The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-12-30
From Far and Near.

Col. Il. Ii. NORCRoss, OF Saginaw, is q
second cousin to ii. l.. Norcross, who
brought the bomb into Russell Sage's
Office.
TIE Michigan lumber cut during 1891
is estimated at 800, OCo, 900 feet below
that of 1880, which T. oted up 4, 0S5, 767,-
$40 feet.
The Detroit, Bay City and Alpena
Railroad Company's Mu Lake branch
may be extended some miles into Mont
morency County.
SALES at Bay City's masonic fair aver
aged about So, 900 day, and excursion
parties were run to the scene from as far
north as Alpena and as far south as De-
| troit
AT Caro-, during a quarrel over a game
OF pedro, Jack Williams was stabbed
near the heart BY George Miller. Will
Jams Is in dangerous condition and
Miller is in jail
JOHN RYAN, respected Kalamazoo
citizen, aged so years, fell from G.. X.
~ j. gravel train and was cut to pieces.
He was not drinking man, and the ey-
act nature Of the accident is not known.
He leaves son in Chelsea
THE Governor has pa doned Thomas
Common, sent up from Big Rapids for five
years for an assault upon an officer dur
ing circus row The ardon Board is
satisfied that Conner was in San Fran.
cisco when the assault was committed
Mr.. AND Mrs. ADAM MEYERS Swear
old son has suffered terribly from lain
full injuries received through being run
over by tank wagon, nearly full OF wa
ter, at his home in Conway, Livingston
County. With skillful treatment he may
| recover.
THE Opera Hall at st Ignace, owned
by Legislator George Orth, burned just
before performance of "Union Scout"
opened. Every American flag in town
had been secured to decorate the interior
OF the building and the town is left with
out bunting. The total loss is nearly
$4,000.
OMER Is now the county seat OF Arenac
County, but when the flowers bloom,
etc etc, ira la in 1892, the voters will
ballot about moving the judicial house
to Standish.. The Standishites offer GER
tain lots, etc, and the Omertes cry now,
even thus early, bribery, election
fraud"
AT Kalama 90 Mrs. Peter Mentz left
her 3-year-old daughter alone at home
with young infant, while she went to
visit neghbor. The elder child played
with fire, and her clothes caught the
flame. When the mother returned home
the girl was found lying dead in the door,
yard with all her clothing burned off ex-
cept the shoes.
ESsEXvILLE wa visited by di. as
trous fire. John Tenants general
store and two frame buildings were de-
stroyed The losses are as follows:
John Tenant, $4,000, insurance 81, 900;
j. y. Decourvall, on building, SO, 900;
Mrs. Ogden, $1,000 on building, insured
! for 5000: Anthony Walraven, $500 on
building, insured. All the occupants of
the buildings saved their household
| goods.
BROCK MIDDAUGH, Of Emp'r Leela-
nav County, while in the Black Hills, a
| number of years ago. picked up speci-
men of ore which J. o presented to a lawyer
friend as paper weight The sample
Knocked around the Office until a short
time ago when it occurred to the lawyer
to have it analysed What the result
was nobody knows, but it seems to have
| been satisfactory, for the lawyer has
made Brock an advantageous offer to go
| to Dakota in the spring and locate the
place where the specimen was found
PRESIDENT BARNES, of the State Asso-
future looks hopeful in spite of the pres
ent low prices of pork products. l.. L.
| Conrad, of Wacousta, Clinton County,
was chosen to succeed him as President;
| A. Parmenter, of Verona, was elected
Vice President; and G.. II. Mcintyre, Of
Iosco, Secretary and Treasurer. II. III.
Kinds, of Stanton, wa chosen Pres dent
of the Shropshire Sheep Breeders State
Association, at Lansing; and George +.
Breck, Of Paw Paw, Secretary and
Treasurer John Il. Rich was reelected
President Of the Merino Sheep Breeders
! Association
TIE Supreme Court decided case
adversely to the State which involves
the title to 1,5O0, 900 acres of land grant
cd to the State for railroad construction
in 1856. The case in question was the
State of Michigan VS.. The Flint and
Ice Marquette Railway, wherein only
about 16, 900 acres were involved but
the decision q so establishes the title of
the Grand Rapids and Indiana and Jack
| son, Lansing and Saginaw Roads, as
| wei as that OF a large number OF indi-
| vidua 5, increasing tbs amount to the
larger figures The value OF these lands
will probably reach from $1,000, 600 to
$40, 600, 600. The State obtained a YER
diet in 1890 in the lower court, but 1t is
| now unanimously reversed upon the
ground OF lapse of time since the rail
way company entered upon the undis-
puted occupancy OF the lands, now about
twenty-eight years The court intima-
ted also that the failure to establish the
title of the State Is By reason of the
negligence OF State officers The case
will probably go to the United States
Supreme Court.
WARDEN DAVIS has started new in
dustry at the Jackson prison. He has
at all times many idle convcts 10 feed,
who are not wanted on contract work.
These haze been set to work making toy
chairs, tables and cradles He uses only
scrap lumber that would otherwise go
into the furnaces or the stoves, but he
manages to turn out articles that deal
ers snap at He Is in receipt OF more
orders than he can Il il, and quite num-
Der Of convicts fill in time in this way at
q gain to the State His plan is work