The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-09-23
Peninsular State Pencilings.

SIX-YEAE-oLD Louis Case was drowned
at Bay City while fishing from the logs
OF mill boom.
{. III. PLUMMER, q very wealthy and
widely known Saginaw lumberman, has
cancer OF the stomach
ABBIE BENTLEY, notorious conf
dence woran, Is under arrest at Sag
NAV on charge OF shoplifting
Miss FoUcHER, Of Ira Township, st.
Clair County, died suddenly of heart dis.
ease in buggy while returning from
church.
The Manistique Star hints that there
Is teacher there who opens school with
prayer and swears in the presence of the
pupils
KALAMAZOO is indignant because lot
OF fine old'trees around the new Govern
ment Building there have been ordered
removed.
JUDGE GAGE, OF Saginaw, holds tho
log lien law good, and awards $3.50 to
nineteen employees, as against Brown Il
Ryan. The case will be appealed.
q. III. PRICE, employed at d. M. Ferry
q Co.'S seed farm, near Pontiac, had
both legs cut off while attempting to
board the Orchard Lake suburban train.
THE normal girl is coming in increased
numbers and already the motor road be-
tween Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor feels the
impetus OF the attraction for university
students
JOS. A. GREENE, Of Detroit, retiring
director of the State Agricultural So
ciety, was presented with large bronze
clock by the implement exhibitors at
Lansing.
FRED Brooks, OF Williamson, who
abused his young wife shamefuly, was
ordered to leave town by citizens, and
two stalwart young men with big feet
kicked him the way to the depot
FEMALE suffrage in school elections is
based on both a property and a progeny
Qualification. The Grand Rapids Lead
er charges that hundreds of women
who possessed neither property nor chill
dren voted in the recent election at that
place.
A~LARGF, able bodied button on the
hem of the corset of Bertha Stein,
daughter of a Grand Rapids alderman,
saved the girls life when her companion,
who didn't know the revolver in the
bureau drawer was loaded, got in her
work.
and submarine diver or two, the Mich
igan Central has just recovered lost
freight car. 1t jumped the track sew.
eral days ago and went to the bottom of
Saginaw River. A chain was got around
it and it was hauled up on the bank.
AN aeronaut made a night ascension
at Jackson in balloon hung with Chi
nese lanterns. L. NJ Phillips, O. mill
4 Of hat
tached to the air-ship entangled in his
tayonet scabbard and belt He was car
ried up 700 feet and came down unin-
jured.
AT the Grand Rapids Conference of
the NJ. +. Church, Presiding Elders were
selected as follows: Albion, Ira r. A.
Wightman; Grand Rapids, ID. w. Far
sons; Kalama 90, Levi Master: Lansing,
George s. Hickey; Ionia, M. M. Callen;
Niles, j. w. III. Carlisle; Grand Trav-
erse, w. Sherman. Prominent churches
will be filed thus: First Church, Jack
son, j. /. Buell.; Big Rapids, G. A. ia.
cobs; First Church, Ludington, w. l..
Laufman; Sturgis, j. II. Crwich; Cold.
water, James Hamilton; White Pigeon,
William Barth; Grand Rapids, Division
Street Church, A. Nj. Gould; Second. w.
II. Thompson; Muskegon, w. A. Hins.
berger; Hastings, w. Il. Puffer; First
Church, Kalamazoo, ID. r. Barnes; Three
Rivers A. F. Moore; Lansing Central
Church, l.. Grosenbough; First Church,
I. L. Wilson; Ionia, l.. +. Lenox; Niles,
Thomas Cox; Traverse, ID. G. Chase.
j. w. Arney, the horse trotter, was re-
turned to Saranac without a question
being raised against him
THE State Board of Equalization
raised the valuation Of property in the
State To 81, 130, 900, 900, as against
valuation Of S945, $50, 900 in 1856, an in
crease in five years of S1s4, $50, 600.
Houghton was tho only county assessed
at full cash value, $50, 541, S94, by tho
County Board. The State Board en-.
tered it at S4O 600, 00c. All mining prop.
erty was directly taxed for the first time.
and will pay the State fully as much as
the non-produc.ng mines, valued at S1O,-
OO0, 900, which heretofore have not paid
cent into the Treasury, and will now
have to stand their share Of the burden.
Following Is the equalization by coun-
ties:
Alcona.... 81. 500. 900 Lake. ....S 100000
Al ,er......... 2,5 1900 Lapeer IA 000,00)
Allegan....... 1OOOO,OOO Deelanaw. 1,25O,JOO
Alpera....... u OO0,OUU Lenawee.... ,U.O,COO
Antrim. ...... 5000, Livingston. l6,0O0,C00
Arenac ....... l,Z)J,OOO Luce Z,U0U,UOU
Baraga. ...... 2,t0), 900 Mackinac... 100000
Barry ........ Is q, 5000 Macomf. -. 1s,50c,C00