The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-11-05
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.
An Interesting Summary of the More I'm
portant Doings of Our Neigh bors-Wed-
dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.

Ledge are hauling into market many
wagOn-loads Of the largest and best pc-
Latoes ever marketed there, and get from
80 TO go cents per bushel.
JoHN w. CANPFIELD, the Oldest living
settler in Port Huron, is dead, aged 81.
He came 10 Michigan from New Jersey
ia 1882, residing at Detroit and Ann Ar
/ Dor, and locating at Port Huron in 1888.
FRANK SrAscHAK. OF Roscommon, was
instantly killed by some logs falling on
him at St Helen.
TIE residence building OF the Altoona
County Poor Farm burned last week.
Everything i'm the buildings and cellar
was saved The buildings cost $1,000
No insurance.
lT is reported that large boot and
shoe factory, emp Dying 1000 hands, will
| move from New England % Beding this
winter and make the town boom.
A NUMBER of Saginaw merchants have
been victim zed by the bogus check
racket.
MUNIsING, Alger county, is experience
! ing boom. and lot of new houses are
in course Of completion.
| An Eastern syndicate wants an option
! on the Union street railway of Saginaw.
IT took just six months for letter To
| go from Laird to L'Anse, only 20 miles.
BENZoNIA is reported TO have grown
more the past summon than IL has in 10
! years before.
SEVEN well-to-do Port Huron men
! have formed the Port Huron Il st. Clair
| River Railroad Company and will build
broad gauge road TO Marine City.
! CHARLES SNIELICos, farmer in Chip
pewa County, attempted TO commit sui
eide by shooting himself. He may re-
! cover but the chances are against it.
Lack of work and dislike 10 see his
family in poor circumstances led him TO
attempt To leave them TO hustle for
themselves.
! THE citizens Of Clare are talking of
putting in an electric light plant.
BAY CITY has opened new CONNER
cial bank.
! TIE Attorney General has decided
that the law requiring the Secretary OF
| State 10 file a copy Of the tickets with
the County Clerk is not mandatory but
directory.
THE schedule of assets as filed by X.
G.. Peters with the County Clerk in
Manistee shows over IS. 0O0 900 in sight,
! and in case the creditors are able To
realize upon the property as listed every
| body will be paid and the lumber baron
will then have a snug balance left. The
exact amount of assets as given in the
schedule is S., 34s, 522. 10.
A PORT HURON dispatch says that
| William Pelett, who murderOusly as
saulted the O'Haras, Of Smiths Creek,
has made full confession and duplicates
the Bowen woman. She advised him TO
visit Smiths Creek and rob the old
couple, telling him that they kept their
money in an old stocking. He went
there and secreted himself until evening,
when he went TO the house, asked for
drink, and struck O'Hara, as at first re-
ported. After he had stabbed him, he
became frightened and ran off. Both are
held for examination. The O'Iaras are
recovering from their wounds.
TIE will of tho late Judge Isaac p.
Christancy, which was drawn six years
ago by the venerable jurist himself, dis
poses of an estate valued at about ST., 900.
A BOLT of lightning struck +. j. Ack-
erman's house at Davis, Macomb County,
smashed the chimney, broke the furni-
ture, nearly scared the people to death,
and then sneaked out of the back door
without setting fire to the house.
MERRITT JERSEY, who lives near Ro-
meo. recently jumped over fence, and
in doing so ran silver the size of pipe
stem into his foot. He could not pull it
out, so he whitfield il off even with the
foot and went about his business. In
Illumination and lockjaw followed. and it
took two doctors 10 save his life by am
putating his foot.
Ex-SPEAKER d. p Marley, of Sagi-
I cd
cutting Attorney of Ogemaw County by
Governor Luce, TO take the place of De-
| we're Hall, resigned.
DAVID LAWRENCE recently escaped
term in Jail at Bay City by promising to
turn his property over to his wife. The
charge against him was withdrawing,
and they have a way Of making such
| persons sweat in Bay City. Lawrence
did not keep his promise and is now in
Jail, with very good chances of going to
the house of correction.
DETROIT Journal: Stanley Kowalski
and Clara Woods were TO be married at
o'clock a. IN. in Bay City The groom
was so anxious about it that he could
not go TO sleep the night before, and
! when he did doZe off forgot to wake up.
Everything was in readiness, but the
! groom came not, and the wrathy father
went looking for him. 1t was o'clock
before the matters were settled, and
then the wedding went right along.
DUNCAN KIPPEN, employed i'm lum-
Der camp in Gadwin County, was in
stantly killed by being caught under
rolling log. His home was in Saginaw,
where the body was taken.
w. DICKSON, an Indian boy of Pincon-
ming, Bay County, was driving yoke of
steers, when they became frightened and
started TO run. The boy was moro
frightened than the steers and dropped
dead i'm his tracks from heart disease,
induced by the fright.
HENRY KRoPP, of Good Harbor, Lee
anaw County, has been arrested for
making and selling Illicit whisky at his
farm house near Traverse City.
THE valuation of Alpcna County, as
equalized, is SO, 1928, 900.
A BAY CITY crank ate forty-nfne
cl. ,,,S an ,ropor aud WANTS n. N, lra q