The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-01-09

fact and received a cordial reply. This
piece of condescension, that he did not
dream of getting from a President elect.
has turned his head. He began to imag-
inc that Harrison must think Gustav Her.
man one of the biggest men in the world,
and he commenced Immediately to fix up
his home to receive, as he said visit
from Harrison, expanding 1900 of his
savings. His friends have caused Her.
man to be locked up in the insane asylum.
George Elliott, a young married man
80 years old, was engaged in digginga
we'll on the farm of Frank Kinney, near
Canandaigua. when the we'll caved in,
burying Elliott under thirty-fve feet Of
earth. Kinney, who was alone with him,
summoned assistance. and after digging
several hours Elliott's lifeless body was
found in an upright position.
- The officials of the Calumet and Hec-
la mine pronounce the fire in No. 3 shaft
extinguished. 1t started over one month
ago. The amount of damage underground
is not yet asccrtained. but it is probably
No. 3 shafts above the sixth level. The
loss will reach many hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars. The fire was fought more
successfully than any of the three pre-
ceding ones. Water was sprayed down the
heated shafts to cool them. The mine
was filled with gas, which had to be
pumped out and replaced with fresh DIR. 1t
will require some time to put the mine in
shape for work again.
--Britton Lenawee County, has no rivers
above ground, but she is highly favored
with water courses beneath the surface.
There are several flowing wells in the
village, and the best of water can be had
by digging and boring. Mr. Borden's
well has bore forty feet deep, and the
water stands at the top, so warm that it
never freezes. The subterranean supply
Of water seems to be inexhaustible.
A. w. Slayton, of Tecumseh, tho
Eastwood lumber king, has now SO big
business around the State that he esti-
mates he will have 10 travel $4,000 miles
during 1889 to look after it, He has sixty
mills, which are cutting bass wood in
twenty nine counties, and his freight bills
run in the neighborhood of $4,000 q
year.
Bose q Sons, of Gladwin County
have taken contract to put in a tract Of
feet, located in town 10, l west, and pur-
chased by f. r.. Phinny of Scrafford &
Co. They have commenced the work,
which will take them two winters to COM
plctc.
james Nourse and Miss May Frick
were married at st. Johns. They took
rooms at the National Hotel, and about an
hour after midnight strong odor of gas
was discovered Investigation revealed
that the bridal couple had blown out the
gas. The door of their room was burst
and the asphyxiated couple carried into
the open air, where they were revived
after an hours hard work. Fifteen min
utes more would have settled them.
e. A. Oatman has made rich strike
at Lansing, and is to be congratulated.
Owner of lot on the southwest corner of
Pine and Lapeer streets, he found it
necessary to make some improvements on
his property. and among other things a
bored well was put in. When the we'll had
reached the depth of sixty feet rich
vein of soft coal was struck, which has
been pronounced by experts as of the best
an, in win A cfa
company will be organized and shaft
run down as soon as word is received from
the assayist. The matter has been kept
quiet until it proved beyond doubt
paying thing.
Alfred Pinet, who has recently re-
turned from the Upper Peninsular, says
the Saginaw News, in a talk to a reporter
said that Tom hester, now of Detroit.
formerly of Saginaw, whose numbering
operations are always Oh large scale, in
tends to build schooner this winter at
Baragi, Upper Peninsula, that will carry
700, COO feet of lumber. He will also erect
a monster burner for consuming slabs
which hitherto he has built docks with,
10000, 600 feet of pine, about 10000, 900
feet of which he will take to his Baraga
mill by rail.
During the present season the Com
stock Bros, of Alpena, manufactured U.s.
I23, 493 feet of lumber, of which Is, $780,
46l feet were sawed at their own mill and.
| 1856 932 feet at the Minor mill. Tho
lath manufactured by the firm were $780,
200 pieces. The mill commenced oper-
atoms May and closed up on Dec. Is.
The lumber now on the wharf amounts to
| 800, 900 feet At their single mill the
Comstock Bros. manufa ctured 15,74J, $50
shingles.
-McNaughton, who is numbering for
Burroughs & Rust in Montmorency
County, has over 1900, 900 feet of logs
skidded.
Peter McNutt, pioneer of Memphis.
| died after several veets' illness aoad So