The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-08-21

nstfous Oreeiy expedition 10 the northern
zone, has married Perella Paulson, OF
Manistique, and settled down to home
life in that pleasant little city.
About 100000 brick are manufac-
tured each season in the Saginaw Valley,
four-ffths of which are produced in the
Tittabawassee yards.
Gov. Luce has appointed Chas. ii.
Shafier, of Onota, commissioner to lay
out and establish the Bodenac & Lake
Superior State Road in Delta and Alger
Counties, for which provisions were
made by the late Legislature.
The State Assembly of Royal
Adelphi met at Lansing last week and
elected S. r. Thornton, of Trenton,
delegate, and G. Warren johnson alter
ternate to the Supreme Conclave, which
meets in Detroit. These delegates were
instructed to urge an amendment to the
Constitution whereby the Supreme Con-
clave shall hereafter consist of one dele
gate from each local conclave. together
with officers of such copclaves.
"A dispatch of the 10Th inst. from
Frankfort, Benzie County, says:
When Wright was placed in Frankfort Jail
Wednesday evening the usually quiet strests
were crowded with men, who gathered i'm knots
discussing the crime Occasionally loud threats
were heard. Sheriff Case swore in about dozen
armed guards Two were placed in the cor
ridor of the Jail with rifles, and the others
patrolled around the Jail. Several heavy show
ers fortunately dispersed the crowds on the
streets. Yesterday morning Wright was taken
by officers, marched TO the depot and hurried
on board the cars. He was met by his brother
and his Ave attorneys. and the train pulled out
for Benzonia, twelve miles distant.
Capt. w. V. James, one of Detroit's
Oldest and best-known citizens, is dead,
aged 76.
"A recent letter from Ishpeming says:
THE telegram from New York, saying
that new iron trust had been formed,
with capital of sac, 900, 900, to control
the bessemer ore supply of Lake Supe-
rior, is a most ingenious fabrication. The
three mines bought by the German syn
dictate represented by Ferdinand Schles-
singer, of Milwaukee, all produce nom
Bessemer ores. There is no such trust
as stated. There is no trust of any sort
operating the mines of this district"
After a long and painful illness,
caused by cancer, Charles Doughty, a
resident and merchant of East Saginaw
for twenty five years, died last week, aged
Is years. Since 1885 NJ. Doughty has
been Receiver of the United States Land
Office at East Saginaw.
from the port of Alpena there cleared
last week thirty-one lumber vessels, of
which two went to Chicago, six each to
Cleveland, Buffalo and Detroit, four each
to Toledo and Tonawanda, and three to
Sandusky. The export comprised 9, 295,-
600 feet of lumber, 800, 900 lath and %
cords of match timber.
A fatal shooting affair occurred in the
town Of Kawkawlin, Bay County, during
for the benefit of a new church. Although
Kawkawlin is prohibition township,
liquor was to be had near the hall, in a
bottle known TO a few Of the party. A
companions started down the road in the
direction of the bottles hiding place,
when Andrews drew revolver and fired,
not intending to shoot any person, but,
as he expressed it, lust for fun" Five
shots were fred in all by different men,
bers of the party. The last shot, which
Andrews is charged with firing, struck a
man named Gage, who was standing in
front of the hall, in the abdomen, infict-
ing wound which caused death in few
hours. Andrews is under arrest
DIR. George w. Lacea, resident physi-
clan at the University for several years,
was looked upon as q confirmed bachelor,
but he surprised everybody last week by
marrying Miss Ada Epson, a popular
Ann Arbor girl.
County Agent Russell, of Mt. Pleas
ant, took two boys to the Reform School
at Lansing. The papers were defective
and Supt. Cover declined to receive the
boys, but Russell left the boys at the
school and went to a ball game. The
boys wanted to go down town and Cover
had no authority to stop them, so they
went Russell returned in the evening
I from the ball game, but the boys had
skipped.
Daniel McLaren's barn, in Lima,
Washington County, burned, with eighty
tons of hay and the seasons wheat crop.
"A recent letter from Ishpeming says:
| syndicate OF German bankers have investea
several million dollars in this country within
| the last twelvemonth Two years ago Mr.
| Ferdinand Schlesinger of Milwaukee bought the
Dunn mine at Crystal Falls, Monominee County
paying what was then thought n round price for
| it. The mine turned out to be n big one and tho
| Investment was n rtunate one Last February
Mr. Schlesinger, acting for the same syndicate
| that bought the Dunn, purchased the Chaplin
mine at Iron Mountain, Mich, paying therefor
| g., 100000. The Chaplin is the largest mine OF
| the Menominee range, and will this year produces
| 500 900 tons OF ore The latest acquisitions &c
the holdings Of the Berlin bankers are the Flor
| Wisconsin, aud the Iron River mine at Iron
| River, Iron County, Michigan.
George II. Helms, editor of the
Baldwin Star, died few days ago OF
heart disease.
William Miller, of Plymouth, Wayne
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