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

MICHIGAN ITEaS.
| FLINr's bonded debt has been reduced
$50 900 in three years. 1t now stands
at 800, 900.
JOHN FISH, aged about 80 years, resid-
ing at Hancock, committed suicide last
week by drowning.
THE Congregationalists at Stanwood,
Mecosta county, are intending to build
a church shortly.
DAVID SANBoRN, of Baltimore, Barry
county, has twenty-four dogs on his
farm, valued at 81, 800.
SHEEP-KmLING dogs are exceedingly
destructive in Leroy, where they have
recently killed number of sheep.
THOMAS O'NRnL, President of the
State Firemen's Association, has called
the fourth annual meeting at Jackson,
May l.
SOLOMON B. BLISS, of East Saginaw,
has filed voluntary petition. His LA
bilities are put down at about $50, 900;
assets nominal.
ALRoID BLANK was instantly killed at
Morley, the other day, by tree falling
on him.
DURING the past two years Hastings
has lost twenty saloons out of twenty
seven.
The work of laying the iron on the
Caro- and Vassar railroad has COM
menced.
THERE were 100000 railroad ties,
worth $40, cut in the vicinity of
Menominee the past winter.
NEW postoffices have been established
at McBride's, Montcalm county, and
Hills Corners, Berrien county.
THE Ionia Light Guard now numbers
seventy members, and is in prosper
Gus condition.
PORTLAND is about at the end of rail-
road-debt paying. She has paid, thus
far, 800, 1922, and owes So, 900 more.
THE "Sisters of Providence" are to
erect an academy at East Saginaw. 1t
will be 6Sx4S feet and two stories high.
WALDo's shingle-mill burned the
other day at Midland, with 1000, 900
shingles. Loss, 1850; insurance on
mill, $500.
THE convicts at the State prison have
pudding and milk two days in the week.
Six hundred pounds of milk are taken
every day.
AS THE Government would not do it
for them, the lumbermen of Manistee
are about to dredge the outer bar of
Manistee harbor.
EZRA B. WALwoRTH has been held
for trial at Jackson, after lengthy ex-
animation, charged with the murder of
Mrs. Green, at Liberty, last January.
A FIRE at East Saginaw destroyed
Jeffries' Hotel, large cooper shop
owned by Sears 4 Holland, and the old
Troy House. Loss, $500; insurance,
50, 800.
THE Hunter Tool Company, of Clyde,
Ohio, have removed to Portland, Ionia
county, where they will carry on the
manufacture of edge tools of nearly every
description.
JOHN RAPP, school teacher at Pa
vilion, has been fined $25 for unreason-
ably Furnishing q scholar. He is said to
be good teacher, but this case Is said
to be one of severe treatment.
WHEN the new time table on the De-
troit and Bay City road goes into effect,
running time between Detroit and Bay
City will be shortened from five hours to
| four.
ALL Supervisors are to ascertain, DUR
ing the present year, the amount of grain
raised in their townships in 1877, in Or
der to get the total amount of the crop
of that year.
THE saw and Single mills of Bates 4
Nelson, of Cedar Lake, burned, the other
day. Loss, $4,000; insured, $1,000.
The lumber and shingles in the yard
were saved.
The transactions of the Michigan
State Teachers Association, at their an.
nual session, held last December In East
Saginaw, have been published in pam
phlet of 50 pages.
THREE Indians have been arrested a.
Bay City, on suspicion of having muir
dered a man at Elk Rapids some tim,
ago. They claim that the man was no
killed, but froze to death.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE BALL, an estimabl,
old lady, mother of George F. Ball,
prominent citizen of Midland, also al
early settler In East Saginaw, died Oh
, the 18th, aged 50 years and months
? She was born in Massachusetts,.
AT Saginaw City Judge Green has rem
I dered his decision as to the free bridg
across Saginaw river, granting an in
junction restraining the city of Eas
r Saginaw and the Smith Bridge Com
pany from doing any further work o.
r the same.
|, Mccormick & Bro, fish dealers G
. Philadelphia, have established a larg
branch OF their business at Potoskey
They are now prepared to freeze 2
. tons of fish per day, and can keep ther
in a frozen condition for any length {
!. time. Their storing capacity is owe
. 200, 900 pounds.
LAST week, Congressman @. @. ELL
worth, while visiting his home at Greer
vile, was waylaid by q man named J.
Shearer, who struck him over the for'