The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-08-19
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

and General News Notes.
JACOB IsAACs, an Indian carpenter OF
Manistique, died the other day, full OF
years-just how many years nobody
knows, but he was very old. The Man
istique Stars OBJ tuary notice sums up
his life in this wise: "de was good In
dian, even before he died"
GEO PENDELI, formerly of Saginaw,
whore his father still resides fell from
building at Fort Smith, Ark, and broke
his neck.
LIGHTNING struck the barn on Gen.
Soper's farm at Mar!ette. The structure
with hay, grain, and implements burned,
and also the team Of Frank Dorlands,
who was visiting there. The loss is
81, t0); no insurance
A CURIOUS freak of nature at Iron
Mountain recently was the Matching of
chicken with three legs and the same
number OF wings.
BROWN CITY is get-even place. An
officer there arrested d. and d., and
he swore like pirate during the per-
Torrance of the act. When the d. and d.
got through being defendant he became
complainant, and had the officer arrested
under the blue laws for the crime of pro-
family.
TaD plant of the Howell Manufacture
ing Company and the Samson Barrel
and Basket Works burned. Nearly five
acres of ground were burned over,
large amount Of material being con-
sumed. The loss is 500, 900, with an in
surance of S14, COO.
PAUL j. KING has recovered damages
in the sum Of 81, SEQ from the Ford
River Lumber Company for the loss Of
an arm.
CHEBoYGAN COUNTY was visited by
soaking old rain, but it is said to have
come too late TO benefit
L. c. BRITTEN's big barn near Brigh-
ton burned, with patent farm machinery
and the spoils of the harvest the loss be-
ing 81, 500.
TWELVE row boats and two steam
yachts carried large party of men who
spent day without success in search
ing for the bodies of Frank Winterhal-
ter, Adolph Wideman and George Damn,
drowned in Saginaw Bay.
JACKSON was crowded with delegates
to the annual State Maccabee Jubilee.
The decorations were very elaborate,
and the 20, 900 visitors who came to the
city were welcomed in q royal manner.
1t was the greatest jubilee in the history
of the tent, and its officers are very en-
thusiastic. The report of Great Record
Keeper Boynton showed that the order
had just completed the most prosperous
year of its organization. Upward of
10000 new memb ers had been taken In
to the order. Thea are now rs, 900
Knights in the State, and its member
ship exceeds by 1000 that of any similar
society in the State. During tho year
the organization of the ladies, with
distinct organization as an auxiliary
branch known as the Hive, had been ac-
| complished with flattering success There
are now eighty-iv hives in the State,
and every one is represented at the
jubilee. The grand parade was over
two miles in length. Mayor Weather
wax welcomed the visitors, and Great
Commander Linton responded in behalf
of the tent.
MARTIN OFT, a Milford veteran, had a
jolly good time with the boys of 81 at
Detroit Then he went home, fell off
load of straw and broke his thigh.
THE D., L. &c N. did the largest
amount Of passenger business encamp-
ment week in the history Of the road.
A PARADoXICAL celebration at Jack
son Prison was hold by the incarcerated
ones in honor Of Emancipation Day.
BREEvoRT is the name of new Post
Office in Mackinaw County.
JOSEPH BRADLEY, one of the Chippewa
chiefs of the Isabella County Reserva-
| ton, should cult civilization for 4 time,
go back to the occupation Of his ances-
tors, and do some quick, deep scalping
A year ago some villain poisoned his cat
| tie, and recently paris green was placed
! in hiC M His Of work bnrepQ
are useless for this season, and perhaps
| for all time to come
Mr.. AND Mrs. CARL FRICK, passen-
gers on e. II. & ]. train, stopped at
Kalamazoo for lunch Mrs Frick
| suddenly fell to the sidwak and was the
! mother of boy baby in short order.
EDWARD ID. GUADcHINsKY, of Kala-
ma7oo, has been held to the Federal
! Court on a charge of opening his en-
ployers' letters.
Ir is predicted that Michigan real es-
! tate will go up25 per cent in the next two
years, in consequence of the "busting"
! of the short-lived booms farther west.
A MAN named Odds. of Gladwin, met
death under train at West Brandon.
James Manly, OF Tecumseh, has also
JnlS lllt III IHc sdIlc way,
REESE has hopes that coal mine will
be opened and operated there.
Rich deposits Of manganese have been
found near the Mastodon iron mine
THE stock subscription condition hav-
ing been met the featherbone corset
company will be removed from Three
Oaks to Kalamazoo The capacity Of
the factory will be doubled and $50 girls
employed.
BAY COUNTY has settled for 81, 200 the
claim of Jane Douglas who, in 1887, fell
through a hole in the Third street
bridge, being crippled for life.
WHILE thrashing rakings horse shoe
was carried into a Laingsburg farmers
separator, and, true to the mission for
which it was made. ii proceeded to kick
the stulng out of that machine.
WITH the cd striped beetle pest,
which has become so used to paris green