The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-08-27
MICHIGAN NEWS.

A DOG suit just decided III Antrim
oun ty has cost over 500.
MANIsTEE has had during the past
year 364 births and 10 deaths.
Huron county has been divided into
two salt manufacturing districts.
The prospect for a system OF water
works Mt Battle Creek, i'll the near future,
is now encouraging.
The members of the State Grange had
monster picnic on the fair grounds,
near Lansing, few days since.
JOSEPH RHODES, of Nashville, picked
n six-leaf clover few days ago which
he presented to the editor of the Nash
vile NeDS.
EIGHTY-Two Firms landed at Hancock,
Houghton county, a few days ago,
seventy-two of whom are booked for the
Calumet mines.
Two little boys, aged respectively 6
and years, sons of James Atchison and
James Mcneil, of Oscoda, fell from
some logs in the Loud bayou and were
drowned.
JOHN II. SANBoRN, Lumber Inspector
of Saginaw City, an old resident, died
lately from the effects of an overdose of
opium taken under the supposition that
it was rhubarb..
SPARKS from tug set fire to the lum-
Der on Macarthur, Smith ~ Co. S dock,
at Cheboygan, and 100 900 feet of lum-
Der were burned. The dock was injured
some. Loss, $1,000; no insurance.
ALoNzo CHEEsEBRoUGH, of Toledo, h
purchased 20, 900 acres OF land in Mack
mae and Chippewa counties for 1913, 745
in cash. The land belonged to the es-
tate of the late Franklin Moore, of De-
troit.
ST.. PAUL's Episcopal Church, in Mar
quette, was consecrated Sunday last by
Bishop Harris, assisted by Bishop Sey-
mour. The editice cost $65, 900, and is
one of the finest TO be found outside the
large cities.
IN the Chocolay river, three miles
southeast of Marquette. leeches are
found which the physicians of that sec
ton pronounce the genuine aquatic
worm or bloodsucker, employed in the
medical profession for bleeding pur-
poses.
Ir is estimated that the number of
acres subject to presumption for free
homes in Michigan do not exceed 100,-
600. OF this land more than half is in
the Reed City district, and much the
larger proportion of it so-called pine
PLAINS.
The white-tish planted in Long lake
by the State Fish Commission some
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growth for the time they have been
there Occasionally one is caught whose
size demonstrates the wisdom OF the en-
terprise. -FWrt GlObe
A PROJECT is on foot for the establish
ment of line of steamers from Luding-
ton, the terminus of the Flint and
Marquette railway, to Manitowoc, ON
the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan,
and the construction of a short line of
railroad to give a through connection to
st. Paul.
NATHAN WALLACE, of Sebewa, Ionia
county, day or two ago, was petting
his team, at the same time holding IN
der his arm his child, 3 or 4 years Old
when one of the horses seized the child
at the small of the back between his
teeth and inflicted injuries represented
to be of serious nature.
DAVID ROGERS was drowned at Bib
bins lake, ten or twelve miles south of
jackson, Monday evening. He was
bathing with his companions, when he
swan out from the shore, said "Good-
by, boys, you won't see nae again, and
went down. 1t is thought that he meant
nothing, but was taken with cramp.
The anchor mines of Lake Huron APP
pear to have been more productive re-
Gently than its iron ore mines. A short
time since we noticed the finding and
recovery of a large anchor and seventy
five fathoms of chain by Chas. Hart.
Last evening the scow Spy, of Chicago,
came in port with an anchor weighing
$500 pounds and fourteen fathoms of
1s-inch chain, which was fshed up in
the straits. The Captain says this is the
fourth one they have found and raised
this summer. -Cheboygan Tribune.