The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-16

TO be made a $4,000 sash, door and blind
factory.
There is talk of war in Arenac County.
Some people want to remove the seat from
! Omer to Standish.
The great coal sheds now being built
at Gladstone by the Lehigh Company are
The largest on the lakes.
When atmospheric conditions are ia
yorable the Calumet electric lights are Wis.,
IDLE at LAnse, thirty miles away. q
Two million logs in Hamlins Lake,
belonging to Pardee, Cook & Co., were
washed away by the floods breaking the
dam, and went into Lake Michigan, carry
ing seventeen houses with them.
A slick young man visited seven gro
GERS and meat dealers at Kalamazoo and
gave forged checks for $14.50 in payment
for small bills of goods. The checks were
payable to E. d. Allen and signed by VIM.
f. Hill, we'll known manufacturer Of that
city.
The body of J. II. Kiel. prominent
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River near Menominee. He had been in
specting bridge over the river and it was
at first thought he had been drowned, but
an examination revealed the fact that he
had been murdered and robbed and his
body thrown into the river.
The bridge over the River Rouge in
Liyonia, near the Bovee cider mill, broke
down while Gus Blanc was crossing with
team and heavy load of wood, precipitating
the team and driver distance of twenty
feet into water six feet deep. Mr.. Blanc
was severely injured about the spine, and
but for timely assistance would have I'M
doubtedly drowned, not being able to help
himself on account of his spinal injuries.
One of the horses was so badly injured
that it had to be killed.
"A Soper has purchased the Burnham
& Still mill site, at Saginaw, with the salt
block, boilers, engine and all other prop
erty remaining there after the fire which
destroyed the mill in 1886, the considera-
ton being $4,000. The new owner now
has the salt block in operation, and will at
once erect a saw-mill 32xll0 feet and a
planning mill 40xl00. He intends to have
the planning mill two stories high and use
the upper floor for the manufacture of re-
frigerators. The engine and boilers on the
premises were not injured by the fire, and
will furnish the motive power for the new
plant
The twenty-frst woman who claims
to have been married 10 w. j. Brown, of
Detroit, has put in an appearance.
The NJ. E. Church Society at Saline
have raised funds to pay up 81 900 mort
gage that has been resting on their par
sonage for sixteen years.
BY dynamite explosion in the Colby
mine at Bessemer, Frank Robatsky was in
stantly killed and three others fatally in
jured. The engine house was burned and
another building was blown to splinters.
The loss is $50, 900.
"A telegram received at the Canadian
$500" from the Government officials at
Ottawa says "that work will be begun on
the Canadian Ship Canal this season,
Sl,0Oo,000 having been appropriated for
that purpose The contract will be let as
soon as possible and work begun immedi-
ately thereafter. The canal will be built with
two locks, one for vessels going up and the
other for downward bound craft.
Miss Maggie Philiput, of Detroit, in
tends suing ex- Mayor George c. Langdon,
of that city, wealthy malster, for $4,000
for breach of promise. The prospective
complainant, who is 16 years old, trav-
eled with her G4-year- old admirer last
winter, Langdon having become infatuated
with her shortly after his wife's death, but
the discovery of letter she had written to
another Detroiter, in which she called
Langdon an "old jay" caused a sudden
severance of their relations.
The Bortree Manufacturing Company
of Jackson, has received an order fora Cor
set from Sitka Alaska. The letter is
dated March 10, ever Two months ago. The
writer, however, says that they have only
one mail a month in that distant territory,
and it takes month to receive reply.
The order is from teacher and not in
tended to initiate the natives into this fea-
ture Of modern civilization. The native
Alaskians do not wear corsets or much OF
anything else except dirt.
"A good many cheeky letters from peo-
pie living out of the county are received
by the Clerk of Washtenaw County, his
well-known good humor and obliging dis
position tending to increase their num-
bers. Among the latest Of these is one
from Fremont, o.. man, who asks the
Clerk to send him complete list of all the
notaries and justices of the peace in
Washtensw County, CT all pensioners in
the county, of all persons likely to become
pensioners or likely to want an increase of
pension, etc. The gratuitous announce
ment ia made that the favor of reply will
be appreciated, and a wee bit of stamp is
inclosed for that purpose.
The exhortations of woman evangel-
list, scandinavian, in Menomonee Coun-
ty have caused great excitement Eioht