The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1893-01-18
From Far and Near.

organized at Bay City.
WM. TUCKER, young Alpena man,
was seriously injured internally In a
lumber camp near Duluth.
UPON his retiring from Office, Sheriff
Paddock, OF Ingham county, was pre-
sented with $50 Montana wolf robe by
Mason people.
DIPHTHERIA is reported at Warren.
People are kicking over the fact that
the funerals OF the victims OF the NAL
ady are public.
The lighthouse az Thunder Bay has
finally closed. 1t was kept up later
than usual this year on account of the
Ann Arbor line s ferries.
The ID. S. S. Il A. Road will hereafter
run through trains TO Detroit via Macki-
nav City, and several new passenger
trains will go into commission.
A BAY MILLS man was found near
the Sault almost frozen TO death. He
was lying in deep snow, without shoes
or coat. A good sized jag was the
cause.
The largest charter membership
Pythian Lodge ever started off with
was the one organized at Midland the
other day. The membership was
seventy.
IT is now said that several Finland
ers made the significant remark that
Dan Mckay would not live another
year. Dan is the man who was found
at Whitdale, near Manistique, burned to
a crisp.
EDWARD BARK, who lives near Sagi
nav, celebrated his Saith birthday the
other day. He has lived there since
1850, and answered with his own hand
some twenty letters OF congratulation
In one day.
THE store known as the Red Store,
at Weldon Greek, Mason County, was
destroyed by fire with all its contents.
The fire is thought to have caught from
a passing train. The loss amounts to
several thousand dollars.
J. +. FORBES, former resident OF
Pinckney, has for seventeen years been
troubled with lame leg. Several days
ago physicians took out OF his leg seve-
raj pieces of diseased bone and an old
rusty nail an inch and a half long, which
had caused all his suffering.
FARMERS near Holly have for some
time believed that they didn't, as rule,
get the best Of the bargain in trading
horses with certain firm The other
day enc farmer had his revenge. He
snapped horses and got 81 to boot. AS
soon as one member OF the above firm
had taken the horse it dropped dead.
+. II. LovELEss and wife, OF West
Branch, fought bloody battle on
Lake City street the other day. Two
sons of Mrs Loveless by former hus-
land also TOOK hand in the fray. The
man was arrested, but upon his promise
4 l. D,,N t.,
diately went for his wife again, and then
was jailed again.
w. III. CUMMINGS, q Bay City travel
ing man, at West Branch two years ago
lost woman's fur cloak by theft. Ever
time after that he kept his eye open &
the cloak upon reaching the little town.
The other day he heard that certain
woman was wearing a new cloak, which
had not been purchased at West Branch.
He called on her, and nov he has his
coat again. The woman said she kept
it hidden for two years, fearing some
one would recognize it as the stolen ar
ticle.
The recent blizzard sent the mercury
to 16 degrees below zero at Maynette
two residences burned from overheated
stoves. At Alpena the thermometer
registered IA below; at East Tawas, ~
below; at Port Huron a train load OF
ZOO hogs became stalled and all the
cargo froZe 10 death, involving a loss or
$25, 900; Oceana County was snow
bound; at Au Train, Mat Lampman per-
i:hed in the storm and wolves devoured
his body. Suffering and inconvenience
were universal in the State, but the
storm was the most fortunate thing for
crops next year.
THE Polish population of Alpena con-
sists of about 800 families
DIVERS will try t) raise the Old In
dependence and her cargo, sunk almost
half century ago in the river above
the lighthouse at the Sault.
MRS. JULIA FIsKE, of Putnam town
ship, near Pinckney, took Paris green
with suicidal intent, but will recover.
She is said to be mentally deranged.
AT Ironwood Gust Norquist, a clerk
in the store of Skudd Bros, committed
suicide. The deceased was an exem-
plary young Swede, and was unmarried.
WHEN George Wheeler, of Riverton,
broke his leg some time ago, DR.. Eaton,
OF Scottville, attended TO his injuries.
Now he sues the latter for $4,000 for al
legged malpractice.
JOHN HEATLEY, formerly promi-
nent Bay City resident, who took up his
residence at jackson for embezzlement,
is now employed in the blacksmith de-
partment at the prison.
The Michigan crop report for Janu
sry shows that during the first half OF
December the wheat plant was wholly
unprotected by snow, but since then
the ground has been fairly we'll COW
cred. The total number of bushels OF
wheat mark eted in December was ,374,-
419, and for the five months, August to
December, 8,111, 615 bushels, 1t being
1853 ,032 bushels less than for the same
months in 1891. There is a decline in
farm products from one year ago. The
following are the average prices in the
State Jan. 1: Wheat, SO cents; corn,
As cents; oats, "a cents: and hay, $500
per ton. Fat cattle, 1921 per l0l lbs;
fat hogs, $3.50; dressed pork, S7.29.
Wheat is % cents lower than one year
ago, corn cents lower, and hay S2.6l