The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-04-23
MICHIGAN NEWS.

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The amount of salt made in Michigan
in March was 131, sos barrels.
The estimates finally adopted for mu-
nicipal expenditures at Detroit foot up
$9S2, 49S.
A LITTLE daughter of George Seymour
fell into privy vault at East Saginaw
and was drowned.
SEVEN new iron bridges will be built
on the line of the Michigan Central rail-
road this summer.
THE Board of Control has not yet let
the contract for the Black river (Che-
boygan county, improvement.
A SITE for the proposed opera house at
Flint has been decided upon, and means
pledged to insure its erection.
THE whole amount sent to Ireland by
Bishop Borgess., of Detroit, since the re-
lief collections began is So, SS5.75.
The pipe-works in Bay City, formerly
the property of Ayrault, Smith * Co.,
have been sold to Miles Ayrault for
$7S, 800.
OVER 800 hunters are now at the great
pigeon-roost in Benzie county, near
Traverse City. The slaughter goes on
briskly.
ONE coach-load of Greenville citizens
and four carloads of stock, tools, etc,
started for Dakota few days ago, where
they will colonize.
The Ontonagon Miner says that the
entire production of copper in the Lake
Superior region since 1885 has amounted
to 1914, 500, 600 in value.
THE Kalamazoo Seminary girls want
ed Hon. Il. w. Ferry, the bachelor Sen
ator from Michigan, to address them in
June, but he bashfully declined.
RICHARD b. PIxLEY, of Henrietta,
Jackson county, died lately, in the house
which he built himself forty-four years
ago. He was 70 years old.
THE great producing State of
Michigan must pay for four carloads OF
pine sent from Alabama, to be used in
flooring the new museum at the Univer-
sity.
A TRAVERSE CRY dispatch says: Pig
cons continue to come in countless mill
ions. The nestings, fifteen miles west
of this place, are now fifteen miles long
and from four to eight wide.
The commission have located the
House of Correction for Women in Adri-
an by a vote of to 4. The location is
one mile from the corporation, on a
beautiful site of forty-two acres.
M. w. HORTON, of Flint, has the
genealogy of his family from the time
his ancestors came over in the ship
Swallow, m 1888, to the present genera
ton.
NANCY j. SIMPSON obtained verdict
for 81 900 against the city of Detroit in
the United States Circuit Court on ac-
count of injuries received from a broken
sidewalk.
j. j. CAMPBELL's store and heading
mill Mt Chesaning was burned the other
day. Loss, $1,000; no insurance.
! Thirty-twO men are thrown out of EN-
ployment.
The Methodist Church at Homer is
finished throughout in first-class style.
A new 2,000-pound bell calls its congre-
cation together, and not a penny of debt
hangs over it.
A BARN belonging to Shank Bros, one
and half miles south of ST. Louis, was
burned recently, with five horses, some
swine, and other contents. Loss, 81,
400; no insurance.
HAYNES a. TURNER, a prominent dry
goods firm of Flint, made an assignment
last week to H. G. Spencer for the bene
fit of their creditors. Their liabilities
are about S25, 900, and assets about
SO, 600 to 10000.
Temperance, which once numbered over
400 members, has now ceased to exist
and the Albion Red Ribbon Club, which
once numbered 800 members, has about
petered out.
The State Archery Association vii
hold its annual target meeting in De
troit, June % and "a. The prizes
amount to $1,000, and medals will b,
contested for at the double Columbi,
and single York rounds.
The ring man who is in want of none,
and pawns an elegant gold ring worth s.
for 80. 80, has been in Hastings, and il
consequence large number of the resi-
dents of that place are sporting valuable
rings, worth abont 3 cents apiece.
THREE boys of Sheboygan ate wha
they supposed was sweet-hag, and OF
the way home two of them fell into con
WILSON'S. One of them was picked NJ
dead, the other would probably die, an'
the doctors had hopes of saving tn,
third.
CHARLES PARKER, of Maple valley
Montcalm county, has sold his 320-acr
farm for $4,000 The farming nipple
ments are included in the purchase. TIL
sale was made to German from Can
ada. Mr.. Parker and his family wi.
remove to Oregon.
A FEW days ago Supervisor Taylo
: shot large wolf near his place, in tn
township of Maple Grove, Maniste
county. Upon examination it was foun
the wolf had chewed off one of its fee
! to extricate itself from large trap, an
had carried the foot with him to wher
he was shot-at least mile from TIN
trap.
5 A FEW days since horse and bull i
7 stable at Upton, Pa, engaged in
desperate pitched battle, which resulte
5 fatally to the formerl They were tied i