The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-28
MICHIGAN NEWS.

III the Wayne Circuit Court this spring.
The salaries of the keepers and guards
mt the State prison at Jackson have been
increased 10 per cent.
The saltwater vein at Standish has
! been struck, and the manufacture of salt
Is soon To commence there.
The Williams House, mt Battle Creek,
will be rebuilt on large scale. 1t will
contain sixty rooms for guests.
The Canadian exodus has brought
over 200 people to the port of Sault Ste.
Marie since the opening of navigation.
The Traverse bay Edgic felicitates
Its readers on the prospects OF an I'M
mense fruit crop in the Grand Traverse
region.
IT is reported that a Cleveland COM
pany are about to establish a sulphuric
acid and soda mandatory opposite Bay
City.
The Rayner heirs announce that they
intend building an opera house at Mason,
and that it will be ready for use in the
autumn.
The twentieth annual convention of
the Michigan State Sabbath School AS
sociation will be held at Lansing, June
8, 9 and 10.
The Stanton people are talking up
grand Fourth-of-July celebration in con-
nection with the dedication of their new
Court House.
FOREST fires are reported near Trufant,
Montcalm county, and have done con-
siderable damage barn and some
lumber having been burned.
The Cadillac Nc,cs would like to hear
from the 100000 whitefish planted in
Clam lake, March 2, 1873. SO far none
of them have reported.
The celebration of the Fourth of July
this year, at Jackson, will take place on
the 9Th, and will be under the charge of
the Knights of Pythias.
AS THERE is no Postmaster Mt Grant,
Gladwin county, the mail belonging to
the Office has been placed i'll the hands
of the Postmaster mt Gladwin.
Big RAPIDS has already held public
meeting and appointed the necessary
committees to arrange for suitable cell
ebration of the Fourth of July.
New dwellings are constantly building
at Quinnesec, and the Menominee range
is now published with a supplement in
the Swedish language. That looks like
prosperity
The Ishpeming Agitafor publishes II
prediction that Ishpeming will be lighted
with electric light and supplied with the
Holly system OF water works within two
years.
FLAvIUs j. LITTLEJoHN, of Allegan,
for long time Judge of the Judicial
! Circuit, and author of several works OF II
| legal and historical nature, died ut his
! home last week.
The official canvass of votes ON the
constitutional amendment permitting TN
increase of the Governors salary NOW
! limited to 81 ,000) shows 40, 035 i'll favor
and 81, 1913 against.
CHAs. S. GRAY of Battle Creek, who
died suddenly of paralysis, II few days
since, was one of the pioneers of Cal
houn county, having removed there from
Cayuga county, n. Y, i'll 1920.
The Cheboygan Democrat says that,
as the telegraph cable across the straits
has never paid expenses, there is little
prospect of n new one being laid to re-
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RECORDER NEALE, of Battle Creek,
has made violin, the front of which is
! from piece of Norway spruce in the
old Boston postoffice building, and the
back from tree cut III Eaton county,
when Michigan was II Territory.
The State institutions for the insane
are very much overcrowded. The asylum
Mt Kalamazoo, with quarters for $50 pa
tents. now contains $50; the one ut
Pontiac, built to accommodate $50, now
furnishes quarters TO 400 patients.
Gov. CRoswELL has pardoned VIM.
Looney and William Benegar from the
State prison. LoOney was sent from
Houghton county i'll September, 1876,
for five years on conviction OF rape, and
Benegar was sentenced from Marquette
county in November, 1873, for ten years,
on conviction of assault with intent to
murder. The pardon of the latter is
made on condition that he hereafter alb
stain from the use of intoxicants.
A LAD in Kalamazoo county had dis
covered II partridge nest with sixteen
eggs, and next day he with Il companion
were surprised to see very large black
snake rolled up on the nest. His snake
ship had swallowed nine of the eggs and
seemed to he waiting for the mother bird
to come and be swallowed also The
! boys killed the snake, which measured
six and half feet long, and little
further ON they found the mate, an enor-
nous fellow.
The Marquette Mining JOU7aai says
of the progress of work upon the De-
troit, Mackinac and Marquette railroad :
Most of the first twenty miles contracted
for last fall is now graded, and the work
of laying the ties and track will be
pushed forward from this date. Labor
ers are arriving on nearly every train
and boat, and are being sent to the diff
ferent camps along the line. Nearly
200 laboring men, to be employed by
the contractors, have arrived III this
city, during the past week, and others
will come as soon as camp accommoda-
tions can be provided.
THE State Medical Society adopted the
following resolution Whereas, The
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