The true northerner., 1891-11-04
Michigan Baptist Convention.


dian School.
Michigan Baptist Convention.
MICHIGAN Baptists met at Saginaw.
DR. "A. j. Nather, manager of the Min
isters' Aid Society, reported that the
society Is now supporting seventy bene-
iiciaries. Mr. McVicar, Superintendent
OF the Frecdman's School, In an address
on the condition of the negroes of the
South, said the Baptists of the North
and South w,re gradually coming to-
gether on the question of educating the
colored people. He knew from D rsonal
obs rvation, he said, that in the larger
States the negroes are I'm worse condi-
ton to day than in the days of slavery.
The report on thu Bible and sunday
school work was to the effect that the
Who'll, r, ceipts for the year have been
9,03s. and besides this the publication
soc city has r ceived in legacies from the
State OF Michigan $4,000. Following are
some OF the resolutions adopted
Resolved, That commend TO our
churches the vigorous cultivation OF sys-
tematic giving as act OF worship, and the
assignment OF each OF our great benevolent
organizations TO place In their sympathies
and contributions.
Resolved, That we recommend TO tho
pastors and churches the cultivation Of so
strong spiritual and religious activity as
will countsract the worldliness In our
churches manifested iR the craze for ques-
tiOnable amusementS.
Tho Baptists are ma 'iing great effort
to get a 100000 endowment fund for
Kalamazoo College. They have S55, 900
pledged, providing they get the remain
der Il. e. Manning, OF Detroit, was
appointed agent to try and raise the
remainder.
THE cornerstone of handsome white
brick hote', to cost S100C has been
lad at Pentwater.
RICHARD ALLEN was killed and ths~e
others injured by the fall Of rock in
the Buffalo mine, near Negaunee.
HENRY THURsToN, farmer living a
mile south of Armada, while feeling
cornstalks into power feed-cutter had
the misfortune to have his hand caught
between the rollers and crushed so badly
as to require amputation just below the
elbow.
A GREAT scow has been built at Sag
inaw, on which large building. to be
occupied as a dwelling house, black
smith and machine shop, and general
sto G, will be transported bodily from
the valley TO a site in Hay Lake, near
the Sault
DIR. G. +. WARNER, City Attorney Of
Frankfort in company with some SUPER
visors, while waiting at a station to see
the train come in, spied some beauty
spot trout in pond. He caught a
pound specimen with his hand, and the
defense IS that tn law does not prohibit
fishing by hand. The hands of most
lawyers have a hook anyway, whether
there is a line OF defense or not.
TIE spot where the Pewabic sank in
Lake Huron twenty three years ago,
with $50, 900 in gold and load of cop.
per aboard, is well known, and fishers
nets recently brought up cabin stool
and piece of boiler crate from the
wreck. 1t is in 1916 feet Of water, while
sixty feet is as deep as diver can safely
go. 1t is proposed to make sheet iron
armor for a diver in which to make an
attempt to recover the treasure, and
Port Huron diver has volunteered to
make the descent.
a MAN named Dutton built a grst
mill on the bonus plan at Port Austin,
50, 300 being raised for him on subscrip-
tion After two years he found he was
losing 81, 600 year and wanted to move
The villagers fot out an injunction.
Il
have to pay back the bonus before he
could get away, but the Supreme Court
let bonus-raising towns read IL to their
profit and instruction-says he need not
pay it back, and he RECEIVERS costs In
both courts, about $500.
A. T. CASTLE, OF GAINESVILLE, Ohio, a
lneman, was shocked with a current
from an electric car wiro at Port Huron
and was badly hurt.
RUMoRs from Linwood, Bay County,
are to the effect that 6-year- old boy,
while out gathering nuts, was killed and
eaten by bear. the bloody clothing and
bones having just been discovered by
searching party.
A FARMER who lives near Mount Ver-
non, and who rather takes the cake in
the procrastinaton line, is now Just
husking his 1890 corn crop, being com
PEELED to get at it in order to prepare for
his fall seeding.
GEORGE BURNS, q convict at Jackson
prison, attacked a keeper with pocket
knife, cutting a cash ten inches long in
his neck and just missing the jugular
vein. Burns was sent from Saginaw for
five years for assault with intent to kill.
GEORGE w. FROST and w. w. Vivian,
DOtn repuJaDle clJlZenS OF GlauWln, re-
port having seen a wild man on the
banks of the Tittabawassee River, in
Gladwin County. The man was nude, COW
cred with hair, and was giant In pEopor-
tions According to their story he must
have been at least seven feet high, his
arms reaching below his knees, and with
hands twice the usual size Mr.. Vivian
set his bull dog on the crazy man, and
with one mighty stroke of his mon StrOus
hand he felle1 the dog dead. His jumps
we're measured and found to be from
twenty to twenty-three feet long.
JEREMIAH SMITH, Of Gould City, has
been arrested to await the result of in
juries received by John Luttrell from
the discharge OF spring gun. Smith
set the gun one night to kill deer that
was known to go by night into Luttrell's
field. Not knowing what Smith had
done, Mr. Luttrell went to the field him
self to set trap for the deer. His foot
caught in the string lea ling to the tri9-
ger Of the weapon fixed in place by his