The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-06-11

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The shipments of lath were: 1888,
2,2660OO pieces; 1889. 1910, 900 pieces:
and 1890. 1881. 900 pieces.
In excavating for the foundations of
new building at Ionia, workmen
brought up quartz gold nugget, weigh
ing six and half ounces. which mining
experts value at 500, it being nearly
pure gold.
Salvation is not free in Saginaw
The other day the cornet player and tam
BOURNE artist of the Salvation Army
were arrested for shouting, singing and
playing on the street, having refused to
desist when requested by the police.
They claimed that they recognized no
chief but Jesus.
Frank Mason, the farmer who was
injured in the student circus row at Ann
Arbor, is rapidly recovering. John
Stricken, the clerk, who also had In ex-
perience that night, is growing worse and
there are fears that he may die.
George r. Spaven, Jr., died re-
Gently at his home near Wyandotte,
Wayne County, aged 93 years. He came
TO Michigan in 1918, and land-sharks
tried to sell him ten acres of land near
where the Detroit city hall now stands,
but the ground was swampy and Mr..
Spayen wouldn't buy.
William Mershon, of Saginaw, the
other day informed his planning mill en-
ployes, of whom he has nearly 500, that
they must work for him or the union
About twenty-five men decided in favor or
the union. 1t looks like concerted action
on the part of the planning mill owners
against the union men.
Mt. Pleasant has a fat mems club
with ll6 members At a meeting held
last week it was decided to have uniforms
consisting of high hats and linen listers,
and take an excursion to Saginaw. Sagi-
nav will be notified in due time. The
combined weight of the jolly crowd is
over twelve tons. Props will be put IN
der Saginaw when they go over.
A correspondent at Trout Lake
writes the Sault Ste. Marie Ners that
Daniel Boone, of that metropolis, while
out fishing in the lake near there the
other day, caught a grass pike thirteen
feet long, in the stomach of which were
found two porcupines, five rabbits, seven
muskrat traps and pair of checked
pantaloons.
Hon. w. S. Tenant, formerly Judge
CT the Saginaw circuit. who became in
sane some months since and was sent %
the asylum at Pontiac, recently escaped
from that institution and walked twenty
two miles to Now, where he took train.
He bought ticket for Toledo and had
81 in his possession. He said he was
going to Milwaukee, being Supreme Re-
gent of the Royal Arcanum, where he
could get so day for ten days, and bor-
rowed so of a Saginaw man on the
train.
The organization of the Michigan
State Bar Association was completed at
a meeting held last week in the United
States Circuit Court room at Detroit.
Col. Henry NJ Duffield was unanimously
chosen President. The Vice Presidents
elected are as follows: First Congress
sional District. William p. Wells, De-
troit Second. Regent Charles II. Whit
man, Ann Arbor; Third, John c. Patter-
son, Marshall; Fourth, Dallas Boudeman.
Kalamazoo; Fifth, Thomas J. O'Brien,
Grand Rapids; Sixth, George II. Durand,
Flint; Seventh Harrison Geer, Lapeer;
Eighth, Stuart Draper, Saginaw; Ninth
Michael Brown, Big Rapids; Tenth, Watts
5. Humphrey, Cheboygan; Eleventh,
Thomas l.. Chadbourne, Houghton. The
other officers are as follows: Recording
secretary, D. f. 'Glidden; corresponding
secretary, Walter S. Harsha; treasurer,
Henry NJ Campbell.
N Il. Hayes, OF Muir, Ionia County.
a leading Democrat and prominent candi-
date for the gubernatorial nomination,
has been stricken with apoplexy and will
probably die.
Edward w, Hessler, Lansing mu-
stefan, was killed at the railroad crossing
in that city, his buggy being torn to
pieces and his horse killed.
Henry Hoffman, aged 10, was fatally
burned at East Saginaw. He was playin G
in a shed and set it on fire.
Joseph c. Sterling, of Monroe, for
the past ten years Secretary of the State
Agricultural Society and presiding genius
of the business affairs of all State Fairs
held in that period, has sent in his resig-
nation. Some time ago the business COM
mittee decided that after this month the
secretary's Office should be permanently
located at Lansing, and Sterling decided
to reign instead of removing to that
city.
John A. Walsh, city editor of the
Saginaw NeWs, died last June, leaving a
widow and three young children, and a
home encountered by mortgage. The
Typographical Union, of Saginaw, has
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