The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-01-13
From Far and Near.

that John Grover, of Richland, must
pay the SO he subscribed toward the NJ.
+. Church and defray the costs of the
suit.
C. C. DURGAN, OF Grand Rapids, after
travelling 5000 miles through Michigan,
declares that more shingle and saw mills
are being erected in the upper peninsula
than ever before.
The 14-year-old son of Farmer Fred
Dankert, living near Saginaw, played
with n dynamite cartridge of the sort
used to blow up stumps. He pricked at
at with a pin, when it exploded, MAIN
ing for life one hand.
Two-THIRDs of all wrecks on the
| great lakes occur within a radius Of a
few score OF miles from Cheboygan, it is
said, and it is insisted that dry dock
and ship yard in that town would be
very lucrative investment.
CAPT. EDWARD BALLENTINE, of Bay
City, commander of the propeller Elfln-
mere, was presented at that place with
a beautiful medal in recognition of his
bravery in rescuing the crew OF the
Oswegatchie, of Thunder Bay.
T. w. HAYES, of Ogemaw, got an ap-
preciated holiday gift. He built house
on his farm five years ago, mortgaging
the place to his employer, Ct. N Haupt-
man, of Saginaw, for 500. He has new
er been able to pay it off, and Mr.. Haupt-
man sent him discharge and receipt in
full the other day, as a reward for four
teen years of faithful service.
NAPOLEON people are little suspi-
cious of anything in the amusement line
that halls from Jackson. A minstrel
show was given at che Town Hall by
Jackson artists. The people turned out
in good numbers, all armed with tin
pans. After the first act there was some
doubt as to whether the troupe or the
audience were giving the performance.
CHARLES FULLER, 16 years old, fired
off his revolver in Bay City saloon at
II o'clock midnight, Dec. 81, to cele-
brate the arrival of 1892. An instant
afterward, John Perkins, also 16 years
of age, a property hand at the opera
house, screamed that he was shot. EX
animation showed wound in the abdo-
men, and Fuller was arrested. Perkins
may recover.
The State Board of Auditors refused
to allow State Printer Bob Smiths bill
for lettering at 30 cents each those 704
manuals sent out by Dan Soper. As
Mr. Smith followed the instructions Of
MI pOptl Nutu thdb SthblChoh wac III
vested with authority to give orders in
the States name, he will appeal to the
Attorney General and ultimately to the
courts, if he doesn't get his money.
TALK about abdominal surgery! A
West Branch COW ate two bushels of
potatoes at meal and was about to
give up the ghost with aggravated bovine
dyspepsia, when Veterinary Wilson flew
to the rescue. He made an incision to
the animals stomach, removed the con-
tents, sewed her up, and not only res
cued her from the jaws Of death, for the
operation proved highly successful, but
saved the potatoes.
TECHNICALITIEs rule in the litigation
up north. The judge Of the Benzie cir
cult was called upon TO decide whether
or not logs banked upon the river and
waiting for the ice to go out are "in tran
sit, the levying upon them for taxes be-
ing the point at issue. The decision is
that If banked by the owner they are,
and if banked by others for delivery at
that point they are not. Upon this point
also hinges the right of assessment.
MICHIGAN may have gold craze yet.
The Crescent Gold Mining Company
have struck vein where 1t leads over
the side of hill and have discovered
quartz eighteen inches thick and gold is
plainly seen as far as drilled. The
South Beaver has taken some valuable
yellow from the bottom of a forty eight
foot shaft. Several hundred tons Of
rock will be hauled from the Fire Center
property to the Ropes mill in order to
make thorough trial test.
MICHIGAN CENTRAL dividends will
reach 81 per cent. this year. it is said.
r. G.. LYON, general hardware mer-
chant of Vassar, has assigned to j. l..
Root for the benefit of his creditors.
THE receipts from Saginaw's twenty
five miles of electric road were $780, 900
more during 1891 than during he pre-
ceding year.
A. b. MORSE is now Chief Justice Of
Michigan. Judge Champlin retired Jan.
l from the Supreme Bench and X. Nj.
Montgomery became a member OF the
court.
JOHN KINNANE's 10-year- old son shot
his little sister in the leg with an old
musket, at Oshtemo, Kalamazoo County,
and skipped from home.
MOST towns now days have to put
on a plaster to draw a factory, but st.
Ignace is to have plaster factory with
pay roll of 100 without a plaster.
HENRY B. CARR, aged 46, resident at
Jackson all his life, and grocery man,
fell dead from heart disease. He was
getting into buggy, when death came
instantly.
AFTER Mr. and Mrs. II. J. McHugh,
of Kalamazoo, had cared for a little
waif for fifteen years and she had grown
up to be big waif, the father turned up
and took her away from them.
THE homesteadcrs near Iron river, who
object to the cutting OF timber by the
Metropolitan Lumber Company, shot
two OF the latters horses, and declare
that they will shoot men II they are not
let alone.
AT Jackson, Emery Nye, 25-year old
convict, suddenly became violently in
sane and slashed fellow convict il the
broom shop with a knife, laying open
his arm. Nye will be sent to the Ionia