The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.
The Saginaw River mills will be well
supplied with logs this winter.

the Twenty-third Michigan Infantry will
be held in Midland August next. The
citizens express a determination to make
it interesting for the boys" on that day.
The largest piece of betting that ever
came into the State is on exhibition at the
Lansing Iron and Engine Works. The
original belt, $50 feet long, feet wide,
and s-ply, weighs 10000 pounds.
Forest fires are reported raging along
the line of the Michigan Central Railroad,
between Cheboygan and Bay City, and it
is feared that large amount of damage
will be done TO standing timber.
The State Supreme Court has rem
dered a decision declaring unconstitu-
tional that section of the liquor law of
1887 preventing liquor dealers, brewers,
etc, from going on the bonds of retail
liquor dealers.
George Sloan, n fifteen-year convict,
whose time would have expired June Is,
was found dead in his cell at Jackson,
having opened several arteries and bled to
death. He had always been model con
Wet.
John L. Nowlan, ofEast Saginaw, has
come into possession of map of the
United States which is considerable of a
curiosity. 1t was published by William
Thrall, of Hartford, Conn, in 1885, and
illustrates very forcibly the growth of the
Western States in the past fifty years. 1t
shows great stretches of country west of
the Mississippi River with such dearth
of population that it is thought sufficient
to print on the Territories that they are
great treeless plains which are roamed
bands of Indians Michigan is shown
with only thirteen towns in the Lower
Peninsula. These are Detroit, Pontiac,
St. Clair, Palmer, AIMS Arbor, "Brons-
town now Kalamazoo), Byron, Saginaw,
Edwardsville, Jackopolis, Tecumseh, Fort
ST. Clair, and Palmer. Sault Ste Marie
is the only town shown in the Upper
Peninsula, the balance of the region being
marked as Indian reservations.
The new gas holder of the Kalamazoo
Gaslight Company, now being built, will
hold 50, 900 cubic feet, giving the works a
capacity of AS, 900 cubic feet.
The Michigan Condensed Milk Com
pany, of Lansing, uses over 100000
worth of refined sugar per annum. A car
load of their product has gone to Buenos
Ayres.
The Saginaw cargo lumber market is
dull, but June is invariably quiet month.
No sales o. consequence are being report
ed, but number of small lots have
changed hands. There are no changes in
quotations. What demand there is is lin
tied 10 common lumber. Box stock is
finn, and Norway strips sell readily, but
bill stuff is dull and featureless. There
is very little unsold lumber fit to ship.
The first marine fatality of the season
in the neighborhood of Bay City has oc-
Cured, and at ore time it looked as
if the loss of ten instead of two lives
would result. A small ferrylo lt, in the
act of crossing the stream endeavored to
cross under the tow line of a tug towing
a lumber barge The line was we'll taut-
ened when the attempt was made, but
just as the ferry was on the point of cross
ing under, the line slackened. 1t sank
under the bow of the ferry, and again
tautening out jerked the craft high in the
air, spilling its ten occupants into the
water. Boats at once put out from the
shore and succeeded in rescuing eight of
the imperiled men, but two, Frank Cuck-
erman and Jacob Guidalas, sank out of
sight and were d. owned before assistance
could reach them.
The court -room at Hillsdale was
crowded by parties interested in the SEN
sational suit instituted against Mrs
Carmichael, of Wright Township, who was
recently arrested on charge of having
poisoned her husband, prominent farmer
of Hillsdale County. Mrs. Carmichael
tainted as she was approaching the steps
of the court house and was supported by
her friends. The story of the crime,
briefly summed up, is as follows: In jan
uary last Addison Carmichael was found
dying in bed at his homestead in Wright
Township. Before he died it is said that
he made statement to the effect that he
had been poisoned by his wife. At the
inquest which was held the jury returned
n verdict of suicide. Since Carmichael's
burial, however, ugly rumors obtained
currency in the vicinity as to the cause of
his death, and the body was finally ex-
humed. A chemical analysis showed that
the man had been poisoned, but by whom
the fatal drug was administered has not
yet been disclosed. A witness was in at
tendance at the trial at whose instance
Mrs. Carmichael was arrested. who AYERS
that Mrs. Carmichael offered him $3.50 to
procure poison some time ago for the
purpose of killing her husband Mrs.
Carmichael is the daughter of q respecta-
BILE farmer. The people in the neighbor-
hood are greatly excited over the probable
outcome of the trial, and do not seem
inclined to place much faith in the