The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-12-26

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

An interesting summary nj INC more I'M
portant Doings of Our We'd
dings and Deaths - Crimos, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
ON the basis Of the Presidential vote
the present population Of the State is
figured at 2,l95,692, an increase Of 3l2, o34.
Three weary, travel-worn mon APP
peared at Cheboygan lately. They had
left Cheboygan to go West" and make
themselves millionaires, but were glad to
get home alive, with very few dollars in
their pockets.
The Hubbard ditch in the north side
of Verona has been completed and ac-
cep.ed. 1t is perhaps the best constructed
water course of it's kind yet establishedi in
Huron County. In it's whole length.
which is nearly seven miles, there is not a
single section upon which the water will
stand at any time in the year.
The Council of Administration of the
partment of Michigan has fixed the date
of the next encampment for March Is, II
and 10. 1889 The place of the encamp-
ment, Bay City. was selected by the last
encampment, which was held at Lansing.
Ed Warner, of Otsego County, had
the honor 10 kill white deer while out
hunting this season. These animals are
very scarce, as white deer is rarity sell
dom seen by the hunter. Ed being
taxidermist as we'll as q shootist, is going
to stuff its hide. II is said that to shoot
and kill white deer is fatal to the hunt
er's luck hereafter, but Ed only laughs ut
that sort of supersttious talk, and says
he'll whang away as usual and isn't at all
afraid that his luck will desert him or that
his aim will be less true
DIR. Eugene II. Wood, convicted at
Hersey of burning the residence of his
brother law, ID. A. Blodgett, has been
sentenced to sixteen years in State prison.
The Muskegon Car Works has just
booked orders for the manufacture of 600
cars, the work TO commence Immediately.
The works for the past few weeks have
been running light, doing repairing and
was received the other day to tho effect
that an order for 500 cars had been Ie-
ceiyed from the Chicago and Atlantic
RAILROAD Company Another order for 100
cars had been previously booked for an
Ohio road, making total order for 600
cars to be built this winter. These new
contracts will insure steady work during
the winter, or for the greater part of the
winter. and other orders are in view. The
Muskegon Car Works are steadily forging
to the front rank, and the handsome order
just received indicates that they are able
TO compete with the older companies
throughout the country.
Sam Turney, while at work Mt Dwy-
ears Hall & Buell. camp, was hit by a
stub, one-half of the top of which struck
him in the back, inficting cut thirteen
inches in length. Turney, stunned by the
blow, fell back on his Ak, receiving cut
above the knee-cap of about eight inches
AS soon as possible Dwyear hitched up his
fastest team and took the injured man to
the Cottage Hospital, at Manistilue, where
he received every attention. Although his
wounds arc of n serious nature, Turrey
will recover.
The shipping of refined copper by rail
from Houghton was begun by the mining
compani es about two weeks ago, and is
now going on at the rate of from six to
eight cars per day, each car carrying about
$4,000 pounds. This is about the daily
quantity shipped during last winter.
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Dairymen's Association will be hell in
Jackson early in February. A series of
premiums are being arranged by the Ex-
ecutive Committee, which will eclipse the
premiums offered last year.
The Girard Lumber Company are
building and about the 18th of January
will start running saw mill at a place
called Dunbar, on the 500 Road, about
thirty miles west Of Hermansville. Tho
company own about :, 200, 900 or G,000, 900
feet of pine within half mile haul of the
saw mill, and plenty more not far distant,
so that there is plenty OF work ahead for
the mill this winter.
The output of the Norrie mine, near
L'Anse, this year has reached 404, 900
tons, record never before made by any
mine in the world.
The Pool Mining Company, of Jack
son, struck coal at depth of ninety six
feet, and will commence taking it out at
once. The coal is said to be of fine
quality.
--Workmen are busy putting the new
steel cells into the ia at Grayling.
-Menominee has l40 fire hydrants, and
pays over $40, 900 year to a Boston mon
opoly for fire protection.
One of the oldest petitions that Gov.
Luce has ever received reached him re-
Gently in the shape of an application for
the pardon of glanderel horse. The
State Veter narian had condemned the
animal TO be killed. but the owner stood
defiantly upon the pedestal of his rights
as Michigan citizen and said no. He