The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-06-29
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


THE jackson County Pioneer Society |
held an interesting meeting recently.
AT Leroy, readings from popular au-
thors are given at the Reform Club
meetings.
STRAWBERRY festivals by Red Ribbon
Clubs are becoming popular throughout
the State.
VIM. ID. MORTON, recently tried at
Detroit for obtaining money under false
pretenses, has been acquitted.
The soldiers of Van Buren, county
held an encampment near Paw Paw last
week. They had fine time.
Roy McNEAL, aged 20, whose home
was at Wrightstown, Wis, was drowned
last week on Sturgeon river drive.
THE hotel and barn of Richard Power,
at Carrollton, were burned few days
ago. Loss 81, 900, with an insurance of
81, 200.
WHILE edgaged in wiping an engine
at Negaunee recently, James Hicks,
aged 16, was struck by lightning and
killed.
THE Germania Fire Insurance Com
pany, of Elizabeth. n. j., has withdrawn
from and will do no further business in
Michigan.
DURING the past week four Michigan
colleges have held commencement exer.
cises, viz: Albion, Adrian, Kalamazoo,
and Olivet.
ODD PYBUs, of Leland, was drowned
in the river at that place last week while
rafting logs, between two of which he
fell and sank Immediately.
A 14-YEAR-oLD boy was struck in the
face and badly injured by the paw of
one of Barnums lions, in Detroit, and
came near losing his life.
A HOTEL and barn owned by Stephen
r. Gross, at Caro-, Tuscola county, were
600; insurance, 1000.
ISAAC BUMPUs. wealthy farmer of
Jacksonville, Wayne county, shot his
wife dangerously few days ago, while
drunk. He was arrested.
MATT MoDERMorT, the Midland man
who was stabbed through the lung while
in drunken quarrel with his brother q
a few days since, is dead.
A FIRE destroyed the business block
at Hartford short time since. Twelve
stores were burned, with most of their
contents. Loss, about 10000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
Hon. A. S. GAYLORD, late Assistant
Attorney General, died at his residence
in Saginaw City last week of Brights
disease of the kidneys. Deceased was
about 45 years old.
Mr &c fha IL;
of Gaines, Genesee county, suddenly
dropped dead in his chair few days
since. Deceased was about 20 years OF
age, and was one of the oldest pioneers
in the county.
In Ishpeming, week ago, little
4-year-old son of Henry Brown was lost
in the woods, and after a three days
search was found dead. He had been
left in the woods by his two brothers to
find his way home as best he could.
Ex-GovERNoR BAGLEY was a bonds
man for the late defaulting Treasurer
Thon, of Wayne county. The Governor
has notified the County Auditors that he
will draw his check for the whole amount
now due, which is about $50, 900.
The annual reports of the Michigan
County superintendent of the Poor
compiled by the Secretary of State, show
the number of paupers in poor-houses
III the State in 1876 to have been 5,1S3.
OF this number there were 2,075 Ameri-
cans.
THE logs on the Tittabawassee will all
come out. The rear of the entire drive,
about 30,000,000 feet, was at Riverdale
last week.
FIRE damaged the Michigan Pulp
Mills, located at Jackson, $15, 900 worth
last week. The mills escaped total de-
struction.
Dir. RoMnNGER, the State GeoloGst.
has made Marquette his headquarters
for the summer, with the intention of
completing the State survey in that sec
ton.
THERE IS growing on the farm OF Mr..
Lyon, of st. Johns, a white oak tree Ia
| feet in circumference, of symmetrical
form, and the first large limb is sixt-five
feet from the ground.
ALBERT G.. FISHER shot his wife. and
his father-in-law, Henry Fitch, at the
house OF the latter, in st. Johns, recent
". Fitch was MORALLY wounded, while
, the wife will probably recover
JAMES A. RANDALL, Detroit lawyer
and Circuit Court Commissioner. has
obtained judgment against the Detroit
Tribune of $500 for libel. He was ridi-
culed as acting on both sides of case.
FRANK MCDONALD and George Har
rington, both notorious burglars, broke
from the Iosco county Jail the other day.
by burning hole through the floor and
excavating passage under the founda-
ton wall. n,r-rsn
The amount of the liquor tax rolls, as
placed in the hands of the Treasurer of
Mason county, 80 far this year is g.
611.67, against 80, $50. 40 last wear. There
are twenty-one saloons, against thirty
two last year.
The National Association Of Stove
Manufacturers held it's twelfth annual
convention in Detroit last week. 1t is
composed of about eighty of the leading
manufacturers of the country, represent
ing capital of $40. 900, 900 ,
The thirty third annual session of the
National Division of the Sons OF Tenn