The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-06-05

salute will be fired at sunrise. The dedi-
cation of the monuments at the rostrum
at the National Cemetery takes place at
10 o'clock. dedicatory salute of thir-
teen guns will be fred, representing the
number of regiments and organizations
engaged in the fight. Immediately after
these exercised the graves of Michigan
soldiers in the cemetery will be decorated.
There will be appropriate music, and an
address by Rev. James II. Potts, of De-
troit, who served with the Sixth Michi-
gan Cavalry in that fight.
-Track-laying is in vigorous progress
on the Frankfort and Southwestern Rail-
road.
An oily-tongued fellow pretending to
represent Chicago house has been work
ing Armada and other towns in Macomb
County. He shows fine samples OF ladies'
underwear, and induces milliners to sell
on commission. He simply asks for
enough cash down to pay for boxing and
carriage, which he says is Sll. This is to
be deducted from the sales afterward. He
holds out big commission on all goods
sold and finds lots of victims. Look out
for the rascal.
-Ontonagons opera house has been
destroyed by fire.
Nine months ago, while making the
famous gubernatorial campaign with
Wellington Il. Burt, as special CORE
spondent of the Detroit Free Press, John
III. Greusel lost valuable watch charm in
some of the towns of the Upper PENN
sula. Just where or in what manner the
charm was lost was never explained; and
having no clue whatever to work on, Mr..
Greusel allowed the incident to pass from
his mind At the close of the campaign,
however, spirit of curiosity prompted
him to select, by chance and TO write
short note on the subject TO four local ed
itorS in as many northern cities. AS
might be anticipated, no word of ac-
acknowledgement was received. Friday, how
ever, nine months after thcsHcident had
been entirely forgotten, says the Free
and something wrapped in bit of news
paper was received by Mr. Greusel The
letter was from Joseph L. Soults, editor
of the Menominee Democrat, who had
just discovered the long-lost charm at
Marinette, Wis, and restored it to its
original owner.
Mrs. Charles Smith, whose husband
was shot by the sheriff in saloon fl bit at
Cheboygan, in April, committed suicide
the other day by shooting herself in the
breast.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of Bay City is to have fine gymna-
stun.
Detroit Free Press: A marriage Ii
cense was issued TO Joseph Rice and
Maggie Barnes, both full-blood Indians,
born in the vicinity of Montreal, but resi-
dents of Detroit for several years. Rice
is a scenic artist of consid erable ability
and is regularly employed at Whitney's
Opera House Maggie Barnes is bead
worker and has made considerable money.
This is the first marriage of full blood
Indians in Detroit so far as the court
records show.
Ex-senator Jones lectured at Alpena
for the benefit of ST. Demands Society
Subject, The Irish Question.
The proposition to bond the city of
Lansing for $4,000 to pay the incum-
brance on the fair grounds, as a condition
of the State fair located there, was car
ried almost unanimously, only twenty six
adverse votes being cast.
The last Weather Service crop bulle-
tin sent out from Lansing shows tenn
perature for the past week of 2.3 degrees
below the normal; rainfall, sixty We
hundredths of an inch, or twelve hun
dredths below the average. Sunshine
has been below the average, with an un-
favorable effect on corn. Other crops
have made good growth. Wheat is lead
ing in Lenawee and Monroe Counties, but
the straw is short. Glover and timothy
show the effect of drought Frost was
general, but the damage was not Sc
rious.
Potato bugs are reported as more
plentiful than usual this spring.
-Ontonagon Herald: A hard wood
saw mill with capacity of saving 80, 900
feet of timber a day is being built at
Portage Lake. This, we believe. is the
first hard wood mill ever erected on this
peninsula.
The Bay City Tribune says that the
electric cars will not begin running in the
Third City for at least seventy days.
Some of the progressive citizens Of
Lansing are trying to have a chemical en-
CINE added to the fire department.
-Benzie County has just lost by death
two of her oldest pioneers-Samuel W.
Benton and Capt. w. Il. Sutherland.
The Monroe Democrat says that dril-
lers in boring wells upon the Greening
nursery grounds, near that place strt ok
two remarkable flows of water. The water
is of remarkable purity-there not being
trace of sulphur. The force raises che
volume about eight feet above the surface.