The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-02-22
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

st. Ignace is threatened with bank
with capital of S50,OO0. \
The trustees of the Utica Congrega{
tional Church are all ladies.
Mt. Clemens has organized militar
company and wants water works.
-vicksburg is going 10 have bakery
and Three Rivers dry goods store.
Several Mancelona young men will
purchase bicycles ia he spring and organ
ize club.
An Ypsilanti man, who has hobby
for gathering axes, is the possessor of
ninety-two.
"A round house that will hold six engines
will be built at Alger by the Michigan Cen
trail Company.
"A prominent East Saginaw liveryman
claims that nearly all the street-car horses
are suffering from the effects of salt on the
tracks.
Louis Hoffman, who has been instruct
ing the Jonesville Band for some time,
him. Tie horn was recovered at Hills
dale, where Hoffman had pawned it, but
the missing musician has not been seen
yet, although the officers have l-kted
him.
The Hillsdale College Museum re-
ceived by the American Express plank
from Eureka. CAL, sent by Prof. III. f.
Whipple, formerly of the college, and Col.
S. G.. Whipple, U. S. A. 1t was half of
redwood slab, twelve feet wide by three
inches thick-the other half going to
Washington. The express company for
warded it free of charge, but at regular
rates the bill would have been over 800.
The plank was split through the center in
coming.
About eight years ago, while residing
at Zurich, Ont, John r. Eckstein, clerk
in Tuomey x Co.'s nat store, Jackson, had
a Canadian ten cent piece. on which the
blacksmith there punched the initials
81. r.. in quite large letters. Mr.. Eek
stein kept it for pocket piece for nearly a
circumstance had nearly faded from his
memory, when customer from the country
came in and in paying for his purchases
handed over the same ten cent piece, which
was at once recognized by Mr.. Eckstein as
his old pocket piece.
The meanest man on record has turned
up at St. Ignace. A bridge carpenter
named Sherman met his death by accident
in that town. A pile was being raised by
block and tackle, when it swung around
and came down with great force on the
back of Shermans head, crushing in his
skull. The corpse was taken to an under
over one eye which had not been mutilated.
James Hughes, lsmberman, loafed
around the body for time, and at last,
when nobody was looking, stole the half
dollar and put penny in its place. The
fellow was at once arrested. He pleaded
guilty, and was held.
The Directors of the Hillsdale County
Agricultural Society met, recently, and
for 1888. The amount of money offered
in premiums is somewhat larger than last
year. The list has been very carefully re-
vised, and is now very complete. In tie
speed department the society will offes
$1,000 in premiums, divided into eighl
purses. The purses for colts /, 9, and 4
year olds, is for colts owned in the county.
There will also be one race open to all
county horses. There will be $50.
three minute, and 2:40 race, and one race
open for all horses. The society will not
employ foreign or expert judges in any
department except thoroughbred short
horn cattle; but select judges from resi-
dents of the county. That is return to
the system in vogue ten years ago.
DR.. Vaughan in lecture at Ann Arbor,
few days ago, narrated the facts of the
Iron Mountain typhoid fever epidemic, as
told him by Mr.. Brewster, Of the firm of
Brewster Brown, of the Chaplin Mine.
There was citizen of Iron Mountain
whose family numbered fourteen. They
used water from well of questionable
purity. The health officer cautioned the
family, but they did not heed it, and mem
bers were stricken with the disease. The
officer then put paddock on the pump,
chained it down, and ordered the family.
under the fear of death, not to 90 near the
we'll. But when the pumping machine was
of no avail the family tore up the planks
covering the well and dipped the deadly
water out with pail, and not till thirteen
of the fourteen were down with the disease
was the impurity of the water considered a
factor in the case and the use of the we'll
water stopped. A large number of the