The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-01-27

cases from Jan. to Jan. 15.
An epidemic of measles is reported at
Albion Jan. II.
HENRY B. BAKER,
Secretary State Board of Health.
LANSING, Mich, Jan. 20, 1882.
THE Detroit Boat Club has $451 cash
in bank, and no debts.
TWELVE HUNDRED tons of fish were
shipped from Alpena in 1881.
A FARMER bought q boy glass of
liquor in a Stanton saloon, and went to
Jail for SO doing.
THE Kalamazoo Academy of Music,
all complete, will cost $50, 200. April
is fixed for its opening.
ALPENA citizens expended over half a
million dollars for public and private
property improvements last year.
BATTLE CREEK had twenty -one fires
and fire alarms, destroying 1858, 1896. "
worth OF property, during the year 1881.
PHILIP MoVANE, an old resident of st.
Louis, though still a young man, burst a
blood vessel while coughing and bled to
death.
AT st. Louis, Gratiot county, last
year, over $l70,O worth of building
was done, including $4,000 opera
house.
THE Kalamazoo high school building
is nearly ready for occupancy, and it is
Michigan.
THE plans for the new Court House
at Saginaw are completed, and repre-
sent an elegant building, which will cost
little less than 100000.
The Supervisors of Grand Traverse
county have granted the petition of the
town Of Traverse to be set off into new
town, to be named Garfield.
A. f. DINsMoRE, from Washington,
ID. c., has taken charge of the Alpena
Company's paper, the Reporter. He is
reported to have purchased the Office.
PLANS for the new insane asylum at
Grand Traverse, it is expected will be
ready in about three months, when
propositions for work to be done will be
advertised for.
The last week in December a man
near Cheboygan made maple sugar from
sap then flowing, and the Cheboygan
unprecedented fact.
The receipts of the Detroit postoflice
in 1881 were S26S, 837, against $3.50, 5S9
in 1880. The net income was S199, 066
last year, an increase of $37, 051. The
money-order business amounted to g.
226, TIT.
The Croswell (Antrim county, DEM
Ocrot, for the first time since the fire. is
doing its own printing. 1t has passed
through a trying ordeal, and this ev-
ldence that 1t Is again on the way to
prosperity is gratifying to its many
friends.
A YOUNG woman at ESsexville, near
Bay City, committed suicide by taking
strychnine which her father purchased
many years ago for killing foxes. and
which had remained in his tool-chest
until taken by his daughter to accom-
plish her deadly purpose.
A GERMAN farmer of Whitehall was
found dead, with his skull crushed, and
he is supposed to have been thrown or
jammed against a post by runaway
team. He was highly respected citi-
zen, 81 years old, and near relative of
WIG ih'Cheoi VI Vic hlupp gun.
MENoMINEE Herald: Probably 3d.
600, 600 feet out of the desired 0,000,-
| 900 feet of logs needed have been banked
up to date. From this time out, how
ever, business will be rushing in the up
er wllds, and ere gentle spring arrives
the cut will be secured.
ALBION Recorder Walter Goodenow,
formerly proprietor OF what is now the
Albion House, has been remarkably sue
cessful in hunting this season, on the Au
Sable river. He killed nineteen deer,
six bears, one lynx, sixteen minks, and
sold 500 worth of furs, brought home
with him to Manistee 800 weight of veni-
son hams and eight gallons of bears oil.
WILLIAM NORMAN, of Ionia, and John
Rustraf, OF Otisco, Ionia county, while
walking along the street in the latter
place, in company with another man, got
into a dispute, which ended IN Rustraf,
who was the smaller man, suddenly
throwing out his leg, tripping up Nor
man and throwing him to the ground.
Rustraf threw himself upon Norman,
whereupon another man interfered, aud
Rustraf got up and walked off, when it
was discovered that Norman was cut
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