The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-11-04


house at Kalamazoo.
OVER 800 men have left Muskegon to
seek work in the woods.
A PosToFFIcE has been established Mt
Thurber, Lenawee county.
A LARGE number of cases of typhoid
fever have been reported in the vicinity
OF Morenci, several of which have been
fatal
The Michigan State Insurance Com
pany expects TO close mp its business
and complete dissolution of the corpo.
ration ere spring.
A BLUE racer snake, the first one seen
in Lenawee county for number of years,
was killed at the Lake Shore depot in
Hudson the other day. 1t measured
nearly five feet in length.
The Bay county Supervisors have
voted tax of 1876, 900 to buy the Third
street bridge, at Bay City, and make it a
free thoroughfare. The people are to
confirm or reject the proposition by
vote.
The new ferry-boat, Algomah, which is
intended for the business of the Detroit,
Mackinac and NARCOTIC railroad, at the
NAH" is the Indian name for Lake SUI
perior.
TEoUMsEH Herald: Potatoes are rot
ting in the ground, clover seed is grow
ing in the stack, corn is sprouting in the
ear. If these rains continue much lon
ger many farmers will be in i'll condition
to pass the winter.
ROBERT Forsyth, who lives near
Blissfield, Lelawee county, is utilizing
a gas-well, and plans are being talked of
for using the gas in lighting the village.
The well is 100 feet deep, and the supply
seems to be inexhaustible.
For the last three weeks between
81, 900 and $40, 600 day have been paid
out for apples in Charlotte. Eaton
county seems to have an abundant
crop this year, and is about the only
county in the State so fortunate.
AT Adrian, one day last week, cake
baked twenty-one years ago, at the birth
of @. @. Hulett, and Theoretically sealed
in q tin can, was opened and eaten, it
being Mr.. Hulett's 21st birthday. The
cake was found sound and sweet, though
it had an old taste.
~. leOdEhS, VI bl6 It'll VI IsOStIo
Bros, of Adrian, while engaged in fill
ing cartridges, picked up one, the cap
OF which he supposed had been exploded.
He soon found out his mistake, as the
cartridge exploded, sending the charge
into his hand, tearing it very badly.
JOHN CORNISH died suddenly at Elk
Rapids the other day. He had been
oyerworked, sometimes working forty
eight hours at time without sleep or
rest. Saying he was very tired and
sleepy, he lay down, and fifteen minutes
later he was found dead on his bed.
AT East Saginaw a citizens meeting
has authorized the Common Council to
bond the city for 500, 900, at not more
than 6 per cent, the object being to
build Court House. East Saginaw
wants to be the county seat, an honor
that Saginaw City has enjoyed for many
years, and the fight for the location has
grown bitter.
IT is estimated that the cost of logging
on the Pere Marquette river the coming
winter will be increased 20 cents per
1000 on last years figures. 1t is early
to begin guessing as to the amount to
be put in, but preparations are making
for a full cut, say 100, 900, 600 feet.
Much, however, will depend upon the
winter.
A LETTER from Brown county, Texas,
has been received by the Detroit Free
Press as follows: "A young man of re-
spectacle appearance, about ri years of
age, five feet eight inches high, weight
140 or $50 pounds, dark hair, who said
his name was Trouth and that his parents
resided in Michigan, had been from San
Antonio to Coleman county with a herd
of sheep. AS he was returning to San
Saba he attempted to swim the COlora-
do at this place on Sunday morning,
Oct. 2, and was drowned. His body was
recovered and decently inferred. Please
publish this for the benefit of his friends. }"
THE remains of man were discovered
lying near the railroad track just west OF
Saranac. On examination it was found
to be the body of a young man by the
name of James Eldridge, living in Ber-
! lin township. AS near as can be ascer-
tanned the particulars are as follows:
Eldridge and two companions were in
toxicated and ON big spree. Eldridge
strayed away from them and ran down
the track supposing he was going home,
and the west-bound evening express went
over him. The body was horribly man
gled, one leg being entirely cut off and
a portion of the skull gone.
Health i'm Michigan.
Reports to the State Board of Health,