The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-03-25
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.
An Interesting Summary of the More I'm
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-Wed-
dings and Dsaths-Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.

without honor save in his own country.
ROBERT WALLACE was showing his
brother Langford what a fine rife he
had, at Otsego Lake, the other day Tho
ball struck LangfOrd in the leg and he
died soon afterward.
FRED BoUDErTE shot Fred Lavignee,
at Escanaba. the ball entering his side
and producing a fatal wound. Both
were boys, playing with revolver
The University catalogue, soon TO be
issued, will contain 2,425 names OF stu
dents. This beats any other university
in the Western world.
HENRY RANDALL, of Corunna, has
made s92s. % by shooting sparrows He
has been in the bounty business year.
A VEIN of ore rock which assays SIS
worth of gold TO the ton is the most re-
cent valuable discovery near Negannee.
Experts claim il an Ehorado.
The young man Eager, of Iona, killed.
himself with morphine, says the Coro-
ner's jury, and this destroys the murder
theory.
THE Saginaw Bay Coal Company has.
received TWO englnns, elevators, and cages
for its new mines at Sebewaing, amount
ing to $40, 200.
NATE f. SAGE, of Alpena, probably has
the oldest necktie In Michigan. IL is a
four-in-hand, made from the skin OF a
large rattlesnake, which a friend of his
caught in Florida Instead of the usual
diamond which the gentleman wears, he
has the seven rattles pinned TO the front
of the tie. The skin is of a beautiful
silver color and looks like gray silk.
FRED DEITz, of near Leland, mistook
ctrVphnina for smoking tobacco. He
nearly went over.
CHEBoYGAN has ordered 1000 new
books for its public library.
SAND BEACH will build $1,000 mu-
nicipal. building.
KALAMAZOO has voted to float S25, coo
worth of additional school bonds.
LAKE CITY is pretty good place TO
live in. The corpoI alton has 81, 500 in
the bank and no debts.
MARINE CITY has $50 people down
with measles.
A NEW town will be started in Otsego
County, at the end of the Bagley branch
of the Michigan Central. Sailing. Han
son X Co. own ali the lands, which will
not be sold but will be leased. They Will
erect large saw mill there, store and
dwelling houses, and have given man
the right TO erect large hotel, stipulat-
ing IL TO cost 5000, for which they agree
not TO lease lots to others for hotel pur-
poses. A large number of emigrants
from Norway and Sweden will be located
on the farming lands.
MICHIGAN has averaged one murder a
week this year up to date, aside from d
lot Of affairs where the intention was to
kill but the deed fell short of the act.
II do cL, A.
state OF affairs.
ALFRED Il. GULLEY, who was kicked
by vicious horse at Dearborn, died.
He was twice a member of the Legisla-
ture and he held the chair of practical
agriculture in the Agricultural College
| for many years.
THERE is going to be trouble in Ne
| gaunee among the 500 Schlesinger miners.
They are owed.tw months wages, over
| 500 600. There is in stock at the mine
15O 900 tons of ore. The men are mad
and unless the money is forthcoming
soon they will levy on the ore Tho
local merchants are as anxious over the
matter as the men are.
THEY have only two terms OF court in
hrenac County, and Andrew Brown, OF
Omer, will therefore remain in Jail six
months TO await an arraignment on a.
criminal charge and a chance to give
! bail. This is stern iuItice or injustice.
A LOT Of Lapeer farmers, nearly 100
have agreed TO plant patches of sugar
beets this spring, and report their yield
TO the agricultural college. Upon the
result of this experiment will depend
the construction of beet sugary at
Lapeer.
THEY are getting so they can amputate
you while you wait at the university.
| The other day Profe .sor Nancrede had a
mans leg cut off slick and clean within
| twenty-five seconds from the time he
first plunged the knife into the flesh.
THE orthodox churches in Cadillac
| have pooled issues, and will move against
Satan in a sol d line. There will be
prayer meeting at every hour and in
between.
THERE are nearly dozen villages i'm
Sanilac County that are endeavoring 20
get flax mills.
AT Birmingham. Paul Park, aged so,
was fatally hurt under rolling log.
LAKE HURON, east of Mackinac and
Bots Blanc islands, is free of ice. The
| Straits are still packed with solid icek
from twenty inches TO twenty feet
| thick.
BRIGHTON has captured the State
! picnic provided for the militia every
year. The military board has so de-
| cided
THE Muskegon rolling mill is to issue
$40, 900 in new stock and build steel
| plant
SHEPHERD is trying TO make an ar
| rangement 10 procure electric lighting
Pleasant
lance Is eight miles, but poles and push
are plenty up there.
THE Albion Rolling Mill Company lost
6l2 bags OF flour by the sinking of the
steamer Iowa in the Atlantic This is
the second accident of the kind the com
pany has had
SIN Adrian young men, connected with
leading families, have taken their lives
/ in various ways within very few years
the Croswell suicide being the latest.