occurred as
some steam filters ignited match
upon their entrance to the basement,
where they were to have made some
repairs on the heating plant that
morning.
Dickinson is the first county in
the upper peninsula to receive a
macadamized road bonus--or any
other kind of a road bonus-from
the state under the new law
enacted by the legislature last win
ter. Other awards we're made for
gravel roads, the total sum dis
tributed by the state commissioner
being $4,000. Under the law Dick
inson county will receive 81 900 from
the state for each mile constructed
in accordance with the standard
adopted by Commissioners Earle. A
bonus of $1,000 for one mile OF
the road will be received forthwith,
and the balance on the installment
plan, the limited appropriation by
the legislature making this plan
necessary. This bonus Of 81, 900 will,
in the opinion Of Engineer Baxter,
meet about one third OF the cost OF
macadamizinG the Norway-Quinne-
sec road per mile, but on this road
there is . heavy filling cost.
We carry full line OF Mcmillan
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