The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-09-07
From Far and Near.

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| TEN THOUSAND bushels Of whortleber-
ries have been shipped from Au Sable
this season.
| BROOK trout are caught faster in
Northern Michigan streams than they
can be planted.
| THE second reunion of the Fifth
Michigan Cavalry will be held at Lam
sing, Sept. Is.
THE reunion of the First Michigan
| Engineers and Mechanics will be held
| in jackson October 20.
SOME one with malice aforethought
entered w. p. Kinnie's harness shop in
Marlette and extracted $40 from the
safe. Local talent is suspected.
AT Black River, William MERCER,
| while passing from a car to a locomo-
| tive, 81 pped and fell between them. He
| was so badly crushed that he lived but
a few minutes.
THE Bearinger mill property at East
Tawas has been sold to the Hollands Of
Saginaw, and their mills will be removed
to East Tawas to cut logs towed across
the lake from Canada.
WORD has reached Marlette OF the
suicide by shooting of a Mrs. Reynolds,
of Kingston. Domestic difficulties are
given as the cause. Deceased leaves
husband and one child.
The residence OF Charles obi, six
miles northeast of Marlette, was burned
to the ground. Cause of fire unknown.
Loss, $500; insured for $500. Willard
Jones, two miles northwest of Marlette,
| suffered a like loss on Saturday. His
house was uninsured.
IT was late the other morning when
Joseph Paige, Of Alpena, awoke, and he
sprang out of bed 50 quickly that he
fell and dslocated his shoulder. If
Joseph had stayed where he was until
his wife called him to breakfast two or
three times this would not have hap
pened. A wCrd to the wise should BIO
sufficient.
THE report of the State Treasurer for
the fiscal year ending June 30 shows a
balance in the State Treasury of 81, 241,-
81. The receipts for the year were 49,,
210, 832, and the disbursements So, 1913, sos.
The bonded debt has been reduced to
SO, 1922, ana this is long past due and
not presented for payment. The trust
fund belonging to the several educa-
tional institutions OF the State, upon
which the State pays interest for their
support, is S5.445, 100. The State acts
as trustee of the fund.
THE Ocqueoc Improvement Company,
an 1Smonths- old enterprise, has been
forced to the wall. The village of Ham
monds Bay, built principally by men
employed by the company, is practi-
cally bankrupt. Over 100 mill hands
and Transfers have received no pay for
some time. They struck and entered the
village in a body. AS they are evil
IDENTIFY desperate all the saloons are
closed. Colonel J. Corcoran, the man
ager Of the concern and largely inter-
ested therein, comedies the failure.
Fifty thousand dollars worth of notes
indorsed by creditors have gone to pro-
test. Attachments have been issued
covering everything owned by the COM
pany, and the employees will suffer.
ABLooD-CURDLING tale comes from
Fergus, Saginaw County, to the effect
that child was left asleep in wagon
in Marion Township by its mother
while she went distance of a few rods
picking blackberries, the eyes of the
poor woman being greeted on her re-
turn with the sight Of a quantity of
blood where her child had been, moth
ing being left but the mangled romans
of one leg. The supposition is that the
child was devoured by lynx or some
wild animal of that species, and as
Warren and Dora Mathewson, of Fer
gus, while berrying up in that country.
say they saw an animal resembling a
panther, it is thought by some to be the
same one that killed the child. The
woman's name is said to be Green
baum. She is distracted with grief
and fears are entertained that she will
lose her reason. A search for some
further Of tho child hoc hann
made without avail.
DAVID GRAHAM. raftsman, aged 20,
has been drowned near Detour.
NEW iron bridge is soon to be built
across Pipestone River, at Hartman.
TIM SULLIVAN playfully pointed
loaded revolver at Peter Liseway, at
Huron. The revolver was discharged
and Liseway killed, the ball passing
through his body, near the heart.
ANOTHER large wooden schooner is in
course of construction at DavidSons
ship yard. near Bay City
THE Char evCix Democrat claims that
Charlevoix County will furnish apples
enough for the rest OF the State.
AT Jackson, convicts Edward Huntley,
John Davis, and Elijah Billiard scaled
the west wall OF the State Prison In an
dJJtHpL W eScdpt, anu 40 1870
the rifle shots fired by prison guards
death will rid Huntley and Davis OF
their chains. Billiard threw up his
hands and was not harmed. Guards r.
J. Clark and J. J. Freeman did the
winging. The men are all desperate
characters. Edward Huntleey, alias
Dick Huntley, was received at the
prison April 13, 1883, to serve twenty
wear sentence for burglary, armed
with a dangerous weapon. He was one
of the men who escaped from the prison
kitchen, Sunday, Aug. l6, 1891, and he
was captured at Peoria. ILL.,, Dec. 10 OF
the same year. By this escapade he
lost 219 days good time and the 121
DAYS he was out of prison. John Davis
was received from Kalamazoo Feb. 81,
1891. TO serve a flve-year sentence for
burglary. He escaped with Huntley,
and May 2, 1892, was returned to the
prison, having been captured at London,
Ont. Elijah Billiard was received May
ii, 1891, from Detroit to serve five
year sentence for assault with intent TO
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