The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

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UP to the first Of this month the Thunder
Bay River Boom Company had sorted 0,0OO,-
900 feet of logs
The great blackberry patches in the neigh
borhood of Elk Rapids, render that locality
very attractive to bears.
G. N. BARNUM, Of Constantine has a swarm
Of bees which made in six weeks 100 pounds Of
wax and honey.
THE Traverse Bay Progress says residents Of
Indian Town steal telegraph wire and use it for
clothes lines.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to bring the Michi-
gan building, at the close of the Exposition at
Philadelphia, to Lansing for the Governors
residence.
fourteen full-grown bears within few weeks,
aud is referred to as the champion bear hunter
OF Michigan.
THE Pittsburgh and Lake Angelina iron mine
has sixty men employed, and from $1,000 to
10000 tons of ore is already mined and ready
for shipment.
ALL the suits in the celebrated Ccnvis estate
have been defaulted with the exception of six
out OF the thirty four which were pending in
the Circuit Court Of Calhoun county.
The Jackson Wagon Company, of which Ed
ward A. Wheeler is President, have sold two
wagons to go to England as a result of their
exhibition at Philadelphia.
THE Portland Observer says that about one
half of that towns quota, SIG, 900, toward the
new railroad has been pledged, and there the
matter rests for the present owing to the
apathy Of the farmers.
The balance of cash in the State treasury
June 30, was 81, 039, SS7 SO; receipts during the
month ending July 81, $780, ATS. So; payable
during the same time Sal, 259, O4; balance in
the treasury July 81, 1909, 107S7.
THE Saginaw Courier says there is rumor
afoat to the effect that work is to be begun on
the Chicago, Saginaw and Canada railroad very
soon, and the road pushed to point Oh one of
the lines west OF Lakeview.
A LITTLE son of William Il. Howe, of North
Eagle, Clinton county, while playing near a
wheat stack on which some men were at work,
YVES struck OIL the back Of the head by fall
ing hay fork, one tine penetrating the brain.
He died the next day.
WHEN they have a heightened wedding at
Bay City, the Tribune reporter speaks of hay
| ing "delved into all the mysteries of the bril-
dial chamber. laid bare all of the secrets Of
the household, and given with elaborate pre-
cision every detail of the grand affair.""
THE Ludington Record tells how man in
that neighborhood who hunted down 400
pound bear, loaded it in wagon and took it
five miles to justice of the peace to get a
bounty on it, and was greatly sstonished to
learn that Michigan don't pay bounties for bear
| scalps.
THE Little Traverse Republican again gives
currency to the old rumor that the Grand Rap
| ids and Indiana and the Jackson, Lansing and
| Saginaw roads would consolidate few miles
below Petoskey, and run ON one line to Macki-
nav, and that the line will go north via Little
| Traverse.
BISHOP GILLESPIE, Of Western Michigan,
contemplates securing land in the Grand Trav-
erse region foria summer resort for the clergy
and others Of his diocese. He proposes to
residents and visitors, and hopes to make the
plan effective next summer.
Mr.. LYNN FooT, one of the oldest pioneers Of
Eaton county, died at his residence in Charlotte
recently, aged 81 years. The deceased was one
Of the most highly educated men in that Sec
ton. In former years he took prominent
part in the judicial affairs of Charlotte. He was
widely known and highly esteemed.
A NASHVILLE man got 80 much interested in
the tent services now being held there that at
the close Of the evenings public services he
walked home, went to bed and never thought
of his horse, which he had left hitched in front
Of the tent and it took three hours hard think
ing for him to remember next day where he
had put that animal.
S. McLANATHAN, postoffice clerk at Big
Rapids, wants $40, 600 fr,m John F. Brown.
His claim is based upon the charge that Brown
has slandered the postoffice mans wife, lady
OF refinement and culture, who has been one Of
the teachers in the public schools, but has re-
Gently been refused situation. Brown is TN
der bonds.
JOHN ScUELER and Michael Tobin quarreled
while playing cards in a Woodbridge street sa-
loon, Detroit, last Sunday. Scueler finally drew
a revolver and shot Tobin through the breast,
inficting wound which proved fatal. Scueler
is believed to have fled to Canada. Tobin
leaves a wife and two children.
A WELL. KNOWN hotol-keeper, and numerous
business men of Detroit, are feeling little
crrled up about the way they were victimized
by bogus English lord, who has been reck-
lessly spending other peoples money in that
city, for several weeks past The other day he
took ride to Windsor, leaving large circle of
creditors to mourn his departure. At last ac-
counts his English racing horses had not
arrived from Californis.
JOHN MALBURG, from Warren township, Ma
comb county, and who some three years ago
was implicated with the Cornelia murder trial,
has at last received his due award. Hewas az
rested some time since on charge OF incest
with his own daughter, IS years old. He had
his trial and his case was made short work Of
The jury, after being out five minutes, returned
a verdict of puiitv and Judpe Harris gave him