The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-04-29
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

ana Goncral NeWS Notes.
FULLY. twenty thousand people view
ed the remains of Congressman Ford at
Grand Rapids, and on the day of the
funeral the flags were at half mast, the
city draped in mourning, and the State
officials attended in a body The funeral
was the largest ever witnessed in the
Valley City.
BAD AXE had two John Andrews, the
only senatorial "Bad Axe" and an evan
gelist. The one at Lansing tells the
newspaper gang to go to, and the other
stays at home and says they needn't.
Both are takers and have been Meth
odist ministers.
The Military Board has at last decided
upon place for the State Encampment,
and IL is Whitmore Lake. The ste Is
Frank Barker's farm, and the camp
will begin July IL, and this selection
was made because Gov. Winans fa-
vored it,
j. +. HEsLoP, of Manistique, is under
arrest, charged with being short in his
accounts aS Treasurer Of Thompson
township. His bail has been fixed at
$4,000.
THERE Passed through Bay City last
week 10000 bushels of wheat bound for
4NtW IOIh ~ gram Cdlue lTOUl DuluJn,
by way of the Duluth, South Shore and
Atlantic.
IT is reported that a company will
build a $500, 900 beet sugar factory at
Saginaw. The farmers Whereabouts are
getting ready to make experiments in
raising the vegetable this season.
THE Saginaw, Tuscola and Huron
Road will be made standard gauge at
once. The improvement will cost $780,
600. This is done to give better service
to the Sebewaing coal fields and the
Bayport stone quarries. The line runs
from Saginaw to Bad Axe and is sixty
seven miles long.
JOHN i. WILBUR, pioneer Of Gratiot
County, and at one time resident Of
Maple Rapids, Clinton County, died at
Middleton, GratiOt County. Mr.. Wilbur
owned fine farm few miles south Of
Middleton. He was prominent Mason
and Odd Fellow. He was buried under
the rites of the societies of which he was
member. A widow and three children
survive him.
AUGUST Wolf, who is charged with
cutting Gust Smiths bead off with an ak
at Bruce's Crossing, was arrested at
Wausau, Wis, and is now in jail at Bes-
semer. Smith was poor woodchopper
who sheltered Wolf when the latter was
penniless and out of work.
AT North Star, burglars entered the
stores Of II. ID. Gardner and the Lone
Star Medicine Company and the saloon
of Il. w. Warren. Gardeners loss will
reach 800, the Lone Star Medicine Com
pany, $500; saloon $50.
The St Louis Business Mems I'M
hos 70 10,
Prof. e. w. YeringtOn, the principal,
president and complete owner Of Yer
ington'S Commercial College, Of Alma,
an entire square on the terraced bank Of
Pine River, together with an academy
building thereon, which is to be enlarged
and improved under the direction of the
Professor. The property when COM
pleted will be worth about $40, 1000, and,
of course, Ierington says good-by to
Alma, and he will move his college plant
to st, Louis whether the county seat goes
there or not
A FARMER living near Mt. Clemens
has number of very shrewd hens.
Some time ago one of them laid an egg
while on the roOst. 1t broke as it struck
the floor and the Others of the flock con-
sumed it. This seemed to strike them as
the proper way to lay eggs, and since then
they have made practice Of dropping
their eggs from the perch and then hop
ping down and eating them. Hereafter
the farmer proposes removing the roost
during business hours.
EDWIN HAFF of near Mt. Clemens.
for number of years had believed him
self to be of divine descent and claimed
he could never die. He went without
coat summer and winter. Aside from
this Vagary he was considered a sensible
man. lie died the other day.
The ore market is very depressed and
the Michigamme mine in the town of
that name has been closed. 1t makes
300 idle men. Several other mines will
run during the summer with greatly
reduced forces.
HERsEY sat up and celebrated loudly.
The canvassers declared it had n major
ity of ten, and therefore keeps the
county seat. Reed City had it by
twelve before the official count.
Sixty Italian miners were discharged
by the Calumet & Hecla mining company
on account of troub es relative to an
Italian captain. 1t appears they took :
dislike to him i'm some of their secret
affairs, and gave him notice to quit the
country. The company took the matter
in hand, and at once discharged the re-
bellious miners. Ever since the New
Orleans affair the Italians of the copper
country have been very much agitated
about the killing of their countrymen.
AS many Italians are employed by the
different companies, results of not
pleasant nature may follow should they
band together to resist the corporation
employing them.
BLANCHARD DAVIDSON, of Reed City,
blew his brains out. He left widow.
MONROE COUNTY decided by 200 major
ity to put few more props under the
old jail and use it 100 years more.
THEY have found new gold mine in
the Menomnee country The men who
want to sell il say the vein is eight feet
wide on the top and pretty nearly pure
gold. An Indian found the great find on
the Menominee iron range, near Nor