The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-11-16
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


the money can be raised.
JACKSON is going to have a new war,
school house costing SIS, 900.
Two men in Gratiot county have PAL,
S65 for sheep killed by their dogs.
A KALAMAZOO firm has shipped loa,
of windmills to Cape Colony, Africa.
SILAs MosBY, of Dalton, fell under ,
loaded wagon and was killed-almos
cut in two.
A THIEF has stolen a case of ancient
coin from the Detroit Scientific Museum
belonging to the janispr.
EMORY FREEMN, of Forest Hill, Ora
tiot county, is the proud husband of a
13-year-old wife.
NINE large lumber camps are already
established on the Manistee river and
others are in contemplation.
BETS & HoDoR's saw-mill, at Coral,
Montcalm county, burned last week.
Loss about S., 900; partially insured.
Mr.. IsCHELMAN, of Ferris, has sixteen
daughters and two sons, of whom four
daughters and one son are mate.
THERE is greater influx of immi-
grants noticeable in Kalkaska county
this year than is usual.
A DETROIT Catholic musical society is
going to give the prisoners at the House
OF Correction grand concert.
SOME of the Muskegon mills which
had shut down have resumed operations
since the rise in the price of lumber.
A WITNESS in a Saginaw court last
week was 104 years old-old enough to
understand the significance of an oath.
RYERsoN, HILLS & Co., of Muskegop.
have purchased 5000, 900 feet of stano-
ing pine in Newaygo county for $16, 500.
The Jackson State prison received
forty-seven new tenants in October.
There were 761 convicts in that institu-
ton Nov. i.
CADILLAC is rebuilding her burned
district, principally with one-story wood
en- buildings, though there are to be
some of brick.
THE diphtheria is so prevalent and
severe in Flint that the Common Coun-
Gil has directed that signs be placed on
houses where the disease prevails.
ExGov. BALDWIN, of Detroit, has
been chosen q member of the National
Episcopal Board of Home and Foreign
Missions for three years term. mol
Mrs. JOHNSON was killed at Kalama-
zoo while ON her way to church in that
village. She was thrown from her car
riage.
Rev. BISHOP BORGESS. administered the
rite of confirmation to 40 persons at the
Polish Church in Bay City on one day
lately.
REV. w. p. MAYNARD, a well-known
Methodist minister of this State, died
recently at Denver.
A DISTRICT meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union is to be
held in Flint, commencing Nov. %, and
continuing two days.
AN independent military company to
be known as the ST. Louis Greys has
been organized with thirty charter mem
bers in st. Louis, Gratiot county.
A FINE quality of potters' clay has
been found at Caro-, Tuscola county. A
mari bed of thirty acres has also been
opened there, from which fine quality
of lime is being made.
AT Greenville, a few days ago, the
snow was eight inches deep, and the
mercury at sunrise stood at zero. The
shade and forest trees were badly broken
by the weight of snow. Sleighs were in
the streets.
THE Guaranty Fire Insurance Com
pany, of New York city, has withdrawn
it's business from the State and rein
sured its policy-holders in the Royal, of
London, England.
FRANK HARKER, who was serving a
term at the Detroit House of Correction
for robbing a mail train in Utah two
years ago, effected his escape by the
roof and is still at large.
THE barge John Marks, in tow of a
propeller, went ashore north of the Man.
istee piers, Oct. 81, and is total wreck.
1t was found necessary to cut the tow
line in order to save the propeller.
A FIRE recently broke out in Arm
at Muir, Which, with two other build
ings adjoining. was totally destroyed.
Loss between So, 900 and So, 900; insur-
ance small.
The McGraw mill at Bay City has
shut down for the season, and the owner,
Miss McGraw, daughter and heiress of
the builder, has ordered that, instead Of
cutting 40, ZOO, 900 or so, 900, 600 of lum-
Der in the woods this year, but about
1000, 900 shall be cut.
A GERMAN farmer named August Otto,
living near Bridgeport, while driving
homeward, lost control of his team,
which ran away, smashing a telegraph
pole, and thence through fence, throw
ing Otto out He struck on his head
and sustained dangerous if not fatal in
juries.
JAMES MEHAN, of Jackson, undertook
to ride ON the Michigan Southern train
west from Toledo without troubling the
conductor about fare. So he took pew
on the top of the train, and when 1T en-
tered the Air Line Junction tunnel the
tunnel and Mehan's head collided, throw
ing Mehan to the ground, seriously in
juring him.
THE United States Land Office report
for the month of October at Grand Ira
verse shows thirty-fye homestead en-