The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-04-27
From Far and Near.

The Saginaw Presbytery has con-
cluded its sessions and will next meet
at Au Sable, Sept. IA.
A HIVE of the l.. O. T. NJ was or
ganized at Pinnebog, Huron County, by
Miss Bina M. West, State organizer.
JOHN M. MINER, an old and very WELL
known pioneer of Pittsford, died of
complication OF diseases, aged 70 years.
BURGLAR entered the residence of
George l.. Watrous, at Saginaw and, Ii
Is supposed, chloroformed him, after
which he escaped with $50 in cash and
gold watch.
IRON MOUNTAIN merchants are dis
| couraged over the outlook. The Chaplin
Mine has laid off 500 men, the Hamil-
ton is idle, and the Ludington prac-
tically closed.
TRAMPs have been sleeping in the
vacant capsule factory at Kalamazoo,
and they set it afire. 1t was destroyed,
together with b. X. Dewey's residence
adjoining. loss, $4,000.
THE National Conference of State
| Boards of Health will meet in Lansing
June and Z, and the Michigan Board
of Health will hold special meeting
for the study Of the various methods of
work introduced at that time
BRANDY SUMMERS, of Mt. Clemmens,
was great admirer of bulldogs, but he
isn't any more. A couple of them got
into his barn and chewed up valuable
| 2-year-old trotting stallion. The horse
is so badly injured that he cannot re-
cover.
PROF. A. J. Cook, for the past fifteen
| years professor of zoology at the Agri-
cultural College, has resigned to accept
fbnn 1oi,. on % oil
| California. His resignation takes effeo4
in August. He takes high rank in his
| profession.
MANLY SHERMAN, druggist and
grocer of Okemos, Ingham County, wSs
| bound over to the Circuit Court for
trial on charge Of soliciting and taking
out an insurance policy on the life Of an
aged relative in a company not author
! lied to do business in the State, said
company being of the so-called grave
yard variety. The policy was taken out
about the 1st of September, and the in
sured died within the month.
IN the various insane asylums in the
| State 1902 inmates are reported, with
all average of 1886. OF this number
1872 are confined in institutions main
tanned by the State, 1872 iii the county
or town institutions, and 1872 in private
asylums. The estimated cost of main
tanning those confined in State institu-
tionS, excluding construction, is $685.
101.17. No insane persons are
boarded out at public expense, and the
insane who are in the care of the coun-
ties or towns are maintained in poor
houses, except in Wayne County, where
there is good asylum building with 1877
inmates. The Michigan asylums for
the insane are more than full. The
whole number of poor persons aided by
| indoor and outdoor relief during the
year is reported as As, 1914, and the cost
OF the maintenance 1910, 722.63. The
number aided by indoor relief in poor
houses, almshouses, hospitals, etc., is
5,265, with an average OF 2,0S7, and
at an annual expense Of 1855, 400. 20.
This includes 1875 insane persons, and
396 under 16 years of age. The whole
number receiving outdoor relief Is
1853 and the cost of the same 10
$410, 321.5 The total number of de-
pendent children in institutions or
boarded out for the year is reported az
1,244, with an average Of 512, and the
cost of maintenance, $4,000. The
average number in State institutions Ia
1914. There were also 318 children sup
ported by private charity during the
year in homes for the friendless and
orphan asylums, and the report adds
that none of the institutions are sup
ported by churches or Endorsed by them,
SO far as the secretary's knowledge
goes. In the various prisons, reforma-
tories, ork-houses and jails there
were confined during the year IL, 500
persons. The average was 1907. The
cost of maintaining the same Is as-
timated at $500, 10S.20. The average
number in State prisons is /, 167, and
the cost, over and above their earnings,
to the State, is S14, 431.44 The aver
age number in reform schools is 500
boys and 233 girls. These juvenile Of
tenders cost the State $50, 216.26 over
and above their earnings. The average
number of persons in jails, work.
houses and county prisons is 1,004, sup
ported at a cost Of 1929, 460.50.
A COMPANY with $500, 200 capital ia
being organized in Saginaw, which will
engage in the manufacture OF beet
sugar.
AT Brighton Mrs. VIM. Davis took a
razor and cut the arteries in her legs.
She nearly bled to death and the doc
tors think she will not survive.
JACOB STAUBER, a wealthy pioneer OF
the Saginaw Valley, committed suicide
by shooting himself at Saginaw. He
was SO years old, and leaves widow.
CHARLES BoULTER, Supervisor of
Hamilton Township. Clare County, dur
ing 1891, was arrested at the instance of
G. +. Wheeler. superintendent for the
Lansing Lumber Company, whose mills
are at Dodge, in that township. charged
with forgery to the amount of $4,000
The company use coupon books, which
they sell to their customers and which
are worth ST., So and SO, and the cou-
pons are good for their face value for
merchandise. 1t is alleged that Boul-
ter. through a fictitious name, purchased
large number of these books of the
publishing house, and by removing the
cover and placing upon the coupons a
cover from a genuine book which had
been properly countersigned by A.
Woodmancy, cashier for the company,
traded at their store to the above
amount Boulter gave 81 900 bonds to-
appear for examination May 16. He
claims to be entirely innocent OF the
charge.