The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-11-20
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

P"f'aht boinSs of Our OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
dings and Deaths - Crimes, Casualties,
= and General News Notes.
The following Michigan pensions
have been issued:
Original Invalid Theodore Mueller Lowell !;
Francis nj. Conley, Williamston Adelbert VII
lifts, Battle Greek VIM. NJ. Furman, Fife Lake I;
Henry G. Hayes, ~. Louis; Curtis S. Pinney,
Chestoria Randall Mcdonald, Pinnebog; Isaac
Olive, Oxtord George w. Langford. Webber,
vile; Lafayette Hume Battle Creek Edward
b 1refry, Winfield; Marvin c. Whiting, Bay
City Arthur W; Sanford deceased, Detroit;
James Finn, Soldiers Home Henry NJ. Fergu-
son, White Cloud; Maylam j. Bassett, Lansing;
Joseph Lashine, Luther; John Kennedy, Grand
Rapids; Joel A. Partridge; Kalamazoo; John
Smalla, Hopkins Station; VIM Rushing, Deer
field John OMara. Coldwator; John Kelly,
jackson; James Taylor, Highland station !;
Frank SHARPLY, Dexter; Charles NJ. Bennington,
Kalamazoo: VIM. r. Swift, Fillmore; Levi Cad.
well Decatur WIN. Dillon, Mason.
lncrease-Willam Collins, Naomi OrvilleM.
Wayland; John Friebe, alias Fradd, Bay City f;
Birdsley Green. Kent City James Kelly Sodus
WiIees M Sums cqlawstsr SnaTes oc
squeve; George ID. Madison, Detroit; John Win
terstein. saginaw Charles l.. Houghton De-
troit Arthur Williams, Kendall Michael Nc
sCormick, Pineconning; Timothy German, East
Detroit Milford Billings, Fenton Ira Blao k
man, Roxanna; Hiram Russell, Bay City John
Stool, Charlesworth Lafayette A. Baker Ian
sing Norwood Bowers, Stevenson; Edward b.
Roberts, Flushing John J.. Arnold. Manistee
ALBERT l.. Hewitt, EentOn; John W. LinSley,
Hopkins Station; Joseph Cook, Vanderbilt )
Bradford NJ. Beaman, Clio James II. shaffner,
Amory William Johnson, Stark Charles Hull.
Goodrichi Ambrose III. Rowe, Benton Harbor;
Franklin Leet Nckeryville; John Jackson,
Muskegon; Alvin o. Lowe, Stetson; John c. II.
klolow. Waldenburgh; Geoege w. Fogelsong,
Dushville James Esmond Birmingham Jacob
a. Ford, TIufant; James q. Wilcox, Elsie ;
James Brophy, Wyandotte James Nj. wilkins,
Nesta urg; Joseph Nankeuren, Bath; Reuben
>. Ba5bitt Sr., GraYlingj James George, Ash
land Alfred IL kator, Elm Station; Francis NJ
Godfrey, Lowell
Reissue-Peter Saunderson Monroe Addison
c. Stanton deceased II. +. Darling Jackson.
lncrease-George Herlan, Prairieville; VIM.
C. Lewis. Clio; James Turner osseo.
Original Widows-Maria widow OF Ernstus
w. Wilcox Attica; Elizabeth NJ, widow OF
George G. Barnes, Dundee; Elise j. Johnson,
former widow Of VIM. III. Johnson, jackson; ;
Julia A.. widow of Richard Grimes. Peters
burg; Ezra s., father of Edwin 5. Bliss, Edge
wood.
A Jersey, Osceola County. minister
has figured out that the end of the world
will come some time before next April.
-Esconaba thinks of establishing fire
limits
Only 500 of poll tax was collected
at Csc 'naba this year.
Judge GRAFT was impelled to order a
Grand Jury at Escanaba because he took
walk there on Sunday and found twenty
seven saloous-out of seventy-one he saw
open and doing business.
DO you know that seventeen old and
leading citizens have died since the LIST
of April?" said T. r. Cushing, of Lam
sing, to local reporter. Seventeen, SIR
and all but two of them over 60 years old,
while one was over 60 There was Pro-
fessor Tracy, you recolect his death, and
f. Longyear, the banker; Ezra Jones,
bro. her of the old Auditor General; J.
Elder, Captain Elder, we called him; l..
Hitchcock, A. CT. Earl, II. b. Shank, DR..
Bartholomew, Mrs. Hopkins, A. +. We'll
Ter, the old man Yeiter, who was the
pioneer Lansing brewer; j. w. Barker,
the grocer; j. NJ. French, Benjamin Hor-
ton, S. NJ Miller and w. S. Calkins.
Old people generally die in the winter,
you know, which makes it remarkable
that so many should so in one sumner in
place larger than Lansing.
A dog of the gentler sex, owned hy
the postmaster at Mud Lake, Altoona
County, had one puppy, and in order TO
make the family one worth bringing up
she has adopted a motherless family of
kittens and is making a success of the
venture.
Robert Bonner, Jr. son of the New
York Ledger man, has been up in the
Frankfort region looking for chance to
spend some of his money and make some
more.
Bay City has declared war against
| the sparrow, and the heads are dropping
' into the Treasurer's basket at three cents
per drop.
A little girl. 81 years old, daughter OF
Anton Bielak, of South Saginaw, was
fatally burned by her clothing catching
fire from the kitchen stove.
The negotiations for In, building of
union depot in West Bay City between
the Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw and
the Battle Greek & Bay City Railroads
have fallen through. The former COM
pany have broken ground for their struc-
ture. 1t is to be finished in a month.
The Marquette Mining journal man
has been hit Gu the nose by a sling hot
declares the sling shot boy an intolerabe
nuisance and calls upon the authorities
to suppress him. When it comes to sup
pressing the small boy the authorities
can't do it. The JOusnal man will have
to wear a catcher's mask.
Corporations filing articles of asso-
citation with the Secretary of Sta.e last
week were as follows:
Michigan Beef aud Provision Company, of
Springwells. capital stock $4,000; Electrical
Invention Company, Of Detroit, 500, 900; Fran
gott Schmidt g Sons, OF Detroit, 500, coo; Re
vo1ving Door Manufacturing Company, OF
jackson. $3.50 900; Newberry Hardwood Manu-
featuring Company, of Newberry, 5000; Iron
Center Mining Company, OF lshPeming II ,jOO,-
900; Iron Valley Mining Company, OF lshpem-
ing ~, 800 co., south Pass and Crystal Springs
Street Railway Company, Of Grand Rapids
$4,000; Platt Mining and Manufacturing Com
pa y OF lint, SiO0UOO; Cambria Consolidated
Mi g Company. OF Neeaunee, Il 100000.
The Michigan Stsve and Barrel Com
panys m II at Lansing was damaged by
fro 10 the extent of Sl2 600 fully covered