The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-02-12

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Reno is new Iosco County township
part OF Grant set off,
--Cadillac Light Guards want TO be mus
tered into the State service.
--Escanaba has safe ice-b bridge over the
bay, aud it has improved trade wonderfully.
Miss Aggie Lee will drum the lumber
camps about Roscommon to raise funds for
Catholic Church.
"A lady 81 years of age is visiting her
mother at Hudson. having come from Coli
fornia for that purpose.
The deer have to run for their lives
nowadays in the upper peninsula Pro-
tective game laws have ceased 10 protect
1t cost Bay County nearly 81 400 for
expenses of officers while taking prisoners
to Ionia, Jackson. and Detroit in 1883 and
1884.
1t il reported at Mt Pleasant that
Leaton & Upton intend to manufacture
$1,000, 900 shingles a year for the ensuing
five years.
| One Midland firm has purchased and
shipped over 2 600 bushels of clover seed
this winter. paying between $3.50 and -
per bushel for the same.
"A gentleman who has been engaged in
the cultivation Of cranberries, near Glen
Arbor. reports yield of 12O barrels to the
acre from Cape Cod plants.
Ann Arbor girls have plenty of pluck.
One of them recently travelled alone to the
most distant and dismal part of Dakota to
meet her affianced and tie the marriage
knot
The Postmaster of Cass City and his
assistant have an incubator in the basement
of the postofice. 1t has capacity Of $50
eggs and is operated by the lamp and hot
water process. If it is success spring
chickens will be turned out with great regu-
larity.
John Cooper and his foreman, Frank
Keller, have been doing some big work in
the horseshoeing line. In three afternoons
in succession they set 168 Shoes setting
fifty EIGHT in each afternoon Of five hours
length. That was trife over eleven shoes
per hour, about one horse every twenty
minutes, or one shoe every five minutes.
Who can beat it?-Bi0 Rapids Current.
Outside readers of the Marquette Min
ing Journal viii please make note of it,
says that paper, that at no time since the
winter set in has the temperature in Mar
quote fallen as low as 80 degrees below
zero. We mention this to correct what we
know to be prevalent Misrepresentation re-
garding the rigor of our winter here. 1t has
been severe winter. too, but the cold has
not been SO excessive here as APPOINTS hun
dreds of miles south of US.
AT Elk Rapids there are charcoal works
which consume 10000 cords of wood per
annum. The smoke from this was formerly
wasted but now il is manufactured into
chemicles, by being blown by immense fans
into a purifier. from which it eventually
comes in the form of an acid that is as clear
as amber From the acid are produced
acetate Of lime, alcohol, tar, and gas. Each
cord of wood contains 20, 900 cubic feet of
smoke; 100000 feet of smoke handled
every twenty-four hours produces $4,000
pounds of acetate of lime, 200 gallons of
alcohol, and twenty five pounds of tar.
This city was to-day the scene of an
other murder "a telegram from Bay City
says, the principals being two colored bar
bers owning shops in the city. One of the
men, James r. Williams, better known as
Bud" Williams, md been drinking hard
the last two years, and was known to be
quarrelsome fellow when drunk About
o'clock this afternoon he entered the shop
of William r. Evans and tried to make a
he refused to go and wanted to fight Evans
was cutting customers hair ut the time.
Williams tried to hit him, and he struck
back two or three times with the scs-
sors. Williams then went and sat down,
and Evans, noticing blood upon Williams
face, told barber to take him out and
wash the blood off Evans returned to
work, and Williams arose and advanced
toward Evans. drew a revolver, and tried
to shoot. Evans grabbed the revolver and
hit Williams again with the scissors. He
then ordered Williams ont, and the latter
obeyed, going to q grocery store near by,
where he fell upon the floor and expired.
An examination of the body revealed
deep cut in the abdomen aud cuts on the
head. When Evans heard of the death of
Williams he gave himself up, and is now in
Jail. Both men are married. Evans has
one child. Public sympathy seems to be
with Evans.
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