The true northerner., 1892-11-23

BAY CITY spent S124 on her poor dur
Ing October.
QUAKER ministers are doing Leela-
nav County.
In a family at Hamburg five children
are sick with diphtheria.
Music is now taught in all grades Of
Mas n S schools.
VIM. PRATT was arrested at Saginaw
ON charge OF perjury.
ALPENA CoUNTY's new poorhouse
has been formally accepted.
A sEyEN-YEAR-o OLD son s. Manor
Of Newport, sustained fatal injuries. be-
ing kicked by horse.
MIR. BEAR, of Brighton, was CON-
pletely covered with earth by CAVERN
in well. He was extrlcated in time to
save his life.
MRS. JOHN ANDRICK, Of Hope, by
| mistake put arsenic in some pie. The
whole family was taken sick, but all
pulled through.
TROUBLES never come singly. Harry
GARNER, OF Tyron, broke an arm some
time ago. The other day it was pro-
nounced healed. Harry stepped out
side, fell and broke the other arm.
AN attempt was made to burn the
Hotel Columbia at Norway the 9th or
nie hit by saturating the basement with
kerosene, but the fire was extinguished
after several guests were almost suffo-
Gated with smoke.
FRANK S. MITCHELL, the Saginaw
forger, has confessed. He is the black
sheep Of prominent family, though but
"a years of age. He got three months
at the Detroit house OF correction for
stealing gold watch.
WHILE trying TO get the steamer
Otego into shelter at Grand Island,
Capt. Fred Woodruff, of the schooner
Monticello fell overheard and was
drowned. He was 20 years of age, his
home being at Lorain, Ohio.
FIVE years ago, Andrew Duby, Of
East Tawas, was ser ously injured, sub
sequently becoming paralyzed. Sew
eral months ago three inches of his
spine was removed. Now he has had
both legs amputated near the hip.
JOHN BRENIFF and Jacob Soderstrom
two fishermen, left in q small boat to
lift their nets north OF Grand Marias, in
Lake Superior. A storm arose in the
afternoon, and late at night, fish, fish
boxes, and cap were found on the
beach in the harbor. Later the boat,
which was badly wrecked, was found
on the sandbar between the harbOr and
lake. Nothing has been seen OF the
men. Undoubtedly they are drowned.
THE low price OF wheat which has
prevailed this year has had tho effect OF
materially decreasing the area seeded
to that cereal in this State. According
to the Michigan crop report the decrease
In the acreage seeded this fall amounts
TO per cent. in The entire State. With
an average crop this decrease will
amount to nearly million and half
bushels in next years crop. The con-
dition OF growing wheat averages 81 per
cent. compared with the vitality and
growth of average years. Nearly % per
cent. OF the crop correspondents In the
southern counties of the State report in
jury to wheat by insects. The total
number OF bushels of wheat reported
marketed by farmers in October is
2,s66, ,967. At thirteen elevators and
mills no wheat was marketed during
the month. Du ing August, September,
and October H,4i1 ,317 bushels were
marketed, which is 69, $50 bushels moro
than was marketed in the same months
last year. The corn crop is consider
ably below the average the estimate
being forty-nine bushels an acre for the
State. The average yield of clover an
acre was 90-l,0 bushels. The potato
crop is estimated at 50 per cent. Of an
average crop.
A DIPHTHERIA epidemic threatens
Plymouth.
A LACK Of cars is causing great incon-
venience to Saginaw Valley shippers.
NTEN
Gated their large new house OF worship ip.
BY falling off scaffold, Joseph Cal
lahan, Of Bay City, broke his collar
bone.
FRANK MITCHELL was arrested at
Saginaw, charged with larceny at Bay
City.
THE loss of Michigan's salt traffic ia
said to lave greatly oluced the income
of the f. & z. NJ.
WEST BAY CITY French Catholics
laid the corner stone for a large ne"
house of worship.
NJ. GARDNER, of Grand Marais, wa;
dangerously injured about the head anu
legs by falling tree.
THOUGH nimro1s report shootihg
lot OF deer, venison Is salu 10 pe very
scarce i'm Northern markets.
S,a1NAw numbering men VIII cu'
about 25O. 900, 600 feet OF lumber IN Ca
madam forests this winter.
8. w. SIMoNs. of Saginaw, was elect,
od President OF the newly organized
Stote Grocers' Association.
OSCAR BERGMAN, aged 4S. an Esca-
roba Iaboring man, got drunk and then
had both legs cut off by locomotive.
STEPHEN MALONE, OF West Bay CITY.
n middle-aged man, committed suicide
bv tho laudanum route. No cause is
known.
AT blanchard woman used helebore
instead OF ginger in a pe e. The whole
family was taken sick, one member
coming near dying.
THOUGH the number Of cases are in
creasing local physicians believe that
there is no danger of diphtheria cpl
demic at Bay City.
ONE OF West Bay City's swells was
arrested on charge of forgery, but OF