The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-04-03
THE LIFE OF MOSES W. FIELD.

THE LIFE OF MOSES W. FIELD.
The widow of the late Moses w.
Field, the great Greenbacker. and Mrs.
Alice Woodbride, his daughter, says a
Detroit telegram, have created a sensa-
ton by causing bill In chancery to be
filed in the Wayne Circuit Court against
Mrs. Mary Goring and her husband, John
Goring. During Fields lifetime he some-
times appeared at the theater with the
Gorings, aud there had latterly been more
or less scandal about him and them. The
bill filed by the widow and daughter sets
up that the Gorings hold Mr.. Fields note
for $50, 600; that they also hold a check on
the American Exchange Bank, of Detroit,
for Sl,2l0, an assignment of $4,000
policy in the Massachusetts Mutual Life
Insurance Company upon the life Of MIR.
Field, and several other notes and OBJ
legations of at present unknown
amounts. The bill charges that Mary
Goring, by various arts, articles and
devices, had exercised great control over
Mr.. Field, and that these notes and obi
cations were obtained by her undue influ-
ence. The checks and notes were pre-
sented by the Gorings to the banks, but
'endeavored to negotiate the $4,000 note.
The court granted an injunction against
the Gorings restraining them from dis
posing of the obligations until the hear
ing of the bill on its merits. The same
,complainants have also filed another bill
in chancery, alleging that the Gorings
obtained the title TO certain parts of real
estate owned by Mr.. Field by the same
means used to obtain the obligations
noted in the first bill This bill says the
property was obtained without any con-
sideration whatever, and through undue,
improper and unconscionable influences
and fraudulent practices and devices
used and exercised" over Mr.. Field.
The attorneys for the Field estate have
track of twenty conveyances made di-
rectly or indirectly to Mrs. Goring. The
property aggregates value of about
$50, 900. This is exclusive of the
notes and checks held by the Gorings.
The acquaintance between Field and Mrs.
Goring dates back five years. Mrs. Cor
ing is about 45 years old. Her home, on
Montreal street, Detroit, is furnished in
great style, and the entire family live in
great luxury The will of Mr.. Field was
filed for probate recently, leaving his en-
tire estate to the widow barring, of
course, what he had given away or sold,
and after her death to the children. The
estate is worth about one million dollars.
A peculiar clause of the will says I'm
regard to our dear children, the best gift
can confer upon them is the great worth
of a mothers love; the devotion, the con-
sideration, the sympathy, the tenderness
of gentle woman-a mother loving God
and illustrating her Christianity by her
deeds, her kindness TO her neighbors and
devotion to charitable work" The reve-
lation of these suits has astonished the
community, for they mean that Mr.. Field
practically lived double life.
Two United States officials were at
Alpena inspecting the propellers and tugs.
An eleven pound girl baby that put
in an appearance at the home of James
Urey, homesteader in the Flint Steel
Valley Ontonagon County, has the honor
of being the first child born in the new
settlement. The happy father reports the
babe and mother doing nicely.
Considerable interest is manifested
at Alpena in what is called the Gaylord
electric light. 1t looks like a star and
most of the spectators believe it is, but
many assert it is an electric light floating
above Gaylord five miles high. When the
star disappears below the horizon the be-
lievers in the aerial lamp say it has been
hauled down.
The annual statement of the Alpena
City School Board shows the expenses of
the schools during the past year TO be
S2S. 500. 80, of which the teachers re-
ceived Sl2,O During the year large
new school house was built in the Third
Ward. The School Board has balance
on hand of only 1888. The monthly
wages of the teachers amount to ST.
$3.50.
Reports from the lumber camps show
that the Alpena lumbermen have some
5000, 900 feet of logs left on skids in the
woods. These logs will have to be peeled
in order to prevent the worms from bor-
ing holes in them, and also to keep them
from getting sap stained. Men will also
have TO he engaged to prevent summer
fires from destroying them. This will
somewhat lessen the profits of lumbermen
but it gives employment to labor.
There arrived at Saginaw recently
from Ogemaw, thirty cords of hard wood
consigned to Rev b. Hunter and intend
eS.for distribution among poor people
connected with the City Bethel Mission
The fuel was gift from Charles IL
Plummer, the philanthropic lumberman
and the Michigan Central Railroad Com
pany hauled the car to Saginaw withou
expense.
So far as learned, the largest white
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