The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-15
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

Gov. WINANs has signed and fled
with the .;ecretary of State all bills left
| him by the Legislature except two, which
were pocket-vetoed, the time for signing
the bills having expired without receiv-
ing his signature. One of these bills
amended the law granting aid TO yeter-
ans outside of the Soldiers Home. He
objected to il because il practically gives
unlimited power TO the county commits
sioners in the matter of determining who
j. entitled to aid. The other was Joint
resolution providing for the compilation
OF "Michigan and Its Resources" 20, 900
copies to be printed.
THE Supreme Court filed an opinion
declaring w. II. Lennon, who resigned as
Alderman OF West Bay City to become
| chief OF police, ineligible for the latter
office in that his term of alderman was
for two years and the statutes provided
| he could hold no other Office by appoint
ment during the term for which he was
e'ected The opinion also quoted from
the State Constitution and declared that
members of the Legislature were also
ineligible to appointment during the
term for which they were elected7
RED JACKET Congregationalists are to
have IS, 600 church.
BOOK has no medic and the people
want one, because whisky and qunIne
will not cure all the ills that Boon is
heir to.
TWELVE families of Jews have settled
three miles north of Bad Axe and call
their settlement New Bethlehem They
have rabbi and expect many moro
| Hebrews to join them soon.
| MANIsTEE officers are after men who
have been selling whisky on a beer
license. Sixteen complaints and several
arrests were made.
IT will cost between so, 900 and SsO,-
900 TO run Bay City's schools during the
! ensuing year.
MUIR, Ionia County, has a cider mill
that will consume so bushels of apples
every day this summer
j. L. BOSTwICK, the pioneer druggist
| of Alpena, has filled over 10000 pre-
scriptions, and has been doing some fig
uring over it. He finds that if the papers
in which the prescriptions are written
were laid end TO end, they would extend
over seventy-six miles of territory.
THE ladies of the Episcopal church at
| Alpena recently held trade carnival on
which they cleared $1,000.
BAY CITY men are shipping quantities
| Of ice to Cincinnati.
LESLIE is to have a grist mill to cost
about SO, 900.
KALAMAZOO prisoners are compelled
| to NOW the public lawns.
PLYMOUTH has three factories manu-
| featuring air-guns and they have al the
orders they can fill.
THERE is a man living in Mason town
| ship, Arenac County, that insults old
soldiers by calling them government
| paupers" because they draw pension.
A BAND of gypses are reapng a har-
vest at An Ores, Arenac County.
THE Salvation army has been de-
| clared a nuisance at Cheboygan.
FIFTY miners have been set at work
at the Sebewaing coal mines. There
are twenty new houses at the mines.
THE Pontiac knitting works were
| damaged S25, 900 by fire.
A. Il. Farnam, prominent man of
Hilsdalc, died suddenly of heart disease.
Louis MIX, aged %, fell off dock at
ManiStec and was drowned.
JOSEPH SALoNDE, of Essexville, was
| drowned while fishing.
THE Rev. j. Il. Andrews, Of Bad Axe,
recently donned a white flannel suit and
nature as found in the WOO Is. He proved
target for a vicious bull. and narrowly
escaped with his life. The white fan
mel suit was completely wrecked by the
| reverend gentleman's frantic efforts to
climb over burned logs TO avoid the
| enemy.
WM KINNEY, farmer of Ossineke,
Alpena County, started out to look for
1,,'t A a,I,f,
party found his dead body in the road.
1t is supposed he was victim Of heart
disease.
ALBERT CUMMINGS will go through life
hereafter with but one hand. He went
to sleep alongside the +. Il p. NJ track
i'm Saginaw, and allowed one hand to rest
on the track A train passed over it.
For the month of June the Calumet
and Hec a mines produced 4, 1926 tons;
Quincy mine, $685. tons; Atlantic, 2145
tons; Franklin, 2O3 tons; and Peninsula,
so tons
FRED BUTLER was pet of st. Johns
best society until year ago, when he
went to Ionia and made the acquaintance
of Lena Beattic, the comely assistant
postmistre5s and became enamored, but
she Spurned his proffered love AID at
tentonS Miss Beattie left the Postoffice
for home at the usual time the other
night but failed to arrive The searth-
ing party found her by the roadside un-
conscious, with big cash in her head.
She was taken home and said that young
Butler was her assailant Sheriff Walner
and Deputy Smith found But er in bed.
He was awakened by the officers and
grabbed revolver from beneath the
pillow and sent bullet into his head,
causing death instantly. Miss Beattie
iS badly injured, but will recover
THE Bay City Canning Factory will
soon begin operations. Its first trick
will be to put mp $50, 900 cans Of huckle-
berries, and after that il will jam away
at different kinds Of truck until 500, 900
cans are put away at the end of the
season.
The constant smoking of short clay
pipe is given as the reason why William
Syriss n Clear Lake farmer, has lost
holt A