The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-02-27

congealed@tty hAi1fmen are doing Q
thriving buzz w. ara Cheboy' "a meal
markets are we'll s,lppl Cd with Mack
NAV trout and other species Of tho hnny
tribe.
Two camps IN Sucker Creek. one on
the lower south branch aud one on Swan
Crock, report 100000 feet Of logs
banked--all owned by Alpena parties.
Brace a. Strong. who ne numbering
back OF the Cheshire mine. put Into the
Escanaba River, on six mile haul. with
one team OF horses. $500 feet Of logs at
one load.
The Federation OF Labor Convention
at Lansing spent considerable time In dis
cussing their constitution section by sec
ton. 1t is somewhat lengthy, and was
finally agreed upon and adopted The
organization will be known as the Michi-
gan Federation OF Labor. The following
is in substance declaration OF principles:
Labor produces all wealth. that the
product belongs by right and justice to
the producer; that personal occ upancy is
tho only nghtful title to land; that q
medium is necessary for exchange of
products; that the present patent
laws are unjust. The following
officers we're elected: President. Joseph
Labadie, Detroit; First Vice President,
Frank II. Gill, Grand Rapids; Second
Vice President, John Ralph, MARI tie;
Third Vice President, =. j. Curtis, Jack
son; Secretary and Treasurer, George w.
Duncan, Detroit; Executive Bo ,rd, +. M.
Phillips, Jackson; John butcher, Sagi-
nav; j. C. Mitchell, Detroit; III. G. Will
ahan, Grand Rapids; Henry Two, Detroit.
Legislative Committee, G. L. Smith. A.
j. Whitman. Daniel Barringer, all of Lam
sing. The Michigan Arbeiier Zeitun0
was made the German official paper of the
organization. A resolution was adopted
in favor of the Reines ballot box at cleo
tions, and indorsing compulsory education.
The repeal OF the Baker conspiracy act
was demanded and the weekly payment of
WAGES favored. The Congressional dele
cation were memorialized to assist in the
passage OF an eight hour law for employees
of tie government. East Saginaw was
fixed as the plsce of the next annual
meeting.
Martin Lupton's portable saw mill
in Rose Township. Ogemaw County. has
commenced cutting. He has 5000 logs in
the yard and has sold the ltire cut of the
season, about l,000,0 c0 feet, to Sutber-
land & Co., of Z st Saginaw. at the fol-
lowing prices: Hard marie, SO per 1000
feet; bass wood. Sll; birch, $40; black
ash, SO; white ash. Si4; pine. sl4 to S26.
Prof. A. l.. Silvernail, of Ionia, has
invented a chronological indicator for
demonstrating titude and longitude.
1t consis of half sphere in the center
of dial, and is run by clio k-work and
revolves once in twenty four hours, show
ing the time Of dav at any place marked
upon the sirf ce of the hemisphere. Mr..
SIlvernail has applied for patent.
All The parties Interested in the
Elect ic Sugar Refining Company frauds
were arrested at Milan and taken to Ann
Arbor, with Mrs. Olive T.. Friend, Will
liam E. Howard, Emily Howard, Gus II IL
stra l. and George Halstead, and placed
i the county Jail. They were arrested
for obtaining money under pretenses.
tn zee indictments having been found
ng inst them by grand jury of New York
last January. One is issued for fraud
against the sugar company and two on
complaint of Lawson n Fuller, of New
York. On these indictment acquisitions
were mqde on the Governor OF this State,
who Issued warrants for. their arrest on
Feb. 1. The trouble has been to get all
the par les within the st Ito at the same
time Mrs. Friend was in concealment
turned to Mlin, feeling sure that no
criminal action was to be brought, but they
wese arrested as sta ell. Howard threat-
ened tat when they got to New 70
there would be a sensation greater than
had ever stirred that C ty. Mrs. Field is
willing to go to New York for trial. as she
say she had never h I'd dollar from the
Electric Sugar Refining Company except
On allowance of 500 per month that hei
contract calls for. She also says she
does not know and never saw Lawson N,
Fuller, of whom she is charged with OBJ
timing money under f1se pretenses.
The Supreme Court has decided thai
tho so-cnl'ed social climbs of the State
where liquor is dispensed to the members
must take out licenses as retail liquor
dealers or sband
Athena manufa cturers are shipping Z
good many road stow-plows to various
sections OF the State. Two different snow.
plows have been invented and patented
by Alpena citizens.
Announcing 10 his people his declina.
ton OF the offer of the Diocese of De
tro.t, the Rev. Dr.. Sa tsrlee. OF Calvary
Church. New York, said: Il have beer
trying to share with you my ideal OF par.
/ ish life. which is high one to me. Have
L right to forsake that ideal and thos,
who have been bu lders with me? fel
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