The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-07-25


Tho Grand Trunk train going east
stopped at Mt. Oliyet, tho new cemetery
a few miles from Detroit, the other day.
The train did not halt long. The bag
gageman placed upon the platform
small black coffin of the plainest and
cheapest design. A woman alighted
from the car The train moved on. One
of the cemetery employees came and took
the little coffin and carried il into the
cemetery. The mother followed. She
was the only mourner. 1t was touch
ing incident.
Macarthur Brothers, of Chicago, have
been awarded the contract for building
the water-rower canal at Sault Ste
Marie Work will begin soon, and will
cost $4,000 and be completed within
one year. The Water-Power Company
will improve 100 acres with a mile of
water frontage for free mill sites. Sew
eral large mills will be built as soon as
the canal can furnish power.
Parma is within $3.50 of local Trot-
ting and Fair Association. Going to
have fifteen acres of land and half-mile
track.
The Saginaw City Turn verein will
build 81, 500 hall
The weather for the last week has
been all that the most exacting agricultur-
list of the State could ask for, and work
in the hay and harvest fields has been
pushed. The estimates of the last few
weeks have not changed. Wheat is COM
ing out much better than expected. Hay
has yielded largely, corn is coming up to
every expectation, oats are good, potatoes
are abundant, and the Colorado beetle has
been much less obnoxious than heretofore.
-Grayling's best hotel, the Grayling
House, has been destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
The First Michigan Infantry will
hold reunion at Jackson September IL.
Nearly 400 invitations have been issued
The railroad deputation appointed by
Mr.. Potts, of the Potts Railroad Com
pany, called on him at Au Sable. Mr..
Potts is negotiating with some Eastern
parties for about y 900 feet of stand
ing pine on the Oqueoc River, in Presque
Isle County, and if he closes that bargain
satisfactorily he will continue his road
through Hillman to that vicinity during
the present season, and if not he will
build the road at any rate to Hillman for
a small bonus. There is no doubt what
ever, from Mr.. Potts conversation, that
Hillmqn can have his road with con-
-Lansing's Common Council will be
asked to appoint milk inspector.
-Manistique is to have public Ii
brary.
Farm hands are in demand at good
wAges.
"A 500, OOO-bushel elevator is being
built at Gladstone.
The Lansing Reform School Hospital
hasn't patient at present.
Mount Pleasant Prchibitionists raised
pole from which floats Fisk and
Brooks streamer. The indications are
that strong Prohibition vote will be cast
In Isabella County this year.
John NJ. French, of Lansing, has cell
ebrated his 90th birthday. He is hale and
hearty, was member of the Legislature
in 1912 and has been a resident of Lans-
ing for twenty-three years.
Maynard & Co., is the name of the
firm that has commenced the manufac-
ture of the Maynard rifle at Mount Pleas
ant. The industry will start with twenty
five men who are 10 turn out IA rifles
day.
At dance in the south end of Bay
City boy named Edward Parker shot
and seriously injured one John Mccoy,
aged 81. The shooting was the result OF
a misunderstanding which took place be-
tween the two q few minutes before, in
which Mccoy stuck Barker in the face.
The bullet struck the sixth rib and passed
into the abdomen. The surgeon who was
called was unable to locate it with probe.
Barker cl aims that the shooting was done
in self defense. One of the peculiar fea-
lures of the shooting is that after being
wounded Mccoy entered the house where
tho dance was in progress and continued
playing the violin as if nothing had hap
pened.
Tony Robinson, al employee of the
National Illuminating Gas and Fuel Com
pany, at Jackson, met with a serious ac-
cident. He and man named Richard
Ogden were engaged in laying drain-pipe
in trench seven feet in depth, leading
from the cellar of new building being
erected at the works. Robinson was
bending over when the whole bank gave
way and buried him out of sight and Og-
den up to the arms II took some time
to dig Robinson out, as he was lying at
the bottom of the ditch, with the bulk of
the dirt upon his body. He was taken
out in an insensble condition, and physi-
clans summoned. On examination sew
eral ribs were found to have been broken