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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Neffauiice and Inhpciiiiiig Miner.4 Still Out The ultimatum of the strikingminers of Ishpeming and Negmmee was sent to the local representatives of mining companiea. A meeting of the latter u-as held and the matter forwarded to the headquarters of the several companies. Another week of delay is thus inevitable. It is still beingurged that contracta for the season's delivery of ores were made when business conditions were at the lowest point, thus praetieally ruling out Jlarquette j county producers froin any immediate iulvantage in the general improvement. Fhe Btrikers, however, seem more conÜdent of winning their cause than at any time. Several large eontributions have been pledged f rom some of the business men of both cites. io Strike at Iron Mountain, A nasa meeting of theChapin miners was held at Iron Mountain. lt was unanimously agreed to ask for more pay. A committee was appointed to present the demands to the superinclent. General Manager McXaughton replied that he would give an answer within a weck, and it is safe to say that there will be no strike. The Chapin has dlways paid higher wages than any mine in the district. Stivere Cyclone at St. Clair. A stori i with many features of a western cyclone made u ÏO minutes visit to M. Clair and in that time destroyed one life and about $15,000 worth of property. The storm first struck near Jenox, 14 miles southwest and its trail was marked by uprooted trees, wrecked outhouses and fenees. The brickyard of Bclknap & Phillips, just outside of St. Clair, was totally wrecked, and Frank Rondo and Joe Goulet badly injured by flying timber. Kdward Lees house was demolished and his wife and babe injured. The roof of the Cadillac hotel was torn off and earried over 100 fect. The tower of the city hall was blown down and the ffre alarm bell smashcd. The single fatality was the case oí a babe eleven monthg old, but i was a peeuliarly önc. Ernest Black, a laborer was at work and his wife was visiting when his home was complëtëly wrecked and the babe killed. A large number of trees were blown down and as the storm passed over the river tivo large vessels were grounded and two sinall boats were capsized, but the occupants were rescued. Considerable damage was done in Courtright. Berlovi IToreftt Tires Still Burniiig. Traverse City: Forest fires are still burning fiercely in the Fiier pine tract, near Interlochen. Aboutfive liundred acres are destroyed. Ofcher iires are abatinjj, as light rairis have fallen. Alpona: Fires in Alpena countv are still raming. No rain to amount to anything lias fallen in six weeks, and crops are all ruined. Jt is reported tliat several farmers nrar I.ong Kapids were burned out. Srnoke has filled the city for the past week, and the ore department was called out to extinguish fires whieh came to the edge of the town. Hillman: The eastern portion oí Montmorency county has been almost a solid blaze of lire, and a vast amount of damag-e has been done to farmers. Wheat and hay ficlds have been entirely destroyed. Jarkson Maa to Go Over Niágara Futís. Coryell Bartholomew, the Jaekson aeronaut, proposes to go over the falls of Niágara on a trapeze attaehed to a bar between two balloons. The contrivanee resembles a huge dumb bell. The conneeting shaft is 100 feet long, and each sphere is 40 feet in diameter, leaving 20 feet between them. The eontrivanee will be ballasted so as to keep from sailing into the air as it floats down the river, but when the precipice is reaehed the ballast will be g-radnally releasetl. At the bottom of the falls Kartholomew expects to sail away. If no obstacles develop, the trip will be made in August, lS'Jti. Four Men Injured- 11 Hortaen Hurnetl. Small fe Johnsons livcry barn caught tire at Henzonia and spread to three adjoining dwellings, all four buildings being destroyed. Four men asleep in the barn had narrow escapes and were badly cut breakiny through windows and were burned more or less. The occupants of the dwellings Baved only the clothing they had on. Eleven horses were burned to death and the entire livery outfit was 6troyed. lienzonia has no water works and all the fire eisterns were empty to the protractcd drouth. Loss B."),UUU; insuranee $000. SensatUmxl Elopemrnt at 1 iiHkugon. tí. tí. Castle, superintendent of the l.akp Harbor railroad. and Mrs. Lewis Woodward, eloped. Castle has a wife, and a son aged 17, at Allegan. Mrs. Woodward is young and handsome and lias been marrled six years. Mrs. Woodward was ticket agent at the Lake Michigan park for the Lakc Harbor road. Castle has been conductor on the C. & W. M. railroad five years. ' N'lne Minera Kntombed A live. Nine mincrs wci'e imprisoned in a room in the first level of the l'ewabic mine at Iron Mountain and the chances are tbat Bome of tliei lulled. Au '.mmense cave-in of rock and tiraber occurred just as the men quit work. I-a.-ki: The men wen' ;ill rescued uninjured. The mn suffered no great laeonvenience. Holton Almost IJostroyotl. A eigar stub or a match carelessly thrown in the hay in .1. 1'. 1 tter's ]ir,'c bain nearly wiped oft' the map Holton, a sniiill vilfage 61 2S0 population. in .M]k■go rounty. Tlie tire spread rapidly, everythlng burnlng like tinder. There had been no rain there for weeks. Loss Y10.000.

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