The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-08-08

son has been marketed In Jackson, the
price paid being seventy eight cents q
bushel
The Rev. Father Chebul has arrived
at Ontonagon, and assumed charge Of the
Catholic Church in the village. He il
now the oldest priest in the diocese, hav-
ing been in the ministry thirty-three
years; he has been laboring very hard at
Ironwood, and thought he would take the
more quiet and less laborious parish in
Ontonagon.
The population of Copper Harbor
has dwindled down to seven families.
The Manistique Pioneer says that the
east pier extension is grand thing, and
that there is plenty of water in the chan
mel now.
Hugh McKinnon, on Black River, has
huge wolf for family pet. 1t was
caught in trap by one of F. III. Stinch-
fields foremen. He muzzled it, and put
it in boat and rowed it across Black
Lake to Mr.. McKinnons place. 1t stands
about three and one half feet high.
VIM. Perkins & Son, of East Sagi-
inaw, are putting up portable saw-mill
to cut about 10, 900 feet of lumber daily
on the farm of Joseph Burgess, three
miles north of West Branch. They will
also cut cedar shingles, posts, etc,
The planning mill and warehouse of
the Western Lumber Company at Manis-
tique has been destroyed by fire, causing
a loss of $4,000, with no insurance.
One year ago Mrs. Adeline G. Hotch-
kiss died in Detroit, leaving $50, 900 es-
tate to New York heirs. When the es-
tate was settled, DR.. Hugh McGregor
Wilson stepped in with apparently out
lawed notes aggregating with interest
$4,000. He claimed that small pay
ments had been made on each, thus pre-
venting them from becoming outlawed.
AS he was poor man and the notes had
never been Endorsed or secured or sued
upon, the estate became suspicious and
had them submitted to experts, who,
after minute examination, pronounced
them forgeries, one having been raised in
bungling way from SIS to $4,000, and
another from 1000 to $4,000. From ap-
pearances both were raised recently.
About fifteen years ago Mrs. Hotchkiss
and her son, who had a two-thirds inter-
est in the estate, lived at Lockport N. Y,
as did also the doctor. The son was taken
sick and soon died, being attended by
DR.. Wilson. Mrs. Hotchkiss and Will
son soon after came to Detroit. Three
years ago they were arrested for the muir
der of the son. His body was disinterred
and arsenic traces were found. 1t was
uncertain whether it had been admins
tered to him while alive or used by the
undertakers. SO both were discharged
Monroe Collins, of Rives, raised 276
bushels of rye on nine acres of ground
this season.
"A certain young man of Mio'is will
ing to bet $50 that his horse can make
the distance between Milo and Mack City
inside of thirty minutes.
The Lake County officers might as
we'll release Doc Andrews from the charge
of numbering julius c.. Bailey, the Cold
water schoolboy. The boy is now man
grown and resides in Chicago. His broth
er, j. w. Bailey. lives at l25 West Jack
son street, Chicago, and another brother
is foreman for Boardman & Rose, bus
linemen of Kalamazoo. julius worked
there in hardware store three years after
leaving Lake County, in March, 1881, and
two years afterward drove a baggage
wagon in Kalamazoo. When he returned
he said the old man was dead and his
widow didn't like him. The death bed
confession is merely hoax.
-Ismi Martin, the sixteen-year-old
! girl forger, was arrested at Detroit on
warrant charging her with uttering
forged check drawn by j. II. Wilson in
favor of j. H. Martin, upon which she
| procued SIS. A jeweler charges that the
! girl obtained $50 worth of bracelets and
rings from him and pawned them. Other
reports of her cunning swindling are
coming in from many business houses
When the officers went to her mothers
house to make the arrest Ismi leaped out
of window and ran like deer 1t took
four policemen to surround her and take
her to the police court. In default of
$500 bail she went to Jail.
Professor l.. CT. Carpenter, of the
Michigan Agricultural College, after 60
ing to Colorado and looking over the
grounds, has decided to accept the offer
made him by the Board of Agriculture of
that State. The position offered is the
professorship of physics and engineering
in the State Agricultural College, and
meteorologist and irrigation engineer on
the experimental station established I'M
der the provisions of the Hatch bill. The
experimental work offers wide field in
which almost no scientific work has been
done, and in a field that has very strong
popular support. The Board offers q
salary of 1900, an assistant at salary
sufficient TO secure college graduate,
and good and growing equipment.
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