The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-12-10
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.
An Interesting Summary of the Moro I'm
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-Wed-
dings and Desths-Crimes, Casualties.
aud General News Notes.


and General News Notes.
THE embarrassment" of the j T.
! Potts Salt and Lumber Company has do
yelOped into an absolute failure and an
! assignment has been made for the bene-
fit of creditors. Not being satisfied with
the appointment OF David Tisdale, Presi-
dent and almost absolute owner of the
| company, and Henry A. Harmon, as
trustees, or receivers, TO take charge OF
| the affairs Of the company in the inter
| est of the preferred or mortgaged cred
| itorS. "A general assignment for the bene-
! tit of both preferred and unsecured
| creditors has been filed at Detroit The
assignment is made by the j. +. Potts
| Salt and Lumber Company 10 William >.
| Waugh, Secretary of the company.
WILLIAM BAER and a man named
| Bruegmann started out from Maniseee
| on a hunting expedition, having agreed,
should they become separated in the
woods, 10 shoot twice when ready for
home. Toward nghtfall Bruegmann
heard two shots and went 20 the road.
Not finding Baer he came to town. Baer
not returning during the night, a search
ing party went out. and found Baer's
body lying between two logs. He had
evidently been climbing over the logs,
dragging his gun by the muzzle. which
discharged It's load into his right side,
making a terrible wound. Death must
have been immediate When found the
body was frozen stiff.
WHILE firemen were fighting a fire az
Scotten's tobacco works i'm Detroit, a
wall fell. burying four men under the
| ruins. Pipeman Robinson was taken
| out dead, and Lieutenant Robinson was
| haH bat h. in,
hour. Pipemen Cullen aud DE May were
seriously but not fatally injured. The
big building was destroyed, with loss
IF SlC0, 900, while $500, 900 more in stock
and machinery were lost.
EDITOR SIDNEY CoRBETr, of the De-
roit Critic, u gay society journal, was
The victim of a Gaming the other day.
Mr.. Corbett recently married a daugh-
ter Of Millionaire Mabley, but has pro-
fount contempt for society. He is re-
| ported 10 have written in a sighting
manner of Miss Lillian Thompson,
| daughter of ex-MayOr Thompson. Mr..
| Thompson called on Mr.. COrbett, and a
row ensued, in which the Mayor struck
| Corbett across the face with a cane, fol-
lowing IL up with repeated blows, until
/ byStanders interfered and separated the
cOmbatantS. Thompson says If the
Critic does not let his daughter alone he
will horsewhip Corbett on the streets.
FERGUSON MINKLER was successful
merchant i'm Ionia thirty years ago, but
| in the shuttle since that time he has be-
come so poor that Ionia, Mich, and Ly-
! Ons, y. y, have been trying TO thrust
! him upon each other. The Ionia County
Poor officers claimed that his residence
was in New York and paid his fare
there. He was sent back 20 Ionia by
the New York Poor officers, ana this
shuttlecock game was kept up till they
nearly wore out the little remaining
| spark Of life in the poor old man. IL was
a fine thing for the railroad company.
fonia County finally gave in and sent
| him "Over the hills.
A sIx-YEAR-oLD child of Leander
Mackey was burned TO death at the
home of its parents in Manistee. The
child was left by its mother with a
small child of a neighbor while the
mother went into an adjoining house.
| The children lighted a torch with
matches and marched up and down the
room. The lighted torch set fire TO the
clothing Of the Mackey child, burning its
body fearfully, from the effects of which
it died in a few hours
MARQUETTE's new opera house is near
completion.
MINERAL statistics of the Upper Pen
insula will be gathered by Richard A.
Parker, of Marquette. for the Census
Bureau.
VAN WINKLE & MONTAGUE own 35.
600 acres of land in Bay de Noque,
Delta County, and are after more.
IONA citizens have subscribed $50, 900
toward 100000 wagon works.
LUMBER shipments from Saginaw in
1890 amounted 10 423.013,OOO feet;
shingles, s4.957, 900; I'm 1889, lumber.
432, 13O,O feet; shingles, 9s,997, 900.
LUMBER shipments by water from Bay
City during the past season amounted To
2s6.611 900 feet: shingles. 45.13T. 900;
lath, 9.6S2. 600 II is a remarkable fan
ing off from the figures of last year for
lath and shingles, but in lumber the in
crease is not so great "a was expected
In 1884 the shipments of lumber from
Bay City amounted 20 1913, 1882. and
there has been steady decline since,
except in 1883, when there was a slight
increase over 1887.
A CONTROVERSY has arisen between
the officials Of the Second National Bank,
Bay City, which was robbed by three
men of $1,000, Sept. 10. and the Prose-
cutting Attorney. The officials are mod
erately sure they have proof that the
robbers were Rufus Miner, George
Thompson and William Stetson. The
President of the bank applied To
the prosecutor for a warrant, but that
worthy refuses TO have one issued. say
ing that the evidence is not strong
enough to convict. The President of the
bank says he has a score of men who will
swear that they recognize the picture of
Thompson as that of one of the robbers
A NEW sport was introduced at Bay
City Road House. A number of rabbits
were let loose in the road, the hunter
killing the most in a given time to get a
prize.
THERE have been 100000 bushels OF
potatoes shipped from Traverse City this
season.
THE ease with which the bank pro-
jectors raised $4,000 in Manstec has in
duced them 20 make the capital stock
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