The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-14


tanning thirteen prisoners It present.
The Jackson Telephone Exohanes en-
swers an average Of 2 ,2OO calls . day.
The combined capacity Of the sav-
mills on Muskegon Lake is $50, 000, 900 feet
per season Of ten hours run . day.
"A Catholic priest left gripsack with
$3.50 in it in the depot at Barasa, and some
one stole 1.-THE cash, not the depot
Among the new buildings promised
Lansing next season 10 an elegant brick
hotel. to 10 built by Hon. o. M. Barnes-
If Nc. Clemens votes ON water worls
this spring, and the proposition is ret- 4
sonable one, the city will go wet by large
majority.
Charles Greenleaf of Cambridge 10 re-
ported as having COW that has given milk
daily for six years, and gives no indication
OF quitting now.
John Kirkwood, Of Wayne, recently
shipped some seventy head Of hogs that
averaged over 400 pounds each and sold
for So. 80 per 100.
The next meeting of the Michigan
cider makers will be held in Lansing, while
the Legislature is in session, for the pur~
pose Of framing cider vinegar law.
Drilling operations at the st. IRnacs
Manufacturing Company's well have been
stopped for want Of fuel. The work will
probably not be resumed before May.
Walter H. Arnold, of Eaton Rapids,
aged forty-two, and an inmate Of tina Kali
amazoo asylum, took advantage Of his at
tendants short absence recently and hanged
himself.
--Claytons w. r. c. is preparing .
"parasol drill" We presume il Is necessi-
tated as means Of protection against the
suns" Of veterans, who are shining toe
brilliantly in that section.
An effort is being made, or is about to
be made, to organize w. G. T. u. ct
Belleville. Although q similar attempt
was made year ago, and failed, it is
thought the present effort will prove sue
cessful.
The prison population of Jackson on
March numbered 772. There were re-
ceived during February, 81; discharged, by
expiration Of sentence, IL; by order Of the
Supreme Court, /; transferred to the Ionia
Asylum, l.; died, 1; leaving 772 in prison
on March /.
The Chicago Lumber Company has
bought of Meyhew Bros, of Menomines
5000, 600 to 5000, 900 feet of logs left over
in the Menominee and its tributaries from
last years input. The sale amounted to
money consideration of 100000. 1t is re-
ported that the Chicago Lumber Company
has this winter purchased logs to be cut ct
Menominee to the amount Of $4,000 900
| feet
The Detroit, Lansing and Northern
Railroad Company recently discharged
seven conductors. A brakeman of many
years experience on the road received an
order to take charge of train. to which
he replied: well, to accommodate you,
will run it for a day or two. but 1 decline
the position of conductor. want to stay
with you always"
The Bay City Tribune says: "A gen.
tleman who has Just returned from q trip
up the new Gladwin Railroad says that
there is q general air of business from
| Pinconning to Gladwin. Men are getting
out bolts, logs, and ties, and piling them
along the track. The machinery Of three
shingle rills has gone in and will be put
mp at once to begin saving early in the
spring."
The business done at Alamo Station
of the Kalamazoo and South Haven Road
the past few months has been larger than
ever, and proves that this point is becom-
ing more and more an important business
place. During the winter there have been
shipped eighteen carloads OF hogs, six car
loads of sheep and great quantity of lum-
Der. ties, etc.. in all 15S carloads of vslu-
able productions Of that section of the
country.
"A number Of years ago Samuel Trew,
of Mt. Clemens, sunk we'll on the Tru-
FAINT farm. 1t was dry hole for twenty
five feet. Then Mr.. Trew broke through
the bottom with stake, which sunk seven
feet into stream of living water and
swayed to aud fro in the current. Nh
Trsw pulled out the stake. The we'll
filled up and the digger thereof foated
gracefully to the top on splendid volume
of water and drifted of into field - 2 :
nips. 1t is now proposed to sec
engine can pump that "
not, then Mt. Clemens
supply in the great
indications of which ha
Peter Shook. an old
County. died recently at
his son, Marion Shook.
Mr.. Shook was born in N95t
Moving with his parepts to the :.
York when 0 years old. he l.
until after the death of his parenS
he married and moved to Michigan, s.
in Nankin on farm three and
miles from Wayne, where he lived UNI
the death of his wife, fifteen years ago.
after which he resided with his son Joseph
until last August. when he returned To the