The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13
MICH GAN ITEMS.


A SAGINAW .astice sent a woman up for
thirty days f;>e stealing dog-collar.
The arple crop of Michigan is exceptionally
large and prices are consequently low
Mrs1uAS loggers are preparing for the win
| ter ssmpaigu, but 1t is tc be light one.
ExMARsHAL McCRASEy, Of Bay City, is
working on a saw in the Detroit House of Cor
rection.
dents of Kalamazoo county, died a few days
ago. aged 81.
AN agricultural society has been organized
in Manistee county. It's first fair WAS held at
Bear Lake.
ARTHUR X. BARTLETT, the youthful astrono-
mer Of Battle Greek, is to take the field as
lecturer this winter
A HoUGHroN man draws $40, 900 interest on
State bonds. He is the largest creditor the
State has to pay.
Mn. KENzaI OF st. Charles, has mado this
season 6,400 gallons OF blackberry wine and
used fifty.six barrels Of sugar.
DANIEL BURRows, aged a. hung himself in
the bed room of his residence at Brady, Ssgi-
nav county, last Wednesday.
OLIVER CBAPoToN, Treasurer OF AIacomb
county, was the first to make his report with
the State Treasurer for the tax sales Of lands.
THE Ontonagon Miner hopes that the Board
of Supervisors of that county will do something
toward putting in good shape the L'Anse
winter road
GooD walking horses are, perhaps, the best
stock for farmers, yet only three fairs held
this fall have offered premiums calculated to
encourage breeding that kind Of animals.
AN East Saginaw officer caught an offender,
but he escaped from the captor, and when
found had got mired up to the neck in swamp,
and then that wag of an officer went off and
left him there.
THE latest dodge in the way Of soliciting
patronage is that Of Bay City firm who have
caught two fiery, untamed bootblscks, dressed
them up nice, and make them shine up the
hoofs of cash customers.
MUcu Joy is expressed by the State papers
generally at the close of the base ball eeason,
the reports OF games and the squabbles Of the
players having become an intolerable nuisance
to both readers and spectators.
EMIL G. MELLER the fugitive Montreal jew
eler, who was brought to Detroit from St. Louis
in September to answer an old charge for
smuggling, escaped last Saturday night while
being conducted from the Michigan Exchange
to the Jail.
THREE AND HALF MILLION feet of lumber
burned the other day at Lindsay & Gamblers
saw mill. about twenty miles north Of Bay City.
The mill did not burn. The lumber caught
fire from fires in the woods, vi ich have been
raging to quito an extent in that vicinity.
THE amount of salt inspected at East Sag-
nav during the month Of September was 175,
499 barrels, making a Total for the year of
LIS, 591 barrels. The amount for CORE
spending period last year was 500 500 barrels,
showing an increase this year to date Of 249,-
001 barrels.
THE Escansba blast furnace was sold recently
alta bankrupt sale in Pittsburgh, and was
purchased by A. b. Meeker, OF Chicago, for
S91 900, subject to mortgage OF $14, 900. 1t
will in all probability be put in operation at as
early date as possible, Mr.. Meeker is the
Bay and De Pere furnaces.
GARRoTERs appear to DO numerous at Man.
istee. On Wednesday OF last week poor wo-
man on her way to the market was attacked on
the highway and robbed OF So; during the same
week two old ladies were assailed in the street
and obliged TO hand over go, and the previous
week respectable woman going home alone
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robbed of $50.
A MAN and wife named Mckay haa an alter
cation on the morning express going south on
the Flint and Pere Marquette railroad, few
days ago, and Mckay either pushed his wife or
she fell from the rear platform Of the Pullman
car. The train was running at the rate of
thirty miles per hour. She was picked up in
sensible, and dangerously, il not fatally, in
jured.
A LITTLE son OF Frank Everhart, Of Porter,
Cass county, was killed, Friday, while driving
home the COVE. lie had fastened halter
around his body, and attached the end of the
strap to the cows tail with the idea Of "play-
ing horse" The COW became frightened and
ran away, dragging the lad long distance and
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which his skull was crushed and the poor fell
low otherwise terribly bruised.
BETTING on elections is strictly prohibited in
this State. The Michigan statute books dis
course thus upon the subject (Section 7,776.)
The people OF the State of Michigan enact
That any person who shall either directly or
indirectly bet, wager or hazard any money OF
other property upon the result Of the election
Of any officer Of this State or Of the United
States, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable
to fine at least equal in amount to the amount
of money or the value Of property so bet,
wagered or hazarded provided that in no case
shall such fine be less than s5 nor more than
$500"
OK Friday night Of last week a very destruc-
tive fire broke out AT Morley, starting in the
Office of the National Hotel by lamp explod-
ing. Owing to violent wind the fire could
not be controlled until it took the entire row of
buildings from the starting point to the river.
Two hotels, two hardware stores and seven
dwellings, were destroyed. Mrs Fairbrother