The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-07-01
MICHIGAN NEWS.

| u Sait ihctoTy ID uiheu VI tnere.
A TgcUMsEH firm of produce buyers
purchases $1,000 dozen eggs per week.
The general tenor of the State press is
to the effect that the rains have greatly
benefited crops everywhere.
THE salary of Bishop Harris was in
creased from 81, 900 to 81 600 at the re-
cent diocesan convention IN Detroit
Or proposed diocesan fund of $50, 900
for the Episcopal diocese of Michigan,
$4S, 675 have been subscribed.
THE postofiice at Savil.e, Barry coun-
ty, has been discontinued, and mail for
that place is now sent to Hastings.
Gov. JEROME has appointed Mai. E.
G. Watkins Warden of the Ionia prison.
The latter was for several years Special
Agent of the Indian service.
GEORGE BRUE, who died ut Adrian,
was one of the promoters Of the Attica
and Buffalo railway, and the founder of
the Lenawee County Savings Bank.
A WOMAN in Bay City, "just for fun, Z"
wrapped herself in sheet and fright
has thrown her into a fit of dangerous
nervous illness.
JOSEPH G.. IRLAND, of Adrian, died a
few days ago of paralysis of the brain.
Mr. Irland, who was n highly-respected
citizen, and for twelve years resident
of that city, was one of the early settlers
OF Lenawee county, having moved there
forty years ago.
THERE were 400, 900, 900 feet of timber
put into the Muskegon river above Big
Rapids the past winter. The length of
the river is $50 miles from Big Rapids
to HOughton lake. At this date the
small streams have all been driven, SO
to speak, and the logs are lying promis-
cuously in Muskegon river.
The saw-mill of II. Noble, at Bad
Axe, burned last week. 1t had not been
running the day before. The proprietor
thinks it was incendiary; others think
not. Loss, probably $4,000. This is
the third saw-mill Mr.. Noble has had
burned during his experience as lum-
herman, beside a dwelling house.
THE recent heavy rain checked the
fires in the woods north of Saginaw,
which had done considerable damage to
timber. News is received there that
100000 feet of log-timber owned by
Chapman Bros, and 100000 feet OF
short logs owned by Mr. Prescott, skid
ded on the line of the Tawas and Bay
County railroad, were totally destroyed
by fire. Loss, about So, 900.
ALBERT FREIrAG, aged 8, was instant
ly killed at Adrian, while playing ball
near his house, by stroke of lightning.
Another boy, Charley Mead, had his
right ankle injured. At the time of the
catastrophe there were distant indica-
| tons of storm, but the sky overhead
was clear, and the sun shining brightly.
The shaft struck the boys right temple,
and passed down the body, burning off
his hair, tearing his clothes off, and
throwing him in the air several feet.
In the Supreme Court, in the case of
the State VS.. the Auditor General, the
petition for mandamus to compel the
Auditor to assess the Michigan Southern
Railroad Company for an arrearage of
back taxes under the General Railroad
law was denied. In another case brought
by appeal from the Wayne county cir
cult the decision was affirmed, which
will oblige the company to pay some
$50, 900 Of back taxes, and to pay addi-
tional taxes of 80, 900 per year hereafter.
THE Lansing Republican says: The
Legislature of 1871 held sessions for 10S
days, counting Friday mornings and
Monday evenings when the work was
usually nominaD, and no sessions were
held for fifty days of the remaining time
| (of which twenty-five were Sdndays).
The total length of the session, counting
from its commencement, Jan. 5, to its
close, June II, was 1873 days, being sew
en- days longer than the next-longest
session, in 1879. This year there were
2S9 public acts and 40 local ones, "a
Joint resolutions and 9 concurrent ones,
passed by both branches and approved
by the Governor; total, Ala. In 1879
the total number of acts and resolutions
passed and approved was 46l; in 1877 it
was Alb; in 1875 it was 44S.
ONE of the most peculiar accidents We
have been called upon to chronicle Oc-
Cured at the Norway mine Friday last.
and resulted in the death of two miners
and the narrow escape of third. The
unfortunate men, one an Italian by the
name of Peter Gabriel, and French
man, whose name we failed to learn,
were engaged in sinking in Wine near
shaft No. 1, and had made heavy
blast, in which eight sticks of giant
powder, equivalent to nearly three
pounds of pure nitro-glycerine, had
been used. After waiting a sufficient
length of time for the smoke to have
cleared away, the Italian descended
into the winze, and, upon reaching the
bottom succumbed at once to what is
supposed to have been the poison gen.
Grated by the blast. His companion,
becoming appraised of his condition,
went to his assistance, only himself to
fall victim to the deadly effects of
the poison. Another volunteer was
dashed into the bucket and lowered into
the winze, but he at once become insen-
sible, and was brought to the surface
just in time TO be restored to life. Two
hours and twenty minutes were allowed
to elapse before any further attempt at
rescue was made, when the bod, of the
two men were found to be entirely life