The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-11-01
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


The Michigan Central railroad is dis
charging many employees along its line.
The Marshal of Ovid threw stone at
a cow and smashed 500 plate-glass
window
A FIRE at Bay City destroyed La
mont's planning mill. Loss, 81 900; I'M
insured.
LUDINGToN advertises that it needs no
more lawyers, doctors or church socie-
ties at present.
THERE are $50 working lodges of
Good Templars in Michigan, with about
$4,000 members.
FISH COMMISSIONER JEROME is incu-
batting 100000 California salmon at tho
Crystal Springs fish-hatchery.
BAY county Supervisors are consider
ing about building free bridge at Bay
City to span the Saginaw river.
THE Tittabawassee Boom Company
has RATED out 297, 100000 feet of logs
this season and has now shut down.
The Osceola copper mine has made
dividend of 81 per share, $4,000, and
has Sl2O,0O0 still in the treasury
Fl. H. STAFFORD has been appointed
Register of the United States Land
Office at Marquette, in place of Am
brose Campbell, resigned.
The Marquette Journal says the
prospects are that the present working
force of the iron mines will not be re-
duced during the winter.
THE City Mills, one of the largest
fiouring-mills in Detroit, was partially
destroyed by fire the other night. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Mr.. AND Mrs. T.. H. TRASH, of Kala-
mazoo, celebrated their golden wedding
recently with large company of friends
and rarely enjoyable time.
AFTER carefully attending to the grave
of his father for twenty-six years, a Kali
amazoo man has found that the body
snatchers had been there years ago.
WELLINGTON HAGADoNE, prominent
lumberman in Osceola county, has sold
his lands to his two sons and gone to
Montana.
SENATOR CHRIsTIANCY is improving
slowly in health, but is unable to per-
form any mental labor or answer CORE
spondence at present.
WALTER HIGGINS, of Manton, Wex-
ford county, has abandoned his wife,
gone West with portion of her prop
erty, and found young wife.
The Barry county Supervisors have
cut down the salaries of county officials
from 500 to 5000 each. They did not
reduce their own per-diem pay.
The American Express Company has
opened offices at st. Louis, Alma, Cedar
Lake, Riverdale and Vestaburg, on the
Chicago, Saginaw and Canada railroad.
THE manager of the Grand Trunk
railroad has issued circular on temper
ance, urging the employees of the COM
pany to join the grand army of tee
totalers.
THE Synod of Michigan proposes the
erection of a monument over the grave
of the Rev. Calvin Clark, for so long q
period their faithful and beloved mis-
sionary.
The Chicago, Saginaw and Canada
railroad is to be extended from Edmore
to Lakeview, Montcalm county. The
distance is fourteen miles, and the job
Is unUer contract.
A PARTY from Montreal, Can, has
about sixty men in camp at Lac La
Belle, Kewenaw county, getting out
square pine timber for the English
market
A REPORT of the Committee on Fruit
Trees, to the Benzie County Agricult-
ural Society, shows that in five town
ships there are 1920 apple trees, ,299
pear trees, 3,2S2 peach trees, and 2,242
plum trees
A 3-YEAR-oLD daughter of VIM. Mai
cen, of the township of Moltke, Presque
Isle county, was burned to death, last
week, during the absence from the house
of both father and mother
The son of Johanan Willmore was
scalded to death in Waterloo, Jackson
county, few days ago. The hired girl
accidentally threw boiling potato water
over him. He was ID months old.
A LABoRER in Watson's saw-mill at
Ashland, Newaygo county, named Peter
Dalmer, was caught between the head
block on a saw-carriage and log the
other day, and crushed in a terrible
manner. He died that night.
STEPHEN ROBERTS, an employee of the
Pioneer mine, at Negaunee, was instant
ly killed by fall of rock and ore, the
mass striking him on the head. The
deceased was middle aged, and leaves
wife and family in England.
Mrs. MARY LooMITT is living with
her grandson, John Breycon, in Mon
trose, Genesee county, at the great age
of 1OS years. She was born in Lower
Canada. Last summer she cultivated
one acre of beans and kept them clean
from weeds.
A DECREE has just been entered in
the Kalamazoo Circuit annulling mar
rage on the ground that the complain
ant was under the age of IA years when
making the contract. and did not legal
ize the marriage contract on arriving at
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