The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-12-28
Port Huron yachting enthuciasts have
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a quarrel over some stock.
A Benton Harbor firm is going TO try
the experiment of fattening cattle with
the refuse.from vinegar works.
Wildcats are numerous around Thomp-
sonville. doc" Ames recently killed
one that measured feet and inches i'm
length
A Detroit electric light firm is negoti-
ating with the citizens of Inlay City with
a view TO putting in an electric light plant
at that city.
Henry Wooley and Mary Underwood,
both 62 years of age, fell in love at Bay
City, and Monday marriage license was
issued to them.
Since the Maddox murder at Pontiac
special policemen patrol the streets every
night, and rs n consequence no hold-ups
have been reported lately.
Leroy Bristol was convicted Mt Flint OF
assault and battery upon his father, an
old man, and sentenced to siXty-five days
in the house of correction ut Detroit.
The Ladies' Literary Club of Grand
Rapids advanced the idea that female
criminals of the better sort be taken to
penal colonies to become the wives Of
reformed burglars.
John Cliffman, Of Muskegon. was beat
en- and probably fatally injured at Roth
bury, near that city, by Peter and Will
liam Nanderburg. who claimed he owed
them 50 which he refused to pay.
Byron Fisher. II school teacher ut Ben
nett, Lake county, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart with
Il rifle. No cause for his act is known
He was u years old and unmarried.
Charles King, the Port Huron drayman
who was arrested charged with compiled
ty in the celluloid smuggling and released
| 10y United States Commissioner Harris.
claims that he will sue the officers for
| $4,000 damages for false Imprisonment.
j. ID. Meinhardi, n German doctor who
keeps n drug store at Whitehall, is in
| trouble for trying to get along without the
services of n registered pharmacist, and
making up his prescriptions himself. He
| has been arrested and will be tried next
| week.
A Mt. Clemens candymaker who want
! cd to get his pay before it was due, hit on
| n shrewd scheme. He had n Duluth
| brother telegraph that relative was
dead. OF course he had to go to the
! funeral, and the kind-hearted employer
came down with the rocks.
A report is being freely circulated that
Ottawa County will attempt to capture
four townships, Ravenna, Sullivan,
| Fruitport, and Norton, off the south side
of Muskcgon County. The residents of
these townships say they have not even
been asked for their opinion in the matter.
There were 1.5O2 patients admitted at
| hn T,,;r FOL In nj =
past. OF these $50 were males and G33
females. They represented Ill occupa-
tons, the housewives leading with 454
and the farmers coming next, with 25S.
There were % nationalities represented,
the Americans numbering 1,2l0. OF the
total number, 442 were between the ages
of 20 and 30 OF the patients, $40 came
to have their eyes treated, $40 for surgi-
cal operations and 142 for nervous dis
orders.
George j. Killian, of Elsie, German,
with $4,000 in the bank and forty-acre
farm, divided his property last spring
equally between his wife, daughter and
four sons. He regretted it Immediately
and threatened TO commit suicide. The
other day they were all absent from home.
! He piled all the furniture in the house in
|
lor, putting lot of hay under it, and set
ting fire to the barn returned to the
house and set fire to the pile he had made,
climbing on top himself. The neighbors
were forced to drag him down from the
top of the pile, and he was so badly
burned that he cannot live.
The Delta County Fish and Game Pro-
tective Association is causing pot hunters,
poachers trappers and others who defy
the game laws no end of trouble. 1t was
supposed after the arrest and conviction
of o. r. Hessel for selling venison dur
ing the closed season in violation of the
law that Illicit traffic in game would
cease, but the apprehension at Escanaba
Of Bittner Brothers and H. A. Breiten-
bach for offering venison for sale and
shipping il out of the State creates diff
ferent impression. A man named Calvin
Hamilton, a professional hunter and trap
per, was convicted for killing deer out Of
season, and he confessed that he sold the
venison TO Bittner Brothers.
Michigan railroads have not killed a
passenger this year. Last year over forty
were slaughtered. The aggregate gross
earnings of Michigan railroads. il is re-
ported, reached the highest point in Mich
igan during the year 1892. The contrac-
ton of earnings commenced early in 1913
and continued from bad TO worse into the
year 1894. The number of miles of rail
road operated in Michigan is 1872, an in
crease of Ga miles over the previous year.
The State has 3315 miles of railroad for
every ten inhabitants. The total stock
and debt of the railroads operating wholly
or in part in this State is SLOTS, 500, 729,
an increase of $215, ,915. The excess
of stock in debt over the cost of the road.
is 500, 196, 000 or 81, $40 per mile of road.
The revenue realized from the operation
of railroads participating in business in
this State aggregates STAG, COG, 500, an in
crease of nearly $35,000,000 over 1892.
The total expenses of operation, including
taxes, were S105, 054,070, leaving n net in
come for the year on traffic account OF
SAL $40 500, an increase of $S,713,OO0.
The passenger earnings of the railroads
operating in this State in whole or in part
were sol 81 ,53S and the freight earnings
500. 342, 4S0. A total of 53,916,571 pas
| eonoors vara carried nm average distance