The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-15
LONG SEARCH REWARDED.

After weary search Tor twenty seven
years, former Chicago man has at last
found his family. In June 1862, Fred
Cummings, contractor and builder of
Chicago, and the possessor of a wife and
five small children-three girls and two
boys-marched forth to battle for the
Union. At Chattanooga he was wounded
and taken prisoner being listed as killed.
After eight months in Southern hospitals
and prisons, he made his escape, rejoined
his company before Atlanta and marched
with Sherman 10 the sea. He wrote his
wife an account of his capture, escape,
and the subsequent campaign, but it was
one of the letters that never came. His
wife, believing him dead, and having "A
large family to support, married again,
moving TO another part of Chicago. At the
close of the war Cummings returned
His wife and children we're gone
no one knew whittier. Heartbroken he
began a weary search for them, travelling
all over the country When his money
was exhausted he earned more and started
again on his search. He drifted to Lead
Vile, made considerable money and spent
it all as before and returned to the West.
A short time ago he went to the mining
camp, and as he sat at the camp fire his
attention was attracted by scrap of
paper blowing along the ground. The
greatest solace to men who delve in lonely
Y,1o = Of ha 10.
Cummings eagerly grasped the scrap of
paper and began to read it. IL proved to
be n fragment of the Detroit Free Press
and he found in it an account of recep-
ton to be given by the odd Fellows of
Detroit He saw among the names of
those who were conducting the prepare
tions for the reception that of John III.
Cummings This was the name of his
moment in going TO Detroit. He
found that John II. Cummings was
the inside steward of the Russell House.
The stranger peered eagerly into the
young mans face, and then stretching
out both hands, cried John, John, my
boy! don't you know your father?" The
mist cleared away, and father and son,
who had not seen each other for over
twenty seven years, were clasped in each
others arms. That night Alfred Cum
mings slept under the roof of his son.
Now comes the denouement. few years
ago the second husband of Mrs. Cum
nj eha hoa -,
Toledo with her son, Charles E. Cum
mings. All three daughters are married.
The commissioners appointed in
quire into the feasibility of bridge
across the Detroit River ut Detroit met
in the latter city. Gustaf Lindenthal, of
the New York Long Span Bridge Com
pany, demonst rated to the commiss toner's
that a single span bridge was impractical
BILE, but advocated three-span structure,
the approaches to which would be be-
tween 5000 and 1000 feet, and the esti-
mated cost OF which would be about &c.
500, 900. The height of the towers would
be about one hundred and forty feet, but
Don NJ. Dickinson showed that vessels
with masts extending l65 feet were sail
ing on the lakes, and in view of that he
urged winter draw bridge. w. X. Muir
announced that the railroads we're back
ing this bridge project. William Living
stone, representative lake man, opposed
the entire bridge scheme as impracticsble
and destined to injure the vessel inter-
| ests.
John Burns, farmer living in
Bridgeport Township, Saginaw County.
stabbed and mortally wounded James
McMichaels in drunken quarrel. The
ARRAY occurred at the hsuse of man
named Masters, and Burns first attempted
to murder him. McMichaels interfered
and tried to avoid bloodshed, when an
ugly looking knife was plunged into his
stomach.
st. Johns now has ten saloons, from
which the village receives revenue of
! $4,000 and Clinton County like amount.