THE MINING GAZETTE (under various names) of Houghton County, Michigan Copyright © 1999-2001 by Dick and June Ross. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. ____________________________________________________________________ 1875 September - December Issues - Some issues may be missing. ........denotes there was more to the article and the article with in is a shortened version. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Sept 2, 1875 Marine disaster: Last Thursday the most serious marine disaster which has occurred on Lake Superior for years took place near White Fish Point. The Canadian steamer Manitoba collided with the steamer Comet sinking the latter almost immediately. Ten of the crew of the Comet went down with the "ill-fated steamer. She was loaded with silver ore from Montana, and 600 tons of pig iron ........other particulars learned from the captain and crew of the ill-fated vessel, who arrived here on the propeller Quebec this evening. The Manitoba was plainly visible to the Comet, which sounded one whistle for her to take the star1)6ard side, but received no answer. The collision happened about 8:40 PM, and the night was perfectly clear. The Manitoba struck the Comet about sixteen feet from her stern, port side, and ran into her sixteen feet. The Comet sunk in less than three minutes........George SMITH, a fireman, who l ives at Chatham, Ont., and Michael BURKE, a deck hand, of Buffalo, were drowned........... Obituary of Henry F.W. D'ALIGNY: On Tuesday last Mr R. R. GOODELL, agent of the St. Marys Mineral Land Company, received a telegraphic dispatch from New York, announcing the death by dropsy, of Henry F. Q. d'ALLGNY, in that city the day before. He was a native of France, and was closely connected with the best blood of that country. He graduated at the School of Mines, Paris, before he was twenty years old, and receiving the appointment of assistant mining engineer, in 1854, at the Clark mine, Copper harbor, which property had just been acquired by French capitalists for the purpose of development. He came to Lake Superior, which was his home up to within a few years. After remaining in the employ of the Clark mining company for some time, he entered the services of the St. Marys Ship Canal and Mineral Land company. Calumet School Matters: The following is the list of the names of teachers employed at the new schoolhouse, Calumet, for the coming year: Mr E. T. CURTIS, principal; Miss F.C. NICHOLS, assistant; Miss Annie PATON, Miss S. E. ROSE, Miss Jessie PATON, Miss FRANK, Miss Mary NOWLIN, Miss Laura NOWLIN, Miss Fannie SENTER, Miss Mary MCDONALD, Miss Lizzie DANIELL, Miss Anna PAULL. Music Miss Frankie MORSE. Died: Thos. M. GILLESPIE, formerly of L'Anse, while descending a flight of stairs in Red Jacket last Tuesday morning, lost his footing and fell to the bottom, receiving injuries from which he died in a few minutes. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Sept 9, 1875 Annual School Meeting: ...school district No.1, Portage township, held Monday evening. In the absence of Dr. FULLER, the chairman, Mr T.W. EDWARDS called the meeting to order, an on motion of Mr T. M. BRADY, Mr EDWARDS was unanimously elected chairman, and Mr Geo. BEESLEY secretary..........Dr. Geo. FULLER and Mr Nicholas KUTTSCHELD were reelected trustees for a term of three years. Circuit Court: The People vs. Joseph VIVIAN and John CARKEEK - Injury to a dwelling house; Nolle pros. entered on payment of costs by respondents. Rowing Matters: The regular monthly meeting of the Arctic Boat Club......the vice-president, Mr. Thos. CULLYFORD in the chair.........Messrs. J. W. RAYMOND, C.D. SIIELDEN, and Ben B. ESAU were appointed a regatta committee......Messrs. E.H. TOWAR, C. B. GRANT, Chas. SMITH, M. B. PATCH, and Jas. P. EDWARDS were appointed a ball committee.......... Common Council: At the regular meeting........Messrs. MILLER, SCHULTE and FOLEY were appointed a special committee to ascertain what streets or portions of streets require sidewalks; Last week Mr Jas. WELSH, one of the proprietors of the Ontonagon stage line, saw a large wolf trotting along the side of the road......and last Tuesday the dead body of the wolf was discovered lying near the road. Mr WELSH brought in the hide as a trophy, and intends to claim the bounty. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Sept 16, 1875 News scraps: Last Wednesday night a train on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad broke through a bridge, two miles west of Harvard Junction, killing and wounding several people. One man - a Cornish miner, named GOSS - from Negaunee was killed. PORTAGE LAKE M[NING GAZETTE, Sept 23, 1875 Mining Notes: Capt James CLIFF has left for Isle Royale with a party of men to open up a fissure vein on an island in the vicinity of Cove Harbor. This property belongs to Mr. S.W. HILL, and negotiations are now pending for its sale to Mr. Jacob HOUGHTON, of Michigamme, who has employed Capt. CLIFF to explore it. Died: At Clinton, Ontario, on the 12th inst., in the 78th year of his age, Robert COVE, father of Mrs. David CAVAN, of this place. