The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-03-18
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS,
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.
An Interesting Summary of the Moro I'm
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-wed-
dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.


2, 800, 900 to distribute in the State during
the spring.
III. w. CAREY, Of Manistee, Secretary
and Treasurer Of the Peters Salt and
Lumber Company, says the concern will
have busy season, and will put 10000
900 logs into the river at Manistee and
take 25, 900, 900 out Of Lake County
JOHN w. Brown. of Kalamazoo, has
been fined 1924 for selling beer at pic
mic on "A saloon license.
A PACK of wolves drove some men
from banking ground on the North
Branch, in Montgomery County, into
their lumber shant'es the other day.
The beasts were wild with hunger and
made the attack in DAY light
SANDY, pine stump quarter section,
near Mt. Pleasant. has just been sold for
$4,000. AS the original purchaser got il
for Sl60, and the new buyer is a non
resident and never saw his desert, the
boom association is looking for the dupe
and dupee, claiming such practices will
keep out bona fide settlers.
A YOUNG man called at the Ionia Jail
and asked TO get nights lodging He
was searched, and concealed in his neck
tic were found two very fine metal-work-
ing saws, and now the taller is congratu-
lating himself on what narrow escape
he had from wholesale jail-breaking.
MANIsTEE COUNTY farmers are about
to organize a stock company TO buy
goods from producers and to sell their
products TO big consumers. The capital
will be $4,000 TO start with.
THE Saginaw salvationists have a Gu
riosity i'm a converted native Turk. He
says most Of his days were spent as a
very bad man.
THERE were during last year 7,16s
school districts and 513 graded schools
in the State The number Of children
of school age was ga, 502, of whom 427,-
O32 were enrolled. There were 1851
schools of all kinds, with seating ca
pacity for so, 400 scholars. The total
value of the school property was S13,-
S5S, 627. There were 1861 male and H.
429 female teachers, and for the year
the former received 1924, 644.07 for their
services, the latter 81. $50, 237.6s The
sum of 1884,, 800 80 was expended for
buildings and repairs, and $40, III. 13 for
school library books. There was paid
on the bonded debt S349, 442.s4. The
amount realized from the one-mill tax
was S65s. 3O5. IL, and from the primary
school interest fund S795, s13.47 The
total expenditures were S5,69s, sos 81.
There were 314 private schools, which
employed 100 teachers, and had a total
enrolment of 33,975 scholars.
ISABELLA COUNTY people are very
glad over the distribution of the Indian
lands as it brings large tract upon
the tax list 1t is also a practical dis
bandment of the Chippewas.
JOHN SCHUTT's baby, of West Bay City,
is dead because the little one caught it's
clothes afire from the stove and was ter
rbly burned.
HOWARD HUNTLEY and Claude Hoag,
Of Cadillac, go to the reform school for
two and three years for stealing lead
pencils.
DANIEL MCMAHON, the Port Huron
murderer, has arrived at the jackson
prison. He seemed dying from the effect
of the wound i'm his neck. He was
placed in solitary cell. The doctor
says Mcmahon is shamming, and will
get along all right. Mcmahon still re-
fuses to tell why he killed Miss Murphy.
CADILLAC dedicated a SIS, 900 high
school building. 1t is a beauty.
THE st. Louis Presbyterian church
pulpit has been vacant for some time
because the older members want a mar
ried pastor, while the younger COM
municantS desire an unmarried member
of the apostolic 1Iccession.
THE jury i'm the Crosbic murder case
at Bay City failed to agree. Justice is
not as swift there as at Port Huron.
NEAR East Tawas, Thomas Halpn. Of
Madrid Springs, \. Y, was killed by
log rolling on him.
AT Bay City; Joseph Perault, aged 25
years, and engaged hauling ice up an
incline, was caught and crushed between
two cakes and carried into the river.
When rescued he was dead.
THE body of Andrew Pouson. a bach.
elor living near Kawkawln, was found
beside woOdpile six miles from West
Bay City. He had been murdered by
Henry Holackir, who hired rig from
Bay City livery, went TO Poulson's
house, and after killing him tied tho
body to the wagon-axle and dragged il
seven miles. When found the body was
horribly disfgured The murder evil
IDENTIFY was the work of a lunatic, as
there was no motive, unless il was thai
Holackir feared Poulson's testimony ia
counterfeit-money case i'm which he
WAS lllultltus WdS
examined for lunacy last fall and pro-
nounced sane and discharged. He TO.
turned the rig to the livery. The wagon
was tracked from the scene of the muir
der to where the body was found by
blood marks. Marshal Dunnigan. at
West Bay City. went with Constable
Bcattic and Justice Brigham to Poul-
sons house Finding the door locked
they burst il open, when Holackir
opened fire, hitting Dunnigan just be-
low the nose, the ball passing downward
and out Of his jaw below the ear Beat
tie and Brigham then captured and
handcuffed Holackir and brought him to
the Bay City jail. 1t wa' first thought
that Dunnigan was fatally wounded,
but he will recover Constable Beattis
was shot in the hand by Holackir
PARsoN ARNEY let mp on his revival
meetings for time and shipped into
Saranac the finest piece OF horseflesh
ever seen In that section. His rever-
ence says his new trotter can do any
thing i'm the amateur line he knows of,
and he aches for chance TO test the