The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-03-26
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.


An Interesting Summary or tho Moro Inn
portant Doings of Our Ncighbors-Wed-
dings and Deaths - Crlmos. Casualties.
and General News Notes.
Last August Mr.. VIM. II. Landon, a
RESPECTED and well-to-do lngham County
farmer. in a fit OF anger struck an In
dim med Joseph Donegan with plow-
handle, resulting in his death. Mr..
Landon has just been convicted. at Ma
son, of manslaughter, and sentenced to
three years in the Jackson prison. Much
sympathy is felt by their neighbors for
Mr.. and Mrs. Landon.
"A little son of j. Nj. Ford of Sagi-
nav, fell into an abandoned we'll and was
drowned. Ford has commenced suit
against the owner of the property for
$4,000. claiming that the we'll was not
properly covered.
Bay City has a Worlds Fair Club.
IT is made up young men who are anxious
TO attend the big show at Chicago They
will pay 30 cents per week into the treas
ury, and they hope by this means to Sc
cure enough to make things howl when
they get to the fair.
Patrick On nm, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Monroe County. is dead. He
was native OF Ireland, had resided in
the county over fifty years, and was "a
years of age.
An East Saginaw man has invented
nickel-in- the-slot street-car door which
is calculated to take the conductors
place. In order to get upon a car which
has one CT the doors, it will be necessary
for the passenger to drop nickel; then
the door will fly open, but the moment
the passenger is inside his weight drives
the door shut, locking it securely against
everything but another nickel
Mrs. f. b. Farrar, of Evart, thought
the cook stove was cold, and she began
to polish it with some electric compound.
The fire wasn't out, and Mrs. Farran dis
covered that fact just about the time there
was fash and she was enveloped in
flames. She put out the fire and threw
the burning brush upon the floor. A
Newfoundland dog grabbed the brush and
carried it out doors, and the damage was
past. Then Mrs. Farrar discovered that
her hands we're severely burned.
Rev. II. l.. Corey, of Sault Ste. Marie,
has been elected by the Presbyterians of
Greene stle, 1na., as their pastor for the
coming year. He has accepted.
The steel steamer City of CHICAGO,
built at f. w. Wheeler & Co.'S yards in
West Bay City, recently launched in
the presence of 10000 people. She is the
first steel craft luilt at Bay City, is owned
b. Graham & Nor on, of Chicago, an
will run between Chicago and Benton
II rbor. She il beautiful craft, 2l3 feet
on the water ne, 223 feet over al, 33
feet mo- del width and - feet nodded
depth. The steamer is to have compound
beam engines, two boilers AMI feathering
paddle whee els, with all modern improve
ments In the way of outat, incandescent
lights. water works and electric bells
She will have seventy state-rooms and
will be finished in hardwood, furnished
with plush aud velvet carpets, etc. The
cost will reach 1920, 900. Her speed is TO
be seventeen miles an hour.
Fire destroyed Rust Bros saw mill
a. Bay City. Loss. $40, 900; insurance,
S25. 200.
Last October Oh ,rles p. and Charles
Z. Farr were injured by the ups setting of
a load of hay on the str cts OF Fort
Gratiot They have sued the city for
$4,000 each.
The wiseaores of the Agricultural
College announce that great may
State bounties are being paid for redpole
linnets and Rrosbeaks, the killers and
county treasurers believing them 10 be
sparrows
Two years ago Church & Co., the
saleraius makers, ablndone the scheme
to establish works ut Port Huron, be-
cause natural gas cou dn't be found there.
Milton Wood, Chur MS chemist will or
ganize a company with Sl5l, 900 capital
and Locate at Port Huron. He wnl
manufacture saleratus by new process
and employ l5) mea.
-Congressm IN Whiting thinks he can
secure $25 000 appropriation for the
dredging of Black River.
The Mayor OF Ionis has notified the
saloonksepers of that city that the law
against op saloons on election days
must be respected.
Henry G. 'ge, of Roscommon, told his
wife'he was Il ID she was dying, and be-
fore her body got cold filled mself with
rum and then disappeared, leaving his
children unprovidei for aud the body of
his wife to the care of citizens of the
town, who gave II n decent burial.
-Davd Erskine, ch)re-boy at the
Alger House, Clare, was hired to work
from curly morning till s o'clock p. m.
for SIS per month. Once installed in
Office he was required to work about half
the night, and he has sued his employer
for S5l.SS for oy rhine.
-Ex-Gov. i air will not be n mem er