The true northerner., 1894-11-02

DICK LAWSON, a negro foreman, was
shot and killed by stevedore, Thomas
Grace, in quarrel at Detroit.
j. WESLEY DAVIS, OF Liberty, died
from the effects of the accidental di :
charge of his gun. Davis was 20 years
old and unmarried.
Mrs. WILLIAM NEWTON was burned
to death at West Bay City b. the ex.
.plosion of a lamp at the tent ser ices
of the Latter Day Saints.
JOHN BoDEwIG, who, it is claimed,
was chief conspirator and leader in
the Grard Trunk wreck, went TO Jail
in default of 1000 bail.
NATHAN ABBOTT, aged So, one of
the oldest pioneers in Battle Creek,
and for fifty years an Odd elbow,
died. Mrs. Elizabeth Iden, aged 65,
also died.
BY the bursting of a hy-wheel in a
Manistee salt we'll drill house John
Hauser was hurled against the side of
the building and had his arm fright
fully crushed, ne essitating its ampu-
tation.
AS RAY and Lee Brotherton, Es-
canada boys of III and 9 years of age
respectively, and sons of r. A. Broth
ertJn, were playing with revolver
Ray shot ana instantly killed Lee, ac-
cidentally, not knowing that the gun
was loaded.
| F. Is. DRAKE, general manager Of
the cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw
Railroad, ha, submitted a definite
| p opposition to the Jackson citizens for
| the extension of the road from Addi-
son. BY this route Jackson can secure
its coal from the Pennsylvania coal
fields at same prices Detroit gets.
| CAPT. HENRY A. FoRp, an edu-
Gator and newspaper writer of State
reputation, fell dead at Detroit, while
about TO board a car. Apoplexy wa
the cause. Capt. +, rd enlisted as
Second Lieutenant of the Nineteenth
! Michigan Infantry at the breaking out
of the wa. He was 80 years of age
and leaves W dow.
CHRISTIAN f. WETzEL, an employe
of the Michigan urniture Company,
Ann Arbor, was working at a ripsaw,
when piece of wo d flew out and hit
him in the head, eau ing almost in
stant death. The deceased was a Ger
man, 60 years o.d and had been in the
service of the company for the pat
twenty years Mr. WetZel leaves a
widow and four sons, three of whom
are graduates of the university.
IN 1850 the gener al government
| granted to the State of Michigan all
| of its swamps a'd overhowed lands,
and survey and plat was made. but
the government Continued to Issue
patents until the number OF acres thus
| issued amounted to 500. This has
been the basis for claim pending for
many years, and not until now adjust
ed. The State Land G mmissioner
has received from the Secretary Of
| the Interior an indemnity certificate
| for 5000 acres, which is estimated to
| yield the State at least S4C.0J0
THERE was commotion at the De-
troit House of Correction when Health
| Officer Sh lite diagnosed the sickness
| of an inmate as smallpox. The man
had been serving in prison eleven
months and the authorities cannot see
| how he could have caught the disease.
/ Capt. Nicholson at once ordered gen.
eral vaccination and had the. man re.
moved to the city pesthoIse, where
there are at present thirty-four small
pox patien nts. The p isoners soon
learned that they had been yrosed to
/ contagion and were almost thrown in
to panic through fear.
AT Iron Mountain Game Warden
| Brewster. OF Gran1 Rapids an Sher-
iff Catlin arrested f. Knighthert, G.
| II. Ballinger, j. S. Chatfeld, /. w.
Freeman NJ. A. Hand, Thomas Mich
OILS, John Whiteleree, j. III. Freeman,
and Henry w. Leonard, hunters from
indiana and Ill nois, charg with vio-
lating game laws in shipping venison
out of the State. All pleaded guilty
before Justice Miller and were fined
| $50 and costs. Over a ton of ven's son
was captured. George A. Kendall,
agent of the United States Express
| Company at Sagola, was also arrested
for having guilty knowledge of the
shipment.
| FARMER ALLEN, of Arlington, lost
his ba' nd house the other day by
| fire in a pecr liar manner. He stepped
on M tch in the house. setting fire to
some straw mating. He ran to the
barn for plil of water and while in
the barn t rev of ia ket which he
wore, and then ran into the house with
the wate-. He found the fire had got.
ten beyond his coatrol and VIII he
went out of house he saw that the
harm wa also on fire and burning fierce
! ly. The acket whiC h be had taken off
in the barn was bla ing at the time,
altho gh he had not motto ed it, The
blaze had communicated from the ar
ment to the woodwork of t barn, and
it had no taken long for the build ny
to become a mass of hGmes.
TIE Chicago and West Michigan
Railway Company has issued a circu-
lar letter to the bondholders OF the
Chicago and West Michig IN Railway
and the Chicago and North Michigan
I abroad stating that owing to the ex.
treme depression Of business in Michi-
gan it is without funds to pay in full
the coupons maturing Nov. l aud Dec.
| on the North Mi higan and West
Michigan bonds respectively, amount
in z TO S41, ,675 on the former and Sl4 =
$50 on the latter. The company pro-
poses to pay to holders of these cou-
pons the cash at its command from net