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Sept 30,1875 Rev. J. SWEET, lately appointed pastor of the M.E. Church of this place as successor to Rev J. FRAZER, has entered upon his duties, and taken up his residence at the M.E. parsonage. East Houghton cannot boast of all the fine residences built in this section this season, for Mr Josiah PAULL is putting up a very fine one on Shelden street above Pewabic. School at Calumet.....To Professor E. T. Curtis, principal of the schools in Calumet, who has been warmly seconded in his efforts by Mr Mex. AGASSIZ, president of the Calumet and Hecla mining company, Mr J.N. WRIGHT, superintendent, and Dr. R.H. OSBORN and Mr John DUNCAN, of the school board, is due the credit............ Last Tuesday evening, David HARRINGTON, of Red Jacket, while attempting to draw a pail of water from a well, in the cellar of his house, lost his balance and pitched into the well head foremost and was drowned. His family, consisting of a number of small children and an old woman, were in bed at the time, so that the body of the unfortunate man was not found until about 7 o'clock Wednesday morning. HARRINGTON, at the time of his death, was suffering from the partial loss of his eyesight. Last spring his wife died under suspicious circumstances, and there were many who believed at the time that her death was caused through ill treatment on the part of the husband and excessive use of liquor. At the last term of the Circuit Court Mr. Chas. K. DODGE, of this place was admitted to practice in the courts of this State. A young man named Fred BUCKBERGER, while passing along the hurricane deck of the Frank C. Fero, on her trip down to Torch Lake, last Sunday, tripped over the stay chains of the smokestack, and fell overboard....................... PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Oct. 7, 1875 Mr J.B. STURGIS, county treasurer, has been very busy this week offering for sale the delinquent lands in Houghton and Baraga counties. It is our painful duty to record this week another death from drowning. Last Friday night, about nine o'clock, Mr Malcolm P. MCDONALD, a carpenter living in Ripley fell off the ferry boat Niagara while crossing the lake....... Mr. MCDONALD was about 45 years of age, and leaves a widow and several children. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Oct 14, 1875 Messrs. T. W. EDWARDS, Chas. EDWARDS, Jas. BLANDY, R. UREN and Jas. REID returned on Monday from a three weeks' hunting excursion down the Menominee river, having shot seven deer and a large quantity of small game. Messrs. HOAR & ANTHONY, who have the contract for carrying the U.S. mall during the winter months between L'Anse and Portage Lake, are rapidly perfecting their arrangements to take the road as soon as navigation closes...............Mr John LEEPER will open the halfway house on the L'Anse and Portage Lake road as soon as the stages begin to run. The store lately occupied by Mr Chris. HAUG, in this place, has been secured, and will be used the L.& H.T. Co as a ticket and freight office, which will be in charge of Mr Wm. B. HOAR Mr James WATSON, formerly superintendent of the Cliff, is at present living in England, whither he has gone on account of his health. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Oct 21,1875 Fred SCIINEIDER wanted to start a shoemaker's shop and borrowed some tools of Joseph MORGAN, but the justice insisted on Frederick's contributing ten dollars to the revenue of the State, which forced him into bankruptcy. Thus another business enterprise is nipped in the bud. Messrs. KOHLBAAS & WARD have recently erected a fine meat market at Red Jacket, and a new slaughter-house about a half mile out of town. They are both gentlemen of experience, and we doubt not will receive their share of public patronage. