The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-21
MICHIGAN NEWS.

KALAMAZOO has a greater wheat acre
age this fall than ever before.
The salt well at Cheboygan is now
down over five hundred feet.
The Northeastern fair at East Sagi-
nav is claimed to have been grand
success.
ELI BoDETrE, of Deerfeld, Lenawee
county, died not long ago at the adj
vanced age of 102 years.
The Saginaw Herald says that large
factory for making freight cars Will soon
be established in East Saginaw.
JOHN Southland, of Pontiac, the noted
Spiritualistic writer of jingle and spirit
messages, died recently aged IS years.
JOHN STRoTzKI was killed at Detroit
by the accidental discharge of a gun in
the hands OF his friend Henry Shallow.
SARAH LUDINeToN, an old and highly
esteemed resident of Comstock, Kalama-
ZOO county, died lately at the age of 80
years.
The Au Sable and Oscoda NeaVs esti-
mates the deaths from diphtheria in those
places, within the past six months. at
upward of one hundred.
AN Euglishman, named Harris. com.
mitted self-destruction, at Detroit, by
putting bullet through his heart and
then jumping into the river.
The Lenawee county fair, at Morenci,
was one of the best ever held on the
grounds. The entries were large in
every department and of fine quality.
Mr.. TRIP, of Deerfield, alleged TO
have shot and seriously injured some
boys who were trespassing III his vine
yard, has been arrested. He is IS years
old.
The one great event looked forward to
at the Grand Trunk junction, near De-
troit, is the promised completion of the
new Michigan Central yards west of the
junction.
The new mineral springs at Spring
wells, hear Detroit, are now running in
dependent of the sulphur spring, and
the machinery used for boring the new
well has been removed.
MIR. SAUNDERS, of New Baltimore,
while boring for well struck gas at
depth of tifty-one feet. Tubing has
been put in and jet placed on top, and
the gas burns with good brilliancy.
SANILAc JeterSonian: The aggregate
of losses by the fires in the Township of
Lexington, as made to the Supervisor, is
about $25, 600. This does not include the
losses of some of the weather. men.
BELLEVUE Gazette: Wheat is looking
fresh and green, and the prospects are
now that next years crop of wheat will
be nearly enough over the average to
make up for the shortness of the crop
this season.
THERE is one minister in Ionia county
who publicly boasts that he didn't pray
for Garfield He is Free Methodist.
His reason for not petitioning the divine
throne in behalf of the murdered Presi-
dent was that Garfield belonged to the
Masonic fraternity.
A LITTLE daughter of John Nestle,
aged 6 years, at Houghton lake,
wandered away from the house in her
night clothes, and has not since been
seen. Tracks of large bear have been
seen in the vicinity for some weeks, and
it is feared the child has been devoured
by that animal.
A 7-YEAR-oLD girl OF Alfred Lewis of
Macon, Lenawee county, fell and struck
her temple on a stone, and for few mo-
ments suffered terrible pain, but soon
resumed her play and made no further
complaint until three days after, when
she suddenly complained of a pain in
her head, from which she died in few
hours.
PHILIP j. d. VAN DYKE, formerly
Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne county
for two terms, and member of one of
the oldest and best families in Detroit,
was killed near that city by being
thrown from buggy. His father was
a celebrated lawyer twenty-five years
ago, and the son inherited part of
large property from him.
Miss ANNA STEVENS and Wesley Lallin
were united i'll marriage at Saginaw.
The bridal pair repaired to the residence
of the brides mother in Gladwin coun-
ty, and in three days the bride was a
corpse. The difficulty is said to have
been an affection of the lungs, which
rapidly complicated, the young wife be-
ing seriously i'll but few hours.
DIR. S. II. HAGEDoRN, well-known
physician of Bay City, was drowned
while crossing the Saginaw river, accom-
panied by Joseph Allard and wife. He
left in skiff to answer a call on Stone
island. When near the center he was
seized with an epileptic fit and fell over
board. His body was recovered few
minutes afterward.
DURING a heavy storm at Bay City,
lightning struck the flag staff which sur
mounts the Court House. The fluid
circledin a serpentine manner around the
pole twice, making groove about an
inch deep and the same width, which ter
minated at the zinc roofing. The roof
of the building was covered with small
splinters. Strange to say, the pole was
not knocked down, and will be fit for
future use.
EAST SAGINAW Courier: During the
past two years the growth of the, city has
been unexampled. New enterprises
have sprung into existence, and build
ings of substantial and enduring char
acter. Two more railroads, IN addition
to those we have already, are to connect
us with the fertile and populous districts