The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-04-09
MICHIGAN NEWS.

colony.
A FIRE Mt Port Austin DESTROYED tn
new salt block and saw-mill of Thoma
Winter a Co.; loss, 80, 000 uninsured.
A STOCK company with capital stool
OF $40, 900 has been organized ut Ri,
Rapids, for the purpose of building
hotel.
JUDGE A. G. BALDWIN, of Pontiac
Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit. In.
rendered his resignation, to take effec
April Is.
The Saginaw Heraid is informed tina
the Michigan Salt Association has decid
ed upon reduction III the price of salt
OF 20 cents per barrel.
SPLENDID whitefish are being found in
various inland lakes III Michigan, sup
posed to belong to the crop planted by
the State Fish Commissioner.
In pane of glass III the house OF
Charles Pierce, of Bay City, is the image
OF II human hand indelibly stamped.
Nothing will remove it, neither turpen.
tine, soap, oil, nor naphtha.
VANDERPooL. of Detroit, has SO fan
perfected his electric light that he has
taken contract to illuminate the front
OF the Detroit Opera House for month.
The light is pronounced IL great success.
Mrs. HAsCALL, widow of the late Gen.
Charles G. Hascall, died after protract-
ed illness ut the home of her son. Henry
G. Hascall, in Flint, at the advanced age
of "a years. With her husband she 10
Gated mt Flint ut an early day, among the
first settlers of the place.
The family of G. f. Henshaw, of
kalamazoo, had narrow escape from
sutfocation from coal gas. The cover of
the coal stove had not been entirely
closed, and gas escaped in large quaint
ties. In the morning Mr. and Mrs. Hen
shaw were barely conscious, and had
only strength sufficient to attract the
attention of passing boy, who sum-
moned assistance.
PETER PARKER, former Town Treas
urer, and an old resident of East Leroy,
died recently from poison. The circum-
stances are rs follows Some time ago
Mr.. Parker sailed down number of
hams Ill brine, the vessel which was
used to contain them being brass ket-
tie. One of the hams was cooked. when
Immediately after eating all of the family
were seized with cramping pains, and a
doctor was sent for. 1t was found that
they were suffering from verdigris poi
son, the hams being covered with il .
After suffering much agony, the fathe
died. The son is not expected to live,
and the mother and n daughter are also
very sick.-Batttc creek Moan.
A GERMAN named Adam Dagenkolb,
living four miles from Northport, cut
his throat with table-knife the other
day. -Four months ago his wife, an in
sane woman, mysteriously disappeared,
and was supposed to have been lost in
the woods. A large crowd of citizens,
mistrusting foul play, assembled ut Da-
genkolbs homestead in the woods. To in
vestlgate the premises, and had COM
menced to dig ont an old well that had
recently been filled up, when Dagenkolb
made IN excuse to 90 upstairs to change
his coat, and then cut his throat from
ear to ear. His wife was found wrapped
III an old blanket in the bottom of the
well, with her throat cut. She had
been murdered iii cold blood by her hus-
band, who completed the awful tragedy
by taking his own life.
LANSING Republicdn: From statistics
now being compiled in the Governors
office, it appears that the total number
of pardons and combinations granted by
the Executives of this State since 1885,
is S7S. The highest number granted by
any one Governor is 1876, Gov. Blair, in
his term, bestowing executive clemency
to that amount. Gov. Grape only liber-
ated nineteen in IL term of four years. OF
the whole number pardoned sixty-one
have been women, being about 7 per
cent. Larceny comprises 20 per cent. of
all the crimes for which this large array
OF pardoned criminals were serving SEN
tence, while murder, burglary, arson and
forgery show Il very small percentage,
ranging from 2 to 4 per cent. of the
whole OF the total number of pardons,
GAO were from the State prison, and the
remainder from county jails, Detroit
House of Correction, Reform School,
and State House of Correction at Ionia.