The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-05-21
The following Michigan pensions
have been granted:

oagetowh; uro. Wheiples, fihe oroVe Angus
Vile Henry H. Nash. Ashley; Henry p. Hoag-
land, Marshall WIN. eraser, Marion; Geo. IL.
Elisha Elisha paMiey Gaiesbare; Rehasd p '1 Hasps
Ada John ok. Mcdonald; Jesse Cults, Cairo
Jno. Cook, Prairieville Jacob p. Lambert. Cold
Grove; George II. Bennett, St Joseph; George
w. h. Tuttle Cincinnati Ellis McGary. Kala-
mazoo; Austin Calhoun, Muskegon; Frank j.
&. Ellis, Detroit George Goodnoe, onondaga;
Jacob showers, Marshall; John NJ Gilbert
Duffeld; Henry Ii. Olmstead. Eaton Rapids
Smith A. Hunt, Fowler; George Il. Mcclure
Grand Rapids; Benjamin Wescott, Saginaw
James Dempsey, Detroit; Edgar A. Stevens,
Clare; Jonathan Gordon, Flint; Thomas b.
Young, Cannonsburg; William Bradt, deceased
Fenton Robert Abbott Muskegon Joseph f.
1hrasher. Wasepi; William Moore, Vermont
vile; George A. Zimmerman, Harrisburg; John
Fitzmorris, Grand Rapids.
Increase-Gottlieb Carchie, st. John s John
Mcdonald, Adrian stephen NJ. Snyder, Three
Rivers; Erzelon Mason, Westoni Rufus X.
RSe PfSrse CEDAR Syss
Frasier III. Sprague, Nashville James A. Moore,
Gaines station; Samuel Rogers, Marlette
Theron j. Spores, Conklin; Orrey s. Barrett
Adrian: Nm Leftover Marshall BENJAMIN r.
Marsh. Cassopolis; Ransom nj. Rowley, Mount
Clemens Monroe Gowan WILLIAMSON; Lorenzo
d. Abbott Frontier; De WiCt T.. Myers, Caro-
Edwin Crook, South lockwood Geo. w. Smith,
Woodville; Edward Kenney, Shelby; Harmon
Campbell, Bailey; Orel G. Warmer, Litchheld
Moses Morgan, Allen Creek Henry w. Rose
Grams, Iosco; Jesse De Wees, Jonesville Jacob
H. Mosher Ellington James McAllister, Eaton
Rapids George w. Record, stanton; Nelson 4.
Reissue-william Fisher Richland David L.
Ravens, North Adams Edwin Nixon, Grand
Ledge; Loyal n: DoddIidge. stanton; Anthony
Sister, Muir; Hanford h. Todd, Flint; William
Miller, Factoryville; Ezra Bertram Jr., Rome
Center Smith G. p. Williams. West Bay City.
Reissue and Increase-Alfred White, Bloom
ingdale; William Watson, Blissfed
Original Widows, Etc.-Rowena A., widow OF
Eugene Rowlson, Hillsdale; Nancy Graves.
mother OF Abraham Stons, Vaudeville; Nancy
NJ, widow of Ezra Sweet, Wales minors OF
David Blakemore Fast saginaw; Christina,
widow of John Hendrie, Eesroit Adla widow
OF Charles n. Rowland, Viii ehall.
The following articles OF association
were filed with the Secretary of State at
Lansing during the week:
The Cheboygan Brewing and Mailing Com
pnny, Cheboygan, $50 600; Cooperative Mercan-
tile Company, Grand R0pids, $1,000; Western
Paving and supply Company, Detroit, S5O'OOJ; ;
III r ison Portrait and Picture Frame Conn any,
Grand Rapids, $1,000; the Riverside Storing
Company, Bay City, $4,000; tho United Fuel
Gas Company, Lansing, 100000; the indie
pendent Fuel Gas Company, lansing - 900 900;
Ithaca Milling Company Ithaca, $4,000; the
Jonesville Pickle Company, Jonesvile, Sl0,0D;
the f. d. Hutchinson Company, Detroit, $1,000;
the Oak Grove Sanitarium Flint. SlOlOOOi the
Farmers Milling Association, Perry, $1,000 ;
Detroit Mining Company, Detroit, $1,000.
The Senate has passed the following
House bills granting pensions to Michi-
gan people: Helen A. Moore. widow of
Capt. John S. Moore, of Company L,
Second Michigan Volunteers; Mary Dock
ham, mother of Charles w. Johnson. COL
poral Company c, Tenth Regiment Mich
igan Volunteers; Malvina p. Fletcher,
widow of John z. Fletcher, private Com
pany ID, First Michigan Engineers; Pat
rick Cuban, of Detroit, who served in
the Forty 81 xth Indiana Volunteers; Allen
Coone, of Midland, who served in the
Fifty seventh New York Volunteers;
Julia Z. Phillips, of Battle Creek. widow
of two soldiers; Ida l.. Martin, who was
a hospital nurse.
Lansing pays its Mayor 81 every
year.
John Butler, farmer living near
Detroit, was thrown from his buggy. He
struck in ditch file with water and the
buggy fell on him. the dashboard catch
ing him across the back of his neck and
holding his face in the water until he
was drowned.
A case of considerable interest was
begun at Saginaw last week by the filing
in the Circuit Court of a declaration in a
suit for $4,000 damages against the De-
troit, Lansing and Northern Railroad
Company. Joseph Manning, travelling
sal esman, desired 10 travel between Alma
and st. Louis. three miles, and not hav-
ing purchased ticket rendered the con-
ductor ten cents as fare. This was re-
fused on the ground of a higher rate
established by the company for non
ticke.ed passengers, and Manning was
put OIL the train.
Lansing dispatch: The seventeenth
annual convention of the superintendent
of City Schools in Michigan has ended.
Several able papers were read. Professor
O'Keefe of Saginaw urged the establish
ment of training school course in con-
nection with tho high schools for the
benefit OF graduates who might desire to
become teachers. The greatest obstacle
in the way of progressive improvement
in the schools to-day, he argued, is the
lack of professionally trained teachers.
The following officers were elected: Pres
ident, d. A. Hammond of Charlotte; Vice
President, ii. NJ. Slawson, Coldwater;
Secretary and Treasurer, L. w. Russell,
Battle Creek
Two huge enterprises. one with
capital stock o. $4,000, 900, and the other
with capital stock of $4,000. 900, rave
just been incorporated in the office of the
Secretary of State at Lansing. The first
is the United Fuel Gas Company. The
headquarters of both of these enterprises
will be in Lansing, but are incorporated
under different names for the purpose of
operating more conveniently in different
sections OF the country. Their purpose
is TO make plants for the manufacturers
of fuel gas, and it is claimed that by
their process fuel gas can be supplied to
the consumer at 40 per cent. of the cost
of coal. The incorporates include John
ID. Cameron and Robert Laird, two New
York capitalists, and Secretary Skinner
and President Hollister, of the Lansing