The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-06-11
MICHIGAN NEWS.

HAMPTON township, Bay county, has
142 cultivated farms.
THERE will be fireman's tournament
at Battle Creek on July B.
A TRI-wEEKLY mail commenced run
ming between Mackinac City and Che
boygan, June !.
The contract for building the new
Calhoun county Jail, at Marshall, has
been let, to cost 1875, 900.
WORK on the Alpena fair grounds ha
been suspended on account of delay in
the payment of subscriptions.
SUMNER numbering at Tawas is de-
scribed as being done in twelve hours
from the stump to the hold of ship.
The recent marriage is announced of
the Rev. Green, of Lincoln, aged 80, to
Mrs. Hall, of Hope, aged about 70
years.
The Lake Superior Iron Company is
boring for iron ore on the baseball
grounds within the limits of the corpora
ton of Ishpeming.
EDWARD HOGAN, an amateur aeronaut,
of Jackson, went mp III balloon of his
own manufacture, the other day, and
successfully landed after voyage of two
hours.
VIM. A. LIGHTALL, a prominent citi-
zen of Conger township, Huron county,
and wife, have been arrested for burning
a barn some months since to defraud an
insurance company.
SIMPSON M. E. CHURCH, Detroit,
raised SO, 900, on Sunday, its proportion
of the 1915, 900 which the Methodist ALI
ance of the city has undertaken to raise
tofree Hits church buildings from debt.
The Bay City Regatta Committee
have prepared specifications for forty
two prizes of an aggregate value of
81, > $50 to be offered to contestants in the
coming regatta, and have requested
manufacturing jewelers. of Bay City and
West Bay City to submit bids and de-
signs.
The following is statement of the
receipts and disbursements at the State
Treasurer's Office for the month ending
May 20, 1880:
Balance ON hand April 80 1890 ...... 81 1895, 271O9
Receipts for the month. ............... 10l,95S99
Total. 81 491. dol
Disbursements for the month. ..... 3O7, 4O7.56
Balance on hand May 20, $780, " 81, 1s9, 800 so
On the 10Th of last October, VIM.
Capels, of Venice township, Shiawassee
county, was killed while out hunting.
The story was that he was in company
with one George Perry, and that Capel's
death was the result of an accident. A
few days ago general surprise was caused
in the neighbOrhood of the homes of the
two men by the arrest of Perry on the
charge of murder.
The science of modern saw-mill is
daily illustrated in new mill at CISCO
da, Iosco county, which will cut 1000
| logs in day of twelve hours. In other
words, every thirty seconds a log came
up the incline into the mill and passed
out at the other end in the shape of
! lumber, loaded upon cars The circu-
lars sliced off its sides the gang cut it
into boards; the edgers took off the
edges the trimming-saws whisked off
the blackened ends; the button-saws
cut the slabs into required lengths the
stave, lath and heading mills cut out all
that was worth saving, and the carriers
! took the refuse to the burner-in thirty
seconds.
News of murder, and the arrest
trial and conviction of the murderer, is
received. The circumstances are as fol-
lows: Two settlers of the township of
Belknap, in the county of Pressure Isle,
named Carl Kopf and George Arlt, be-
tween whom there was an old feud, met
on one of the township roads From
words the men got to blows, and Carl
Kopf struck George Arlt on the head
with gun Both men then clinched
and fell to the ground, and, while they
were engaged in the struggle, Herman
KOpf, aged IA, son of Carl, struck Arlt
several blows on the head with a club.
Some of the settlers then interfered and
separated the combatants. Geo. Arlt was
removed to Rogers City, where it was
discovered that his skull had been tract
ured, from the effects of which he died.
Kopf and his son were arrested and
taken before Justice Cornevin, who
bound them over to appear for trial at
the Circuit Court. The jury returned a
verdict against Carl Kopf of murder i'll
the second degree, and against the boy
Herman of assault and battery. Judge
Tuttle sentenced Kopf to fifteen years in
the State Prison, and suspended sentence
on the boy until the October term of the
Circuit Court of Pressure Isle county.
Hon. FIDUs LIvERMoRE died few
days ago, at Jackson, after prolonged
illness, in his Goth year. He was one of
the pioneers of jackson county, having
occupied prominent position as lawyer
and politician for upward of forty years.
He was born at Waterville, Oneida coun-
ty, N. Y, July IL, 1911. AT the age of
Is he was apprenticed to tailor and
followed the tailoring trade until 1886,
when he commenced the study of law,
which he completed in the office of
Johnson & Highly, of Jackson, whittier
he removed in 1889, and was admitted
to the bar after an examination before
Hon. William Fletcher, at that time
Chief Justice of Michigan. In 1910 Mr..
Livermore acted as Deputy United States
Marshal taking the census of the north