The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

new central school building at $25, 900
to w. H. Meyers, of Fort Wayne, Ind.
A JAPANESE graduate of our State Uni
versity, named Kimpai Saito, has been
appointed Educational Director of his
native province in japan.
AN attempt to sell So, 900 mortgage
on thirty-iv acres in Wenona, or West
Bay City, elected a bid of only 81 sos.
The sale was adjourned.
The contract for erecting the Central
School building Mt Jackson has been let
to w. III. Myers, of Fort Wayne, for
$25, 800. There were twelve bidders.
MIR. E. p. ROYCE, who has been Post
master of Escanaba ever since the towL
was founded, period of fourteen years,
has just been succeeded by L. Il. Dixon
Esq.
The wheel mill at the Lake Superior
powder mills, three miles from Marquette,
exploded the other day, shaking the
city up considerably. No one killed.
Loss, 81 500; no insurance.
THE Marquette, Houghton and Ontona-
gon railway boiler-shop at Marquette
was burned, with its contents, the other
day. Loss, $4,000; insured for 5000.
The fire was accidental.
WHILE Mrs. M. p. Barnes, of Detroit,
was working over the kitchen stove, her
light apparel took fire, and she was SO
badly burned that it is not deemed pos
sible that she can recover.
FRANK MANN, young man residing
near Wayne, engaged work at Green's
single mill in Manistee, and in less
than six hours had three fingers and the
thumb taken from his right hand.
The other day painful scene was en-
influence of liquor, was in his own
house, and his daughter stood behind
the bar passing out drink to him and his
friends.
JULIAN ACKERMAN, of Constantine,
aged IS, was stricken down by the
recent oppressive heat and died in
three hours. He was the last child of
the late j. r. Alderman, and was an in
dustrious and steady young man.
A CARPENTER named Sylvester Brad
ley, whose wife and six children live at
Jackson, was found dead in shop in
which he worked, at Fort Wayne, Ind,
recently. He had been quite despond-
ent, complained of family and financial
troubles, and had been heard to threaten
suicide. An inquest, however, showed
that he had died from extraVasation of
blood on the brain, and that that organ
was softening.
FROM statistics compiled from the re-
ports of the crops transmitted by the
Supervisor of each township to the Sec
rotary of State, it is learned that the to-
tai number of acres sown to wheat in
Michigan in 1877 was 1 1895, 562; wheat
harvested. 90, 058.S11 bushels; number
OF acres sown May l, 1878, 1921 ,97S;
estimated crop of 1878, 1874 5,345 bush
els number of persons engaged III the
occupation, 100,724
A TERRIFIC wind and rain-storm passed
over Detroit last week, doing considera-
BILE damage. During the storm the fiat
grand roof of the molding shops of the
Detroit Stove Works became overloaded
with water and fell in. There were
about thirty employees in this part of the
building. The only one seriously in
iured was Henry E. Hilbin, who was
badly crushed about the body and in
iured internally.
The following aggregates represent
the standing of State and savings banks,
as shown by compilation of the semi
annual statements made to the State
Treasurer. There are fourteen savings
banks in the State