The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-12-03

SIXTH DISTRICT.
h hsSE $50 So isoi Maoinac 7s sss aias
Chippewa 1915 SPAS Manitou.. 500 1884
Delta -. 15llo 6,sl2 Marquette $3.50 25,394
GoSsRon 5 BSE aa5 SH1 ne SIS aS
Iron...... 4432 ...... Schoolcft 579S 1,l75
Kewenaw 2,s92 4,270 Total. .1sO627 SO, 4l9
THE Rev. j. w. Arney, the Saranac
preacher who achieved fame as the own
or Of a stable Of trotters, is TO receive a
$4,000 stallion as a gift from Cali
fornia millionaire, they say.
Mrs. MARTIN MELTON. of Port
Huron, left her little 2-yeai-old son
alone in the house while she went to a
grocery. On her return she found the
child's clothing in flames, and before
they could be eXtinguished he was 50
badly burned that he died.
Mrs. FRANK RABDEAU, of Abbotsford,
near Port Huron, drowned herself in a
mill pond. Her last words were "Fare-
well, cruel world" Some employees of
the mill saw her jump in and tried to
rescue her, but she sank TO the bottom
and was dead when taken out. She IS
thought to have been insane. She
leaves a husband and four children.
A FIRE which broke out in the docks
Of the Sheboygan Lumber Company at
Sheboygan destroyed about $1,000, 600
feet of lumber, including tramways,
docks, etc. The total loss is about
$685. 600.
THE j. f. Potts Salt and Lumber
Company, one of the biggest lumber and
salt concerns in the country, has filed
chattcl mortgages upon its property in
Upper Michigan aggregating $500. 900.
The concern owns several saw-millS at
OscOda, railroad thirty-nine miles
long, and several hundred thousand
acres of pine and valuable timber in
Michigan, and employs nearly 1000 men
tle year round. Mr.. Potts has been sick
for some time and has been unable to
personally conduct his business. The
embarrassment Of the firm is attributed
10 bad management on the part of those
left in charge.
WORK in the Lake Superior brown
stone quarries has stopped for the
winter.
Nor one-third Of the mineral district
of OntonagOn County has, as yet, been
explored.
DrPHTuERIA has caused several deaths
among the children of Port Huron of
late, and there is talk of closing the pub
lie schools if the disease does not soon
abate.
JUDGE COOLEY is much better since
his return from Washington.
THE Farmers RCuie,c reports a csner-
ally favorable outlook for winter wheat,
and says Michigan shows good increase
in acreage and condition, the per cent.
being about 90.
Owosso is very proud over the fact
that il will be lighted by electricity: that
it has 81 different factories that $50
dwelling houses have been erected the
past year. and that ID. M. Esty will en-
ploy $50 men i'm the construction of his
new furniture factory, which is to be so
by 250 feet on the ground.
SEVERAL Saginaw Valley citizens are
booming f.. j. Smith, of Adrian, for
State Oil Inspector.
JAMES j. BAIRD has nearly completed
his opera house at Lansing, and by the
time the Legislature gets to work it will
be i'm full blast. 1t cost $4,000 to trans
form it to its present shape.
GROUND has been broken for l.. III.
Cornwalrs new refrigerator building in
Saginaw. which will be the finest of its
kind in Michigan.
ACCORDING 10 pension statistics but
five States i'm the Union have more pen
sioners than Michigan. These are Ohio,
Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York.
TIE Newberry Independent says:
"Deer are reported scarce in numerous
localities in the Upper Peninsula. AS
they are killed by hunters for only six
weeks during the year they should not
decrease in number on that account.
The fact is, they are being killed of by
wolves. If bounty were placed upon
wolves sufficiently large TO induce hunt
ers to hunt them they would soon be
all killed and the deer would then be
better protected than they now are. F."
THE annual meeting of the State
Lodge A. O. Il. W. will be held in jack
son in February.
DETROIT Journal: Au Sable has
preacher who refuses TO marry any but
the members OF his church, because he
says marriage under other conditions
is nothing but civil contract and he
has nothing 20 do with n. To make
affairs all the worse the town has a JUS
tice who will not marry persons because
IL is a religious ceremony, and he will
have nothing TO do with It, Between
these two Au Sable is likely To lose its
place on the map in few years.
Miss GERTRUDE GALL. the Bay City
young woman who was accidentally
shot by her father some time ago, is still
I'm n nrpcar iOus condition