The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-20
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.
An Interesting Summary of the Moro I'm
portant Doings OF Our Neighbors-wed-
dings and T. eaths-Crimes, Casualties,
ans General News Notes.

dings and eeaths-Crimes, Casualties,
an- General News Notes.
AN extra freight approach ng the
yard az Shepherd ran into fourteen
loaded log cars, wrecking the engine
and the caboose. The men on this train
jumped and escaped injury. The force
OF the collision started thirteen log cars
down the grade, through the Shepherd
yard, to mile south of Shepherd, where
the rest of the train was being loaded
with logs, crashing into the cars stand
ing there with frightful effect. The
killed were: u. Bigelow, Clark T.. Stru-
BILE, Sherwood Clark. All lived at Shep-
herd. Thirteen others were injured.
Church bells rang, the fire alarm sound
ed and surgeons and citizens in car
riages ushed to the wreck and worked
to extricate the injured from the pile OF
logs, cars, and tlmbers Some of the
injured were not employed loading, but
had gone down just for trip. The
accident occurred on the bridge over tho
"Cat Hole" The water saved several
from death, though Bigelow was prob
ably drowned. The injured were quar-
tered at farm houses, except few who
were able to be moved to their homes.
The dead were taken to the town hall
to await the inquest
The sockknitting machine at the
Jackson prison turns out thirty-SiX pairs
each day. The machine is one of the
| old-tashioned kind which does not manu-
facture all the toe, and three convicts
have learned TO knit like ancient grand
danes to finish off these points. Last
year Warden Hatch contracted with a
Chicago firm for the yarn at very low
figure, and specified the color to be blue.
After the sock had been knitted, worn,
and washed, each separate foot covering
developed several colOrs, from q bright
red TO frost-bitten green, and then it
was discovered that the firm had taken
up lot of shefworn yarn, thrown the
whole batch into cheap blue dye, and
sent it on. Captain Purvis is willing to
make oath thSre were fifteen different
| colors in each sock.
sKILLFUL craftsman secured 7,0C0
in cash from the vault OF the Marinette
Iron Works at Menominee. He success
fully worked the combination, and So, 900
Of the amount belonged TO George
Townsend, Jr, who once lost big sum
by the failure of bank, and was now
| acting rs his own banker.
WM NILES, the boy who was sem
fenced to the Detroit House of Cor
ton, which the Sheriff found above
the door of his cell: 81 here by promis
that i will never take any thing that,
don belong to me aney more may this
be a good lesson to begin on / was Per-
swaded TO do this or l would not have
done il at all. Gentlemen Forgive my
past my Futhcr want mead to be For
given. ] am now sencensed for 90 days
misery and sorrow this is all. w. Niles"
Below he had sketched two hands joined
and the words, "In Friendship hoping to
meat"
SALIIoTTE & CHITTENDEN, of Ashley,
who lost by fire S25. 900 worth of slaves,
hoops, and the machinery to make them,
have concluded to rebuild in a partial
way. They have light iron tramway'
four miles into the forest, and the timber
must be- finished.
IT might be well to pause moment
and remark, amid the forest-fire excite
ment, that the huckleberry crop has
been ruined by the flames. If the
Legislature had only passed that bill
for the protection of huckleberry
swamps
THE Finlanders of Michigan are to
have daily paper and the place of pub.
LEGATION will be Red Jacket These peO-
pie now comprise nearly one-fourth Of
the population Of HoughtOn, Keweenaw
and Ontonagon Counties.
EsCANAPA has seventy.six and Menom-
inee seventyfour shops whose business
it is to moistcn thirsting Threats of NOR
tai clay.
WILHELM LINsTED, of Manistee, was
carrying Il keg of beer upon his shoulder,
when he slipped and fell, probably
fatally injuring himself.
SURVEYORS and the West Michigan
Roads attorneys are at Williamsburg,
and will run new survey around the
town unless something fair is done about
tho right of way.
THE Canadian Government will build
its 500 lock 100 feet wide instead of So,
owing to the increased traffic between
Ontario and Lake Superior ports.
TIE flood dam on the Main River at
Alpena has gone out, and now it is
feared several million feet of logs will
be hung up until next season.
Mrs. ABRAHAM SMITH, the mother of
the Bay City Cain, Robert Smith has
died of a broken heart She was So
years old, and grief absolutely drove her
to the grave.
FOREST freS nave created terrible
havoc over widespread territory in the
State. The losses equal those Of the
famous fires of 1871. Thousands of peo-
pie are homeless, hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of manufactured lum-
Der and saw-mills have been destroyed,
and untold millions of feet of standing
timber levcled. Newaygo, Clare, and
Oceana Counties are the greatest suf-
fcrers.
FIRE broke out in the lumber yards
of the Ford River Lumber Company,
Ford River, near Escanaba, and de-
stroyed about 100000 feet Of lumber.
In response to call for help, two tugs,
the Harris and Delta, went from Esca-
naba TO fight the fire. Some of the lum-
Der was piled up on the bay shore, and
one laborer, name unknown, got caught
between the piles and shore and jumped
into the water to save his life But be-
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