The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-14
MICHIGAN NEWS.

A BEAVER was captured IN the street
at Cheboygan one day recently.
AFFIE AcKER, of Conger, is 7 years
old, and weighs Ill pounds.
LARGE numbers of Danes are settling
in Montcalm county.
MENoMINEE is to have handsome
new school-house F.; cost, $15, 900.
SIX women have recently been sent
from Manistee to the insane asylum.
AN establishment for the manufacture
of white bronze monuments Is contem-
plated in Detroit.
A FEW days since 1,250,000 whitefish
were deposited in Lake Michigan, off
Nine Mile point.
ONE-HALF peanut kernel, which
lodged in his throat, killed Jackson
boy, a few days ago.
A 3!-YEAR-oLD child, son of Ed. Ma
gee, Jr., of Marshall, accidentally fell in
cistern and was drowned.
The liquor dealers of Jackson have
formed Protective Association to
fight the new Liquor law
Four times the people of Michigan
nave NOUctl llOl I'd TitlSc ally llAtu
by the constitution of 1850.
THE amount of State land sold and Ii
censed in Alpena county for March Is
2,287 acres, and in Montmorency county
567 acres.
SIX more large charcoal kilns are be-
ing built at Wilmington, and the coal
men are making and shipping immense
quantities of charcoal.
Two BEAR cubs and two red foxes
passed through Saginaw, the other day,
en- route for New York. They were con-
signed to Gen. ID. E. Sickles.
The Ionia millers are getting up n pc
tition to Congress for such Legislation as
will prevent the formation of wheat
"syndicates or "pools."
JOHN WEBB, of Jackson, has just com
pletcd cathedral clock in walnut and
white holly, which is pronounced a mas.
terpiece of Sorrento work.
The earnings of the Flint and Pere
Marquette railroad for the month end
ing April q were 30,697-an increase
of s., 49, over the same time last year
The authorities of Mt Morris have
fixed the licenses of saloon-keepers N
$500 and bonds at So. 900. The saloons
are all closed, with prospects of remain
ing so.
IT is proposed to reclaim about ], 00(
acres of swamp land i'll Henrietta town
ship, Jackson county, by digging ditcl
four miles long, ten feet wide and from
two to four feet deep, between White
/ laEn onI tho Dprto riynr
THE movement of lumber product.
from Saginaw river to May ] is tn,
largest on record, aggregating 5000,
913 feet of lumber, 1876, 900 laths, IA,
497, 100 shingles, and %, 900 barrels o
salt.
FRANK LUCE, of Linden, Genese,
county, was hunting ducks, when hi'
gun missed fire, and, to satisfy himsel
as to whether it was loaded, he place.
the muzzle to his mouth, when it was
discharged, killing him instantly.
A DAUGHTER of Henry Helliner, o
Flint, was drowned i'll cistern III hel
fathers yard. She went out to get som,
wood and did not come back. Whel
the family went to- search for her the,
found her in the cistern. She was
years old.
The workmen on the Marquette an,
Mackinac railroad unearthed quantit,
of Indian relics near Marquette, II few
days ago. Thomas Meade, of that place
has offered the finders $500 for the lot
There were tools for working copper
petrified wood and leather, and othe
curiosities.
Gov. CRoswELL has appointed Alex
ander j. Murray, of Detroit, Joseph Il
Griswold, of Grand Rapids, and S. b
Mann, of Palmyra, as Commissioner
"to prevent the spread of dangerou
diseases among animals, and protec
the people of the State from the danger
arising from the consumption of disease,
meat, under the provision of the law O
1879.
ONToNAGoN Miner: A few days sine
as Mr.. Bobay, of this village, was dig
ging up hemlock stump near his house
he came upon little pile of stones, am
lying with them copper knife of tn
ancients. 1t was lying on the stone
about three feet from the surface, an,
must have lain there ages. The knife
about five inches long, with very fin