The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-10-15
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.
An Interesting Summary of the More I'm
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-Wed-
dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties
and General News Notes.

liz lOllOWlng companies nave Hlcu
articles OF incorporation at the office OF
the Secretary of State:
Detroit Gold and silver Mining Company.
Ishpeming, capital stock $4,000, 0OO Union
Street Railway Company, Bay City. $780,
900; Muskegon Brewing Company. Muske-
gon, s25O,OOO; National Herb Medicine Com
pany, Detroit. $4,000; Ypsilanti Lumber
Company. Yp~ilanti, $4,000; Central Car
supply Company. Detroit. 100000; Mag
netic Meridian Nitapoise Company, Detroit,
100000 Lehr AGRICULTURAL Company,
RaisinviiIc, $4,000 City Brewing Company.
Detroit. $50. 900; City Transit Company, De-
troit, $50, 900; Branch County Commercial
and Savings Bank, Coldwater. $4,000;
Traverse Beach Association, Elmwood.
100000
WITHIN the last month four Detroit
girls have at different places had their
hair stolen on the street by miscreant
who seems to be an adept I'm the bust
ness, and who has earned the name Of
Jack the Hair-cutter." In each case
the victim has been possessed of beauti-
full black hair, all other colors seeming
! 20 have no attraction for the strange
thief. The last victim vas pretty Fam
ME O'Leary, who has a beautiful head
of black hair which reached 10 her waist.
A man sprang out of an alley and caught
her by the throat, sitting her screams.
BY quick movement he drew her 10 his
breast, and she felt slight tug at her
hair. She could not scream nor move, so
close was the embrace. When the pull
ing ceased she was pushed rudely into
! the gutter and by the time she arose the
! hair-cutter was gone
THE Census Office gives out the fol-
| lowing figures: Grand Rapids, Mich,
| 6i,147, increase 32,13l; Kalamazoo,
Mich, II, ls7, increase $3.50; Muskegon,
Mich, 22,66s, increase IL 400; Ishpem-
| ing. Mich. 1l,ls4, increase 5,145; Mem
ominee, Mich, lO,606, increase 1918;
| Marquette, Mich, 1906, increase 1896;
! Negaunce, Mich, COOL, increase 2,l30.
The population Of the whole State OF
Michigan is 2,O59, 792, an increase of
| 452, $50.
THE new town of Mansfield, built near
the Mansfield mine, is humping itself
The Quincy mine turned ont $50 tons
of copper during September, the Calumet
Il Hecla 3,664 the Franklin POS, and the
Atlantic 231.
| HALL Il BUELL., of Bay City. will re-
move their Bay City mills TO the $500"
IT will take $50, 40 10 run the West
Bay City schools this year. OF this
amount S26, 900 will be paid teachers.
A NORTHERN peninsula paper was sent
a jug of cider by subscriber, and every
man in town laughed when the paper
acknowledged Gag"
| THE Bay City Common Council has
voted 10 submit TO the people the ques-
| tion of bonding the city for $50, 900 for
| additional watcr-works.
| MICHIGAN patents: VIM. j. Acker-
man, Grand Rapids, burglar alarm;
! Harry H. Blades, Detroit, commutator;
1 4 I,y.l
wheeled vehicle: Andrew Eymer and G..
| w. Haight, Jr., East Saginaw, seal lock;
Joseph Ford. Palmyra, egg preserving
| apparatus; James r. Hall, st. Louis,
railway cattle guard Thomas Harris,
| Detroit. galvanometer; Arthur IIemenge,
| Algonac, diving armor; Fred c. Hughes,
Detroit. telephone support; Frederick +.
| Ingram, Detroit, baglock: Susan j.
! Knapp, Adrian, clasp for belts: Moses
| ID. LOOMS. Detroit. converting helical
springs TO straight bars; Franklin ;. Me-
| kenney. Detroit. lacng: Silas II. Ray
mond, Grand Rapids, carpet sweeper;
Frank A. Smonds. Grand Rapids, heeler
carriage for shingle machine; Edward
A. sumner. Detroit, core supports Har-
risOn II. Taylor, Detroit, shaft turning
lathe; James WhittemOre, Detroit, sur
face cattle guard.
A CALL for report of the condition
of Michigan banks at the close of bust
ness October :? has been issued by Com
missioner of Banking Sherwood.
THE potato crop in Huron County
eclipses the yield of any of the past four
years, and it is going into the market
with rush. by rail over the Flint and
Pere Marquette Railway. and by boat
from Sand Beach. The quantity already
Skinned pbas nvar I OOO hnshnls
NELSON Ross and a companion were
out hunting in Alpena County. Ross
shot at a bird, and he and his companion
entered thick growth of trees 10 try
and find the bird While there, Henry
Mcbride and comrade came along the
log road. They discovered deer tracks,
and Mcbride, noting a lght-colored OBJ
ject moving about the thicket, raised his
45-ealiber Winchester and fired at il. He
missed what he had aimed at and fired
again. He was then Mortified to hear a
man yell ont. ain shot" On going to
the place, Mcbride discovered he had
killed Ross. The ball entered the body
just above the hip, struck a bone,
glanced up the body, and caused almost
instant death.
DERToIr Free Press: The "sand bar
rens" or "pine barrens" of Michigan will
disappear as effectualy as did the "Great
American Desert" of our oldtme
biographies. At the recent Osceoa
County Fair there were forty-siX kinds
of native corn on exhibition and six
varieties of peaches. Some day these
sand hills along the Muskegon River will
be covered with peach orchards, and the
lands will be among the most valuable in
the county.
john +. MCDONALD. of Cheboygan,
has Maltese cat and Newfoundland
dog. The cat has more kittens than she
can take care of and she'has impressed
the dog into the service. He no sooner
gets laid down for the night than the cat
carries her kittens 90 his bed and care
fully bcstows them all about him, and he
likes il.
T. Il. WILLARD of Belding. has Just
patented pig trough. 1t is a sort of
Observation-Disclosures arrangement, and all
you have TO do is 10 throw swil into the
slide and you get a fat porker.
Ar Ray CITY canitaliSfs have decided IN