The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-07-15
MICHIGAN NEWS.

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In Greenfield, Wayne county, woman
drives beer wagon.
CONGRESSMAN HENRY LORD is spend
ing the summer at Cheboygan.
The land in the northern part of the
State is timbered mostly with beech and
maple.
The Exchange Hotel at Evart, Os-
ceola county, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, 5000.
The finest potatoes grown in the
United States come from the Grand
Traverse region.
The new Catholic Church at Mar
quette will cost Sl25,000. It's dimen-
sions are 175x60 feet.
On the 14th inst, Maud s. made
mile on the Detroit track, which is said to
be three seconds slow, in 2:l3s.
IT will probably be the LIST of August,
says the Adrian Times, before the Re-
form School for Girls will be in running
order.
SHERWOOD SNYDER, aged 70, of Char
lotte, fell down his cellar stairs and was
fatally injured. He has lived in Eaton
county forty years.
ELY MARSH has been appointed Post
master of Oxford, Oakland county. and
Miss Ida Coon assistant, in place of Da-
vid Bell, who has held the osition for
sixteen years.
The Escanaba Iron Port says "John
w. Patterson, on May 10. planted pota-
toes in his garden, and on June % had
new potatoes for dinner, grown in
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whatever"
LEVI OGDEN, q prominent farmer liv-
ing near Milford, Oakland county, while
attending Grange picnic at White
Lake, was thrown from his carriage and
instantly killed, his wife at the same time
receiving serious injuries.
A NEW cotton manufacturing company
has been organized at Flint, Genesee
county, with capital stock of $4,000.
A building will be erected at once for a
1,000-spindle mill, with capacity to
manufacture /, 900 pounds daily of cot
ton yarn.
POSTMASTER KENDALL, of Kalamazoo,
administrator of the estate of the late
Gov. Robinson, of Colorado, has dis
posed of one of the mining interests for
81 ,000,0 900. The mother and sister of
the Governor, who live near Kalamazoo,
are his only heirs.
WHILE an officer was trying to arrest
some drunken roughs, who were having
a row at Big Rapids, Mecosta county,
shot was fired, striking Mrs. Fleet Fouts
in the temple, and almost instantly
killing her. She leaves husband and
two small children, who were with her
at the time.
Il. II. BLooMBURY, while working on
farm near Birmingham, Oakland
county, recently dug into an old Indian
grown braves. Five of them were
buried with their heads to the west and
one to the east. The bones are in a good
state of preservation.
The following is statement of the
receipts and disbursements at the State
Treasurer's office for the month ending
June 30:
Balance on hand May 81 ,5l3, 655 SO
Receipts for the month. ............... 276727.77
Total neutrality-suspicious.. 81, 40 3S360
Disbursements for the month. ......... lS9S4s.65
Balance on hand June 80. 81 ,651, O3495
ADRIAN Times In regard to North
ern Michigan Capt. Hadley is very en-
thusiastic, and especially so about Point
st. Ignace. He tells us of an Indian
who owned forty acres of land at that
place, last fall, and, although he tried
very hard, could not get $400 for it.
This spring he sold it for $1,000, and
the parties who purchased it expect at
once to realize $50, 900.
LANSING Republican: copper but
ton has been found in Kalamazoo, six
feet below the surface, representing
fireman of the last century on the run,
blowing from his trumpet the word
fire, and carrying in his hand torch.
Probably there may be the ruins of
second Nineveh under the big village, as
the Telegraph says that the Oldest in
habitant never saw such a button.
The Supreme Court of this State has
just rendered an important decision in a
grain gambling case. One party loaned
another money with the agreement to
share profits i'll the attempt to get up q
corner on wheat. The lender sued to
recover the money back. The court
held that such combination entered
into to artifcially affect the price of any
necessity of life was illegal, and any
money advanced in pursuance of such
contract cannot be recovered.
The Ishpeming Agitator says A stu
pendous work is being talked of by the
Cleveland, Lake Superior and Iron
Cliffs Companies of this city. which is
the sinking of an enormous shaft on the
corner forming the union of their differ
ent lands, and which, there is not the
slightest doubt, is underlaid with an i'm
mense ore bed. From this shaft the
three companies would hoist their ore,
saving the expense of sinking three
different shafts on the property of each
company. This talked-of shaft, there is
no doubt, will be sunk, and if SO, it will
surpass anything of the kind i'll the iron
region of any country.
SOMETHING over n year ago, says the
Lansing Republican, the wife OF DIR.
Hall, of Davisburg, Oakland county,
died under circumstances which led to
the arrest of her husband, charged with