The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-09-04
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

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revival last winter, and on Sunday last
eighty-six converts who had stood the
probationary test all right were admitted
to full membership in the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The twelfth annual convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
of the First District will be held at Flat
Rock, Wayne County, Oct. s, . and 10. A
gold medal contest will be one of the at
fractions.
Louis Asset, of Escanaba, entered
August Liebel's saloon and asked for 81.
Being refused, Asset began shooting at
Liebel and one bullet struck Liebel in the
neck, inHicting a fatal injury.
The Folsom estate, of Bay City, has
large tract of lumber on Spanish River,
Ont, and will raft it to Bay City and cut
it up at the mill there.
Edward Cartwright. of st. Ignace,
has invented motor with which he
hopes to harness Niagara Falls and take
the 100000 prize Offered by Buffalo citi-
zens.
Six years ago, Eva BletZ, OF Saranac,
went to Dakota, homesteaded piece of
land, improved it, and, contrary to the
usual homesteader's way, lived upon it.
She recently sold the property for good
price, and has returned 10 Saranac.
TIE e4o4vtae o1Inu. counties 10 nov n
bounty of three cents per head for spar
rows, but as the Board of Supervisors of
this county have made no provision, the
law doesn't work here .-Hdrrisrill Re
fooling the boys, because he doesn't like
to handle dead sparrows probably. The
law says the bounty is to be paid out o.
the general fund, and no especial proyis-
ion has to be made for that.-Detroit
Neus.
New Michigan postmasters: Cham
pion, Marquette County, Thos. II. Wal
lace, vice NJ. G.. Bellhumer, removed;
Nanville, Ingham County E. Il. Strong,
vice Lew Gee, resigned; Ortonville, Oak
land County, Homer c. Carr, vice Geo.
NJ. Woodman, resigned; Rosebush, 1sa-
bella County, Mrs. Lille p. Krill, vice
C. Began, removed; South Frankfort,
Benzie County, Clark A. Edgcomb, vice
Almeran Crandall. removed; Swartz
Creek, Genesee County, John A. Miller
vice Ben j. ingalls, removed.
Detroit Ners: Queer, isn't it? Ish-
pemlng, which is right in the heart of the
greatest iron ore mining industry in the
world, and is actually situated over sew
eral iron mines, is to get its water sup
ply through wooden pipes.
The earnings of Michigan railroad
companies for the month of June, 1889,
were Sc, S25, 1906; corresponding month
of 1883, Sc, ,640.2l; increase for 1899,
S4s, s5O.44; total earnings from Jan. /,
1889, to July l, 1889, S37 ,694, S4s.s9; same
period in 1883, $50, 80, $50 &c; Increase
for 1889, 1923, Ss9.23; per cent. of in
crease, LIS.
Fire destroyed nearly the entire bust
ness portion of Danville Ingham County
The loss is estim ated at $4,000.
The sawmill of Smith Il Daily, near
Cheboygan, was totally destroyed by fire
The loss is placed at from SO, 900 to
100000, partially insured.
james d. Elderkin, of Fairbanks
Post, G.. A. r.. Detroit, enlisted in the
regular army long before the Florida war
says the Free Press. He served through
that war, went to California as band
master of the Fourth United States In.
fantry Band, General, then Lieutenant
Grant being Regimental Quartermaster
and finally served in the war of the re-
bellion. He wears gold medal voted by
Congress.
Alex. Wilson. while under the in.
fuence of liquor, fell from log train
on the Au Sable and Northwestern Rail
road near Potts, Oscoda County, and wa,
run over, dying shortly afterward. HI
was an old veteran and was buried by tn,
G.. A. r.
F. F. Cleveland. of Flint. has been
awarded the contract for the construc
ton Of the horticultural hall at the Agri
cultural College, Lansing; contract price
S7,10O.
The North Michigan Conference o.
the United Brethren Church, in session
at Shepard, Isabella County, last week
made the following annual appointments
Big Rapids district-F NJ McClintie Z. Il
Shepherd Crystal. A. ROssman Matherton
w T. Baldwin; Fenwick, NJ. Markham LAX
View j. IL. Robinson; Sparta to be supplied
Fremont f. y. Trip; Trufant, /. Hatfield
Bordinan, III. McNish; East Bay. f. NJ Rooms
Clarion, H. Wagner sherman, j. 4. Myers En-
NETT, ID. Mcclellan; Petoskey, w. H. and 5.
Drake; Grant. H. j. Green. Saginaw district
Huron j. A. Ballnger Deckerville ito be sup
Piled; Feirgrove d. s. Arnold Columbia, 9
Jarvis; Burnside. W. j. Lee; Dayton, J.. i
Newman Wheeler l.. S. Woodruff Vassar "a
be supplied Oak Grove J. Walker; Shel herd
l. N Shilling Gratiot, J.. NJ. Leach Pine Rivei
j. +. Ballinger conference evangelist, j. M. Am
brose.
Elk Rapids expects that when tn
Chicago and West Michigan Railway i
extended beyond Travers City it will g
by way of Torch Lake. and that spu
will be built from that point to FL
Rapids.
Society of the little village of Gran
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