The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-09-05
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

William A. Miller, of Seney, for Official
MISUNDERSTANDING a prisoner to es-
cape.
John McRae has been appointed
agent of the State Board of Charities for
Keweenaw County, and Curtiss Buck fer
Gogebic.
Little Jake" Seligman has purchased
the entire Saginaw Union street car line.
IT has fourteen miles OF track, $50 horses,
and forty cars. Receipts last year were
S55, 900.
The papal brief, appointing the Rev.
John 5. Foley Bishop of the diocese, has
been received at Detroit.
.-Sergt. Conger, director of the State
Weather Service Bureau, has re-enlisted
for another five years of service, his third
term. His headquarters are at Lansing.
w. II. Smiths little child fell into
pail Of boiling hot water at Long Lake,
near Kalamazoo, receiving fatal injuries.
"A number of wells in Lansing which
never failed before have gone dry"
lately. The continued drought is supposed
to be the cause.
The Democratic Convention for
Eleventh Congressional District will be
held at Escanaba Sept. Is.
Andrew Greiner and Charles Berger,
escaped reform school boys who stole
tnh ~
will be held to the Circuit Court
There are 10000, 900 feet of logs back
in Cass River waiting for water.
The State Executive Board Knights
of Labor will tabulate wage statistics as
completely and rapidly as possible. They
expect to put women in the field to or
ganize and instruct working girls. Can
didates for State Legislature will be re-
CURED to pledge themselves to all labor
bills and legislation.
"A young man named Howard w.
Sterling, of Detroit, succeeded in swind-
ling several private parties and two De-
troit banks out of between Sl4, 900 and
S20, 900. The announcement of this de-
falcation fell like thunder clap upon the
large circle of acquaintance which young
Sterling had formed in Detroit The
scheme by which Sterling raised the most
of his ill-gotten gains was b, negotiating
forged mortgages. 1t was the determine
ton of the Wayne County Savings Bank,
which institution was imposed upon by
Sterling, to prosecute the offender to the
full extent of the law. The first step was
to arrest him, and this proved matter of
more difficulty than had been anticipated.
1t was found that Sterling had left his
private residence, on Champlain street,
and gone to his fathers residence, on
Crosse Isle. At the latter place
it was ascertained that Sterling had
gone TO New York, and the matter of
catching him was put into the hands of
the police. Dispatches, giving descrip-
ton of him, were sent in all directions.
AT New York detectives were notified to
watch all outgoing steamers, and this
precaution proved successful. One of the
steamers was about to leave its moorngs
when q young man, answering to the
description given of Sterling, made q
rapid break for the vessel, carrying a
sachel He had half crossed the gang
plank when the hand of detective was
laid on his shoulder and young Sterling
was prisoner He was locked up i'm
mediately to await the arrival of Detroit
officers.
Forest fires were reported as recently
raging to an alarming extent on the road
to Hammond's Bay, and the smoke was
so thick over the Straits that craft got
through with difficulty. A valuable tract
of timber is said to have been destroyed.
The full extent of the damage is not
known.
The Inhabitants of the interior Of
Presque Isle County are having q siege
OF some contagious bowel complaint,
thought to be form of Asiatic cholera.
Reports come in slowly, but nine deaths
are reported. The number of fatalities
would probably be more if true reports
could be obtained. Fifty persons are re-
ported in critical condition, with but
little or no medical resistancss The com
munity is thoroughly alarmed, and the
proper authorities will obtain the correct
number of fatalities and the nature of
the cause.
James Bagley, clerk of the Griffin
House, of Detroit, died at the Sanitarium.
Mr.. Bagley was born in Maine in 1922,
and was therefore 66 years old at the time
of his death. For years prior to the war
he was proprietor of the National Hotel,
New York, acquiring a handsome for
tune, which he afterward lost in specula-
tions in the oil field of Pennsylvania.
Later he became post trader at Fort
Steele, NJ. T. He went TO Detroit in
1871 and was clerk of the Cass Hotel
under Tyrrell Bros, remaining through
successive changes until the house was
demolished in 1885, when he took charge
of the Office of the new Griffin House.
He had been familiar face to the travel