The true northerner., 1886-02-25
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

--Ishpeming Knights of Labor number
600.
--Emmet Robinson, court reporter Of the
Free Press, is dead.
-Macinac trout netted in the Straits last
week weighed Al pounds.
The Salvation Army at Coliwster has
been holding crowded meetings eve:1
night.
Scarlet fever has appeared at Carleton,
and the public schools have closed in con-
sequence.
Miss Rufie A. Jordan, of Coldwater, is
n student of Yale Law School, and expects
the degree of LIB.
Senator Jones, of Floridh, has not been
in his seat since last spring. He is courting
a refractory Detroit widow.
The work of rebuilding the life-saving
station near Frankfort destroyed by fire re-
Gently, is already we'll advanced.
George Ellington, the much married
man, tried in vain to pasify his legal wife
at Ypsilanti with a $4,000 farm.
Attorney General Taggart does noi be-
lieye Boards of Supervisors can appropri-
ate money to build county pest-houses.
The committee in charge of the PENN
sular Saengerfest have fixed the dates of
the next meeting of the society at Ann Ar
Dor on Ang. 10, II, and IS, 1886.
| W;Il,o,, nn,,,IoM 90 tbo ,,1ou,v1 ,,,l.
firm of Merrill & Campbell, of Bay City,
dropped dead when about to 60 to a con-
cert, caused by the bursting of blood ves-
sci in the brain.
At the next meeting of the Board OF
Supervisors of Delta County, to be held
next April, application will be made by the
people of Garden to have tho place incor-
porated as q village.
"A proposition to introduce system of
water-works will be voted upon at Esca-
naba March /. There is company wish
ing to supply the city with water, but many
prefer that the city build its own works.
Maud Plemendon, of Potoskey, aged Q,
was riding on sled hitched behind large
sleigh going up a hill on which children
were sliding. The sleigh turned aside to
let some sleds coming down pass, but be-
fore Mauds sled was off the road it was
struck, and she was fatally injured.
The Association of Prosecuting Attor-
neys of Michigan have elected Frank
Knappen, of Kalamazoo, President; j. Z.
Simonson, of Bay, Vice President; Jason
E. Nichols, of Ingham, Secretary; and G.
A. Mcbride, of Ottawa, Treasurer. An
other meeting will be held to prepare the
desired revisions of the criminal law.
L. F. Harter, of the Quartermasters
Department, Lansing, received over thirty
letters recently from State bounty claim
ants. The department has been under a
steady fire from claimants during the last
week. Thus far not one can be allowed,
the writer's not being entitled to bounties,
or else having already received them.
An unknown man was killed recently
by a train on the Chicago and Grand Trunk
Railroad, Just east Of Flint. Develop
ments show that he hailed from Chicago,
and was undoubtedly insane, about % years
of age, of slender build, average height
and weight, black hair, whiskers, and
mustache. He had a scar on the right
side of his neck.
The Postmasters of the Second Michi-
gan Congressional District met at Adrian
and elected as delegates to the projected
convention at Chicago: w. T. b. Scher-
mcrhorn, William McDougal, Jane S.
Sinclair, A. G. Smith, d. F. Culven, w.
s. Cook, Charles Happy, w. schaefer,
John NJ. Richards, o. A. Critchett, b. l..
Rhodes, J. U. Underwood, Jay Santus,
Fred Rosecrans.
AT the recent meeting of the Great
Council of Red Men Of Michigan, the re-
port of the Great Chief Of Records showed
there are thirteen tribes, with member
ship of 786, an increase of 142 members.
Tribal receipts, $500; expenditures,
$1,000, mostly for relief; $4,000 in the
treasures, and invested in property about
S2,500. The Great Council treasury con-
tains 500.
AT the morning session of the Southern
Convocation (EpiscopaD at Ann Arbor
Prof. G.. S. Morris, of the University, read
paper on "Agnosticism, and Rev. J. st.
John, of Clinton, preached a sermon.
Bishop Harris was present and presided.
In the afternoon there was visit to the
University, followed by business meeting
and a paper on "Social Habits of the
Clergy by DR.. A. B. Palmer, of Ann
Arbor.
The annual gathering of the Michigan
State Horticultural Society closed by the
announcement that the semi annual meet
ing would be held at North Lansing in
June. The committee on nomenclature
reported, recommending revision and SIM
plifcation in naming future varieties.
European names are Objectionable, and
fruit with fashy names should b. dis
trusted until thoroughly tested. Fancif1I
names were frequently used to mislead