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Oct 28, 1875 A. C. DAVIS, Esq., and family, were passengers to Isle Royale on the propeller Annie I. Craig, last Friday. They will spend the winter on the island. Mr. DAVIS, as agent of the Micong mining company, has accomplished a great amount of work during the season.............. Local jottings: Last Monday Mrs. L. Levy's valuable span of horses, while standing on Smith & Harris' dock, took fright and backed into the lake in spite of the efforts of the driver, Mr Nicholas ORTH. Sudden Death: Mr Frank F. TINBROKE, a traveling salesman for a New York dry goods establishment, came to the residence of Mr Jas. THOMAS of this place, yesterday, complaining of being ill. Mr. THOMAS who was well acquainted with the sick man, paid him every possible attention, in spite of which he grew worse, and died this morning about seven o'clock. The deceased leaves a mother in Brooklyn. Married: At the M.E. Parsonage, Atlantic Mine, Oct 13th, by the Rev D.B. MILLAR, William BAILEY to Sophia BRYANT, both of Atlantic; PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Nov 4,1875 A Leschot diamond drill has been purchased by Capt Wm. B. FRUE, of the Silver Islet mine, to be used for exploring the Silver Islet vein on the main land....... For some time past rumors have been rife of large silver discoveries near L'Anse. Mr. J. LLOYD, amongst others, claims to have made a rich find, and has sent specimens of the vein rock below for assay. The coaches of the Mineral Range Railroad are to be repainted this winter by Mr. A.S. HAMILTON, who has just completed a creditable job on the locomotive Portage Lake. The Butterfield House has changed hands, promises, under the management of Mr. Michael FORD, to be popular and successful. Capt J. H. MCDONALD, the late popular superintendent of the Mineral Range Railroad, has resigned. Selling mortgaged property: Two cases that excited much interest were tried last week, at Hancock, before Justice FINN. The first was that of the People vs. Frank FOX, who was charged with having disposed of a cow which had been previously mortgaged to L. HENNES & Co; he was found guilty..........; The other case was that of the People vs. Nicholas SHANNON, charged with having sold a quantity of wood, upon which there was a mortgage to J. WERTIN; he was likewise found guilty............ The Centennial room in the Jennings block is filing up with contributions from the numerous mines of our county, and the commissioner and his assistant, Mr GANJOT, are busy classifying and cataloguing the collection preparatory to boxing it for transportation to Philadelphia....The Calumet and Hecla mining company are having prepared for the Centennial a beautiful miniature working model of one of their stamp Mills.......Mr John ELLENBECKER, so well and favorably known in this vicinity for his mechanical ingenuity, has charge of its construction........... Mrs. Emma HOLMES, of Hancock, is canvassing this section with two excellent books, one a family Bible............the other is "Youman's Dictionary of Everyday Wants"........ it is correct, comprehensive, and conveniently arranged........... Capt. John HODGSON left yesterday morning for his home in Canada. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Nov 11,1875 Samuel F. HODGE, Houghton, has been appointed sole agent in this section for the Blake Patent Steam Pump.......... PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Nov 18,1875 Mr T. A. TREVETHAN has made a new departure in his business, and has just opened a fine assortment of dry goods and notions, and will hereafter make that branch a feature of his business Mr P. R. ROBERT, superintendent of the Atlantic mine, narrowly escaped with his life last Monday, while directing the removal of a large stump, which rolled over him, inflicting serious injury. John HANLY, an employee at the smelting works, had one of his feet badly burned, last Monday, by a dipper of molten metal in the hands of a fellow-workman. We have received the first number of the Zenith City Star, a monthly journal issued at Duluth by Master Will M. SPALDING, son of W. W. SPALDING, well known on Lake Superior. The paper is well worth the subscription...of fifty cents per year. Last Sunday night Mr Fabian SANGRET, a Frenchman employed as watchman on the new bridge, went on duty, as usual, but has not since been seen............... Married: On the 11th last, by the Rev J. H. BARNARD, at the residence of Mr Alois HUSS, Mr. Joseph SCHNITZER to Miss Emma N. ENDERICH, both of Houghton. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Nov 25,1875 Mr Mathiase DU'CUITENS, a Frenchman employed at the smelting works, has been missing since last Tuesday week. The last seen of him he was on board the steamer Peerless. Any information concerning his whereabouts will be gratefully received by his distressed wife at Ripleyville. (Since the above was written information has been receive that the body of Mr. DE'CULTENS was found in the hold of the Peerless at Milwaukee. Deceased left home to go to Chicago to look for work and was to write to his wife from Marquette.......Mr. Frank REVERE, of Calumet, who came in to buy provision off the Peerless, has also been missing that time. Mr. Hubert DIXON, of this place has undertaken to assist the State Board of Health at this point in obtaining reliable data concerning the water used here, the state of the weather, etc. Married: At Ishpeming, Nov 17th, by the Rev T. WILKINSON, Mr. William B. HOAR, of Houghton, to Miss Cordelia R. MAYWORM, of Ishpeming. