The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-04-13
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS
OCCURRENCES DURING THE
PAST WEEK.
The Beef Sugar Industry Bids Fair to As
sumo Important Proportions-Kiliedb by
Train at Port Huron-A Disastrous
Frolic ON Straw Stack.
From Far and Near.

MRS. b. j. CoRBIN was buried at
Dundee. She left q husband and two
boys, one and the other years of age.
She was niece Of the late Gdn. Custer.
AT Pontiac, John Fitzpatrick, an aged
attorney, was stricken with paralysis
while arguing a motion in court. His
condition is serious, but the doctors hope
for his recovery.
The Coroner's jury in the mill disas-
ter at East Jordan, where six persons
were instantly killed, one has since
died, and another cannot long survive,
has found a verdict that the explosion
was caused by low water, but they do
not fix the responsibility.
AT Port Huron, T. r. Mitchell, OF
Westfield, Ont, was run over and in
stantly killed. In trying to get out of
the way OF an incoming freight train he
stepped in front OF q west-bound special
and was run over, his head being
smashed to pulp, and his left leg and
arm broken. He was wealthy stock
raiser.
VIM. PRATT, the Mount Forest man
who was found by the wayside few
days ago suffering from burns which he
said he had received from two men who
had robbed him of $40, has died from
iio ihJuilcOs Int Btntldl lluDItSSlOH III
the township is that Pratt got drunk Of
his own accord, and accidentally set
fire to himself. He was So years of age.
EMIL KoPKE, n German living two
miles northwest Of Dundee, met with
very severe accident. While attending
an auction sale of farm stock, he, with
several others, climbed upon a low straw
stack. They soon became engaged in
scuflle, and kopke was thrown off. Be-
fore he could get up another man was
thrown down, and the heel of one Of his
heavy boots struck Kopke on the bridge
OF the nose, crushing it and cutting a
bad cash over one OF his eyes.
THE State of Michigan lies little
north of the line indicated by the scien-
tidc folks at Washington as the most
profitable for beet culture, but some good
results were obtained here last year, as
indicated in a report recently issued by
Prof. Kedzie, of the State Agricultural
College. He tabulates returns from six
teen counties in which beets were grown
in 1891. The extremes Of production are
Ottawa twenty mine and Muskegon eight
tons per acre. The average Of the whole
was fifteen tons, and about IA per cent.
Of sugar. Those acres on which the
beets were grown are estimated to have
Jltlutu dDOuU SDO tdcD, ana lnc TtpOIJ
says there is no good reason why, with
proper cultivation and attention to the
quality of soils, the product should not
be from eighteen to twenty tons per
acre. The southern part OF the State
gives especially flattering promise. In
Hillsdale County eighteen tons to the
acre were raised at a cost OF less than
one dollar per ton, and the beetS were
found to contain 10 per cent. OF sugar.
The advantages OF the culture are
thus summarized: Beets outstrip
wheat in value as q cash
crop. They promise reliable
market at home, and thus will be avoid
ed the glut sometimes met with in trans
porting wheat to foreign lands. II prop
erly conducted beet-raising does not ex-
haust the soil. The chemical materials
removed in the finished product are only
carbon and water. Beet culture is actu-
ally found to be the best preparation for
a grain crop, and it has improved the
capacity for soil production in France
and Germany. Beet-raising compels
good farming, with rotation of crops and
stock feeding, the later becoming O
necessary part OF the routine on sugar
beet farm, because the tops and crowns,
and the pulp from which the sugar has
been extracted, make excellent feed for
the fattening of cattle. To obtain the
best results the sugar factory should go
along with the cultivation of the beet.
Prof. Kedze says if Michigan will sup
ply the beets there need be no doubt as
to the capital for one or more factories,
and that in time the sugar beet industry
and the manufacture of sugar ought to
take place among the most important
activities in the State.
THE prevailing high winds have occa-
stoned several expensive casualties in
Pontiac and vicinity. The plate-glass
front of A. Parker's drug store was
blown in, entailing $50 damage. Sheets
of paper whirling about the streets have
occasioned runaways, the most serious
of which was the team OF Robert Han
wells of Orion, which ran into and broke
up five delivery and express wagons.
The State Convention of Afro-Ameri-
can citizens was held at Lansing. The
avowed object of the convention was to
discuss and devise ways and means
to improve the condition of the colored
race in the State, and to aid in securing
more extensive political recognition.
The convention adopted resolutions in
dorsing the administration of President
Harrison, commencing the administra-
gan, extending vote of thanks to AL
bion w. Tourgee for his work in the
amelioration of the condition of the col
ored race, asking Congress for the pas
sage of q national election bill, and con-
demnlng the recent lynching of negroes
in the South. Pandemonium reigned
when the matter OF selecting a name for
the organization came up for considera-
ton Every delegate was an orator, and
they all sought 10 air their oratory
simultaneously. A motion finally pre-
vailed, when the delegates were at last
exhausted, providing for the appoint
ment of committee who should settle
the disputed question. This committee
recommended that the organization be
called the Michigan Equal Rights Asso-
citation, and the recommendation of the
COMMITTEES was adopted by majority
vote. Officers were elected as follows:
President, w. S. Miller, Lansing; SEQ
rotary, T. p. Wood, Adrian; Treasurer,
c. w. Ellis, Saginaw. Vice Presidents
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