The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-01-30
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED,


dines and Deaths - Crimes. Casualties,
and General News Notes.
"A committee of the Poard of Health
of Milan Township, Monroe County,
called upon Gov. Luce the other day to
ask for State help to fight the smallpox.
According to their report, there are nine
teen cases of small pox in that township.
There has been one death, and the disease
is spreading. To make matters worse,
the Chairman of the Board of Health
has been exposed. and Is quarantined.
The board has Luilt pest-house and en-
ployed five nurses, and now they find
themselves seriously embarrassed for want
VI money. The Legislature passed an
act in 1885 to prevent the spread of small
pox and other contagious diseases, and
made an appropriation for that purpose.
There is still some money in this fund,
and the committee will probably get part
of it.
The Bay County Jail is just too sweet
for anything. 1t has been supplied with
new mattresses and other bedding, and
fiction has been provided for the involun
tary boarders who accept the hospitality
of the Sheriff. Ice cream aud cake is not
given more than once week.
Washington dispatches announce tina
Maj. ii. d. Blackman, of Marquette and
Howell, has succeeded after long and
patient work in securing from Postmaster
General Dickinson an order for the es-
tablishment Of railway mail service over
the ives tern division of the Duluth, South
Shore & Atlantic between Nestoria and
Iron River Wis, q distance of 200 miles.
This is equivalent to through mail ser
vice between Marquette and Duluth. An
inspector had reported adversely on the
matter on the ground that there was no
regular train on the line, but Maj Black
man showed the department that there is
! now regular train service each way daily,
and that the train schedule would be salts
factory for mail purposes all along the
line. The service is to comm ence Feb. !.
"A line of street railway to be operated
by electricity will be built at once between
Negaunee aud Ishpeming, three miles
west OF Negaunee. Power for tho opera
ton may be supplied by the falls, ten
miles to the north, the power to be trans
mi;ted by electric cable.
The saw-mill at Mikado has been
changed into a shingle mill and now en-
ploys eighteen men. 1t is expected that
it will employ thirty-six during the sum-
mer. This means a boom for Mikado.
"A long holiday is before the school
children of Milo. There is to be no school
till spring.
A postofice has been established at
Trout Creek, Ontonagon County.
The remains OF Lieutenant Governor
Mcdonald were laid in state at his late
residence at Escanaba, and during the day
hundreds of persons from all walks of
life passed sadly through the rooms.
Business men from the Marquette region,
the Menominee range, and the Gogebic
iron districts wers present in great num-
bers. The funeral took place in the after
noon and was simple so far as mere cere-
mony was concerned. The Legislative
Committee acted as honorary pail bearees.
The services we're conducted by the Ma
sonic fraternity. The casket containing
Mr.. McDonalds remains stood upon Il
catafalquo designed by enc OF the legisla-
tive party. In an adjoining room was the
casket containing the remains of Mr.. Coch-
rane. After the brief but feeling address
by the Rev. ex-Representative Thompson
the long procession went 10 the cemetery,
where the interment took place. When
the deceased reached Escanaba in 1868, il
was as laborer, although he had the con-
fdencc of Chicago railroad contractors,
and they made him Superintendent of
some railway construction. Little by little
he had accumulated means perhaps
Sl,000-and the time came for an invest
ment. He paid $3.50 for a tract of land
near Escanaba. There were no expecta-
tions built on the purchase further than
that it was a safe place in which to keep
his money. But gradually the mining in
vestigations spread, and one day an ex-
pert came to him with an offer of 500, 900
for the $50 tract of land. One of the
best mineral veins of the Upper Peninsula
had been discovered running across the
land Mcdonald finally declined the Of
fer. Then 5000, 900 was offered Still he
shook his head Then $500, 900; still
mo-" 500, 900 II think I'll run that
myself, said he. He declined $5O0,0OC
for his land. He was rich man. 1t had
dropped into his hands.
Plans are being made for the mill
which is to be erected near Brunswick
Ga, by Hotchkisss Durham & Sons OF
Bay City. 1t will contain circular, gang,
and edger, and will be built so as to have
room for band saw in case il is decided
in the future to put one in. The mills
capacity will be 90, 600 fee. per day. The
mill will have the steam plant now being
taken out of mill at Cadillac. Mr.
Courtrioht formerly foreman for T. T.