The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-09

INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.

veins one of them two and one-half feet thick
only eleven feet below the surface; and the
second, five feet thick, only eighteen feet
below the surface. The coal is very fine and
the parties interested sre highly elated.
The lumber camps in the Grand Traverse re-
gion are all breaking up, and mill proprietors
are putting their mills in order preparatory to a
good seasons work. Loggers, the past winter,
have cut double the amount OF the year pre-
vious. The snow has been 80 very deep that it
has taken twice the force of men and teams to
put in an equal number of logs.
The first boat of the season, the Carrie III.
Blood, has arrived at Port Huron from
Marine City. She il to make daily trips
to Algonac, running in connection with the
Chicago and Port Huron railroad.
| PATENTS have recently been issued TO citizens
of this State for inventions and improvements,
as follows Fire backs for stoves, q. w. Her.
street-signs, ii. s. Finney, Detroit elevators,
j. b. Sweetland, Pontiac tenders for vehicles,
II. NJ. Curtis Ypsianti ehain-pump buckets,
A. L. Corey, Ypsilanti ironing tables, S. C.
Hamlin, Ypsilanti; top supporters for carriages,
A. Goodyear, Albion ; wrenches. j. l.. Whipple,
Paw Paw; saving machines w. p. Hale,
Brockway. Re-issue-Sash balance, o. Davis,
Battle Creek.
AT the May meeting of the American Social
Science Association in Detroit, Mr.. David A.
Wells will preside and will likewise say some
thing upon the condition of trade and industry
at the South. This address will be followed by
a debate on that subject occurring on the 18th
of May. Gen. Garfield will present financial
paper.
Personal.
G. C.. TRowBRIDGE, of Detroit President of
the Detroit and Milwaukee road is said to be
the Oldest railroad President in the United
States except Com. Vanderbilt. He is in his
18th year.
RAILROADS.
The Trustees have filed bill, asking that the
Detroit aud Milwaukee railroad be placed in the
hands of receiver, so that the earnings of the
road may be applied to its repairs, instead of
the payment of its debts.
Ok account of bad roads the mass railroad
meeting called at Au Sable April s, has been
postponed to May ID.
sage by the Legislature of the bill granting
lands to the Marquette and 4Iackinaw Railroad
Company.
CRIME.
On the night of Dec. T. Alexander Stewart left
East Saginaw, to so home to Saginaw City, and
was not afterward heard from. reward of
$500 was offered for information az 10 his
whereabouts but nothing was heard until Sun
day when his body was found floating in the
river, several miles below East Saginaw. De-
ceased was 40 years Old and leaves a wife and
six children.
Ar Detroit on Monday, "A the Atlantic ex-
press train from Chicago neared the Grand
Trunk junction, Carl Ludwig, who was on his
way from his home at Milwaukee to visit to
his home in Germany, became possessed OF the
idea that men on the train intended 10 murder
and rob him, and jumped of. His body was
found horribly mangled. His wife and father
continued their journey, the railroad company
undertaking TO bury the deceased.
CASUALTIES.
The breaking up of the ice in Grand river
caused considerable damage. -Four iron and
one wooden bridge were carried away at Ian
sing, involving a loss of $50 00C.
Mr.. WICKER, the engineer at Dodge's mill.
near Elba Station was instantly killed on Fri
day by being caught in the betting.
DEATHS.
NILES is in mourning again over the death of
one of her best and most useful citizens DR..
Stillman Richardson, who died a few days since
aged 90 years. He was an unusually skillful
and successful physician and faith was reposed
in him to a wonderful degree.
MISCELLANEOUS.
FARwEII, Osceoa county, has a red-headed
Indian.
THERE was an elderly man in Detroit the
other day with his young son, looking for
a recruiting Office He said he wanted his
boy to learn the trade of captain in the
army.
THE WARD ESTATE.
The following is the inventory of the estate
of the late Capt. Ward of Detroit, as filed by
the appraisers
l. Property in camps boarding houses, Offices,
/ horses and wagons in Mason county, sl3,S6O.63.
! . supplies in warehouses in Ludington and Ma
/ son counties, sl3,552.O7.
B. Logs in Mason county, s75 42s.9e.
4. Lumber, lath and slabs, S17 l0G.4l.
=
county, S2S3, lS5.
g. Real estate in Mason county, s2S7 9S7 60.
= Household furniture, horses, carriages, etc. in
Detroit s26,9i2.S6.
3. STOCKS AND BONDS.
:Sorth Chicago Rolling Mill Company stock, 1921
100.
Milwaukee Iron Company stock, s340,3OO
Eureka Iron Company stock, s33 06O.
/ American Plate Glass Company stock, so6,3I5.
Wyandotte Rolling Mill Company stock, 500, 80
Silver Mining Company Silver lsletl stock
los, $50.
Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad Company stock
$3.50 200.
Second National Bank, $4,000.
Chicago, Wilmington and Vermillion Coal Com
pany, $4,000.
wyandotte Silver Smelling and Refining Com
pany, s12,275.
Detroit and Erin Plank Road Company, 81, 75O
Woodmere Cemetery, 5000.
Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona
/ stocks, $4,000.
Windsor Silver stock, 81 400
Missouri Lead Mining Company, $500.
Eureka Mining Company of Utah, 900.
Pneumatic Steel Association, $4,000.
st. Marys Mineral Land Company, 5000.
Ontario Mineral Land Company sl5,200.
List of stock in Louisiana Central Railroad Com
pany, and Detroit, Hillsdale and Indiana, no
valued.
Pere Marquette Boom Company, $4,000.
Lexington Dock Company, 81 ,OO0
silver Iset stock, SIC, 45O.
Eaton Company Railroad, Sll ,l63.
Wyandotte Rolling Mill Company, $4,000.
Burlington and Southwestern Railroad, sl72, 500
wyandotte Agricultural Works, 81, 900.
Propeller barge Leland, $4,000.