The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-30


-Ishpeming dispatch: the Excelsior
furnace, of this city. which has been out
of blast for seven years. will probably
be put in blast Mt once. Negotiations
between prominent iron men and the
owners are now being conducted with
view TO that end. The furnace is large
one and heavy employer of labor when
in blast"
Near Bad Axe, Huron County, Mrs.
Fred Huhoert, farmers wife. overcome
by the hardships of life in the new coun-
try, and the poverty of her position, un-
til her mind was unbalanced, tried to
murder her five children and then COM
nit suicide. The children escaped death
by running. Some men near by pre-
vented the mother from following them,
but before they could prevent her she
took dose of p arts green. Emetics
were administered and she will recover.
Thomas Taylor, travelling representa-
tive of large wholesale hardware store
in New York City, created sensation on
out of his pocket gold watch valued at
$3.50 and throwing it to the sidewalk,
where it was smashed. He then took
from his fingers two diamond rings and
tossed them into the road. Taylor had
been spreeing for ten days, and had
reached state bordering on delirium
tremens.
-Ishpe ming dispatch: Officials of
the large mines of the county are Icing
approached with offers of transportation
of ore to Marquette next season at much
lower rates than have before prevailed
providing the entire output is promised
to the new line. 1t is quite certain that
the So called Marquette, Champion and
Chicago Railroad will be built and oper-
ated by the Milwaukee and Northern line"
The assessed valuation of Alpena
County, as equalized by the Board of Su-
pervisors, is S3,267, 600. of which $780,
600 is city assessment.
Mrs. John Obery committed suicide
at Negaunee by cutting her throat with
case knife. She had been sick with ty-
phoid fever for the past five weeks and
became Respondent. She leaves hus-
band and one son.
Supervisor Holden, of Osceola Coun-
ty, has taken his seat after weary travail.
By special act passed at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature the President of
the village of Reed City, by virtue of his
office, is made n member of the Board OF
Supervisors of Osceola County. At the
organization of the board the President,
John G.. Holden, presented himself at the
meeting and claimed his rights as
member, but the board by vote refused to
recognize him as such, and through his
attorney he applied to the Supreme
Court for a writ OF mandamus to secure
his rights. The case was promptly argued
and resulted in enabling him to read his
title clear.
st. Ignace people believe that the
discovery of an immense deposit of gyp-
sum and cement rock on the lands of L.
b. Chamberlain, to the north of the city,
will ultimately result In the building up
of an important industry there-one that
will give employment to n large force Of
meu the year around,
-Twenty-seven lumber crafts cleared
from the port of Alpena last week, ex-
porting 7,62O,00 feet of lumber, 22, 700
cedar railway ties, and forty cords of
match timber Eight cargoes went to
Buffalo, six to Toledo, four to Detroit
three each to Chicago and Cleveland and
one each to Lorain, Sandusky and New
Baltimore. The shipment of paper pulp
by rail and steamer during the week
amounted to 1870 tons.
james l.. Johnson, of Alpena, has
contracted with a firm at Indianapolis for
the necessary machinery for roller
process flour mill that is to have a ca
pacity for manufacturing fifty barrels Of
-four in twenty-four hours.
Detroit Free Press Michigan
latest boom town is Nessen City, in
Benzie County. Less than three months
ago where the town now is there stood a
thick, dense forest. The trees of the
forest have been sawed up and shipped
away; the stumps dug up; streets laid
out, and houses built. Thet now can
boast of hardwood sawmill which is
giving employment 10 forty men and boys
daily; new Touring mill is being erected
at cost of $4,000; a general merchan-
disc store is doing good business, and
more coming"
The October number of the Ameri-
can journal Of Insanity contains an in
teresting, just, and highly appreciative
sketch of DIR. Henry NJ. Hurd, late Su-
perintendent of the Eastern Michigan
Asylum for the Insane, and now Director
of the Johns Hopkins Hospital at Balti-
more. 1t is written by his successor at
the Eastern Asylum, DR.. c. b. Burr.
Charles Stelitz has been sentenced
at Marinette, Wis, TO twenty years i'm
risonment for the murder month ago
| of Solomon Felch, at the latter's home,
| hatwaan Iron Mountain and Eloranca