The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-02-06
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

portant Dolngs of Our Neighbors-Wed-
dings and Deaths - Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
The summer Of 1883 was the dryest
this State has experienced for thirteen
years. so says Mr. Conger, who is at the
head Of the Michigan we ,ther service.
Tho Roman Catholics have acquired
site and propose to build In the near
future church in Newton Township
Mackinac. probably at Gould City.
John M. Cary, of Bad Axe, says this
season thus far is fac simile of that of
thirteen years ago. That winter he had
charge of Whitney & Co.'s lumber bust
ness at Bad Axe, and had about 100000
veet of lumber to remove to Port Hope.
Up to the last of February there was
practically no snow. About that time
there was big fall, and by employing
some seventy teams no succeeded in get
ting the last of his lumber at the Port
Hope on election day, but the sleighs went
back on bare ground.
Fred Palmer, at Rochester, who is
about IL years old, got hold of revolver
that he supposed was empty, and, placing
the muzzle in his mouth, snapped it. In
stead, however, of being empty it was
loaded but, as luck would have it, the ball
had been distracted by showmen. who
were to use the gun for stage purposes,
and blank cartridge substituted. The
pistol was discharged, and the wad from
the blank" entered the boys tongue, in
dieting painful wound, the unruly men,
Der soon swelling to such an extent AZ to
make it impossible to swallow. Proper
treatment will soon bring the young man
around all right
The Governor has appointed the fol-
lowing officers: Trustees OF the Michi-
gan Insane Asylum, Foster Pratt of Kali
amazoo, and Erastus w. Bates; of the
Northern Michigan Asylum, Thomas I.
Bates of Traverse City, and John Ben
iamin, of Grand Rapids; of the Michi-
fgan Deaf and Dumb Institution, Edwin
L. Darlington of West Bay City; member
of the Fish Commission, Hoyt Post of
Detroit; of the Board of State Prisons,
Upper Peninsula, James M. Wilkinson
of Marquette, Eli B. Chamberlain of st.
Ignace, and Edwin f. Perkins of Che
boygan.
Some time ago John Sullivan, of
Sand Beach, met n Canadian fir end to
whom no was relating some true fish
stories. Among other things he expa-
tiated upon the great size to which Lake
Huron trogt often attained. He men-
toned twenty pounds rs about the lnrg-
est he had ever seen. The friend was n
doubter and wagered Mr. Sullivan So
that he could not produce a lake trout
that would weigh twenty pounds. Few
large trout have been taken this winter,
but the hacker OF Luke Huron fish await
ed his opportunity. 1t came whom George
Smith captured trout that dressed ex-
actly thirty pounds. The fish started for
the Dominion by express. and has ~ this
time doubtless convinced the Golbter
that there are some big things besides the
Canadian debt.
bt hOhl Hlltl ShNN bO8hus - Auu-
ming right along on grain taken there by
rail Fl ON Duluth and other ccnters. The
mill has been successful from the start,
which gives its owners confidence in Che
boygan as manufacturing city, and this
is what is needed to induce other indus
tries TO locate there
The body of Frank A. Martin, a clerk
for the Trowhridge Lumber Company, was
found beside the Lake Shore track, near
one of the street crossings, in Detroit. He
was in the habit OF going in from his work
on tho 6:20 tr lin on that road, and it i,
supposed that lac was killed aad thrown
from the train. His skull was crushed in
and a club, one end Of which was clotted
with blood and the dead mans hair, was
found near the body. The affair is
shrouded in mystery. One story in cir
.culat on, but impossible to confirm, is thai
some one on the train threw q club which
killed him. Nothing had been taker
from the body.
Alex Johns, the negro who ran away
to Chicsgo last fall with Ida Lybolt, the
l3-year- daughter of Hiram Lybolt,
farmer in Lebanon, st. Johns County
pleaded GU lty in the Circuit Court to
charge of abdu tion of a girl under II
years of age. for immoral purposes.
Earl Wilcox, of Greenbush, Clinton
County, has lemon tree about twent,
years old. and this year raised a small
crop of lemons, A sample of the fruit
measured eleven and half inches in iti
largest circumference. 1t was a beauty.
Two boys, one 10 and the other /.
f years old, were arrested in West Bay Cit,
on tho complaint of the mother of tn,
younger, she saying that he was vicious
and unmanageable. In the possession o
the boys were found two butcher knives
steel knuckles, three loaded revolyers
cartridges and other articles, all of which
they had stolen. The older of the tw,
was sent TO the State Reform School an,
sentence was suspended on the younger
Rev. Father Leavy, of Monroe, die