The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-22
MICHIGAN NEWS.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.

Allison, OF East Saginaw a circular saw manu-
featured by Lippincott, Blackwell Il Co.
which measured six feet Six inches Tn,
Flint saw Is Six feet four inches in diameter
Personal.
The Lansing Republican says: "Georg,
IL. Durand, tho newly-elected member OF
Congress from this district and Oscar
Adams, formerly member OF the lower
house Of the Legislature, have formed part
nershp for tho practice of law at Flint"
GEN. Tom THUMB and troupe are giving en-.
tainments throughout the State.
ROBERT CRoNYN, Of Detroit, challenges any
Michigan billardist to play him 1000 points
for 800.
EAST SAGINAW ia very much excited over
the disappearance If Hortensia' Garlic. Sus-
picions Of foul play are entertained. and seem
to point to Albert Moliter, wealthy lumber.
man of Rogers City, against whom she had
brought suit for bastardy.
DEATHS.
RIx ROBINSON, the first white settler OF
Ottawa county, founder of G rand Haven, and
at one time owner of all the land occupied by
and surrounding that city, died at his resi-
dence in Ada Mich, recently, aged 81 years.
Mr. r. ScHAFER, for many years the leading
druggist of Monroe, died at his residence in
that place last week.
| CASUALTIES.
AT Bradfords camp, near Sparta Center,
last week, William Lord WAS instantly killed
while assisting at branding and pilipg pine
| IoOs A lar Lon IaI haol,
over his body, crushing his head, limbs, and,
body into shapeless mass He was about
30 years old.
The Union Hotel at Grand Haven, was
totally destroyed by fire. Loss, "a 200.
AN accident happened near Plymouth,
Wayne county, last week, which resulted in
the death OF John Manning, Of the firm OF
Stafford Manning. They were boring a well,
when some part of the apparatus gave way,
throwing him several feet against some stave
bolts, and causing instant death.
FIRE occurred at Benefits livery stable,
at Bay City, last week, involving loss Of
$500.
The Union school building at Flint was dis
covered to be on fire one night last week, but
was extingushed before any serious damage
had been done. The fire originated from the
carelessness of the plumbers employed in the
building, in leaving smoldering fire on
piece of tin, when they left work, which ig-
nited the wooden floor.
S. CoRNwELL, of Vassar, Tuscola county, was
burned to death last week in an outside cellar
where he had kept vessel of Goals burning.
il al - l.
the heat aud to have tainted, falling over the
the coal-vessel, from which his clothes caught
fire. When found he was entirely dead, and
his body burned to a crisp.
RAILROADS.
An ex psrte order has been granted at New
York, restraining the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railroad Company from paying the
dividend declared December 30. The COM
plant recites that the company, instead of
paying dividend, ought to pay interest on
their bonds, to secure the mortgage on the
road for 525, OOO 900, held by the Union Trust
Company.
CRIMF.
IL difficulty arising from family affairs at
Red Oak, last week. Joshua Sharrett was shot
by job Reynolds, iphicting a probably fatal
wound.
LEGAL.
THE will Of the late E. B. Ward is likely to
be contested by the children OF his first wife.
Eminent counsel has been engaged on both
both sides, and the struggle will begin when
the will is admitted to probate, on the first
day Of next month.
MISCELLANEOUS.
LIvoNIA, Wayne county, puts in a claim to
the champion old couple. A correspondent Of
the Free Press says Martin Fraser and wife,
of that village, were married in the year 1916,
and have been married fifty-nne years. They
are in good health and able to do most OF
their work. They have lived in the town
forty-ni years have raised family of
eight children and have never had death in
their family.
GRAND RAPIDS now claims population of
2S, 00O
The Detroit people now cross over to
Canada or the ice.
Jackson county has forty-six lawyers.
- A MEETING of the French citizens of Detroit
has been held to consider the question of the
introduction of the French language into the
public schools.
The Grand Traverse Grange of the Patrons
of Husbandry have instituted free course
Of lectures, to be given during the winter
for the purpose Of advancing the interests OF
the farmers, especially members of the
grange.
The Nimrods of Ludington were thrown
into great excitement by the report that three
bears had been seen between there and Lin
coin. After hunting all night it was discov
cred that the tracks they had boon following
we're made by dogs instead Of bears.
PISCICULTURE.
The Lansing Republican publishes an alb
stract of the report of the Board of FISH
Commissioners, from which we Gull some ia
teresting figures. The Commissioners stat
that no one of the entire thirty-seven States
equals Michigan in natural fish supply ant
advantages. North, east, and west she i
bounded by a cham of lakes, the largest AM
grandest that exist on the globe. giving her
lake coast more than / 400 miles long an
the computed area of water surface With
her constitutional limits is SO, 1924 square miles