The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-10-17

poses, taking fire from an oil stove. Her
clothing caught fire and her flesh was
burned to a blister. She was not fatally
injured
Peter Osterberg prominent Jackson
County farmer, went crazy and attempted
to take the lives of his wife and children,
who only escaped by flight He was cap
tured, bound and lodged in Jail. He will
be sent to the Kalamazoo Asylum.
st. Ignace merchants are doing some
ground and lofty kicking against the dock
age rates charged there by the Duluth and
Atlantic Railroad Within the last few
weeks the rates have been more than
doubled and now five cents a hundred
straight is charged.
The Mackinac County Jail has again
been condemned, and it will either be tin
kered up or a new one will be built.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor 4 North
Michigan Railroad Company have leased
and will operate the new road between
East Saginaw and Durand, just built by
the Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw Com
! pany. Freight traffic has commenced,
and passenger service will begin on or be-
| fore November /.
Last June, Owen Doyle and Edward
McCaig went to Saginaw City from the
Au Ores drive. Doyle gave his time to
| McCaig to collect and the latter obtained
the money, $45, thereon and skipped. He
returned lately, was arrested on q charge
| of grand larceny and bound over to the
| Circuit Court and jailed in default of bail
| to await trial.
Nineteen societies of the German Aid
Society, in various parts of the State,
have sent funds to the amount of S9sl.35
to assist members of the order at Alpena,
who were sufferers at the big fire in July,
Detroit Lodge sent 1926 of said amount.
| The donation has been divided in sums of
from SO to $3.50 among the members
who were burned out, according to the ex-
tent of their loss.
| M. H. Shermans large general store
at Okemos was burned. Loss, SO, 800; in
surance, 81, 200 The Odd Fellows occu-
pied the second floor as LOGGER room.
Their l-ss is $1,000, with an insurance of
$500.
There are now forty three patients in
the Delta County Hospital seventeen of
whom are down" with typhoid fever.
| The hospital is taxed to its utmost in pro-
viding accommodations for the sick.
| The postoffice at Acme, Grand Trav-
erse County, was relieved of so and
some stamps few nights ago. The safe
was blown open.
--Belleville wants an elevator, laundry,
tailor, furniture factory, or any industry
to give employment to its workingmen.
| Plymouth wants a harness-shop.
The Clark Bigelow syndicate has
bought over $4,000 acres of land from
Charles Hebard Il Son. The land is in
Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, and
can be reached by three-mile extension
of the Hancock and Calumet Railroad.
The price was 1915 per acre.
Miss Irene Hoyt, who has been in
| Toronto and Montreal with counsel, at
tending to legal business, has left for San
Francisco, but will soon return to attend
TO proceedings instituted in connection
with the Hoyt estate at Saginaw and
Detroit.
| LAUNDERING in the Upper Peninsula
will be far in excess of what it was last
season this coming winter, while the
prospects are that below the Straits the
cut will be proportionately smaller. This
will about equalize the output for next
season in the State. In the vicinity of
Escanaba the work of getting out timber
will far exceed any former year. The
Hartman Lumber Company at Foster City
is preparing to put in 5000, 900 feet dur
| ing the coming winter, and like others in
that section has commenced operations.
| The annual product of this companys mill
| is 10000, 600 feet of lumber, 5000, 600
shingles. 30, 600, 900 cedar posts and 1000
ties. The company now has in stock
1900 600 feet of lumber and is making
daily shipments to Chicago via Escanaba.
Mr. Geo I Davis has assumed con-
troll of the Duluth, South Shore and At
lantic Railway, as acting Superintendent,
vice Mr.. A. Watson. resigned.
The total shipments of lumber, etc,
during the last week from Alpena are as
follows: Lumber, ;, l26. 900 feet The to-
tai shipments of lumber, lath, ties, cedar
posts, shingles, etc, from the commence
ment of navigation. is as follows by YES
sells that reported at the Custom House at
Alpena: Lumber, feet, 49,, POS 900; shin
giles, 7.3l4,00 lath, 500 600; cedar
posts, 375, 900; railway ties, 1877 900,
grapevine poles, $4,000; trap-net stakes.
| 1850; cords of cedar 735; cords of
match timber, 22O; cords OF hemlock
bark, 26.
| At the United States fish-hatchery in
| Alpena there is now about 100, 900 shoal-
trout eggs. They are from the Middle
Island and the collection of the eggs and
their transportation to Alpena has been
under the management of Henry Bolton.
| m L. A.