The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-12
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

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THE Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum
at Flint has 30 inmates.
OVER 1000 people visited the prison
during the State Fair.
The savings banks of Detroit have re-
duced their rate of interest to 8 per
cent.
The fish house of Haskins Brothers,
at East Tawas, was burned last week.
Loss, $1,000; partly insured.
TRANPs are on the increase, and the
country is flooded with the lazy vaga-
bonds.
The Michigan fisheries annually
send over $500, 900 worth OF fish to De-
troit.
DETROIT is complaining bitterly about
the exactions imposed by the gas COM
panies upon their customers.
Mrs. HNcKLY FULLER, of Ovid. at
tempted twice in one day to commit sui
eide by drowning in Mud lake.
HARDIN & Co.'S. new salt well at Sag
inaw City has been finished. 1t is down
depth of 800 feet, getting 50 per cent.
brine.
A SPECIAL election was held in Glad
win county to vote on the proposition to
raise $1,000 to finish the new Court
House, and it was carried.
A TRAIN on the Detroit and Milwaukee
railroad run over young man named
Conrad M. Plat, at Antietam street,
Detroit. His death was instantaneous.
The State Reform School now has OFT
inmates, larger number than ever be-
fore. On Saturday last eighty guns were
received for the use of the boys in their
drill.
A sHINGLE-MILL at Manistee recently
cut / ,222, 900 shingles in one week, with
two saws. 1t is claimed to be the larg-
est weeks work ever done in Michigan
with such mill.
WILLIAM DEMEREsT, an employe on
the tug Haight, of East Saginaw, was
caught in the blight of a line the other
day, knocked overheard, and drowned.
The body was recovered.
A BARREL of wet lime get fire to the
barn of E. d. Fiefeld. of Hastings, one
day recently, and barn and contents, in
Guiding 200 bushels of wheat and a span
of horses, were consumed.
The new gang saw-mill owned by the
Frankfort Land Company, at Frankfort,
was set on fire by snme unknown per-
son the other night, and totally destroyed.
Loss $50, 600; insurance, $4,000.
Mrs. N. X. Brooks, who won the
elegant 800 tea-set as special premium
for the best roll of butter at the Ionia
Fair, is the lady who carried off a cook
stove last year for the best loaf of bread.
THE single mill and salt block of G.
L. Bremen, at Saginaw City, was de-
stroyed by fire last week. Loss, &c.
600; no insurance. A dwelling owned
by b. McArdie also took fire and was
considerably damaged. No insurance.
A FIGHT occurred at Griener's saloon
in Mount Clemens, recently, between
George Fourier and Fin McCarty,
whereby McCarty was severely stabbed
in the side and arm. 1t is feared he can
not recover. Fourier was arrested and
lodged in Jail.
Mr.. FORD, q resident of Dawson,
passenger on an excursion train on the
Port Huron and Lake Michigan railroad,
while crossing a bridge at Flint, a few
days ago, leaned his head and shoulders
from the platform and was brought in
contact with the timbers of the bridge,
breaking his shoulder and collar bone,
also crushing one side of his head. Small
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
The following is a statement OF the
receipts and disbursements at the State
Treasurer's Office for the fiscal year end
ing Sept 80
Balance on hand Sept. 80, 1876. 81 064 0o5 80
Receipts
Total. SISyI, o3OUt
Disbursements same time Z,Zoo,Uoo.o4
Balance on hand Sept. 90, 1s77....... 1909, ~ %
Decrease during the year. 4o4,2S4.O'
AT Detroit few days since George
Angle was run over by train on the
Grand Trunk railroad and instantly
killed. He was married man about 30
wears old, and left wife and child. He
was driving across the track when an ex-
press train struck him.
AT Muskegon, recently, John john
son, a sailor on the schooner Hearty
Earle, accidentally fell from the mast
head on to the deck, and died from his
injuries in about fifteen minutes after.
He was Norwegian, single man, and
about Is years of age.
THE Negaunee Herald says that
man was splitting wood near the Sagi-
nav river the other day, when piece Of
an iron wedge he was driving struck him
in the bowels with such force as to bury
it out of sight. He lived until the next
day in the most terrible agony.
THE cost per capita for the mainten-
ance OF scholars in the public schools of
the principal towns of the State is as fol-
lows Grand Rapids, 49, 10 I; Coldwater,
80; Flint, SO. 40; Detroit, $500; Pom
tiac, 1887; Jackson, $10.O7; Adrian,
so. 40; Ann Arbor, $3.50 Fenton,
SO. %; Bay City, SO. 90; Corunna, S7.OS;
Battle Greek, $3.50; Hillsdale, So /;
Lansing, 1923; Kalamazoo, 1925 !;
Howell, $7.O4; Romeo, SO; Saginaw
City, $40 10; Owosso, S7.03 f; st. Johns,
S6.7l; Jonesville, $3.50; Ionia, SOS !;
Lapeer, $1,000; Mt. Clemens, $10.O2 !;
Traverse City, S1O.13.
SAYS the Lansing Republican : Dur
ing the fiscal year which closed Sept: ~,
only 81 900 in bonds were purchased by
the State Treasurer, and these were OBJ.
tanned at par. The present condition OF