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Dec 2,1875 The staff of teachers for the new schoolhouse at Hancock is S. E. WHITNEY, principal; A. E. HARRIS, intermediate; Miss E. STURGIS, first primary; and Miss Kate QUINN, second primary. ...........In order to aid in swelling the volume of metallic currency we'd direct attention to the fact that at one period in the history of this country copper coin was held in low esteem. Mr. PAULL, of Ontonagon, when in active business up there, in the days of '45, used to receive all the copper cents presented to him for goods without a murmur. These he would carefully put away in a "stove-pipe" hat, which he kept for the purpose. As times were lively he'd frequently collect a hatfull of pennies in a week. One day a gentleman noticed Mr. PAULL making toward the river tugging under the weight of a hat heaped high with copper cents.........When Mr. PAULL reached the bank of the river the gentleman was at his heels, and was struck with astonishment to see him empty the hat into the river, saying: "Darn ye, you're out of the way; we've copper enough around here without 'em air picayune trash!" Mr Paull must have thrown several hundred dollars' worth of copper cents into the river, and as that gentleman is still living in Ontonagon, we've no doubt but what he'd gladly point out the locality of the buried treasure............ Circuit Court Proceedings: Elizabeth GARTMAN, complainant, vs. Frederick GARTMAN, Divorce granted. Elizabeth RUHL, complainant, vs. Thomas RUHL, Divorce granted. Mr J. A. CLOSE, of Hancock, left last Tuesday for Detroit, where his family is now residing. Mr CLOSE will be absent during the winter. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Dec 9, 1875 Mr SWINEFORD, of the Marquette Journal, writes to inform us that the historical part, relating to the copper interests, of his forthcoming book on the material resources of Lake Superior, will be written by Mr J.H. FORSTER and Mr Jacob HOUGHTON, two gentlemen eminently qualified for the task. Both rank among the very oldest pioneers of this region,................. Fifty years of married life: We find the following in the Detroit Advertiser. The venerable couple referred to are the parents of Mrs. R. H. BRELSFORD of Hancock, and are well known on the lake: "A very happy occasion was Thanksgiving Day last at the residence of Patrick CONNOLLY, No 205 Congress Street east, it being the fiftieth anniversary of the wedding day of Mr. and Mrs. CONNOLLY, they having been married in Peru, New York, on November 25, 1825, which day was observed as Thanksgiving Day there that year. The old couple were visited throughout the day and evening by numerous friends............. Mr CONNOLLY was born in Monahan, Monahan county, Ireland, Nov 21, 1901, and Mrs. CONNOLLY in North Sunderland, England, Oct 9, 1808. They came to Detroit in 1838, and have since resided here...... Died: In this place, Tuesday, Dec 7, 1875, James ADAMS, father-in-law of Capt J. C. HODOSON, of this place, and of Capt W. B. FRUE, of Silver Islet, aged 65 yrs. Funeral services at his late residence at 2 PM today. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Dec 16, 1875 Mr John HINCHEY has purchased the Portage Lake livery and boarding stable, at the place, from the administrators of the estate of C.C. CROOKS, and will continue the business at the old stand. Mr Wm. GLEASON, formerly of the firm of CROOKS & GLEASON, Red Jacket, has purchased the interest of the Crooks estate in the Calumet and Red Jacket livery and sales stable. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Dec 23,1875 Mr EDDY stands at the head of versifiers in this section. Fail not to read his masterly effort, modestly headed "Pancher's Grief; or, The Sibyl's Drea," a tragedy in 3 acts... PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Dec 30, 1875 Mr John HALLE, who lives on Portage River, while returning home from this point one day last week in his sleigh, broke through the ice near the Union dock, and if prompt assistance had not been tendered he and his team would probably have been drowned. As it was, Mr HALLE lost $25 worth of goods which were in his sleigh and went into the lake. Commission Broker, Etc.: Mr Alex. P. THOMAS, a resident of Lake Superior for the past sixteen years, has opened an office in Hancock for the transaction of a line of business new to this section.............. File contributed for use in Houghton Co. USGenWeb Archives by Dick and June Ross. plh revised 2001