The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-11-21
MICHIGAN NEWS.

ORCIutAOus
GRAND TRAVERSE cor..J is entirely
out of debt.
The Union School, at Albion, was
damaged by fire to the amount of about
$4,000.
The Saginaw salt-well borers are to
form an association and agree on prices
for boring.
THERE are 372 prisoners in the De-
troit House of Correction. OF this
number 102 are females.
The total amount of logs RATED by
the Tittabawassee Boom Company this
season will closely approximate 1885,
100000 feet.
AN Episcopal minister is to be sent
into the Upper Peninsula to work in the
inviting fields offered at Negaunee and
Escaiiaba.
The Roscommon oil excitement still
continues. No refneries have yet been
established, nor has any great amount
OF land been sold.
DURING October, in Detroit, letter
carriers delivered 465,028 letters, 102,-
957 postal cards and 22S,868 news
papers, circulars, etc.
CHARLES DYKE, at the HamGn mills,
Ludington, fell upon a saw, and his
body was sawed in two lengthwise. He
leaves wife and two children.
AN undivided half of 5000 acres of
pine land situated in the counties of
Roscommon, Crawford, Otsego and
Montgomery, has been sold for $40, 900.
The large lumber and single mill
owned by G. j. Tompsett, located at
Pine Lake, was destroyed by fire the
other night. Loss, $4,000; no insur-
ance.
A HUNTING party CT me down the Au
Sable to Tawas City, the other day,
wish several deer, among them white
fawn, something very rare for that
country.
AN abandoned saw mill, known as the
Little Mill, at East Saginaw, was de-
stroyed by fire lately. 1t was an old
landmark, having been built in the
spring of 1854.
ARRANGEMENTS are already being
made for rebuilding on the lots made
vacant by fire in Ionia. Five brick
blocks will take the place of the wooden
buildings burned.
GEORGE BENT, of Big Rapids,
scratched his knee with penknife two
months ago, and the. unexpected result
was amputation, which became neces-
sary to save his life.
DOUGLAS SALISBURY, of Centervil.e,
Leelanaw county, aged -, and Jessie
Grover, of Scion, same county, aged
II, were married last week. No di-
vorce. at latest accounts.
JUDGE HAYES, at Adrian, last week,
adjourned the Circuit Court without
day, the Supervisors having made no
appropriation for paying his services.
He criticised their action severely.
Hon. GEORGE A. FAIR, State Senator
from the Thirty-seventh district, and
heretofore the only bachelor in the
present Senate, was recently married
to Miss Susie G. Slayton, at Stowe, Vt.
Ten barrels of gold ore Just received
at Detroit are said to have come from
somewhere on the eastern part of the
north shore of Lake Superior, but the
parties are keeping it very still for the
present.
AT Marquette Andrew Eddy, a lad of
Z years, while walking up the Quincy
incline, in company with his aunt, at.
tempted to cross the track in front of
the descending car, and was struck and
,o,,,ra1 khok ha Eual 60
minutes.
GoDKIN BROTHERS, farmers and lum-
bermen in Tuscola county, had just
completed new barn, costing $4,000,
and their workmen had made bonfire
of the shavings, when the wind
carried the flames to the new building,
which was destroyed with other prop
erty to the aggregate value of $1,000;
not insured.
WHILE Leo Strassburg and compan-
ion named Essing were sailing on the
river at Detroit in a catamaran, they
were struck by squall, which caused
the boats to separate, throwing both
the young men into the water. Essing
was successful in swimming to the shore
but Strassburg sunk Immediately and
was drowned.
WINGS engine, with load of logs
was thrown from the track by an OBJ.
struction, apparently placed there fol
that purpose, at Evart, one night las,
week. John Nevins, engineer, and Pc
ter Ross, fireman, were instantly killed
and Charles Delude, Frenchman, ia
tally injured. The engine and severa
cars were damaged.
JOHN FoULTs, Fhiletus Quiggle anG
Seth Taylor and wife, the counterfeiter.
arrested at Sheridan, have had a partia
examination. Their arrest was effected
through the fundamentally of A. l.
Gregg, private citizen, who has beer
working among them since July last
He presented himself as thief anC
gambler, and made arrangements will
the gang to learn the art OF making spu
rious coin. While receiving instruc
tions, he gave asignal previously agreed
upon, when the Sheriff and his dept
ties entered and arrested the partie
named. The coins produced were quit,
perfect, and the apparatus captured 70
making the same was quite extensive.
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