The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-04-26

graves. The authorities have forbidden
public funerals, q wise sanitary measure.
and propose to do all they can to pre-
vent spread of the disease.
| WILLIAM BoAIs, stone mason en-
ployed at the Pioneer furnace, was run
over by locomotive on the Chicago and
Northwestern railway and instantly
killed, recently, at Negaunee, while go
ing TO his work.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Saginaw and
Bay City Game Protection Climbs have
caused the arrest of four persons for
killing pigeons in a nesting at Petoskey.
| Pigeon trappers are taking warning, and
moving back to proper limits The law
will be enforced to the letter by the State
Game Protection clubs.
THE Flint paper mill recently caught
fire from passing locomotive. The mill
itself, stock, and portion of the ma
chinery, were almost total loss before
the fire was subdued, but the most valu-
able part of the machinery is thought to
be uninjured. Loss estimated at SO, 900
to 81, 900; insured for 81, 500.
THE Michigan Central railway has
bought A, 900 tons of steel rails, and will
| relay the Grand River Valley division
and five miles of the Air Line, making
the latter all steel also, a new track
from Three Oaks to Galien, completing
a double track from Niles to Chicago
and, indeed, from Jackson to Chicago,
If the Air Line is taken into considera-
ton.
JOHN SrADLER, q Detroit saloon
keeper, took down a gun loaded with
squirrel shot, few days since, and,
while attempting to remove its caps.
discharged it accidentally. It's load hit
two men on the opposite side of the
street, wounding slightly in the neck
Thomas Lorimer, proprietor of q small
hotel on Belle isle, and dangerously
peppering the head of colored white
washer who was with him, named James
Standard.
ONE of the officers of the State House
of Correction received q fearful blow
from one of the convicts recently, which
came very near proving fatal. The con-
vict was on duty at the time near one of
the gates, which happened to be open,
and, watching his opportunity he drew
from his pocket slungshot, which he
had prepared, and struck the officer over
the head, knocking him down, and then
attempted to escape, but failed.
AS THE propeller Benton was passing
the Government works below Saginaw,
the other day, three boys in skiff seized
hold of rope attached to a fender I'M
der the quarter, for the purpose of being
towed up. The engineer saw them and
warned them off. When near the rail-
road bridge, the wind, blowing gale,
forced the propeller over toward the
pier, and she was checked down and the
engine reversed. AS she settled back,
the wheel struck the skiff, smashing it
to pieces. Two boys-Fred Chapel,
aged II, and Albert Fricke, aged 1S-
drowned. Alfred Elsefer, aged 20, was
saved, but blade of the screw struck
him, breaking one leg and seriously in
| juring him otherwise. He is danger
ously, if not fatally, injured.
THE No. / or main shaft at the Osceo-
La mine, Calumet, caught fire one day
last week, and was soon one mass of
| flames. The upper part of the shaft
house was used as a rock house, having
two of Blake's rock breakers in use.
| The engine house was attached to the
shaft house, and all were consumed as
well as eight rock cars which were stand
ing under the shaft house. This COM
pany's loss by the fire can hardly be es-
timated, as, besides the value of the
property destroyed amounting to many
thousands of dollars, the mine will have
to stop and the stamp-mill shut down at
least for a time. There was an insur-
ance of $4,000 on the property. This
fire Will be hard blow to the working
population, as it will throw about 200
people out of employment.
THE committee of the Presbyteria
Synod of Michigan have addressed q let
ter to the churches of that denomination
in the State, setting forth that the Mich
igan Female Seminary of Kalamazoo,
which is in vital union with the Synod,
and is Justly known as the emit. Hol-
yoke of the West" is in debt SIS, 900.
institution which has cost the Synod
over $4,000. An appeal is made to the
$1,000 church members to contribute the
gift of 81 each to pay the debt. Rev.
Mr.. Northrop, the Synod's agent, has
about Sc, 900 of conditional pledges, and
hopes to collect these if enough more is
: obtained to pay the rest of the debt. OF
the $70,0 900 already expended upon this
seminary, its friends in Kalamazoo have
3 raised $50. yet the Executive Com
: mittee will undertake to raise in Kala-
t mazoo 81, 900 more, if thereby the whole
: debt may be swept away. If the debt
q were paid, anu the burden of the inter.
est thus removed, the average number OF
f upils would pay all Gu trent expenses.