The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-23

ly, and Sam Ashman has been arrested
as the man who has been passing the
spurious coin.
Marcus Budlong escaped from the
Ionia asylum for insane criminals re-
Gently, and DR.. Long will give S25 to get
him back again. He is described as fol-
lows: Sandy hair, full red beard and
mustache, blue eyes, slight hitch in his
gait, talks through his nose, dull, de-
mented look, hernia (bunch) on right
side, wore truss, enlarged veins on both
legs, scar on big toe right foot, scar on
right cheek, scar on upper portion of fore
head, bridge of nose broken, causing o
somewhat flattened appearance of the
nostrils, chin broad and prominent, with
depression of the mouth; wore grayish
suit of clothes"
Mrs. c. J. Towne, of Lansing, who
was the only person injured in the acct
dent to an express train at Lansing, gets
81, 500 from the Grand Trunk Company.
-Advices from Marquette are to the
effect that homesteaders on the Ontona-
gon and Brule Railroad grant have be-
gun proving up" at the Land Office
there, and meet with no opposition from
the Ontonagon and Brule people From
present appearances the claimants to the
unearned grants have given up the fight
as hopeless. In such case the thousands
of acres of valuable timber and agricul-
tural lands will speedily pass into the
hands of bona fde settlers.
The sophomore girls at the State
University are to give a handsome dinner
to the freshman" girls soon.
An enormous apple crop is being
shipped at Monroe, but Jack Frost nipped
the grapes seriously.
The Governor has appointed Albert
/. Huggarth of Battle Greek, and G. N.
Wood of Anderson, as additional Michi-
gan delegates to the National FarmeN
Congress in Montgomery, Ala.
Detroit Journal: Inez Sexton,
daughter of c.. C. Sexton, formerly of
the Grand Rapids Democrat, was for
merly a well-known vocalist in this State,
and her eccentricities were as we'll known
as her vocalisms. She married a bogus
count and repented in tears, while he re-
pented in a Pennsylvania prison. Then
she sang out West, married rich man,
buried him later, and has now married
the San Francisco lawyer who settled up
her second husbands estate.
One Michigan iron mine, the Norris,
has shipped nearly half a million tons of
ore this season, and will pass that figure
before navigation closes.
The annual reunion of the Michigan
Artillery Association was held in the
Senate chamber at Lansing last week.
The following officers were elected:
President, II. V. d. Baker. Hillsdsle;
Vice President, NJ. d. Elliott, Holly;
Secretary, c. d. Burnett, Lansing;
Treasurer, Washington Faulkner, Duck
Lake. The next annual reunion will be
held at Lansing on the first day of the
State Fair Battery NJ of the artillery
men decided to hold its next on the date
of the Exposition in Detroit in 1890. The
officers elected were as follows. Presi-
dent, A. Mcmillan, Bay City; Secretary
and Treasurer, Geo. Ii. Burgess, High
land. Battery L endeavored TO complete
organization but failed. Battery II de-
cided to meet with the Battery Associa-
tion next fall The officers chosen are
President, NJ d. Elliott. Holly; Secre-
Saginaw.
"A sickening accident, resulting in
the almost instant death of three men,
occurred at Lansing a few days ago,
while Michigan Central wrecking crew
was engaged in clearing up a freight
train wreck on the Lansing Transit Rail-
way. The killed were; Peter Quinn, OF
West Bay City, conductor, aged AZ; Geo.
Ruby, of Jackson machinist, aged so;
John Tantilevish, of Bay City, brake
man, aged 20. While the men were en-
gagged in lifting wrecked switch engine
from the track the iron hosting beam OF
the steam derrick broke of and fell upon
a group of over a dozen workmen. AL
but the three above named jumped aside
in time to escape serious injury. The
skulls of Ruby and Quinn were terribly
shattered, and Tantilevishs chest was
crushed. Despite his terrible injuries
Quinn lived nearly an hour.
Chicago Tribune Ex-Gov David II
Jerome, of Saginaw, Mich, arrived at the
Grand Pacific recently, after an extended
trip in North ern Michigan, with party
of Milwaukee capitalists. He went tC
inspect the recently completed Ontona-
gon and Hurley Road, the first twenty
miles of which he accepted six years ago
as Governor of Michigan. The road
pierces the Ontonagon land grant, the
title to which has been in dispute il
the Land Department and Congress fol
several years. Congress declared the Ole
grant forfeited last winter and the land
opened for settlement. But it hasnt
simplified matters much" said Gov
Jerome. THE people who bought lanC
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