The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-02-29

oemic Of bronchitis.
"A grand charity ball is to be given in
Jackson after Lent.
There are fourteen prisoners in the
Saginaw County Jail.
Muskegon is the softest town in Michi-
gan for street fakirs."
There are over one hundred cases OF
measles at Pinconning. Bay County.
"A. L. Freeman Il Co., of Evart, man.
ufactured II, 463, 900 shingles in 1887.
The Lansing wheelbarrow works has
orders for eighty carloads of barrows.
1t is reported that the erection of a
$4,000 hotel has been commenced at Ma
ion.
During the month of January it took
100000 900 gallons of water to supply the
Capital City.
Bay City capitalists are trying to raise
5000 to establish an Edison electric light
and power company.
Daniel McRae, of Bellaire, has fallen
heir to several thousand dollars by the
death Of an uncle in Scotland.
The dam at Liberty Mills, fourteen
miles south of Jackson. gave way recently,
doing 81 900 worth of damage.
The Jackson water-works uses two
and three-fourths tons of coal daily in
pumping 1000, 600 gallons of water.
j. G. Brown, at his logging camps in
Pressure Isle County, is banking 2S5,OO0
feet of logs every twenty four hours.
-Walla Lee, Monroe's celestial washee-
washee, came forward and voluntarily sub
scribed $50 towards the new gas well.
Thirteen East Saginaw young men
have had their respective mustaches cut
off. The young men comprise the "Thir-
teen Club"
There are enough potatoes in Huron
County to supply the local demand, it is
claimed, but owners are holding them for
higher prices.
The classes and fraternities of the
University and the business men of Ann
Arbor have subscribed $1,000 toward the
proposed university gymnasium.
The coal fever has reached Franken-
muth, and company is being organized
there to test its presence in that vicinity.
Prospects are said to be favorable.
The Montague Board of Trade is agi-
tating the subject of building an opera
house at that place. They ask for bonus
of lot and $4,000 in cash as starter.
Twenty four miles of the Toledo,
Saginaw and Mackinac road bed have
been graded and culverts are being built.
1t is expected work will be completed by
June.
L. d. Irish, of Mason, has since Oc-
tober 26, 1887, sawed and piled over 1OO,-
600 pork barrel slaves; also quantity OF
half barrels, which he expects to market
the coming season.
The Jackson Citizen man must have
been there, for he says collector with a
| $4 bill, past due, can run man all over
| town who would stand unfinchingly at q
lannon's mouth or walk to the gallows
WITHOUT tremOr.
The mills on the Mackinac division of
the Michigan Central manufactured 123.-
1925 feet Of lumber and 63,500,00 900
shingles in 1887. At the close they had
on hand S9,542,91 feet of lumber and
$1,000 shingles.
| Surveyors have mapped railway line
from Minocqua to Wakefield. 1t is said
that the road will be extended to Union
Harbor, Lake Superior. BY spring the site
of Minocqua will be SO cleared Of its stand
ing pine that lots will be sold.
Light Company in getting the electric
lights in operation is causing much dis
satisfaction in outlying communities, the
gas and naphtha street lights having been
discontinued Feb. /, leaving the suburbs
in total darkness.
A girl, who is but 10 years old, has
been noticed practicing the arts of the
highwayman upon the streets of Monroe
lately. The child confines her attention to
children, of course, and lays particularly
for little ones who have been sent on err
rands, often robbing them Of considerable
sums in cash or quite valuable bundles Of
goods.
When the Natural Gas Company, of
Monroe, drilled their we'll last summer they
tapped The fountain head of Monroe's
three artesian wells and they have not
flowed sinced. The Council will now ask
the company to shut off the flow of water
ut their well in the hope that the city wells,
upon which Monroe depends to consid-
cradle degree for its supply of water for