The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-12-11
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

Tho following Michigan pensions
have been granted:
Original invalld-Charles A. Rooney, Detroit
Restoration, Reissue, aud lncrease-Selah A.
ioodenough. Nermontville; Thomas Hall, Lock
wood w. Jackson, Wavne; George II. Purdy,
Algansoe; Frederick Wierman. breckenridge;
Albert La Point, DeeIfeld; Henry fidler, b.
5utler; Addison A. Russell, Assyria Charles
:. Kaufman, Detroit; John A. hnowlton, shell
oyyille; VIM. Z. Doty kawkaslin; Da-
Grand Rapids Bruce G. Wilcox Sherwood (;
John w Worden Brooklyn; August Kennedy,
Port Austin; Andrew La Forge, Traverse City (;
George w Hale Coloma Charles T.. Hall, Bay
City Nathan Allen, SCOTS Llewellyn Chalker,
Unadilla Alexander Detwiller, Three Rivers !;
Henry ii. Williams, Dansville Eugene Weaver
,hael Miller. Soldiers Home, Grand Rapids /;
Frank l.. Weston, Pulaski; Edward Kernmer-
sling. Colon; William Rutan Somerset Center (;
William Hines Grand Rapids; Robert Bap-
WORTH Lathrop; Eugene Stone, Burlington !;
Russell b. Boss, Vassar; Elijah Hough, Au
sable
Increase Wilhelm Hagerman, Detroit !;
CLANCY Reynolds. Newaygo; Robert McCardy
Ann Arbor; Storrs H. Moulton, Coldwater !;
Theodore Il. De Witt. Ovid; Abner Green. hala-
mazoo; Eli A. Wright, Potterville VIM, A.
Wheeler, Flint Henry Hull, Dryden stephen
). Cornell, Lansing; Henry j. Cook, Manton !;
Joseph ID. Wolf, Constantine; John Chambers
Battle Greek Henry Alspaugh, Dayton Arson
Bonfoey, Lake Odessa Wallace Lovewell, Lake
Odessa; Joseph Tracy. Fargo John English,
Detroit Josephus Smith. Argentine; VIM. A.
Brown. Reading; George j. Splitter, Henderson (;
Paul Lingle, Midland Archy B. Hunter, Lud-
ngton.
Reissue-Hugh Mckinley, Petoskey; Martin
a. Thornton Coidwater: Robert Simpson, Sag
nav City; Samuel lngling,, Dowagiac; Oliver
Mcconnell, Vermontville John 5. Sanders Bur-
ungton Alonzo McNett, Bangor; VIM Eggles-
ton, Jefferson; Lewis Ritter, Concord; John
w. Teller. Brooklyn.
Reissue and increase-Murry S. Baker, Will
JAMESTOWN William Turnbull, Ogemaw Springs
Harrison Carpenter, Potterville; Oliver Rock,
st. Clair Frederick ID. Carr, Meridian Frank
lin ingalls,, Quincy; Samuel Johnson, Berrien
Springs Francis NJ. Demons, alias Franklin X.
Demming, Muskegon; William w. Roberts,
Alma Hamilton NJ. Smith, Sand Lake Silas
Patton, Detroit; Frank VI. Bixler. Bowers Mills
Horace Burgess Macon; Eleazer f. Wiley, For
est Hill Gustavus A. Freuzel, Mayville; Mar
lin Conley, Capac Henry G.. Mitchell, Clar IN
don; Samuel Autcliff, Brooklyn; Michael r.
Messenger, Saginaw; Lewis Walsar Layton's
Corners Harrison Lewis, Flushing; Theodore
Clark, Pipestown; William c. Heck, Teculn sen ;
Reuben L. Smith, New Iathrop Mart II. Will
lams, Grand Ledge; George Pratorius, Ida ;
James Tilton, Marshall; Philander Durkee,
Hastings
Restoration and Increase-william H. Buck,
Fowler.
Reissue Samuel f. Skunk. St. Louis James
nj. Smithey, Colon.
Reissue and Increase-Pa Farley H. Rice, Kala-
mazoo
Original Widow-Rachel widow OF Reuben
Crandall, Saudusky
Mexican Widows-Sarah, widow Of Alexander
y. Coleman, ST. Joseph.
Louis Heller. of Detroit. can skin a
sheep faster than any other man in Amer
lea. He says so himself, and he is will
ing to back his assertion with money. In
a haying match at Detroit, the other
night, he skinned twenty snowy rams in
thirty-eight minutes and thirty FIVE sec
onds, removed their digestive organs,
hung them up by the heels, and, with
warm and reeking knife between his teeth,
gurned a handspring on the stage before
a thousand persons.
The Union BARRIERS National Con-
ventior was held at Detroit last week.
The delegates adopted measures looking
to the abolition of Sunday work and to
the adoption of the wage instead of the
percentage system. The time for putting
in force these reforms they left optional
with the local unions. They are encour-
aged, however, by the concerted action
in Michigan and Ohio cities in the aban-
donment of Sunday work, those where
it is now abolished being Grand Rapids
jackson, Lansing, Kalamazoo, Battle
Creek, Cincinnati, and Columbus. II
goes into effect in Cleveland with the
coming of the new year. The conven.
ton presented II. g. Hook, of Muskegon
the President, with gold headed cane
for his eff oiency.
The South Buffalo iron mine at Ne
gaunee has been sold to the Schlesingel
syndicate. The consideration was 5000,
900 for the mine and IS, 500 for the ore ant
coal in stock. John Quincy Adams. who
negotiated the sale, says that there has
never been more healthy activity in min
ing properties than at present, and tina
the iron men of the Upper Peninsula fee
hopeful for the future. The Soutl
Buffalo is the eighth mine Mr.. Adam,
has sold this year. This seasons prod
uct of the iron mines now operated b.
the Schlesinger syndicate is upward o
1,0O0,0 900 tons, and Mr.. Schlesinger say
that it is expected to double the outpu
1IOm the HhluS nluoS HoAt ychis
"A Mackinaw County hunter sho
thirty-nine deer, a bear, and a wolf las
month, and sold them for Sl3S.
The number of deer estimated t
have been brought to Alpena during tn
hunting season is COO The greater par
were shipped to Detroit.
Fifteen million feet of lumber en-
5000. 900 shingles were manufactured a
the mills of the Morse Manufacturin
Company at Alpena this season.
Lansing is going to make it's tram
visitors work for their lodging and break
fast.
AT the Masters Mill in Alpena TO-
900, 900 shingles were manufactured thi
season.
The Folkert Lumber Mill at Alpen
manufactured this year 1880, 900 feet G
lumber.
Bay City isn't going to waste an
more sawdust, but will hereafter manr
facture it into alcohol. The enterpris
will be establish ed at once, and will Civ
employment to about seventy men.