The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-11-14

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.


portant Doings of Our Neighbors-Wed-
dings and Deaths - Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
The schooner Georger has gone into
winter quarters at Detroit.
Captain Grummond has laid up the
tugs w. A. Moore and Oswego and the
schooner Swallow.
1t is reported that Captain Laughlin's
schooner, the Seaton, is total loss at
Port Elgin, Ont, where she went ashore.
The new Michigan Central ice crush
er for Detroit has been launched at
Cleveland, and when she arrives will
doubtless be queen of the Detroit River.
Her length over all is ESQ feet, As feet c.
feet from outside to outside of guards.
The latter are such additions that they are
to furnish quarters for the officers of the
ship. Her deck between guards is of such
trucks. For the purpose Of runring cars
and engines into her decks she has square
ends. Her pilot house is on bridge at
the forward end of the vessel, and is
is peculiarly shaped in order to make her
O thorough ice breaker, and has been
stiffened with keelsons for the same pur-
pose. So much attention has been given to
mated that she could break through ice
three feet thick without injury, and
could be sailed through ice one
foot in thickness at speed of seven
miles per hour. Her screw wheel is nine
feet in diameter, and her side wheels are
shod with heavy steel facings to assist in
breaking ice. The power which is to push
her through the water or ice of the above
thickness is in four steel boilers IL feet G
inches, 16 feet long, or Al feet longer than
the ordinary boilers on the lakes. These
boilers have two domes 20 feet long and
As inches in diameter and one dome 10
feet long and feet in diameter. These
boilers will furnish steam for six cylin-
ders; two 2Sx4S inches on each side for
side-wheel engines, and two cylinders
2Sx36 inches for stern wheel engine, each
with separate condensers. Cylinders are
double low pressure with horizontal en-
gines. The latter have two steel spur
gears I6 feet in diameter, all cut teeth, and
two steel spur pinions feet inches in
diameter, also all cut teeth. The whole
cost of this remarkable steamship is
1925, 900. She is to be finished up at the
Cleveland port, and is expected to be
ready for sea about the middle Of next
January. She will then leave Cleveland
for Detroit regardless of the amount or
thickness of ice on Lake Erie.
-Annie Hacking asks the Wayne
County Circuit Court for authority to de-
mand from her husband, John c. Hack
ing. who has an action against her, the
sum of SIS per week temporary alimony
and s25 solicitors fee.
The seed sown by the howl of dissat-
isfaction that went up from every one
when ii was learned that the League base
ball club had been sold has borne fruit
and new baseball association has been
started at Detroit. Among those who re-
sponded to the call for n meeting of those
interested in baseball were George c.
Chittenden, one of the owners of the Rus
sell House; NJ. B. Mells, prominent
real-estate man; George II. Barbour a
wealthy merchant Judge L. o. Durfee,
Robert II. Leadley, the manager of the
old club. Ex-President Stearns and Di-
rector George NJ. Vail, of the old National
League club, were not present, but sent
word that they were heartily in accord with
| the object of the meeting. 1t was decided
TO put strong nine into the international
League the coming season regardless Of
cost, and committee was appointed to
receive stock subscriptions from many of
| the prominent merchants who have ex-
/ pressed desire TO have financial interest
| in tho new club. There is no doubt of the
success of the scheme, as George NJ. Vail
/ is willing and ready to take the entire
| block of stock if allowed He will not do
so, however, as organizers think best to
let in the merchants who desire an inter
est, and thus place it on a solid financial
basis by having many working for the
success of the club instead of one man.
! The par value of the stock will be $50 per
share. Bob Leadley will be the manager
Of the new club, and the International
League next season will be composed of
Detroit Toledo, Buffalo, Toronto, Lon
don, Syracuse and Rochester, and, pos
sibly, Hamilton, Ont.
The Cutler & Savidge Lumber Com
pany have begun suit in the Wayne
Circuit Court against Edgar H. Durand,
| George Hendrie ct al. for SO, 900 dam
ages, claiming mechanics lien to the
amount of S2,526. 10 on the property
Of the defendants.
There are two men in Jail at Milo who
may be taken out and lynched if the
Eownspeople do not cool down. They are
Joseph Rossi, woodsman who pounded
John Fowler of Fairview so that he may
die, and Albert Beadle, also q woodsman,
who assaulted Pauline Burcleff, n German
girl. Her recovery is doubtful. The
officers have taken unusual precautions to