The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-09


In it. He found the owner of it, too, soon
after.
1t is now stated that Escanaba must
ante up snug sum in cash or lose tho
Coohrane roller mill factory at that place.
--Ontonagon is out of the woods at
last, the connection of the o. Il b. Rail-
way with the Duluth, South Shore and
Atlantic having been erected.
Not long ago, says the Detroit Jour-
nal, Prof. Kedzie, of the Agricultural
College, made public the result of his
analysis of the fertilizer sold by the
Western Reserve Fertilizer Company, of
Warren, Ohio, aud said its commercial
value was about % cents per ton. Now
comes an agent of the company and pro-
poses to sue Kedzie and raise the dickens
generally as about 500 tons of the stuff
has been hung up in the warehouses of
Michigan owing to Prof. Kedzie's report.
Maybe the agent will do all the things he
threatens and maybe he will not, but If
he gets down to fight he will find the
headed men he ever had tussle with.
A good many Alpena lumber camps
are in operation.
The Norwegian Society is erecting @
new church at Alpena.
There are only 10 convicts in the
Michigan State Prison. During Septem-
Der sixteen were received and nineteen
discharged.
The city of Ishpeming is changing
the source of its water supply from Lake
Angelina to Lake Sally, at an immediate
expense OF 5000, with prospect of as
much more in a short time for new
pumps and buildings. Good reason ex-
lists also for believing that within the
next five years the city will be compelled
to go to Lake Michigamme, eighteen
miles distant and 200 feet above Ish-
peming, or to Lake Superior, fifteen
mi les distant and 600 feet below the Ish-
peming level, to get water fit to drink.
For several years past the water drawn
from Lake Angelina has been so impure
as to cause protests from the physicians,
many of whom ascribed the prevalence
OF typhoid fever and similar diseases to
impure water. The heavy taxpayers,
among whom are the mine owners, OBJ
jected TO changing the water supply on
the ground of the expense, but when it
was found that Lake Angelina was
90 La
ore, and that TO remove it would
necessitate the pumping out of the
water above the ore, the three largest
mining companies, each of which owns a
slice of the ore, decided that the water
was unfit to drink, and pitched on Lake
Sally a the future source of supply. 1t
was claimed at the time that Lake Sally
Was decided on that ore existed about the
lake, and that it would be folly TO remove
the pumping station there, for the reason
that mines would be developed and in n
short time the water of Lake Sally would
be as impure as that of Lake Angelina.
No attention was paid TO these warnings,
aud the work of extending the supply
main to Lake Sally was begun a few
weeks ago The contractors who are do
ing the work have cut through veins of
iron ore at half dozen different points,
only q few feet below the surface. The
veins are undoubtedly of sufficient size
10 pay for working, and it is likely that
several mines will surround Lake Sally in
few years. As all their drainage will
necessarily go into the lake, the trouble
that WIS had at Lake Angelina will be
repeated at Lake Sally.
An Antrim County farmer has to-
bacco plant in his garden from which a
leaf measuring thirty-two inches long
and sixteen inches broad at the widest
! part was taken.
burglars broke into the house occu-
pied by the editor of the Reed City Dem
ocra'. Editor Goulet says that they
fooled away their time.
"A horrible accident occurred at the
Sanitary Closet Manufacturing Com
pany's establishment in Detroit the other
day. George Barlow, q molder, with
some fellow-workmen, was carrying pot
of molten brass. Barlow 81 pped and
fell, and the pot was overturned and the
white-hot metal streamed over his head
and shoulders. He was dragged away as
! quickly as possible but not until he had
been frightfully burned. There is no
hope of his recovery.
The theory that decapitation ends
sensibility is questioned in Nagaunee.
A few days ago Thomas Higgins, break
man, fell from the top of a moving train,
five cars passed over him, and when the
train was stopped end hacked up to him
it was found that the man was terribly
mangled, the head lying n dozen feet
from the body. Fireman Matthew Byo
picked up the head in order to dispose
the remains decently for removal to the
dead mans home, when he was horror
stricken to see the staring eyes slowly
close. In tones of terror he was telling
his companions, who were also busy, of
the strange incident, and all eyes turned