The true northerner., 1891-10-14
NEWSOFOUROWN STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO MICHr-
GANDERS.
Mail Agent KiIIcd-Shot While Hunting
-CadiiIac's Method of Catching Tricky
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the Land ONCE
Money for Lo.
An Important Suit.

watch with interest the proceedings
that are about to be in stituted in Wex-
ford County to knock out new scheme
Of settlement which has been adopted
by seye al insurance companies. A year
ago the lumber yards of Mitchell Bros,
near Cadillac, were burned, and up.
wards Of ZOO, 900 feet OF lumber de-
stroyed. Mitchell Bros were insured in
many companies, several of them being
represented in Cadillac. The ad listers
In getting to work de branded the books,
figured up the actual cost Of the lumber
and then allowed accordingly. Mitchell
Bros. demanded the full market value.
which was refused, and they will bring
proceedings accordingly. The difference
between the cost and market value OF
the lumber destroyed is about $4,000.
PONTIAC, by an adverse majority OF
81, decided against $4,000 loan for
electric light works.
VIM Copy received injuries in run
away at Brighton which 1t is feared
will prove fatal, Richard Northard being
also badly hurt. A train frightened the
horse.
EARNEST SNOwDEN, of Inlay City,
mail agent fell between the cars at Arm
Station. Both legs were cut off just be-
low the knee, and he only lived few
minutes.
A HORSE from Lodewyck & Posner's
livery stable at Mt Clemens ran away
with j. S. Mcdonald, of Chicago, year
ago last July. He sued for S1O 900 dam
ages. and the jury awarded him 1854.
ALTHOUGH nearly $500 in wedding
gifts were hung up, there wasn't q
couple 10 be found in all Alpena County
,l,,@ e.. IL
stakes at the fair, and get married in
the presence Of the crowd.
WHEN Willie Morrison jumped into
the Saginaw River at Bay City and
saved Robert McCormick's life, it made
the third person he has extended that
sort of courtesy TO this summer. Willie
is only 16 years DID, bat he is good boy
and not afraid of getting his clothes wet
SEVERAL young toughs Of Cadillac
have for some months been waging war
generally on the SwedeS Three OF them
have been sentenced to the Detroit House
Of Correction, and suspended sentence
hangs over some of the others, so that
the Scandinavians now walk the streets
in peace.
THE total receipts of the State Land
Office last year were Sl35, 6J3 The
Office sold 1904 acres Of Agricultural
College and for S24, ,69s and 6,GS9 acres
of primary school lands for 5000
There were >, ,s20 acres OF land forfeited
TO the State during the year.
ARTHUR PATTERSON, age ~, and liv-
ing near Vcksburg AMI q companion
were out bunting in kalamazoo County,
and while climbing over n fence the
gun OF the companion. named Chamber
lain, went off, shooting Patterson in the
hip. He died from the iccts of his in
jury. II
CHEF SIMON PoKAGoN has returned
from Lawrence, Kas., where he went TO
pace party of Ind an youths in the
Government school there. He expects
that about S223. 900 will be paid the
members of tic tribe IN the southwestern
port on Of Michga by Uncle Sam next
spr ng, $50 persons dividing the money
THEY say that Brooks the hermit
who lives In an Old scow on an island in
Black Creek near Lake st Clair, was
once wholesale fish dealer on the
Mis- issppi River His present quar-
ters, which he has occupied in solitude
for many year, are certainly dirty
enough to warrant the belief that he has
never been anything bit better than
fish mongCr.
CADILLAC keeps saloon dete tive on
hand all the tine; that is, as soon q one
vanishes another appears. Durii g the
season she has had some from Grand
Rapids and some from Chicago and each
time the city Golfers have been enriched
by fines. The last shadow man was one
Allen, from Detroit and he, like the
spies in the good book of old, called on
the fema es, too, and they received n m
i,, Frhay did ha
business very open Y, but he got two of
them fined and also appe three regu
lar saloons for selling on Sunday.
THE new consolidated prison board
met at jackson. George n. Davis was
reappointed warden. and accepted con-
dit,onally that the board allow him
So, ZOO yearly salary. The law desig-
mates the salary at $500. One of the
members said ave are Of the opinion
that the board, with the approval Of
the Governor, can raise the Sa ary to
the required amount, and that will be
done" The board. at the request of
the warden, allowed him to use the
paddle" as an instrument OF corporal
punishment He claims he had used IL
alre dy several times "with most salu
tary effect upon both the men punished
and the other convcts. " Said a MEM
Der: line warden maze Jne use OF tne
paddle as a punishment necessary ad-
junct OF prison d sciplne, and so we
told him to go ahead and paddle them
if necessary Warden Davis must file
a bond of So ,OOc, which he is expected
TO do before he can assume the duties of
the Office officially.
IN runaway accident Perry Nc
Neal, prominent farmer of Watertown
Township, Tuscola County, was thrown
from his wagon, striking upon stone.
He was almost instantly killed.
A THIEF at Carsonviilc stole a com
mer ial travellers trunk. After break
ing it open his conscience smote him and
lie returned the property intact The
$. was filed with only left foot bro
gans.
Ar an Alpena fire Patro.man Mac
donald broke door open tefore tho
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