The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-23
MICHIGAN NEWs.

A STEAM sawmlll Is being completed
in the township of Cleon.
The mines in Michigan can supply
during the current year more than q
100000 tons of ore.
HoMEsTEADs in Presque Isle county,
says the AdUance, wi soon be num-
bered among the things os the past.
DURING the month of December
there were 142 more mortgages DIS
charged in Kalamazoo county than were
made.
ABOUT 100000 feet of logs have
been swept down by the recent floods,
and will bring up as driftwood in Lake
Michigan.
SEVERAL hundred men are engaged
in rebuilding and repairing bridges on
the line of the Grand Rapids and In
diana railroad.
The Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw
railroad sold 1928 acres of pine lands,
in December, for 500, 800, and 61O acres
of farming lands for $3.50.
HORACE j. PERRIN, millionaire, an
old resident, and President of the Ma
tional Bank of Michigan, died at Mar
shall, last week, aged GU years. He had
been in the banking business thirty
years.
MRS. BLANCHARD, at Grass Lake,
after what was called sound sleep of
six days, was at the end of that time
pronounced dead, and the doctors have
decided that paralysis of the brain was
the cause of her long sleep and death.
SAMUEL A. HowEs, gentleman
nearly S3 years of age, shot himself in
bed at Battle Greek, the other night.
He left letter to his son, in which
he stated that he had purchased the
revolver in Baltimore for this particular
purpose, and that he was in his right
mind.
CHARLES ToNILINsoN, residing at
Cresco, was fatally shot while out hunt
ing in company with friend, who
fired at a partridge which suddenly
few up from the ground, and shot his
companion, who stood nearly in range
of the gun. The wounded man was
conveyed to his home, and li1 ed only a
few hours.
MANIsTEE Times and Standard !:
The Reitz salt well is down over 800
feet, and what is most remarkable is
that $50 feet has been through quick
sand. The frat 200 feet was quicksand,
then seventy or eighty feet of very
hard clay, and then quicksand. 1t is
very seldom that that amount Of quick
sand has been found in one body.
EDWARD G. HOWARD, of Dearborn,
died lately, at the ripe old age of "a
years. Mr.. Howard was brother of the
late Col. Joshua Howard, of Detroit,
and came of good old Puritan stock,
one of his immediate ancestors, Capt
John Howard, having been the first
military officer of the Plymouth colony.
Deceased served as q pOwder-monkey
on board the Chesapeake in her historic
combat with the British man-of- war
Shannon, having volunteered for the
occasion. He was taken prisoner and
sent to the Bermudas, but was subse-
quently released, and afterward served
his country under Gen. Dearborn. He
was a remarkably fine. appearing old
gentleman, passing for not more than
80 or 55 years.
The Grand Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic was held
last week. Representatives of eighty
posts were present. The total member
ship in the State is $50. The following
were elected and installed as officers
for the ensuing year: Department Com
manGer, A. L. McReynolds; Senior Vice
Commander, j. S. Bartholomew; Jun
Tor Vice Commander, Samuel ID. Muir
ray; Medical Director, III. G. Stephen
son; Chaplain, Samuel Parker; Repre-
sentative TO the National Encampment,
j. E. Messmore; Chief Mastering Off
Ger, IL. II. Holton; Assistant Adiutant
General, A. b. Carrier; Assistant
Quartermaster General, Edwin Hoyt,
Jr.; Inspector General, Israel g. Smith,
Judge Advocate, Gen. II. 2. Sinclair.