The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-12-12
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
b1Dn LATELY OCCURRED. 4 s0r.

An Interesting Summary of the Moro Ina
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-wed-
dings and Deaths - Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
The Concord apple evaporation has
closed for the season for want of fruit.
The proprietors expect to do much bet
ter business next season. InaeT
The Grand Lodge of colored Masons
will be held at jackson, commencing jan
uary g. 1899. 1t is expected that fully $50
delegates will be present
Buffers 4 Peters, OF Ludington, will
icut none of their own pine this winter,
but will confine themselves exclusively to
putting in hardwood and hemlock, run
ming camp for that purpose at wiley's
Corners, in addition to which they will
buy what they can. Such pine as they
need will be purchased of other parties in
the spring.
Luther ladies talk of organizing a
band.
--Menominee wants an ice rink or to-
boggan slide, or both, this winter.
Nearly $50, 900 feet of logs were
sorted by the Menominee Boom Company
this year If too many logs are not put in
600 900, 900 feet will be handled by the
company during 1889. The company has
done big work this year, and its opera
tions have evidently been in good hands.
Operations in the woods are progress
ing favorably, and many of the large
concerns will have large quantities cut
and skidded by the time the snow makes
its advent, says the Ludington Appeal
Some of the heavy jobbers, notably James
Foley, Tom Neiland and Cass & Joyce,
have already banked several million feet,
and each is putting in at the rate of about
20, OO0, 900 feet per day. Snow will make
very little difference with them, as they
log by rail- and can operate about as we'll
in winter as summer.
L. C. Higgins, Michigan Contra,
fireman, had an experience a few days
ago that he won't forget in lifetime In
reaching Jackson, he took the red light
from the engine and started over the ten
der to fasten it in the rear of the same,
which is the custom on passenger trains.
In some manner he lost his balance and
fell between the car and tender How,
he will never know, he caught ON the
steam pipe that passes under the cars and
then held on. The engineer missed him
and stopped, but he was dragged a num-
Der of rods hanging on to the pipe, each
moment expecting to be crushed. His
injuries were slight.
Milo, Oscoda County, would like some
good doctor TO hang out his shingle there
Ovid buggy works have an order fol
500 buggies from Peoria, Ill.
Henry Walker, of Richmond Town
ship, Osceola County, killed a hog year |
months and . days old, which weighed
when dressed, All pounds. 1t was cross
of Poland China and Chester White.
John Larkin, 3. T. Bradley, and Z
Bradley have bought l,200 acres of land
in East Hope. Midland County known a.
the Gray and Seymour tract. There is
about 5000, 900 feet of timber. They
have one camp running and are establish
ing another. They will cut about 4,O0O,.
900 this season.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph is going tc
get out souvenir holiday number.
State Game Warden VIM. Alden Smith
declares his $1,000 year Office is sue.
cess, that during eighteen months about
900 convictions of violations of law have
been made, and that the fines moro than
defray the expenses of his lS9 deputies. I,
The Pressure Isle County Adrdnc,
says: Cedar business looks poor for The
coming winter. The fact is, owners Of
cedar timber, doing business in the mos
economical manner, cannot make enough
to pay even nominal price on thei
stumpage. The men that make the cedar
virtually geteverything there is in il, while
the owners of the timber do well If the,
can clear their expenses and sacrifice thei
timber stumpage."
In an interview Thomas S. Barry, q
East Saginaw, said that he was about Il
commence legal proceedings at Philadel
phia against the Knights of Labor
through its officers, for defamation o.
character and alleged expulsion, and h,
has placed the matter in the hands of hi
attorneys for criminal action in tn,
United States District Court, at Ba,
City, against John w. Hayes, Secretar!
and Treasurer of the Knights of Labor 70
violation of the postal laws in sending
Barry letter in which appeared, Eek
pelled-O. f. B." He said the head
quarters of the new order of the Brother
hood of United Labor will be in Eas
Saginaw. He has been promised the sup
port of the New York Standard and Henr.
George.
"A Manistique woman named Mar.
Krumpus, evidently doesn't intend to b.
back bitten. She has caused to be pub
lished the following card: Il desire t,
warn certaiu porties i'm Sout n Manistiau,