The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-11-18

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growth as during this year.
THE Detroit police made 1866 arrests
III the quarter ended Oct. 81.
IT has been decided to hold the Pen
insular Sangerfest in Bay City in 1882.
The business men of Howard City are
raising funds with which to establish
pail and tub factory.
Owing to the scarcity of cars, the salt
shipments of the Saginaw Salt Associa-
ton were less than usual by rail last
month.
VAN ETTAR lake, one and one-half
miles out of Oscoda, is covered with
wild ducks, and the shooting has been
immense.
Ir is now ascertained that the citizens
of one ward of Saginaw City will petition
to have that much of the city annexed
to East Saginaw.
DURING October the total duties re-
ceived at the Detroit Custom House
were $74, 246.69, the largest months
business on record.
A NEW national bank has been organ
lied In Detroit, with capital of $780,
900. Hugh Mcmillan is President and
Morris l.. Williams cashier.
AT Detroit, w. G. Thompson, Re-
publican, was reelected Mayor by 800
majority, and John Miner, Democrat,
was chosen Police Justice, at the late
election.
THE Governor of Michigan has re-
moved Spencer b. Russell, Mayor of
Mount Clemens, for letting contract to
firm OF which he was member, in vi
olation of the statute.
DIR. BARNUM, prominent physician
of Schoolcraft, lay down upon dis
secting table III his Office and shot him
self through the heart. He was vic
tim to the opium habit.
The Horr-Gamble suit at Saginaw,
which was dragged in as an element of
the canvass when Mr.. Horn was running
for Congress, has been decided in favor
OF Horr by the Supreme Court.
4 NEWLY married couple had put up
ut a hotel in Big Rapids, when a man by
the name OF Spease came III and offered
to shoot the woman, who, rs he claimed,
had promised to marry him, and then
went off and married the other man.
The Commissioners appointed by the
Legislature TO select n site for an insane
asylum have decided upon Traverse City.
A tract of 800 acres in the southwest part
of the city, for which they paid about
900, 900, is the spot selected.
SINCE the beginning of the year, over
1000 buildings have been erected in
Detroit, at cost of about 81, 900, 900.
Over 500, 900 have been expended in
repairs in the same period, making
total of 81, 400, 900 expended for improve
ments in that city since Jan. l.
WILLIAM MURRAY and Charles Rus
sell, the circus men who engaged In the
Chesan'ng riot, last summer, IN which
Officer Emory lost his life, were lately
convicted, at Saginaw City, of murder in
the second degree, and sentenced to fif-
!. teen years in the State prison.
G. S. Johnson brought suit at Char
lotte against William Croker, farmer,
to recover damages alleged to have been
sustained by being bitten by Crocker's
dog. The case occupied two days, and
the jury was out some time, bringing in
verdict of $165 for Johnson.
ANDREW ALLEN, a young man of Char
lotte, hired out to Silas McDougal last
summer, and was set to hoeing potatoes.
Not proving very efficient in the use of
the hoe, some difficulty arose and Allen
was knocked down and severely beaten
with hoe by McDougal. Allen sued
McDougal, and has just recovered $500.
THE damage done to timber In the
Menominee district by the late tornado
is ascertained to be fully as great as was
at first feared. The timber lies perfect
ly flat, mostly one way. 1t is feared that
before the trees can be cut into logs
portion of them will be ruined by fire o.
become worm eaten. Most of the timr
Der was torn up by the roots.
New Mich gan patents: A. S. Bake
and G. ID. Sweetland, Kalamazoo, har-
row-tooth holder; II. Ii. Chapman,
South lockwood, drilling machine j.
b. Davis, Ann Arbor, solar screw ut
tachment to telescope w. II. Ii. Davis,
Kent county, digging and lining wells
with cement; r. ID. Eddy, East Sagi-
nav, fire kinder; A. w. Kenny and ii.
Niemann, Ypsilanti, seed-sower u. Ma
comber, Bedford, operating fan-doors OF
thrashing machines G. W. Pratt, How
ard City, plate and spiral spring for
beds; NJ M. Stevens, Lindon, platform
gear for wagons f. Tuxworth, Manis-
! tee, brake for saw-mill log carriages.