The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
MICHIGAN NEWS.


ty will yield but two-thirds crop.
FARMERS in Southern Michigan are
sowing every available foot of ground in
wheat
The premiums of the Clinton County
Agricultural Society this year amount
to $1,000.
JACOB THUMA, an early pioneer of
Eaton county, died in Brookfield, aged
go years.
THE Electric Light Company of East
Saginaw has commenced putting up
poles for the wire
A BROKEN rail wrecked Grand Trunk
train at Schoolcraft, by which brake
man named Grosvenor was killed.
JOHN SHREDDER, of Portage, has a
peach tree that has made growth this
season of seven feet and three inches.
The fair of the Union Agricultural
Society of Oakland and Wayne counties
will be held at Pennington, Oct. 4, 5, 6
and Z.
THERE is some talk of stock COM
pany being formed at Wixom, Oakland
county, for the manufacture of wooden
ware goods.
In Huron county, where only from 8
to 10 bushels of wheat per acre were
expected, from Is to 20 have been
harvested.
JOSEPH HAGIMAN, of Morenci, died ut
his residence of Bright's disease OF the
kidneys. He was one of the pioneers of
Lenawee county.
THE wife of L. Z. Collins, foreman of
the Charlotte Republican Office, died
recently, aged % years. The remains
we're taken to Hastings for burial.
AT Riley, Clinton county, a negro
farmer named Dow was found murdered
in his barn. The crime is believed to
have been committed by some of his
neighbors.
The ST. Ignace Republican says that
an old soldier named Marshall, at Fort
Mackinac, has been in the army over
fifty years, and last January enlisted for
another term of five years.
The Clinton Neaos says that some
cowardly wretch cut cash in the should
er of horse belonging to Robert Terry
berry. A creature who would such an
act is almost too base to live.
The Oakland county pioneers, con-
jointly with the county Supervisors and
other officers, held picnic at Orchard
lake. The attendance was numerous
and a pleasant time had generally.
| JAMES HOWE, brakeman ON the main
line of the Chicago and West Michigan
railroad, was knocked off from his train
by the overhead bridge, below the Big
Rapids Junction, and instantly killed.
The body of Neil McKinnpn, man
about 40 years old, and recently from
Canada, was found in the lake at Mus
kegon. He had been foully dealt with.
and the wounds upon his head were still
fresh and bleeding.
The reunion of the Eighteenth Mich
igan volunteers, held at Clayton, Len
awee county, was attended by the larg-
est crowd ever in that place. Over $50
OF the boys who wore the blue were in
line. Gen. Geo, Spaulding, of Monroe,
delivered the address.
OVER 200 men are at work along the
line of the Saginaw, Tuscola and Huron
railroad, between Saginaw and Sebe-
waing. The road-bed is about ready for
track-laying. The dry weather has been
favorable for grading through swamps
and upon low ground.
G. Fl. PLUDIMEB, of East Saginaw,
sold 800 acres of pine land on the Au
Ores river to John McGregor, of Mid
land, the consideration being $4,000.
The pine-land transactions at East Sag
inaw during the past thirty days will
approximate 81 ,000,0 900.
A SAD accident occurred at Mt. Glenn
ems. As Peter p. Greiner and party
of his friends were returning from an
| t,,x. he Papt;A lo1
z years old, While playing about the
drowned under the eyes of both his par
ents. The body was recovered.
The Saginaw Herald says that Dell
Judd, young man residing in Caro-,
took dose of poison with suicidal in
tent, and died short time thereafter.
1t is reported that love affair was the
cause of his rash act. He was respect
able young man, and had many friends
here.
The Greenville Democrat says: Bears
are reported unusually numerous III the
woods north of Edmore and Smiths
camp, and the indications are that this
fall deer will be very plenty. A bear
was almost run down within mile of
the city, in the vicinity of the slaughter
house. few days ago.
The Saginaw Courier says: Eddie
Toombs, formerly of East Saginaw, the
13-year-old boy who attacked his step
mother with an ok at Ogemaw Springs,
and when arrested stole $50 from the
Sheriff, was taken to Lansing Tuesday,
and they refused him admittance at the
Reform School on account OF his light
ness in the upper story. In consequence
he will anguish in the Ogemaw jail un-
til examined by the doctors as candi-
date for Kalamazoo.
WE clip the following from the Huron
County Ne,os All astonishing days
work for one of his years was that of
George Mutart, of Hume, one day last
week. He was born in May, 1900, so
that he is now in his SD year, and on
the day referred to he Graded and bound
two and a half acres of wheat-an
amount which in these DAYS of reaping