The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-12-14
STATE NEWS.
Btts Of Interesting informasi"" "A'--
cred from Many Localities
I'm Michigan.

Simon Is. hlcnel, oi NOAu""'N', -
been granted patent on cartridge
loading instrument.
The Bell Telephone company has re-
duced rates at Marshall to SO per year
for residence phones.
James Grant, a seven-year-old Bay
CITY boy. fell under "a loaded wagon and
the wheel broke his neck.
Battle Creek is to have two new large
sanitariums. One of them VIII be re-
moved from New York state.
Vissers g. Sons, Holland, sell 600 pairs
of wooden shoes annually. summer
resorters buy some of them for SOU
venirs.
The case against the fishermen who
arc charged with violating the law
will come up at Grand Haven on Decem-
Der 10.
Hog cholera is raging in portions OF
southern Michigan. One man III OasS
county lost 1O5 in few days from the
dread disease.
A law prohibiting the killing OF
deer in Tuscola county until 1898 has
caused great increase of the animals
in that county.
Simon Kane. of Delaware township,
Sanilac county, was found oeau In MS
home. He was 102 years of age, and
pioneer resident.
most office will be established at
Bots Blanc, near Ionia, for the con-
yenience of people who have summer
residences there.
Mrs. A. f. Martin, of Ann Arbor, LOST
an arm from bloos poisoning resulting
from digging a silver from II with al
old pair of shears.
Under a recent ruling of the supreme
court. railroads north of parallel "A Will
nav S4.941.s7 more in taxes than under
| former conditions.
Bears are unusually numerous in
Kalkaska county this winter. One was
captured the other day within few
miles Of Kalkaska.
The Flint-Pontiac electric railroad
will be built in the spring. 1t Will go
through GARRISON, Ortonville, Good-
rich and Grand Blanc.
Company II, Thirty-third Michigan,
has been mustered out. 1t was PAID
S11. 400. There are 10 pension claim
antsin the company.
The Holly Independent says that
some of the farmers of South1leId VIII
have to winter over their husking, as
their corn is showed under.
f. Bruce Howe, an Olivet student
died of blood poisoning resulting from
unhealthy meat. The poisoning showed
first in a pimple on his upper lip.
1t now seems certain that the two
prospective sugar factories at Pontiac
will be built. 1t is expected they VIII
both begin operations by next fall.
Curtis II. Clark, of the Twenty-Five
Michigan. who lives at Sand Lake, ha'
had his leg amputated at the thigh, ow
, ing to injuries received at Aguadores.
= The common council of Battle Creel
. has unanimously voted to amend IN
To- city charter at the next session of tn
/ legislature so as TO introduce the refer
!. endum in city matters.
e The jury Investigating the death o
a George King. at Port Huren, returne
g the verdict that King came to his deaf
5 from a bullet in his head. shot by SOM
It person unknown to the jury
y Iron ore shipments from the Crysta
Falls district will close in a few day:
when the Crystal Falls mine will sen
out an extra shipment of 200 tons
Total shipments this year were $4,000
n tons.
q Manager Wessendorf, of the Mich
i gan Telephone company at Mt. Glen
% ems. said. that by actual test it wa
o found that every 200 feet of teiephor
Fl wire carried $50 pounds Of snow an
r. ice.
A. May Derham has been given We
dict of S4O0 against her father-inlaN
ID William Derham. in the circuit court
NJ Corunna. The woman sued for $500
s. for alleged SANDER and alternating h
husbands affections.
II. A. Chaplin. of Niles, the millio
aire mine owner, is very i'll and his 81
- has been summoned from Chicago. NJ
- Chaplin is now considered the wealt
lest man in Michigan, his fortune beiI
on estimated at SIS, 100000 to 100000 600.
A petition has been sent from Co
-. stantine 10 Senator Burrows and Co
gresham Hamilton asking that {
or bodies Of Corporals Barton, Nottin
u ham. and Private Otis Mari be broug
- home from Cuba, where they died On
a. ing the Spanish war.
The annual convention of Michig
dairymen will meet at Grand Rapi
February 1, 2 and 3. Election of Office
IN will engage a pare of the attention
us, the delegates and a discussion of
)oo various questions Of interest to de
yed ers will be INDUCED in.
'en Slelghing is good in the vicinity
'ed McBain, and with its advent lumberi
els operations have become very acti
re All of the mills are preparing to put
IN larger stocks Of logs than for seve
ma years past, and from all indications
OIL will be the busiest winter in hardwC
numbering that region has known.
During a performance of Wixo
her circus in Shiawassee county last ST
lie mer Frank Herrick had one of his e