The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-12-16

JOSEPH BIRD was killed near Lake
| Station by falling tree. He leaves a
wife and three children.
MICHIGAN shows the greatest railroad
mileage dnling the year, 430 miles,
Georgia coming next with 437 miles
BROTHER Wills has completed his Ia
| bors at Mt. Clemens and will leave be-
hind him about one hundred converted
| sinners.
A SCHEME is on foot at Howell TO erect
q sky-scraping secret society temple, to
be occupied by the Masons, odd J. elbows
| and Maccabees Jointly
TIE shipments of iron ore from the
Lake Superior district during the past
| season were about COCO, 900 tons, as
compare with 9,03s, $50 tons last year.
ALL the orthodox clergymen of Bay
| City refused TO go TO tho dedication of
the new mission there tecause the pastor
| Of niversalist soc ETY. had been in
| vited to attend.
ONE of the most terrible ala RS that
| have hal pencd III Detroit since the i ilden
| schC oil fire, occurred when George j.
| Refs his wife, and three sonS persisted
| in Heir burning house.
A RESOLUTION complimentary to Miss
Rose McBr arty, of Detroit, the first
| feminine delegate who ever sat in the
body, was passed By the Federation Of
Labor Convention at Bay City.
AT Fort Huron, Harry Taylor, Thomas
| Fyan, and Chris Wager a in custody,
charged with counterfe. ting. Taylor
confeSses and eXonerates Fyan. A guam
tity of bogus SO gold pieces was found
| on Wager and Taylor.
LINEMAN BERT CLARK came in con-
tact with live wire at Fort Huron, and
hung unconscious, head down, from
80 foot pole until the current was shut
off. He will recover, altho gh the re-
cipient of severe shock.
THREE spoo's of silk, some of it SINH
lar to that in the counterfeit bills, are
figuring good deal I'm the examination
of Hamilton Black, at Bay City on a
charge of violating the cOunterfetng
laws. His sister and mother swear that
the silk was used In fancy work
ABOUT two years ago Mrs Sanow, Of
New Era was tried and acquitted on
charge Of numbering her hu band. The
prosecution claimed that while her hus-
band and nephew were fighting, she
supported the nephew by fin shing tho
old man WITH the dull side of an axe.
The widow died the other day.
Two DETROIT painters, Arthur and
John III. Prest, father and son, were
painting the front of building OH
scaffold. One of the rungs by which
the ladder was suspended broke. The
father fell upon his mead, and his brains
we're scattered all about the spot The
son fell upon his left side and his leg
and wrist were broken.
THE Michigan Fede. alton of Labor
has adopted resolutions favoring the To-
cal taxation of railways, creating legal
half holiday ON the date of elections, in
dorsing the university extension idea,
demanding the repeal of the pre- sent
dead letter arbitrationsa w in Michigan,
and asking for the ena tment of an
other favoring constitutional amend
ment giving women the right TO vote,
and asking the State delegat on at Wash
ington to pass law pl ohibiting Govern
ment bands Of music from competing
with civilians bands. The ne meeting
OF the Federation will be held at Mus
kegon.
EDNA BoLITHo, 13-year-old girl. was
killed by an elevator in Hudson's store,
Detroit
A NEW arran emcnt for the speedy
transfer of freight at the Straits has
been made.
THE Attorney General decides that
soldiers sent to the insane asylum from
the sold home are charge upon the
me and not upon the county from
which they hail.
IosCo COUNTY will vote in the spring
for or against borrowing IS, 900. 1t is
proposed with the wealth to reclaim the
swamp lands of Au Sable, Baldwin and
WILDER townships
TIE $4,000 saw mil of the Chippewa
Lumber Company, of Chippewa Lake,
will be shipped TO Georgia, requiring ten
cars for its transportation. and the
Hoop ~ Tucker mill at Luther will be
shipped to Mississippi.
CADILLAC is fast becoming modern
Jerusalem. For two months past she
has had one theological convention after
another, and the last was the Osceola
Baptist Associational COME ence The
salvation army stays there most of the
time, too.
TIE annual meet ng OF the State
Grange opened in Laas ng. The order,
VIII 10 not possessing the numerical
strength IL did several years ago. shows
slight increase dur ng the past twelye
months, five new lodges having been or
gained. two defunct lodges having been
revived and one pomona or county grange
having been started, In Kalkaska Coun-
ty. There are now 273 subordinate
lodges in Michigan. 90 pomona oranges
and membership of 10000 or 1000.
There are about 200 in attendance at the
annual meeting.
LUMBER notes on the Tittabawassee
and tributaries: 4. o. and s. L. East
man will put =. 200, 900 feet of logs into
the Tittabawassee In BE tley Township.
and l,500,0 600 feet into the Tobacco i'm
the township of the same name: Jona-
than Boyce, of Muskegon, will ship largo
quantities of logs from his Roscommon
County lands TO the mill he has lust
bought in Saginaw; G.. Derrill IL Co.
have 100000 feet on skids at Clement.
and Graham & Lange, of Gladwin. will
put 1000, 600 feet into the Tittabawas-
see at the same Place: Eddy, Avery e.