The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-02-17
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS
OCCURRENCE DURING THE
PAST WEEK.
Novi Loses an Enterprising Citizen - A
Question of Contributory Negligence
Cruelty to Cattie-Canncd the Dishrag
Judge Cooley I'm Feeble Health.
From Far and Near.

REVIVAL meetings are in full blast at
| Burlington, and sin has got TO take "a
back seat, at least for while.
ALPENA has granted n. franchise to
local capitalists, who will build street
railway within the next nine months.
A MAN at Forcstville sells liquor with
out even an Uncle Sam chrome. De
gang took advantage thereof and stole
barrel of whisky right in front OF his
eyes. OF course, being no license
man, he dared not interfere.
The Michigan Salt Association has
notified the State Worlds Fair Commits
! sloners that they are willing to make an
exhibit of their industry at their own eX-
pensc. The offer was accepted and they
wore granted 800 square feet Of space.
JUDGE COOLEY continues in very fee
bic health and it was only by great
| effort that he attended the MarstOn
memorial exercises in the Supreme Court
! chambers. my health, he says, lis go
shattered that fear L shall never re-
cover it.
| NEAR Empire, fifteen head Of cattle
were discovered that had been turned
into woods by their owner, having moth
| ing to eat but the bark of trees for two
starved to death, and the Humane So
ciety has now taken hold Of the matter.
THEY must do things up funny in
Jackson households. During the rush
| of the last canning season a dish-cloth
! suddenly disappeared from the table of
a Washington street family. The other
day they We're to have tomatoes for
! dinner, and when the can was opened,
behold! the dish-cloth was found in it.
JAMES KIRK, of Fair Grove, Tuscola
County, died of la grippe, having lived
at his present home "a years. For
| number of years he was member of
the Board Of Supervisors in his town
! ship, and in 1899 his Republican friends
elected him representative to the squaw-
buck Legislature. He leaves large
number OF relatives.
DAVID S. MAGILL, who went to Novi
eight years ago and began his career as
produce dealer, and who is undoubtedly
the second largest individual produce
| dealer in Michigan, has concluded to
| become a member of the commission
firm Of +. A. Lacey & Co., of Toledo,
Ohio, and will handle the car load" end
Of the firms business. Novi will need
| produce dealer in his place, and there is
splendid opening for the right man. {
In the opinion handed down by the
| Supreme Court in the case of James
Rowley against Victor and Frank Col
! liau, Detroit manufacturers, the court
passes upon the interesting question OF
cOntributory negligence. Rowley was
in the employ of the defendants, and
was holding a heavy iron bar against o
section of boiler iron while another en-
| ploye was holding a steel punch against
the other side, and third employee was
striking the punch with a sledge-ham-
mer. piece of steel from the hammer
destroying the sight. In the declaration
in the damage suit, it was alleged that
the defendant should have provided safe
tools. The Circuit Court gave a verdict
for the defendants, and now the Supreme
Court upholds this decision. 1t is held
in the opinion that the defendants were
not responsible for the fact that the
hammer was unsafe. All the other ham,
mers, as far as could be ascertained by
close examination, were fit for use, and
an inspection Of the hammer in question
would not probably have shown that it
was in defective condition. The de-
PENDANTS kept an employee in the shop
whose special business IL was to repair
tools, and, moreover, each employee
could use any sledge he pleased. The
long uso of hammers is liable to make
them defective, and Rowley, being an
experienced workman, knew this as well
as anybody else.
In Michigan sixty men are receiving
maple sugar bounties.
EsCANABA's w. G. T. U. has raised
81, 1880 for a new building.
SOME one is showing bogus one dollar
bills through Livingston County.
HoMEsTEADERs are locking up a great
deal of land in Ontonagon County.
THE Fremont Avenue Nj. E. Church,
of Bay City, will erect new place Of
worship.
THE X. o. r. Ms, of Pinnebog,
Huron County, will build 81, 600 hall in
the spring.
EsoANABA people want their postoffice
moved, as saloon will be opened in the
next building.
THE jackson Citizen denies pub
lished statement as to the sad condition
of factory girls in Jackson.
| QUITE number of cities and town.
ships in the upper peninsula have ex-
tended the time for paying taxes.
BESSIE CARR, st. Ignace girl, froze
her foot so badly while out skating that
she may lose the use of it altogether.
GEORGE MoRENcY, of the Grand
Pointe life saving station, has been APP
pointed keeper of the station at Frank
fort.
JACQUES q LAFRANCIsE, grocers of
Escanaba, assigned to George Gallup;
liabilities about $780, assets about
$4,000. Most of the creditors are Mil
waukee firms.
PINCKNEY had blaze the other day
again, and now she is scared for good
and will buy some kind OF a second
hand fire-fghting outfit and hold straw,
berry festivals over it when the Tina
comes.
REV. NJ. d. ROGERS, the pastor Of the
Disciples Church in Shepherd, who was
discharged so unceremoniously before
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