The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-10-28

Tres Oh the BOaru or corrections ana
Charities, So, 1928 The asyluns OF
the State have 3,797 inmates, the schools
1880, the prisons 2,7O3, and the So
called reformatorics 1,32O. There are
80 employees in the asy.ums, the monthly
pay-ro being 4,447, and lit I'm the
prisons, their payroll being S7,339 a
month. 1t costs S915,5 year to run
thr ylums, S23s, 700 to run the schools,
1858, 620 TO run the prisons, and S1s4,6 1924
to run the re 'ormatorles.
ADELBERT PRATT, who had his foot
rushed in Bliss Bros mill at Saginaw
asst spring, sues them for $4,000 dam
ages
REPORTS to the /. o. O. +. grand en-.
campment, in session at Lansing, show
that the total membership of the order
in the State Is $4,000.
Dir. GATES young wife pleaded guilty,
at Bay City, of stealing s75 worth OF jew
elry and was released on suspended SEN
tcnte She is kleptomaniac, IL is said.
A BAY CITY policeman walked by
clothing house dummy five or six times
before he discovered that IL was a live
man standing bolt upright in an awfully
drunken state
THE total deposits Of the State banks
in Michigan are SAB, 472, 45s and their
total capital is S?,2l2, 500. Their loans
and discounts are $50, 372, 794 and their
total resources 500. 425, 500.
GEN. j. ). FARRAR and Col. f. NJ
Irish have been appointed to see that
Michigan is properly represented in the
military display at Chicago next year in
honor of the Worlds Fair.
TIE wife Of Kalamazoo blacksmith
named Nathaniel McNames IS one Of the
heirs to the House estate in England
and the Netherlands, her share OF il be-
ing es mated at half million.
Mrs. JAMES WHITLEY locked her g.
year Old daughter Nellie In the house.
at Port Huron, and went out to do some
washing. The little girl, while attempt
ing TO start fire with kerosene, was
terribly burned and died
A BAY CITY family were taken with
alarming symptoms after eating a guam
tity of English walnuts. The physician
said they had been poisoned with minute
quantities OF prussic acid which had
formed in the kernels.
CADILLAC is bound to have a season of
prosperity during the next decade. ID.
A. Blodge;t having fully decided to har
vest his crop of pin in Wexford County.
Operations will begin the present sea-
son and continue until the next Board
Of Equalization can find no ground for
raising the coun US apportionment OF
State taxes.
AT Rogers City, the legged murderers
of Albert Moitor have been admitted to
bail, so that the most the prosecution
an hope for now is conviction on the
charge of manslaughter. The cases of
the supposed cOnspiratOrs have also
been continued to the January term OF
court The bonds Of the defendants
were fixed at IS, 600 each, and all sue
ceeded in giving bail with the exception
of informer Repke, VINO is still in jail
Brown CITY's new opera house was
opened with q grand ba' |.
JOHN CASEY was convicted Of UNI
bre Ia. stealing at West Bay City and
sentenced to ninety days at the Detroit
House of Correction.
Earrings OF several Michigan railroads
for the first six months of 1891 were
R43, O33, Gle, against S42, 7S5, $50 for the
period of 1890
DAVID GREENFIELD was struck by a
boom and knocked from the boat in
which he and his father were sailing,
drowning in saginaw Ri er near the
mouth.
EsCANABA is after new railroad
and Editor Phil j. McKenDa pauses in
the fierce war he is wa9ing On the C. &
n. W. line to stop the press and announce
that it's got to come.
THE c. & G. T. suit to test the consti-
nationality of the Michigan 2-cents-a.
mile law has been advanced on the cal
endar of the Federal Supreme Court and
assigned to the full bench.
Hoe and other trains will not be run
through the Port Huron tunnel. The
disn sectants and anti septic compounds
that would be required after one had
passed through would bankrupt the
roal.
LEE BULL, an Ionia drayman, hid S45
I'm a waste basket. The thinese spirits
are Just that mnch ahead, If the pig
tail josh house theory is true, for the
money went up in smoke when Mrs
Bull started fire with the baskets con-
tents
THE average number of inmates In
the Alpena County poorhouse is less
than five, but it cost $4,000 to run the
last year, or an average of
about 80 day for each inmate, and
they have not had pate de foie gras at
each meal either. Somebody Is to be
ca led down.
CuAs. THOMPSON, an Alpena high
school pupil did not haze his lessol, and
Prof +. NJ. Root ordered him to keep
his seat at noon when the rest were dis
missed Thompson attempted to sneak
out, and regular Ora CO. Roman en-
took place between him and
the "Prof.," the latter after being the
under man in several nops, coming out
ahead.
THE situation in MCnominee County,
where the Super isors refuss to pay the
state Tax apportioned before the law
cutting off big share OF her territory,
and attaching IL to Dickinson County
took effect, is not new one. The same
legal questions were raised when Goge-
bic County was created. Attorney Gen
eral Ellis suggests that Dickinson Coun-
ty collect as local levy sufficient TO pay
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