The true northerner., 1892-12-07
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS
OCCURRENCES DURING THE
PAST WEEK.
Interesting Suit Against n Liquor Dealer
Killed Two Deer with One BalI-Long
Journey of "a Message In a Bottle.
From Far and Near.

FORTY employees Of the Grand Trunk
Road at Port Huron have been dis
| charged for taking advantage OF the
companys liberallty in furnishing them
coal cheap to SUPPLY their neighbors.
The Menomnee River Boom Com
| pany has shut down, owing TO the freez-
| ing up OF the river, after sorting $685.
600, 90 feet of logs during the season.
MERRILL HEIRLOOM, formerly OF Lin
wood, Bay County, is in Jail a. North
| Madison. Ohio, charged with bigamy.
! He married Linwood and then an
| Ohio woman.
A Mr.. RUssELL-he doesn't drink
claims to have killed two deer with one
shot near Boyne Falls. They stood
side by side and the ball broke the ones
neck and penetrated the others heart.
JOHN LESS, an Alpena man, had saved
about $50. Not believing in such flimsy
| affairs as banks, he stored the stuff away
| in tin can. It's gone. John suspects
| a woman Of being the thief.
AN Alderman OF West Bay City is go-
| ing TO get married. At the Council
meeting he attended, the other members
passed q resolution OF sympathy and
| another asking the man TO banquet the
city dads.
| MAUD THoRP, a 17-year-old Saginaw
| girl, goes back TO the Industrial Home,
| from which institution she was released
| some time ago during good behavior.
| She didn't behave, but took to running
| a oul.d nights.
| IT Is rumored that the Schlesinger
| syndicate, of Milwaukee, has ordered
| the Chicago and Northwestern Road to
vacate the Escanaba, Iron Mountain
| and Western tracks, the syndicate de-
string TO operate the line itself.
Mrs. AUGUST ANGsTMAN, of South
| field, is said TO have entered school
near that place several days ago and
| tried to horsewhip Miss Ida Steel.
Most of the pupils skipped out Of the
building, but the disturbance was finally
stopped.
AT the funeral of Joshua Summers,
N Brown City, the horses ran away
with the hearse. The casket was
! thrown out and badly mutilated.
| son and daughter of the deceased also
| Rad a runaway and were badly cut up
| and bruised.
PEOPLE at North Woodstock are made
| OF the right kind of stuff. A farmer
| there was sick and his big crop OF corn
| was going TO the dogs. The other
| morning when the man opened his eyes
he found that neishbors had hauled all
| the corn into his barn.
On Nov. 21, 1890, Lester B. Cheese
man, OF Sturgeon Pay Wis, threw a
| bottle overheard near that place. re-
Questng the finder to write to him, be-
| ing eager to learn where 1t was discov-
| ed. The other day Testers aunt,
Mrs. NJ. ID. Pool, found the bottle on the
beach at Pentwater.
EUGENE HUTTON, the Treasurer of
| South Bay City Tent, No. III, who was
reported 10 have skipped with the
| tents funds and several of her peoples
money, wired from Fulton, N. Y, that
he had paid the last assessment to
| Treasurer Whalen, OF Flint. The latter
denies the statement
MRS. MAX FREEZE, OF Bay City, says
that her husband left home over a year
ago to find work in the lumber woods.
Soon afterwards he wrote that he was
going to Detroit Hospital. having re-
ceived some injury while at work. That
was the last the woman, who Is in des-
titute circumstances, heard Of him.
Ar the next term Of the circuit court
at Mt Clemens the case of Mrs. Fred
Moore against Jerome Burr, Warren
saloonkeeper will be tried. The wom-
ans husband got drunk in Burr's saloon
last New Years, and on his way home
sustained injuries by falling out of his
buggy which caused his death in Sep
tember. Mrs Moore wants 5000 dam
ages. The State Brewers Association
is said to have taken up the case.
JAMES VLIET's residence at ST. i Iouis
burned.
AsBURY NJ. i. Society dedicated a
new house of worship at Saginaw.
MINNIE REED, the young Loomis girl,
who is said to have eloped, is still miss
ing.
REV. Mr.. WARREN, a well-known
pastor OF Church's Corner, is danger
| ously i'll.
SIX additions, with an aggregate OF
| 474 lots, were at Mt. Pleasant plated
| during 1892.
MRS. JULIA WRIGHT, aged 80, OF iat
Rock, sustained dangerous injuries by
| falling off a chair.
By the explosion of lamp So,VVV
blaze took place in Lee Champaghes
dry-goods store at Alpena.
NJ. w. SMITH, formerly Chesaning
farmer. is now Superintendent OF the
| Oregon State Reform SCHOOL,
| Two CHIyAMEN, who tried to sneak
| in'o the state, were arrested at New
berry and will be sent back to Canada.
u w. SAGE's mill at Bay City, at one
,in,a the largest in the world, has closei
For GOOD. It has manufactured over
zoo OGO 900 feet of lumber.
SOPHIA MANNING, OF Alpena, was
awarded a verdict of 5000 against +. o.
Avery for injuries sustained by having
one of the latter's mill teams run over
her.
JOHN STYLER, of Saginaw, is trying
TO make things warm for Willis Sims,
ventriloquist. He says the latter
causes him much trouble by hypnotlzing
him.
THE failure of o. p. Bills & Co. in
their Toledo business also precipitated
the failure of banks at Ithaca, Alma
and Tecumseh. 1t is said depositors
will lose nothing.
EMANUEL CUSTER, father OF Gen.
George Custer, the famous cavalry
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