The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-08
MICHIGAN NEWS.

JACKSON city has reaped $6,726 in
liquor taxes this year.
THERE is bed of coal forty feet be-
low the State Agricultural College at
Lansing.
A BLIssFIELD machinist has built q
road engine that will climb an incline
of 40 degrees.
DEER are reported to be more plenti-
full in Marquette county this season
than ever before.
A MAN named Richard Eddy was
buried alive in the Jackson Iron mine,
Marquette county.
The Lutherans of East Saginaw have
laid the corner stone of $4,000 paro-
chial school house.
JAMES ROCKWELL and wife were
seriously injured and their child killed,
near Waterford, by runaway team.
The survivors of the Fifteenth Mich
igan infantry will have reunion at
Deerfeld, Lenawee county, Aug. IA.
ALBERT G. EARLE, real-estate owner
of Lansing, has made an assignment to
3. Il. Kilbourne. Liabilities, $4,000.
JACKSON people are deriving much
comfort from the opinion of Congress-
man MCGOWAN that they are entitled to
free mail delivery.
HE Kalamazoo assessment roll foots
up: Real estate, $3,337 ,1SO; personal,
81, 129,51O; total, "a ,466, Goa consid-
cradle increase over last year.
MDc Tr xy;fo of Al
missionary, in British India, has re-
turned to this country and will settle in
Kalamazoo to educate her children.
A YEAR ago Mrs. John Truesdale, of
Troy, submitted to the removal of her
right breast, for cancer, and last week
the left breast was taken for the same
cause.
Two CoNvICTs, named WEIGH and
Scott, escaped from prison at Jackson a
few days ago. They were working out
side, and took to the woods, but were
recaptured.
A JACKSON dog of the female per-
suasion recently died and was given q
funeral - casket, flowers, evergreens,
carriages and friends following the re-
mains for free ride.
GEORGE DoBBIE, while playing near
powder magazines outside Marquette,
fired brush heap, exploding a keg of
powder hidden there. He has since
died. The powder was secreted there
by powder-magazine thieves.
Hon. d. E. filler, after two-weeks'
illness attended with intense suffering,
died at Ludington last week. Mr.. Filler
has been for the past twenty years iden-
titled with the lumber interests there,
where, by his close attention and thor
ough knowledge of the business, he
amassed a large fortune. For eight
years he has held the position of Presi-
dent of the Pere Marquette Lumber
Company.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Kee-
wenaw cOt1nty in reference to an article
on silver in the copper deposits of Lake
Superior, makes the startling statement
that during the active mining career of
the Cliff over 100000 worth of silver
was filched from the mine! He says he
can name several persons who now en-
Joy a comfortable competency obtained
through purchasing the stolen metal
Houghton Gazette.
The saw-mill, shingle-mill, shingle-
shed, and store building, together with
goods and 5000 feet of lumber at
Wells Station, on the Mackinaw branch
of the Michigan Central, owned by
Thomas hester, of East Saginaw,
burned the other day. The fire caught
in the single department., and went
like flash. The saw-mill was three
years old, and had capacity of 10000
feet of lumber per day. 1t was valued
at $4,000; insured for $4,000. But for
change in the wind 100000 feet of
lumber would have been destroyed. The
amount burned was worth 81 SEQ, and
was covered by insurance.
Is 1t Really Hot!
A citizen doing business on Griswold
street has given this weather question a
great deal of thought, and yesterday he
began series of experiments to ascer-
tain whether imagination hasn't as much
to do with hot day as the thermome-
ter. At 9 o'clock in the morning he en-
tered his office, built brisk fire in the
stove, closed the door, and sat down to
his newspaper, having his chair close to
the stove. In q few minutes one of his
customers opened the door, and before
he could express his surprise the official
called out:
"Come in! What change in the
weather since last night ] hated to
build fire, but it was positively like
November in here. Come over by the
stove"
"Has-has the weather changed?"
hesitatingly inquired the caller.
Changed! Why there's difference
of 81 degrees since 10 o'clock last
night Hear what the weather report
says: Northerly winds, great change in
temperature, with indications of q Sc
we're frost at night! wish had
brought down my sprlng overcoat."
well, felt the change, hut l didn't
realize the full power Of it," said the
other, as he edged over to the stove and
rubbed his hands.
"You should watch these things and
dress accordingly. wouldn't dare come
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