The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-03-06

4ICHlGAN AFFAlRA
A NAN near Charlotte has horse with f,vs
hoofs.
THE Adrian Excelsior Pearl button Factory
u TO be enlarged
ST. IGNAcH has q telephone exchange OF
forty instruments
BuRpErrE, OF the Burlington Hark eve, Is
said to be writing an article on Adrian.
MANY travelling men in Northern Michigan
are not selling enough to pay expenses.
THE village cemetery at Sault Ste. Mario
will be vacated and the ground surveyed into
town lots.
THE Rosoommon oil we'll is down 365 feet
and has penetrated fifteen feet into q bed of
clay. Indications of oil are pronounced
strong.
JAMES III. NosTRAST's saw-mill, In Pipe
stone Township, near Dowagisc, burned.
Loss, $4,000; no insurance. Cause Of fire I'M
known.
THE Kalamazoo bar Ia organizing grand
good-by NEE ting for the old Court House,
built In 1899, which Is to DO replaced by new
ono this year.
AT Three Rivers, the clothes OF Mrs. Mary
Mum, SO years old and blind, took fire from
contact with heated stove, and she was
burned to death.
LETTER addressed to -, st. Gina Sity,
Mich, was sent recently TO the Dead Letter
Once. and forwarded from there to Saginaw,
where IL riQhtfully belon 1Ad
SINCE Michigans organization as q Terri
tory some s7,S2s, $3.50 have been expended for
river and harbor improvement mostly dur
ing the past twenty-five years.
BEAvER was captured near Negaunee,
Marquette County, measuring four feet seven
inches In length, said to DO the largest ever
takon in the Upper Peninsula.
ABOUT three millions Of whitefsh spawn
have been shipped from the Alpena fish
hatchery to the Worthwhile hatchery. 1t was
the second lot shipped this winter.
FORMIDABLE petitions are going TO Wash
ington from the Upper Peninsula asking the
Government to take hold of the Portage Lake
canal and make them free highways.
SOME Saginaw Valley men believe q second
stratum Of altbearing rock underlies the
first in the valley, and will sink u well 2,5cO
feet down In Bay County to settle the ques-
ton.
THE Saginaw Courier has been shown some
cedar shingles which are far superior to pine
ones, and 1t thinks that the manufacture of
cedar shingles will become an important in
| dustry In this State
IRA COLE, a former inmate of the Jackson
Penitentiary, went into mest-shop at War
rem, recently, and deliberately ate three
| pounds Of raw steak. He Is now under ar
| rest for burglary.
THE State Of Michigan has received In good
order the whole number of copies of Howell's
compilation, and has fully settled with the
firm of Callaghan s. Co., of Chicago, by giving
them State checks for $4,000.
A BROOKLYN woman accused young man
who was giving her banjo lessons Of stealing
q watch. She went to the trouble to issue q
warrant for the mans arrest, and on re-
turning home found the watch where she had
| left it.
Ex-SHERIFF MoULToS, of Mason County
lost 200 peach trees by the excessive use OF
salt placed about the foot Of tho trees In the
spring for the purpose OF killing grubs anc
the like. The salt dissolved rapidly by ths
warm rains, bringing ruin to the trees.
WILLIAM BAUM, OF East Saginaw, suspected
some one of robbing his oat bin, and set
trap for the spoliator By sprinkling a quanti
ty of the grain generously with Rough OF
Rats His own horse got loose from the stall
In the night and ate some Of the doctoret
grain, and Mr. Baum Is out 500 and som,
| odd cents.