The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-02-15

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The Muskegon hsme factory now en-
ploys forty hands, and is doing a rushing
business.
While tobogganing at Charlotte Frank
Merritt collided with some other boys and
was instantly killed.
Rev. Il. w. Mclean, rector Of st.
Luke's Church, at Ypsilanti, has resigned,
aud gets better thing at Bay City.
Deputy Collector Forsyth, of Cheboy-
gan, holds Office just for patriotism. He
gets $500 year, and pays 1926 of it for
night watchman.
1t is said that Gen. Alger owns over
one hundred square miles of forest land
near Alpena, on which there is standing
over five hundred million feet of pine
timber.
Warden Hatch states that the typhoid
fever epidemic at the prison is we'll under
control and that all the patients are on the
improve, although two are in very low
condition.
The two-story frame residence of
Amos Cooley, three miles south of Belle
vile, was totally destroyed by fire the other
day. Loss, $500 to 5000. Cause, defect
i've fue. No insurance.
Eddie Drury, aged 10, of Port Hope,
was drowned recently while skating on the
ice on Lake Huron. His body was recov-
cred in half an hour, but all efforts at re-
suscitation proved futile.
A 14-year- old Dundee boy misnamed
Wise was foolish enough 10 get caught
stealing can Of oysters, and he will cul-
tivate wisdom and honesty at the Reform
School until he is Is years old.
During 1887 the Michigan Salt Associ-
alton shipped in bulk to Chicago SOS. 2S2
barrels or 49, tons, against SO, 46S tons
or 1876, 129 barrels in 1886. The bulk salt
is used by Chicago packers in curing beef
and pork.
Chapman Smith, a we'll to do farmer
living five miles northeast from Midland,
recently dropped dead at his home cause,
heart disease. He was ~ years Of age and
had beeu resident of the county about
six months, having moved there from Ann
Arbor. kilograms were sent to his rela-
tives OF the latter place.
Paul Barney and Glenn Perry pleaded
guilty recently before Justice Ready, of
Bay City, to violation of the fish law, in
that they had their nets set in the west
channel of Saginaw River. They pleaded
| ignorance of the law, and evinced Wiling
ness to remove their Irvine obstruction,
whereupon the Justice let them off with a
fine Of six cents and costs.
The Board of Supervisors of Montmo-
rency County have decided to submit to the
voters at the spring election the question
Of a permanent location for the county seat.
The contest will be between Hillman, the
present county seat, and Atlanta, which is
a thriving village in the center of the coun-
ty; and stands good chance of being the
choice of a large majority of the voters of
the county.
Carl, the 12-y ar-old son of Carl Boy
teen, of East Saginaw, died recently, otter
an illness of seven years. The case is one
of peculiar interest, the unfortunate lad
having been stricken down with paralysis
when only years old, since which time he
has been confined to his bed The child's
body grew while lying there, but his mind
did not appear to increase in intelligence,
and the same infantile expression marked
his countenance the last year of his life as
il did when the terrible blow came that laid
him on an invalid's couch for the rest of
his natural life.
Pensions: Susannah, widow of Jo-
seph Henderson, Cadillac; Sarah A,
widow of Charles Merritt, Linden; Monroe
Olin, Mason James ID. Studley. Union;
Thomas Coulson. Norvell; Francis f. Be-
craft, Bellevue Robert Smith, Ruby; Jo-
seph Huff, Parshallville; Jerome More
house, Centreville; John G. Dowd, Ban
field; Erastus II. Carter, Leslie; Eli A.
Wright, Potterville; Benjamin Fessler,
Salt River; Cornelius A. Halenbeck, YER
montville; Edgar Bennett, Colon; Norman
A. Reynolds, Coldwater; Spencer w.
Haynes, Grand Rapids; Henry Bogue,
Harrison; Charles Turrell, Webberville;
John A. McDougall, Ypsilanti; William III.
Fl. Helms, Springbrook; Frank t. Wolfe,
Wakelee; Burton Parker, Monroe City;
James NJ. Roberts, Daily; Elmore II. Ca
Law, Montgomery; Wilson Tobias, White
Pigeon; George Patrick, Cannonsburg;
Eugene a Loranzer. Rockwood: Robert
Austin, Romeo; Clement w. Stone
(deceased, Ann Arbor; George vando-
mars, Bellaire; August Martin, Wyandotte;
George II. Winslow, Hickory Corners;
James Price, Eaton Rapids; lie Roy
Rogers, Eastport; Henry Potts, Wellston;
| John NJ Thomas Cannonshnr w Reck-