The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-04

Several Alpena citizens ha,- recently
invested in Colombo gold mine.
w. W. Carpenter lost dry kiln cost
ing 81 900, with 500, 900 shingles, by fire at
Luther
There is a kick in the Saginaw Jail.
Prisoners claim they are fed on bad meat
and the Sheriff claims he eats off the same
cut.
j L. Jackson, of Saginaw City, suf
fered loss of $25, 900 by the burning of
his machine shop and damage to his
foundry.
Col. Phelps, a venerable citizen Of
Fairfield, was driven to suicide by the APP
pearance of his wife on the streets in a con-
dition of intoxication.
The Adrian Record is dead 1t was
good local paper, but the publishers say
that it did not pay, and for that reason they
were compelled to succumb.
Slate taken from the Silver River prop
erty near L'Anse is being tried as a paint,
being ground and mixed with oil. IT is
said to make very durable and fine
mixture.
The shipments of lumber from Lud-
ington this season, it is estimated, will fall
fully Is or 20 per cent. short of those of last
year, owing to the small amount Of logs
gotten out on Pere Marquette River.
~ ho,
received n check from the United States
Government to pay long pending claim of
the State militia for arms furnished during
the war The check was for nearly $32, 900.
AT East Saginaw there is now a curios-
ity in the shape of the smallest child in the
world. It's mother, Mrs. Tabitha Hill, is
hard working woman of rather delicate con-
stitution. The child Mt birth weighed scarce
ly pound but now. Mt the age of months,
is healthy and thriving. An effort has al
ready been made to steal it, at the instance
of some Snowman, ii is surmised.
Mrs. Z. II. Turner, of Quincy, H.,
and Misses Teresa Herman and Marie Her
man, of Springfield, H., recently captured
fine buck weighing $50 pounds, in the
waters of Long Lake. near Alpena. The
ladies', who were members of party of
campers-o out, were rowing on the lake, and
found the deer as he was taking a swim,
and kindly took him in out of the wet
Alfred Coffman, of Marquette, was last
March the recipient of a large legacy and
a back pension of $1,000 He has since
been steadily in an intoxicated condition.
OF late he has been hunting Mt Autrian. a
place twenty miles from Marquette,
and while travelling thither with his wife,
he suddenly sprang from his seat, drew his
rifle and shot her dead. He is now in Jail
at Marquetta.
The Michigan Central Road, in connec-
ton with the Canadian Pacific, has opened
for passenger traffic nsw through line
from Chicago, via st. Thomas, Toronto
and Ottawa, to Montreal and the seaboard.
1t is composed of the Michigan Central
from Chicago to St Thomas, the Ontario
Division of the Canadian Pacific from st.
Thomas to Smiths Falls. and the Eastern
Division of the Canadian Pacific from
Smiths Falls to Montreal This is the on
ly line running by way of Ottawa, Can.
A disciple of Esculapius named Hetzil,
living few miles west of Brady Lake, Me-
costa County, has family that for size will
discount anything in the pine regions. He
was married in his early years, and the re-
suit of the union was eleven children. He
was left widower but in due time glad
dened his disconsolate heart by marrying
widow who was herself the mother of
eleven children. Since then he has been
blessed with eleven more, making thirty
three in all who owe paternal allegiance to
hin,