The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-04
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Vue, Calnoun OOunty.
A HASTINGS thief stole a coffin box. The
loser offers to furnish coffin free for the man
who stole it.
HoS. DAVID A. JEROME, of Saginaw City, has
been appointed a member of the Board of In
dian Commissioners
THE Lumberman's Gdyette figures the total
stock of lumber in the docks of Saginaw
River at III, 800 900 feet 100000 of which is
sold.
ROBERT MOUNT, a prominent and respectable
citizen of Fenton, was killed on Wednesday of
last week by the bursting of balance-wheel
of saving machine.
ID. ID. INGRAM, of Manistee, is credited with
having made twelve consecutive shots, at dis
lance of 131 yards, which strung twenty and
one-sixtcenth inches.
THE Kent County Board of Supervisors has
authorized the releasing Of the present Circuit
Court rooms for three years, ard the pioject of
building new court house is thus indefinitely
postponed.
The people of Eaton Rapids are very much
interested in the ship canal movement, and the
petition to Congress for an appropriation for
the survey is being signed by nearly every
man in that vicinity.
A BAY CRY landlord turned lone woman in
to the street without bit of warning, and now
she has recovered damages sufficient to pay her
rent until spring. and he has got to pay the
costs of tho suit or go to Jail.
LoTTIE FIsKE, of Saginaw City, 17-year old
dwarf, only 32 inches in height, recently was
delivered OF a child 20 inches long, weighing
six pounds. C@sarian operation was per-
formed. The mother and child are doing well.
RoBT. w. WALLACE, ex-City Sexton Of Jack
son, shot himself in the left side the other day,
intending to commit self-murder. The bali
could not be found, but it entered between the
seventh and eighth ribs. Dependency was
the cause of the act
RECENT Deaths At Battle Greek, DR.. z. 4.
Slater, prominent physician and one of the
earliest settlers OF that city, aged 81 years at
his residence in Charlotte Robt. NJ. Wheaton,
one OF the oldest pioneers of Eaton County,
and formerly prominent politician.
HENRY MoREY, aged eighteen. living in Cor
nell Township, Eaton County, bored hole in
log the other day, filled it with powder and
touched it off in honor Of the Centennial Of
American independence. Results-a broken
leg and divers painful and serious knocks on
the head.
THE Rev. Daniel McFee, of Edinburgh, in a
published letter, says that he is writing a book
on the United States, and that he visited the
Detroit Opera House, on December g. for the
purpose of seeing dramatization of Washing
ton Irving's famed farce-meaning Z" Rip Van
Wrinkle"
NOTWITHSTANDING the mild weather Of the
last few weeks all of the lumbermen are by no
means discouraged. Mr. VIM. Adds, OF Grand
Rapids, commenced erecting camps on his
large tract of pine land, three miles down the
river (near Morley last week. He intends put
ting in 5000, 600 feet
AT Little Traverse recently, bartender
named Frank Lamphere made an unwar ranta
bic attack upon an Indian. beating him on the
head with a billiard cue, and then attempting
to shoot him. The Indian was dangerously if
not fatally injured, and Lamphere is held under
heavy bonds to await the issue.
The work Of deepening the St Clair Flats
Ship Canal to sixteen feet, for distance of 100
feet on each side of its center lne has been
completed, the embsnkment kept in repair, and
500 new willow trees planted. The amount
expended was 541, 1896. No appropriation is
asked for the ensuing year.
The original estimate for the harbor of refuge
on Lake Huron was 81 442, $50. OF this amount
S45O,O 900 have been appropriated, and this is
all under contract. There were expended dur
ing the last fiscal year 1926, 0O3.3G, and there
is available and due on contracts $276, 666 So.
An appropr alton of 5000, 900 is recommended
for the ensuing pear
FRED. ]. THOMAS, of Detroit has written and
composed a musical comedietta entitled "Our
Mamma, which will be played at the Board of
Trade entertainment in that city for the benefit
of the Industrial School. 1t is very ingeni-
Gus and mirth-provoking production, and
rather Ofienbachian in its language and stu
ations
MARSHALL is very much excited over ro-
man tic marriage which occurred near tina
place in August last but which has just come
to light. The groom is a son of the late DR.. r.
p. Facey, family of influence and wealth The
bride was Miss Lura Landon, OF Eckford, and
the youthful couple we're both members of the
High School in that place.
JOHN L. GoDTRoY. one of the earliest pioneer
settlers of Grand Rapids, died in that city on
Tuesday Of last week, aged 81. He was one of
the best-known of all the traders among the
Indians in the northwest He was very popu-
lar with them, and with all who knew him. and
in many an obscure wigwam the news Of his
death will cause feeling of personal loss.
In 1874 Congress made an appropriation OF
$4,000 to remove distractions consisting of
powders, in Detroit River. nesr the lime kilns.
The main channel at that point is in Canadian
waters, and the Canadian Government had al
ready entered upon the work of removing these
distractions. The amount expended was So
249.07. The balance of the appropriation re-
mains available
DISPATCHES received at Saginaw from all
points in the State north of that city in the
lumber region state that the log crop will be at