The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-31

Day Sity, was But'ou ny nio.
This paper usually accepts anything
the Marquette Mining Journal says as
true, but when it says that ~ 900 men are
employed at the Chaplin mine We hesitate
yes. We hesitate.
When Michael Higgins and August
Johnson, of Marquette, had q scufie
which resulted in Higgins being thrown
in front of on engine and killed, Johnson
was arrested on charge of murder. He
has since been released, as it was shown
Higgins was not thrown there Intention
ally.
Michigan pensions: Original invalid
Michael Ryan, John Morehead, Thomas
Thorsby. Francis j. Lyon, Nelson Shen-
dee, Charles +. Severance. Increase
Charles w. Pierson, Handy Austin,
Ulysses G. Cass. Reissue-Philip Crow
foot, Luke Bordeau. Reissue and in
crease-William Smith, Jr. Original
widows, etc.-Harriet t., widow of Ly-
man S. Elliott.
The Grand Traverse Masonic hall is
at last an assured thing, says letter from
that town: 1t will not be built by the
lodge but by stock company. stock
holder must be q Mason, and the lodge
takes half of the stock issued. The
amount of stock is $4,000, divided into
800 shares at $25 each. Each share
holder can pay up the total amount, or
III per cent, with . per cent annual in
terest.
S. S. Hopkins, Macomb County
| printer, has become a preacher. The
Detroit Journal man guesses he never
pied form.
The monthly meeting of the Michi-
gan railway passenger agents was held at
Bayport, on Saginaw Bay, last week.
Special rates were announced as follows:
One fare round trip to soldiers and sail
ors' reunions at Pontiac and West
Branch; one cent and half each way from
all points to encampment of State troops
at Goguac Lake, and one fare and third
for round trip to camp meetings in vari-
Gus parts of the State. All special rates
The State Department of Public In
struction has arranged for forty-nine
teachers institutes to be held in Michigan
during the summer. In most places the
institutes will be held for two weeks, but
in several instances will be continued for
three and four weeks. Four have already
been held, namely, Gladwin, Branch,
Midland and 6hiawassee counties. Fol-
lowing are the dates and places of meeting
of those yet to be held:
August 5-Barry, Hastings Genesee Flint;
Ionia, lona kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Leelanaw,
Maple City.
August 12-Benzie, Benzonia Berrien, ST. Jo-
seph Charlevoix, Boyne City; Clinton, st.
Johns Hillsdale Hillsdale Iapeer, INLAY City;
| Livingstone, Howell Macomb, Utica; Monroe,
Dundee Oceana, Hart; Washtenaw, Ypsilanti;
August l9-Antrim, Bellaire; Cass, Cassopo-
| lis Dolta Escanaba Eaton Charlotte Emmett,
Harbor Springs Houghton, Calumet Lenawee.
Tecumseh; Mackinac st. Ignace; Mecosta Big
Rapids Montcalm, Stanton Newaygo, Neway-
go; oakland Milford; Saginaw, Saginaw City;
Tuscola, Caro-
August 26-Alpena, Alpena Cheboygan,
Cheboygani Chippewa, seult Ste Marie; Grand
Traverse, Traverse City; Gratiot, Ithica Ing
| ka, Kalkaska Marquette Marquette; Menom-
inee, Menominee Missaukee, Lake City; On
~.
Joseph, Constantine
Detroit Journal: Mosherville has two
women who will wager they can chop
more wood than any other two women in
America.
Capt. Geo. w. Fowler. ex-City Mar
shall of Lansing. has instituted libel
suit against the Journal for proclaiming
him a dead-beat and stating that his
name was on the black list of the Lam
sing Business Mems Association.
In the United States Circuit Court
at Detroit, last week, DR.. George F.
Hunter, Of Holly. Oakland County, re-
covere judgment against that village
which will take about SO from the
pockets of each man, woman and child
inside the corporation. The verdict was
for so, 200 and the cost of three trials,
and the population of Holly is about
l,200. The case is of several years
standing, and was commenced by DIR.
Hunter for personal injuries. Several
years ago he was called TO attend
riage for the house, which was some dis
lance away. AS he passed up a main
street his horse and carriage came in con-
with house moving windlass, or cap
stan, which could not be seen in the
darkness. DIR. Hunter was thrown from
his carriage and sustained injuries which
have resulted in his permanent disability
for active work and has wrecked him
physically.
The weekly bulletin of the operations
in the Lake Superior mines reports that
Another weeks shipments of ore will bring
| the grand total OF lake shipments of ore for
1889 up to 5000 900 tons, against some 500, 600
tons at the corresponding date of SO. Ship
ments are already more than a million tons in
excess Of the output last season mt this time.
| ore struck I'm crosscut OF the
/ Aragon shaft. at Norway, on the Ne
nominee range, few days ago. This
| shaft was projected two years ago.
Another great work has been begun recent
| ly on the Menominee range. 1t is to iron
! mining what tine Tamarack shaft was TO copper
mining four years ago. The Hamilton Ore
| Company has begun work on shat which Is 10
| be sunk 1000 feet to the ore. The shaft will be
/ of full working size, and its sinking will require