The true northerner., 1898-11-09
BITS OF STATE NEWS
Condensed Report Of Many Interest,"
ing Occurrences I'm various
Parts of Michigan.

the university of Michigan this year.
Six university of Michigan men
passed the Ohio state bar examination.
A big bear, measuring nearly eight
feet from tip to tip, was killed at west
Branch.
Grand Rapids is making crusade
against child labor in the furniture FAC
tories.
Firebugs are at work in Berrien coun-
ty and farmers are organizing for pro-
lection.
Two young Mexicans have entered
the engineering department in the Uni
versi;y of Michigan.
Col. ]. w. Aver, of Greenville, Will
take a party of 200 excursionists 10
Cuba and the southern states.
Farmers in the vicinity of Holland
make $40 an acre growing cucumbers
for the Heintz picking factory.
Peter Cope, an employe of Boyce's
mill at Bay City, fell backwards on
saw and was fatally injured.
The enforcement of the closed season
will leave the fishermen of the Beaver
islands destitute during the winter.
News comes from Houghton of new
village being built between the Area
dian and Franklin mills at Crosse
Pointe.
Vandals damaged the fountain in the
Central school grounds at Niles in
shameful manner. The fountain cost
$1,000.
Only two school districts in Washte-
nav county have voted in favor of COM
ing under the provisions of the free
text book law.
Farmers of Alpena county are jubi-
liant. Cedar ties are worth 26 cents.
This Is several cents above the average
winter price.
Forty-two monuments and head
stones were tipped over or broken in
the Almena cemetery by hoodlums Hal
loween night.
The Blake rifle to be issued to the
Michigan troops has successfully
passed the tests and is pronounced su-
perior to the Mauser.
|, Gov. Pingree has been asked to ap-
point ten delegates to the national pure
food and drug congress to be held In
Washington January s.
: Auditor General Dix is preparing the
v lists of lands to be sold at the annual
e tax sales held at the offices of the coun-
=, ty treasurers on May 2, 1889.
I Many more school-teachers from the
;, northern counties will go to the state
3 convention of the association at Ian
II sing this year than ever before.
v The University of Pennsylvania has
II chosen the negative side for its debate
(, with the University of Michigan on the
d abolition of armies and navies.
n Hiram Hicks, of Bennington, Shat
wassee county, returned home from al
errand, and found his wife dead in th'
house. Apoplexy is supposed to hav'
o caused her death.
n Prof. H. c. Adams, head of the de
! partment of political economy in tn
q university of Michigan, has returne'
8 from a years study of the Europeal
d railroad systems.
t. Several English noblemen recent
n, Investigated the copper region with
r view of investing. Very little of tn
m copper stock is at present held outsid
it of this country and Canada.
n The collection of taxes in West Ba
er CITY has been so light that the commo
council has authorized the loan OF 30
600 with which to pay current expense
until the taxes shall have been received
8 William Osmun, Jr., presented
o. Woodard Bros, of Pontiac, deed f6
~ an acre of land on the Air line, for
-. carriage factory, IS by $50, five stori'
- high. This makes nine factories ther
=. Henry NJ. Cheever, of Detroit. has bee
retained by the state to assist Deput
Attorney General Chase in the trial
Is the Whitehall bank cases, which w
- be taken up again shortly after n
nv vember 90
The farmers around Croswell ha
been enjoying bonanza as result
the scarcity of apples in the west tn
Ter year. Nearly $4,000 has been d
ter tributed among them by apple buye
be SC far this fall.
ilk Rev. Moses Hill left his $500 pro
CO. erty to the Methodist Episcopal Chur
ert Extension society at Kalamazoo. j.
the Griffith and wife are suing for $50
ng each for caring for Hill through 81
ed. eral years of illness.
leu Four coal drilling outfits are at wo
ere near Tuscola, and the Pennsylvar
company, to which they belong, p'
poses putting down a dozen or me
les shafts and going into the coal mini
ino on an extensive scale.
rn- The board of state auditors will
md once commence improving the venti
rst ton of Representative hall, as direct
ent by the last legislature. The plans o
fell lined in the report of the legislat
to committee will be followed.
BILE. The first coupons from Michiga
ors war loan bonds of 1898 have been
A. ceiyed at the state treasury for p
ment. They came from New "
banking house, and called for 81
Iur- The interest on these bonds Is paya
the semi-annually, the first installment
o, ing due November 1.