The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-08-01

hh"haSefs ucbire 10 pay monthiy instehu
of semi-monthly, and these terms the
men refused to accept. The men say
they will not resume work until promise
of semi monthly payments is made.
Pretty nearly every day a shipment of
queer souvenirs from Northern Michigan
arrives at the Lansing Depot for Prof.
Beal, of the Agricultural College The
Professor has an unrestrained mania fer
collecting things. and the railroad men
along the route spend considerable time
IN wondering why on earth he wants to
litter up the college with knotty limbs, old
tree trunks, logging tools, and seemingly
worthless lunches of weeds. They fail
to grasp their botanical value.
AT Detroit, Jacob Moore a carpenter,
aged 50, who lived with his brother, but
had not paid his board for eight months,
shot and killed his sister-in law, Mrs.
Mary Moore, in raga, because she asked
him to pay. He shot himself, but not Sc
riously.
Little Mary Boyle, pretty 4-year-old
daughter of Patrick Boyle, of Detroit,
was burned to death at her fathers resi-
dence. Mrs. Boyle took an elder child
out for walk after dinner, leaving Mary
at home alone. There was no fire in the
house, but some matches strewn about the
floor showed that the child had been
playing with them.
Hitchcock & Blaly, of Bay City, are
putting in $1,000, 900 feet of logs at Carp
River, and they expect to raft them all to
their mill in that city this season.
The monthly earnings statement of
State. railroads for May gives the total at
S6,4S2, 623, an increase over the same pc
Rod last year of 1874, 666. The earnings
from Jan. to June were S29, 1894, 3l9, an
increase over the same period last year of
1929, ssl.
The Lake County officers might as
we'll release Doc Andrews from the charge
of numbering julius G. Bailey, the Cold
water schoolboy. The boy is now man
grown and resides in Chicago. His broth
er, j. W. Bailey, lives at l25 West Jack
son street, Chicago, and another brother
is foreman for Boardman & Rose, bus
linemen of Kalamazoo. julius worked
there in hardware store three years after
leaving Lake County, in March, 1881, and
two years afterward drove baggage
wagon in Kalamazoo. When he returned
he said the old man was dead and his
widow didn't like him. The death bed.
confession is merely hoax.
"A Jackson commercial traveller, just
home from trip through the fruit region
of the State, declares that the orchards
never contained such bounteous crop of
fruit as this year, and thus far it is ripen-
ing in its perfection.
During the past three years many
Michigan towns, for the purpose of fos-
tering booms or inaugurating such, have
paid literally in bonuses to firms or cor
porations who established industries in
their midst. These gratuities have oc-
casioned more or less kicking upon the
part of some of the heavier taxpayers,
bat the matter had kept ont of the courts
until recently, when J. w. Donovan be-
gan suit in the Wayne Circuit Court to
test the legality of the bonus giving.
The village board of Trenton, Wayne
County, recently voted $1,000 to a stove
factory upon condition of its locating
there, and the incorporators have begun
the erection of their plans. Four of the
wealthiest men in the village are outraged
at the boards generosity, and they ask
through Lawyer Donovan that the court
/ restrain the village officers from collect
ing the tax based on the bonus. If the
court decides against the bonus it will re-
suit in vexatious litigation in nearly every
county in the Lower Peninsula.
kalamazoo is so badly in need of a
bang-up band that the business men are
discussing the best means OF securing
one.
Chemical works will soon be estab-
lished at Newberry by Ohio capitalists,
10 create something out of nothing so
TO speak. The investment will be heavy
They are going to squeeze alcohol out of
smoke the same way they Go at Elk Rap
ids.
Gaylord presents good opening for
a miller. There is a good mill standing
idle, located in good farming locality
-Cheboygan's handsome new Opera
House is nearly completed.
Saginaw City's Sewer Inspector gets
"a per day.
Fire at Menominae destroyed the
stores of Morcaw & Young, j. L. Davis,
| Servatius Bros, and 7. Parent, at a loss
of 500, 600, partly insured.
Saginaw City will have new school
house, to cost $4,000.
George Miller, a young man married
about two weeks, suicided at Gaylord by
shooting himself in the head with re-
voiver.
"A cheese factory is talked of at Maple
Ridge, Arenac County.
Kalamazoo County poor and insane
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