The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-03
MICHIGAN NEWS.

THE Michigan Air Line has broken
ground inside Pontiac city limits.
THE Big Rapids people are going to
keep clean. A new and extensive soap
factory has been established there.
The Ogemaw Herald has been in
formed that twenty-five deer were re-
Gently seen in one herd in the township
OF Churchill.
THE new residence of o. M. Brown
son, of Evart, which is not yet finished,
has been struck by lightning twice with
in three months.
THE Romeo Observer has the follow
ing peculiar item 81. N. Owen left on
our table the other day number of
strangely amalgamated cucumbers and
apples.
FIRE in Patterson's carriage reposi-
tory, Mt Flint, inflicted loss of So, 900 !;
insurance, $1,000. One hundred car
riages, partly built, were lost. The loss
i'll tools, paints, ETC., was considerable.
A BATTLE CREEK correspondent says :
"The subscription in aid of the Toledo
road is fast filling up. Merchants put
down readily from $50 to $500, SO that
there is no longer any fear but the
needed SAC, 900 will be secured"
The cheese factory at Pine Run, near
Flint, has the milk from 200 cows. The
average daily amount delivered is 4, 600
pounds, from which 400 pounds of
cheese are made, or nearly "A ton and a
half per week.
WHILE J. j. Alley, of Albion, was
hunting woodcock near town. he saw
two rattlesnakes, one of which he shot.
He also found one that had been killed
a few days before, and the apparent
abundance of these venomous reptiles
quite took away his appetite for hunt
ing.
A PAPER in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan says: The Indians on that
beautiful sheet of water, Lake Chicagon,
have built deer-fence some fifteen
miles i'll length, and capture deer by
driving them into the lake, or rather the
squaws capture them, darting about in
their birch bark canoes, and either tir-
ing the deer out, or striking him to the
heart with spears, or by pushing their
heads under water with poles.
EMIL BoNJEAUX, an edger in Folsom
e. Arnold's mill, at Bay City, met with a
severe accident few days since. He
was nj work ut saw having inserted
teeth, and, III some unaccountable man.
ner, one of the teeth became loose, and,
being thrown out by the fast-revolving
saw, struck Bonjeaux ON the cheek bone
with great force, breaking that bone and
becoming imbedded into the flesh about
ttyr ta1 Oh,
half inch below the eye.
A FEW days ago Albert Hoagland, of
Napoleon, was severely hurt by the kick
of horse. He was at the time hitching
up team, when horse, another
party was leading near where he was
standing, kicked at one of his horses,
but missed, only to strike him under the
chin. His jaws came together with such
force as to break and split a number of
his teeth, besides cutting both sides of
his tongue. The wonder remains that
his jaw was not INSTRUMENTATION Pat
riot
KI-NI-KwI TCHo-KoN an Ottawa squaw,
who will be remembered by nearly all
tourists who have visited Little Traverse
in years past, died recently at the age OF
JOG years. Her great age made her
quite local celebrity. During the last
year she has been an infant in every re-
spect, spending her time creeping about
the floor and amusing herself with play
things, or quietly sleeping upon a cot in
the corner of the room. Some think
her age is greater than is claimed. For
several years she has been cared for by
a daughter, who is now nearly 60 years
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