The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

an hntcFcsttus Oj tho more
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-wed-
dings and Deaths - Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
Prof. Johnson has been asked by the
State Board OF Agriculture to resign his
position at the head of the State Agricul-
tural College. The speech made by Prof.
johnson before his class on June &,
wherein he compared the faculty and
students 10 snsrling dogs, and also inti-
mated that he had the Board o. Agricul-
ture by the ears, and that they would
back him i2 his work, formed the basis OF
the investigation, and it was principally
on account of these assertions that he was
asked to resign. Resolutions, stating the
reluctance of the board to pant with the
services OF Prof. Johnson and expressing
the kindliest feelings for him, were
passed
There are 737 convicts in the State
Prison at jackson, the smallest number
for several years.
The Fuller Buggy Company has de-
cided 10 locate in Jackson, the citizens
of that place having raised $4,000 to Sc
cure it,
Three citizens of Tekonsha were
fined by Marshall justice of the peace
in the aggregate sum of 500 and costs
for violation of the fish law.
Daniel Hulick, an Oakland County
pioneer, having settled there forty-four
years ago, died few days ago much re-
GREETED by his neighbors.
"A. c. Sutherland, who killed young
Douglass at Eden, Ingham County, some
weeks ago, has been released in bonds of
$4,000 He will be tried at Lansing in
October
Samuel Harvey, of West Bay City,
a baggogeman on the Michigan Central
was run over by the cars at Gladwin and
cut in two and horribly crushed.
AT the regular meeting of the Michi-
gan Board of Pharmacy, held at Star ISL
and, near Detroit, l20 persons were pres
ent for examinati On. OF this number
lO2 took the registered pharmacists ex-
animation and eighteen the registered as
sistants examination. Seventy-four per-
sons passed the registered pharmacists
examination and twenty eight failed.
Thirteen passed the assistants examina-
tion and five failed. This is the largest
class that has ever been before the board
for examin otion. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, Jacob lesson, Muskegon; secretary,
james Vernon, Detroit; treasurer, Geo.
Mcdonald, Kalamazoo. The next meet
ing of the Board will be held at Lansing,
Nov. 5.
Gov. Luce has pardoned Charles
Boyce and Louis Dubry, who were serv-
ing twenty aud three year sentences,
respectively, in Jackson Prison. Boyle
was sent up from Deerfeld, Lawrence
County, IN 1877, on conviction OF man
slaughter. The Governor was prompted
to extend executive clemency by reason
of the exemplary life led by Boyle since
the jackson Prison had teen his home,
and his pardon is due purely to his good
behavior. His sentence would have ex-
pred in two years. Dubry was sent
up from Monroe for period of three
years on conviction of adultery. Gov.
Luce thought the case presented many
mitigating features. and hence the par
don.
Miss Susan Romeyn, sister of Capt
Henry Romeyn, Fifth United States In
fantry, has been engaged as matron at the
Blind School in Lansing
-Sibley & Bearinger, of East Saginaw,
lately sold 5O,0O0,OOO feet of standing
timber on the Au Ores River for 325,-
600
ALI the black bass that were in the
fish hatchery at Alpena have been placed
in Long Lake. The attempt to get them
to spawn while in the hatchery proved a
failure. The fish would not spawn while
penned up, and the method of Matching
them nrtiicially has yet to be discovered
The assessed valuation Of the city of
Alpent this year is S4,03i 900, an in
crease over the assessment of the year
previous Of S593,573
A big lumber deal was recently made
at Cadillac, one that knocks out all for
mer records, J. GUNNER & Son selling to
d. l.. Gillespie q Co., of Pittsburgh,
Pa, 8, 100000 feet. This is one of the
largest, if not the largest, single orders
for lumber ever placed N this country
The lumber all goes into the mammoth
new plant now Icing bulls by the West
inghouse Air Brake Company at Wilmer
ding, new town fourteen miles from
Pittsburgh.
An expert has just concluded crit
ical examination of the Ishpeming gold
range and speaks very highly of the pros
poets.
The shipments of lumber from the
Saginaw River during the month of june
show n considerable falling of, as COM
pared with the corresponding period last
season.
Detroit wants the Grand Army En-
campment next year, and will send a