The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-06-23
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


A LADY, ninety years Of sge, was baptized Dy
the Adventists, at Gslesburg, recently.
A csoQuer match at Portland lasted from
in the evening until loclock the next norning.
TwxSTY-FouR young men have dd the Dun
dee authorities 81 each for the crime OF play
ing baseball on Sunday.
ALuIz who shot Connors In fracas 4 Detroes
about two weeks ago, has been examined ana
committed for trial in the Wayne county Cir
cult court upon a charge Of murder.
A YOUNG woman named Barbara Lawrenson,
en- route from Glasgow, Scotland, TO Fort Gar
ry was killed by the cars at Grand Trunk
Junction, near Detr-it, last Saturday night.
A MONSTER trout, measuring three feet ten
inches in length and two feet nine inches
around and weighing forty-seven pounds was
caught by Murphy's fisllermen in Lake Huron
at Port Austin, recently.
DANIEL PRATT, sent to the state Prison some
thing over year ago from Jackson for send
ing obscene communications ON postal cards,
has received a pardon from President Grant.
lie is very sick. II was the first conviction I'M
der that law. .N'-
AT trial of plows at Mason, by the Ingham
County Farmers Climb, the Triumph plow was
recommended as the best on wheels. The
draft for a furrow seven inches deep and ff-
teen inches wide was from $50 to $50 pounds |;
without the sulky it was GOO to 200 pounds.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph says: "A narrow
gauge railroad has just been completed in this
neighborhood, and is now in operation. What
do you think Of thati Not much fuss has been
made over it. but you can see II for yourself by
going out to the Cement Works. The grade on
the east side of the river gives the cars speed
of forty miles per hour, without using any
| steam. The cars will be handled by horses.
The lake level at the mari beds has been low
cred five feet, and the works commenced mix
ing on Monday. The new engine runs as
noiselessly as a clock, and Mr. Gibson, super
intendent Of the shop that made it, naturally
feels somewhat proud of it's operation. The
blue clay that is used with the mari Is brought
from Otsego.
| DURING thunderstorm at Flint, one after
noon last week, the dwelling OF Ira Soper was
struck by lightning. The lightning first struck
an evergreen near the house, running down
the same Fart way CHANGING off on limb to-
ward the house. looking like huge ball Of fire
as it ran along the ground to brass conductor
and went crashing through the roof, tearing
the came into fragments. The ball theu passed
| through into tae sitting-room, striking sew
ing machine at which Mrs. Soper was at work,
clipping off corner of the machine table and
knocking Mira. Soper TO the floor. Fro,1 here
it glanced to the top of a table across the room,
on which was sitting box containing needles
and other metals, which it knocked into a
thousand fragments. 1t then passed through
the floor into the ground. The entire family
were shocked, Mrs. Soper, it ID feared, fatally,
one side of her being blistered. t-N
GEORGE NEIDERsTADT a shoemaker, sixty
years OF age, committed suicide by taking an
overdose Of opium, at East Saginaw, on Thurs
day of last week. He has several children
living in Detroit, and was brought to that city
for burial. The following letter left by the
old man explains his motive for selfdestruc-
tion ''In my deep troubles, shall bid you
good-by, nv dear children. Ihave loved you all
dearly, but some of you children don't know
what love is. /, an old man, have my whole
lifetime worked hard and had good deal of
trouble. I have earned everything, and those
of you who wanted to disinherit me in my life
time OF my property, will, suppose, not have
any luck with it. die with pleasure to please
you, my children For that / kill myself. May
God forgive me. You, my children, can bury
me in Detroit, alongside of your dear mother.
should like TO lie alongside OF her in my
death. (Signed) George Niederstadt."
A WRITER in the Railroad Gazette, in speak
ing Of the inventor, A. T. Hay, of Burlington,
Iowa, says that for many years this gentlmsn
has been working out process by which he
takes the most worthless and refractory cold
or red-short irons, either in the ore or pig, and
trsnsmutes them into a quality Of wrought
iron equal to the very best Norway, at a cost
scarcely worthy consideration. At Wyandotte,
in this State, he worked cold-short Wisconsi
iron into bars which withstood a tensile strain
OF $4,000 pounds to the square inch in a regu-
lar testing machine. In another instance the
Hay iron railroad rail was welded to steel
band three-eighths of an inch thick round the
head, the balance Of the rail being iron. 1t was
placed under steam hammer and pounded till
it broke down, the number of blows being
counted. A similar piece of Beesemer steel
was then placed under the same hammer, when
it doubled up like the letter with one thru
fewer blows than the iron rail-
A LETTER from Jackson tells this story of an
alleged murder that was committed in 1870:
six years ago next August an old man named
Matthew Kennedy and one julius Westbrook
went out into the woods one night to cut down
q bee tree. After having been gone short
time Westbrook returned and reported tina
Kennedy had been killed by the falling OF a
limb Of the tree. The family went to the spot
and found Kennedy dead, with his skull
smashed. He was buried aud the case passed |
from the public mind. Within year or two,
however, suspicious have been raised that
everything was not right about this matter. A |
man named Shearer now comes forward and |
says that on the night In question he was out |
and saw the accident, az 1t wac supposed to be.
His version Is that Westbrook came behind |
Kennedy and struck him with an Ak. After
the funeral he says that he approached West
brook on the subject, and WAS told that Ken
nedy's brother-in-lsw, one Silsbee, we'll
putedre farmer hired him to commit the deed