The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-09-04

seized her. Accordingly she and an ac-
complete Kidnapped the child and Sc
GREETED it, The kidnapers are in the
Lansing Jail, but they will not reveal the
whereabouts of the little one.
Julius Zimmerman committed sui
eide at Saginaw City on his 18th birth
day. lie left a touching and affoctionate
farewell letter to his parents in Hungary,
in which be said that he had loved and
been deceived aud was tired of living He
begged their forgiveness and said he was
not afraid to die. The young lady who
rejected his suit is 20 years old and feels
very badly over the sad affair.
The engineers on the Potts Railway,
known as the Au Sable & Northwestern,
were notified that their wages were to be
reduced from S75 per month to S45,
whereupon every engineer on the road
left his engine at the place it happened to
be at the time the reduction was TO take
effect. Some of the trains were left in
the logging woods, and some on the main
track. The Potts Company, being unable
to fill the places of the striking engineers,
withdrew the wege reduction order and
restored wages to the previous rate, and
the mon returned to their posts.
A special meeting of the Board of
University Regents will be held at Ann
Arbor on September II, at which the
location of the new hospital building will
be decided upon. There are several
choice locations offered to the board,
ranging in price from 81 900 an acre to a
gilt o; twelve and half acres free. The
special hospital committee, Regents
Draper, Kiefer and Whitman, leave for
the east in few days 10 meet Prof. c. b.
Nnncrede, recently appointed to the
chair Of surgery, after which they will
visit the principal hospitals of the east
and investigate them.
"A lick confidence man and thief has
been working the residents Of Ann Arbor.
II lie went 10 the houses and reported that
he was the agent of the insurance COM
panies sent to inspect the chimneys. He
would go up stairs and seeing any valua-
bles around would pocket them. The
man made his escape from town without
being apprehended.
Burglars attempted to rob the safe of
the Humboldt Iron Company at Ish-
peming. The watch dog was poisoned
and several holes drilled in the safe, but
the burglars were scared away before they
succeeded in opening the safe, which
contained several thousand dollars.
An order was issued from the execu-
tive Office at Lansing directing the re-
moval of Medard A. Melevier of st.
Ignace, Sheriff of Mackinac County, the
reason assigned being official misconduct
habitual drrnkenness, incompetency, and
arresting innocent people without due
process of law.
-Alphonso McMaster, an employee at
the Lansing Saw Mill, was hit in the
groin by board from rip saw, sustain
ing injuries from which he die /. He was
Ga years of age, and served during the
late war as First Lieutenant Of a COM
pany in the First Michigan Engineers
and Mechanics. He was buried by the
local post, q. A. r.
There is talk of an electric street
railway to belt the Saginaws.
Detroit Journal: With two libel suits
on hand the editor of the Mt. Pleasant
Tribune says he will keep open house at
the next term and will welcome all. He
also strikes his tuneful Tyre and sings:
Were going 10 have a roaring time,
With lots OF fun and noise,
Distinguished guests, etcetera
| The Judge and all the boys
"A recent letter from Ishpeming says
of the mining prospects,
The condition OF mining In the Lake Superior
! iron district is mNch changed from what il was
| all OF the mines worked with large forces and
| produced heavily In seasons when prices OF ore
! were high, and took things easily when ore was
| not selling at what they considered its value
| The mine owners figured that the ore was worth
IS or - n ton, and that by leaving il in the mine
they were leaving surplus 70 be drawn from
| whenever needed. The prices OF ore are now
| much less than what they We're, and il takes q
| prime quality Of ore 10 be worth 80 ton de-
| livered on the docks at Cleveland Mine own
| ers realize that the era Of high prices has
| passed never 20 return, and they are now work.
| ing their mines with view 10 mining as much
ore > possible, at as high n profit rs possible
| each year and none OF them care 90 do a slack
business one season thinking that next year
| work viii reimburse them.
The annual reunion of the First Reg.
iment Of Michigan Engineers and Me-
chanics will be held at Lansing, Octo-
Der 10.
The Ypsilanti water commissioners
DO not think SIS, 900 enough with which
to properly supply water for that city
and ask for $685. 900 more.
"A sanitary convention will be held al
Pontiac, October IL and Is.
Sherman is Offering inducements tC
get q Detroit firm to locate charcoal kilns
| there.
An extension table factory is to bt
established at East Saginaw. There il
one now in operation at st. Johns which
turns out 800 ash tables per day.
-Alphonso McMaster, prominent
resident of Lansing, was struck by {
board in planning mill and sustained in
juries from which he died.
Mrs. Patrick Shannon was killed b.
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