The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-03-16
A COMPANY at Casevills will start
pros nectinU for coal


prospecting for coal.
TIE Birmingham schools were
closed two weeks on account Of scarlet
fever.
VENICE SLAVERY, OF Cedar Creek,
Muske yon County, fed three fingers
into hay cutter.
FIVE Grand RAPIDS ice companies
have formed combine and will raise
the price OF C olness.
r. H. DAWSON, mill proprietor, CON-
mitted suicide by hanging at Pontiac.
Financial embarrassment was the
cause.
A SAw-MILL at Ivan, Kalka ska Coun-
ty, opcra'ed by J. M. Calkins, was
burned. The loss Is $1,000, with no in
surance.
A HORSE kicked Joseph Kellogg, OF
Bro Dkfeld, Eaton Count. in the head,
fracturing his skull. Kellogg will re-
cover, h weler.
A BOY named Pugh fell under the
cars while getting OF train at Ches-
ter, Eaton County, and had one OF his
hands badly crushed.
Now THAT Howell people have Sc
cured the macintosh factory they
were after, they are trying to get
tannery to cate there.
PLANS are being made at Jackson
for Congregational Church at Chez
sea, to be erected upon the site OF the
one recently destroyed by fire.
FOUR e;sful burglaries have
taken place recently at South Haven,
and the local officials are inclined to
believe that some expert from abroad
has located there.
FIFTEEN prisoners in Flint Jail sang
hymn as loud as old-time Methodists
The noise was so great that their con-
| federates almost succeeded in saving
off the bars and escaping.
THREE boys OF Comis caught man
named Bush and sheared off one-half
of his mustache for fun. The young
men are now under arrest and will an
swer in court for assault.
The Bay City Iron Hallers have
$500 which they refuse to turn over
| TO the receiver of the order. They
feel if they send the money away they
will Eever see il again.
IT hes been decided to extend the
Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad
to Cheboygan this season, and work
will be commenced on the roadbed as
soon as the frost is out of the ground.
AT Luther. two young men named
Levi Parker and Frank Denton. quar-
relied and fight ensued in which Fem
tons jack knife slashed Parkers head
and neck SO seriously that he may die.
Denton was arrested.
ANNIE MARTIN, aged eight years, of
Ecorse, was run over by an electric car
while playing on the track Her left
ANN nj oh in,
forehead. The arm had to be ampu-
tated. 1t is thought that the child
will recover
THE Dickinson County Relief Com
mittee has closed up its business and
turned over the small amount of
money and provisions on hand to tho
poor commissioners Of the county. The
period Cf distress is practically over,
and the number of applicants for relief
is small.
II is claimed that Attorney General
Ellis. in his answe to the suit brought
by Gov. Rich in the salarie ;-amend-
ment matter, shows by affidavit from
the Clerk of Gratiot County in 1891
that the vote upon the salaries
amendment was not canvassed by
the County Canvassing Beard at all,
jec;ed By the State Board as irregular,
were made up by himself and forward
ed to the Office OF the Secretary of
State The Importance of this is. that
should this fact be established it will
show that Gratiot really had no vote
canvassed, and while it returned a
heavy majority against the amend
ment it cannot be counted, and with
this county out to stay the amendment
would pull through, even if the 1000
votes fraudulently added TO the GOge-
bic return be deducted from the total.
Whether or not the amendment Is
shown t. have carried makes a differ
ence to the Attorney General of 81, 100,
which, il failing, he would be required
to return. On the face OF il he APP
pears to have trump card. The
present clerk ais makes affidavit that
careful search of the record fails to
disclose that there was any canvass
made in that county.
THE forthcoming report Ct the Mich
igan Labor Commissioner will contain
an interesting chapter on iron mines
and miners At present SlSo,OO1,OO Is
invested in the mines aid in the equip
ment of docks, railways and boat lines
necessary to the conduct of the bust
ness. When this is added to the fact
that of the entire cost of the finished
forms of iron and steel nearly e5 per
cent. rep esents labor, the Importance
of the industry can be realized, Up to
and including the year 1893 the three
Michigan fields shipre 73, 936, S27 gros,
tons. Contrib ting TO this the Mar
quette range has a credit for 40 OIL 900
tons. the Menominee 1s.031.3ll tons
and the Gogebic IL, 52, 516 tons. In
Guiding the entire Lake Superior re-
gion, which embraces the mines of
Minnesota, the grand total tonnage is
sO,3W.352 A table is given showing
an almost steady gain in production
during the last ten years as follows:
1854 ........ .2417,l1J 1889. C, 054, 249
1885 ......... 2 235, 249 1890 ,673 G37
1884. 126 SIT 1891 ......... 6,o63 sH
1887 .4170,07S 1892. ,67S 500
1888. 2Sj.92d 1891. 10000
The great falling off in shipments
from Michigan mines fer the year 1893