The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-11
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


JAMES l. ROBINSON, an East Saginaw cor
fectioner, has made an assignment for the ben
eft Of his creditors liabilities, about 800, OO'
THE Frankfort Express says that in Union
vile, Tuscola County, wood choppers can b
secured for three shIllings a cord and the
dinner.
RoBERT MOUNT, prominent and respectful
citizen Of Fenton, was killed on Wednesday O
last week by the bursting OF a balance-whee
/ OF a saving machine.
? The Bay City Tribune, the only daily in tina
} large town, has been obliged to reduce its size
alleging as an excuse an Unprecedented fall
ing off in advertising patronage.
THE Michigan Central Railroad has reduced
the freight rates on salt from five to ten cent
per barrel from the Saginaw Valley to point
on the Michigan Central Railroad and il
branches.
JOHN LARKIN, of Midland, one of the heavies
lumbermen in Northern Michigan, has failed
His exact liabilities are not known, but are yer,
heavy. His assets consist mainly of mill prop
erty and pine land.
BYRON WELPER, stonecutter of St. Johns
just discharged from the employment OF l.. NJ
Sherman, committed suicide by taking NOR
phine. Welper was married only six week since
to woman from Corunna.
GENTLEMEN from Battle Creek have made a
preliminary survey for the Michigan Ship Canal
via Eaton Rapids, and report that the divide is
quite favorable for the project being filled with
numerous lakes for water feeders.
The dwelling of Henry Butterschoen, at East
Saginaw was totally destroyed by fire one night
last week. The family barely escaped, Mr.
Butterschoen being nearly suffocated. The
loss is $4,000, including 5000 currency; in
surance, 1850.
JAMES jerks, who was sentenced to the
State Prison recently, for burglary at the house
of Mrs. Wilcox, in Detroit, confessed that his
father and mother were his accomplices. bis
mother being dressed in mems clothes and
masked like Themselves
RECENT deaths: At Battle Creek. DR.. z. II.
Slater, a prominent physician and one of the
earliest settlers of that city, aged "a years at
his residence in Charlotte, Robt. NJ. Wheaton,
one OF the Oldest pioneers of Eaton County,
and formerly prominent politician.
THE following is the balance of the State
Treasury for the month of January, 1876:
Balance Dec. 81 1S75...,..............S 952.O761s
Receipts for the month. 113,05899
Total. .....................sl 065, 135T
DISBURSEMENTS '.''''................... l54,7lO92
Balance Jan. 81, 1876. .............s 9lO,42425
THE Lapeer Democrat says 1.-The cham
mir M
his father-in-law killed hog, and gave him
half of it. That night he returned to the old
mans barn and stole the other half
THE Presbyterian Church Society of School
craft held donation the other evening at Mer-
rill Hall for the benefit of the Rev. L. NJ. Toole,
the pastor. Upwards of 200 persons were in
attendance. The proceeds were $126.
ONEIDA Township, Eaton County boasts OF
twenty-one men who weigh more than 200
pounds each. The heaviest is Mr. C.. c. Stock
ing, who weighs $50. In the adjoining town.
ship of Clinton grows Glenn c. Wheaton, a
lad 10 years old, who is six feet three inches
tall, and weighs 235 pounds.
THE Portage Lake Mining Gazette has the
following "a letter from manufacturer of
the article in France says: / have now given
Lake Superior copper three trials, and find it
makes very excellent cartridge. Your Lake
Superior) copper must command the market in
this direction >"
THE President has nominated Frederick Nor
ley, of Michigan, TO be Consul General at Cairo, |
Egypt. Mr. Morley is one of the oldest daily |
newspaper men in Detroit having been for |
nearly thirty years in newspaper life. He has |
been, until he resigned, recently connected |
with the Detroit Post for the past nine years,
as Superintendent of the Post Company.
JAMES b. SoULE, Esq, of st. Louis, Mich,
prominently connected with the construction |
of the Chicago, Saginaw and Canada Railroad,
reports that work is progressing upon the line
west from st. Louis that the grading is now
nearly completed to Lakeview and that the |
iron will be laid and trains running to that |
place on or before the 1st of April next.
ALANsoN WHITE was pardoned from the State
Prison recently. He was sent from Barry
County five years ago under sentence Of seven
years for manslaughter. The killing was done
in quarrel over some chickens and is not be-
lieved to have been intentional. He has suf-
fered greatly from disease while in prison.
On Thursday evening of last week Charles
Graham and Charles Huffman, two prisoners,
escaped from Jail at Clam Lake, where they
had been confined several months They Sc
cured a case-lknfe from a dinner basket a
couple Of weeks ago and cut their way out.
A liberal reward has been offered for their
arrest.
A VERDICT for S145 damages has been recov-
cred in the Superior Court of Detroit against
J. W. Mcmillan late Register of DEEDS Of
Wayne County, and his sureties, for neglecting
to index first mortgage on property whereby
the second MORTGAGE lost his security. 1t was
a case Of negligence in a clerk, and the princi-
pal officer WAS held responsible.
Tue cause OF poverty at East Saginaw is seen
in the police report for January. or the 1911 |
arrests during the month 145 were of intern
perate persons. Ten persons were bartendors
and ten sailors. Fifty-six had no occupation,
were married and 12G were single |
persons, giving good argument in favor of |
Forty-nine could neither read nor
write and twelve could read only, reason for
education.
THE religious troubles i'm An Gres If n vaar |