The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-07-21
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

IT is automatically reported that a vein of
coal has been discovered 100 feet below the
surface on Luxton farm, few miles east OF
Bay City. a
LIEUT. PRATT, OF the Peninsuar Military
Company, has been elected Captain, and II.
Blackmsn elected Major OF the Third Michi-
gan Regiment.
ROCHESTER has young man IL years old
who wants to marry and take his 14-year-old
bride to the Exposition. But the cold-hearted
parents object.
The Manistee Times says that UT to July
there had been more improvements made in
that city this season than ever before from
April to November.
CULVER q Co.'S saw mill at Culver Station,
Bay county, was destroyed by fire one day
last week, the work Of an incendiary. Loss,
| $4,000 no insurance.
The Adventists will hold but one camp-meet-
ing in Michigan this year and that centrally
at Lansing, September 1926. The big tent
SOx120 feet, will be there.
The mill OF Chas. Secor & Co., located on the
lake, about three miles above Manistee, was
totally destroyed by fire one morning last week
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Miss ADDIE HADsyLL, % years of age, a
member OF one OF the leading families of Pom
tiac, shot herself in the head last Saturday,
killing herself instantly. Reasons for the sui
eide unknown.
THE young men OF Romeo are remarkably
sound sleepers. One Of them jumped out of
second-story window into a savage raspberry
bush few nights ago, then went back to bed
without even waking up.
Mrs. BARBER of Ovid, was bitten by rattle
snake, July 3. Her mouth and back turned
perfectly black in q few minutes; but her physi-
clan administered powerful antidotes, and
packed her in sailed mud, and she is now in
fair way to recover.
PARKER BURGESS, 35 years Of age, saloon
keeper living in Saginaw City, was thrown out
Of his wagon and run over by a runaway team
that he was driving, the other evening, break
ng several ribs, his breast bone, and inflcting
Internal injuries. He cannot live.
A SON of Henry Kennedy, of Port Crescent,
about years of age, was drowned in tue Pin
nepog river, at that place. few days ago. His
body was found in the river, much disfgured,
and giving evidence that the little fellow had
made hard struggle for his life.
PARK ADAMS jealous husband, living in
Lafayette, Gratiot county, thought to improve
domestic matters by committing suicide, and so
he recklessly shot hole in his hat. Mrs.
Adams thinks that sort Ct self-destructon is
not much Of an improvement after all.
CASE OF reimmersion occurred at Romeo,
recently. lady united with the Baptist Church
there who had been member of Methodist
Church and had been immersed by the pastor,
but, having conscientious doubts as to whether
he who had probably not been himself i'm
mersed, and was not in sympathy with the or
dinance, was scripturally qualified to admins
ter it, she asked to be rebaptized, which request
was granted.
STEPHEN ID. KERRY, of Manistee, suicided by
| by drowning, one evening last week. The de-
ceased (says a special dispatch) was partially
deranged and was heartlessly driven from his
home and deserted by his wife and grown.up
family after having decided to them his farm
and other property. The community are very
indignant over the affair.
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Lake Huron railroad, permanent line of sur
vey has been established, which commences at
| its present terminus, and will run due east,
cutting off a part of the Agricultural farm
thence on an almost airline to Pine Lake. The
contract for grading has been awarded to Clark
| Brothers of Chicsgo. The railroad men say
the iron has been purchased, and will be laid
this season."
HANCOCK Journal: On Sunday last two
Germans went in bathing in the old Calumet
dam, when one of them got out into deep water
and was drowned, not being able to swim.
| The other started to rescue him, and in at
tnmpting to do so both persisted. Shortly after
an Italian and German entered an old boat
and went in the dam in search of the bodies Of
the unfortunates, and when out near the mid
die the boat upset. The latter succeeded in
reaching the shore safely, but the for
mer went to the bottom. and added one
more to the two who had previously lost their
lives.
Two CHILDREN Of a drunken mother named
Clark, living in a portion of Jackson called
"Muttonville" boy and girl aged z to 8
SO
fuel, old iron, rags, bones, ETC., which they sell
and hand over the proceeds to the old woman
to buy victuals for the little family and whisky
for herself. They were out as usual few
mornings since, and while in a lumber yard the
little girl mounted pile OF lumber, which
tipped. The girl fell and board struck and lit
orally scalped her. The boys cries brought the
mother, who was so stubbornly drunk that she
allowed no one to help her take the child home
Drs. Smith and Lewis we're called, and it was
some time before they we're allowed to give the
injured child proper attention. The old woman
has two daughters in the Detroit work house
THE annual reports Of the Superintendent
OF the Poor for 1875 is now published The |
total number OF inmates OF Poor-Houses Was
5,2s2 in 1871 there were but 3,156-thus
showing an increase four times greater than
the increase OF population. Four hundred and
fifty nine insane persons we're inmates of Poor
Houses during the year; idiots, 222 blind,
62; mutes 81. Total cost of maintaining the
Poor Houses, 52O7, 6s6.46; average cost per
week for each pauper, s2.19. Medical atten-