The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-10-24
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

pOrtant OF Ouf
dings and Deaths - Crimes. Casualties,
and General News Notes.
Miss Demos charge against the Car
-ollton school teacher, Harry G. Lyle, has
resulted in having his certificate annulled.
Lyle failed 10 marry Miss Demo, and she
caused his arrest for breach of promise
on the eve of his marriage to another girl.
Then she let up, and the marriage took
place. Later, however she made charges
Of immortality against him.
Samantha Streeter, a widow, residing
four miles west of jackson, has been
robbed of 81, $50 in gold. Being afraid of
banks she converted her earnings into gold
and boarded it in the house. The gold
was placed in sugar-bowl. The bur-
glars entered through the pantry window.
There is on deposit in the East Sagi-
nav national banks 81, 766, 1899.
jackson has gas company that other
cities would like to get 1t sells gas for
40 cents per 1000 cubic feet on bills for
less than 5000 cubic feet and for 80 cents
on bills of over 5000 feet.
The State monthly crop report for
October, issued from the State Depart
ment, shows an average yield of 1857
bushels of wheat per acre, indicating
total yield in the State of %, 5Sl, 5O4 BUSH
els, or S58, 900 bushels in excess of the
1887 crop, and 1000. 900 bushels less than
the average for the past nine years. Three
million seven hundred and thirty one
thousand and sixty eight bushels were re-
ported marketed in September. The
average yield of oats is about 80 bushels,
barley %, and corn "a bushels of ears, or
three bushels in excess of the average for
nine years, from 1873 to 1887. The severe
drought and frosts materially injured the
quality of the crops. Potatoes will yield
about IS per cent. on an average. The
area of the crop is in excess of the average.
Winter apples promise 81 per cent
The Sault Ste. Marie National Bank
building is a very handsome structure,
judging from the cut of it published by
the SEQ" Neics.
kalamazoo is a-growin'. The lively
city now claims population of 10000.
The County superintendent of Poor
of Kalamazoo County ask the SupeIvis-
ors For an appropriation o. $lG, 900 to sup
port the poor and insane for the coming
year.
Mt. Pleasant Tribune: Brcwa & Loa-
ton will lumber quite extensively in Deer
field, Sherman. and Denver Townships
this season. They will operate five camps,
and intend to cut S, 5000, 900 feet of logs.
Seventy taxpayers of Marion Town
ship, Osceola County, have signed petit
ton in favor of paying the So, 600 railroad
bonds.
The general store of Finnegan Bros,
at Gladstone, burned. Loss, 5000; in
surance, So, O00
The Bay City single making firm,
who employed girls as shingle packers,
have had as much trouble with the girls
as they could have had with the most OBJ
/ durate of men. The latest freak on the
part of the girls, who were making from
81. 40 to Sl.6S per day, was to strike, and
they struck out the first crack. Boys will
take their places.
The copper country is soon to have a
distinguished visitor, who comes to Lake
Superior expressly to examine the cele-
brated native copper mines of that dis
trct He is II. Kondo. of the Mining
University of Japan, who is reported to be
the wealthiest man in Japan outside of the
royal family. He operates sixteen differ
ent mines of gold, silver, and copper in
his own country, and low desires to OBJ
tain a thorough knowledge of the mining
machinery used in America.
The West Branch Times speaks of
/ the Cortland Lumber Company's works at
that place as follows: They now have five
machines in operation besides the saw for
cutting up the lumber into sizes as ordered
for the market. Their dry kilns work to
! perfection, and the lumber is perfectly
seasoned in six days. They are unable to
/ fill orders on account of scarcity of logs.
1 stock will be put in this winter to last
them through next season. Some of their
wide boards are a curiosity. Archie Blake
cut on one of the machines a board "a feet
wide, 5-l6 thick and l.. E. Miller cut on
! the same machine one rs feet wide. W.
NJ. Curtindall cut on a larger machine one
So feet wide and 7-l6 thick. 1t seems al
most incredible that so much could be
gotten out of one log. The factory is a
grand thing for West Branch. They have
/ paid for labor and material since starting
upward of $4,000
-Vingenzo Calabreso is the name of the
man received at the Jackson Prison from
Schoolcraft County on three years sem
tence for larceny from dwelling in the
daytime
j. c. Healey, foreman for c. NJ. Hill,
reports that eighteen logs sixteen feet in
length were cut from one tree at his camp
recently In Gladwin County.
Albert vogel has sold 500, 900 feet OF
elm and black ash lumber the product of
his mill at Scottville. The purchaser was
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