The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-06


The ten year-old son of Eugene Mon
gan. of Ishpeming. was drowned while
fishing.
Nose Wingert. ieweler of Fife Lake,
was drowned in the lake at that place while
bathing.
{. Miss Mary Patrick has been elected
School Trustee at Midland. receiving 50
votes to her male opponents SO.
William G. Bennett, for thirty one
years clerk in the Office of the Auditor
General of Michigan. committed suicide
last week.
With the troops removed from the
Saginaw Valley, the adjustment of the diff
ferences between the mill-owners and the
workingmen seems to be making very fair
progress Exchange.
The Michigan Central Company is
about to erect crystal palace" at Fails
View, from which passengers by its line
can view Niagara Falls in comfort, no mat
ter how inclement the weather
"A farmers wife, living near Owosso,
is the mother of seventeen children, and
yet has health and strength enough left to
help the unfortunate father of so much hu-
manity every day in the harvest field.
The story Of a monster serpent in
Lake Michigan has been started again, but
it is poor newspaper work. The sea-ser-
pent will do very well, but the lake-serpent
is dismal failure in every way.-Chica0o
Tribune.
Some one having insinuated that the
editor Of the Union City Register didn't
know much about water, that individual
comes TO the defense in statement that
in this vicinity it is fluid in which we
keep our fish,"
"A. l.. Carter, business man of Medi-
ma, Lenawee County, detected leak in
barrel of gasoline in his cellar. He heed
lessly lit a match to get its exact location,
when an explosion occurred, wrecking the
lower portion of the house, and fatally
burning himself The other inmates es-
capped.
A little 4-year old is said to have died
at Sebewaing last week as the result of a
snakebite. The child was struck in the
ankle, while at play, and, running to his
mother, informed her that he had been
pierced by q stick of wood. The limb soon
began to swell, and shortly afterward his
entire body was terribly swollen. Great
agony was endured until death.
w. L. Jones, an assaycr of this city,
says letter from Ishpeming, made an as
say of quartz from a vein several miles
north of the Ropes gold range, which gave
Sc, 900 to the ton in free gold. This is the
best assay that has been made here. The
Coon Gold Mining Company, recently
formed here, has commenced work again
at the mine, which is in the old silver-lead
! district The Ropes assessment of So, 900
will be devoted to purchasing new milling
machinery. The mills to be put in are the
Wiswell pulverizers and amalgamators.
which are new invention and used in only
four or five places besides the Ropes.
Charles Kendall Adams, the new Presi-
dent of Cornell University, is fifty years
old, and belongs to the New England
family of Adamses. He was born in Ver-
mont in 1885, but when boy he moved
with his parents to Iowa. His pursuit was
farming, but during his spafs hours he
prepared for college, and in 1861 he was
graduated from Michigan University. He
was Immediately made instructor in Latin
and history, and, upon the resignation of
Prof. Andrew d. White he was made Pro-
fessor of History and given years leave
of absence to travel in Europe. On his re-
turn, he settled down to his duty in Michi-
gan University, where he has been up to
the present time.