The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-12-28
STATE NEWS.
Interesting Dits OF InformstI
Many Localities
Michigan.


James McClusky was accidentally
killed in the Pewabic mine at Iron
Mountain.
Within a radius of ten miles of VOL
VERNE there are in operation IS lum-
boring camps.
John McAllen, farmer living near
North Branch, was thrown from wag-
on and instantly killed.
Company X, Thirty-third Michigan,
of Three Rivers, will probably be mus
tered out about January g.
Joseph Dusel, of South Lake Linden,
while returning from work, broke
through the ice and was drowned.
Henry Blinn, who left Lake Odessa
two years ago to seek work in Mime
sofa, was frozen to death near Carleton,
Mimi
Ii. NJ. Wallace, a University of Mich.
igan graduate who went 10 the Klon-
dixie during the GOLD craze, is at Niles.
He claims he struck il rich.
The proposition of adopting the uni
form text book system for the Port
Huron schools was defeated by vote
of 10 for to l6s against the proposition.
In row among Indians who live
three miles from Mancelona a Mrs.
Petty was almost hacked TO pieces.
She is still living. One woman is under
arrest.
Elmer f. Rose, a Pontiac painter, was
looking down an elevator shaft, when
the weights descended, striking his
head and inflicting injuries almost in
stantly fatal
DR.. Leartus Connor, of Detroit, chair
man of a special committee appointed
by the Michigan State Medical society,
is drafting bill providing for a more
accurate registration of births.
In the general orders just issued by
Adjt Gen. Pond, the enactment of
law prohibiting the wearing of g. A. r.
buttons by people not members of the
organization is recommended.
Gov. Pingree granted pardons to
William Macard, of Grand Rapids;
Alexander II. Currie. of Detroit; Louis
= Smith, of Adrian; James Powers, of
Flint, and William Nuremberg.
Charles Urtel has recovered $3.50 dam-
ages from Flint for injuries received
on a defective sidewalk Two new
sidewalk damage cases have appeared
for $35, 900 and $3,35O respectively.
Trappers report that the beaver are
already getting a good start in the
upper peninsula, as the result of the
closed season for a term of years dur
ing which they may not be trapped.
Prosecutions against a number Of
Kalamazoo merchants and milk deal
ers have been begun by the state dairy
and food commission for sale of al
legged impure milk and oleomargarine.
During the navigation season at Bay
City, 1877 steamers and 1877 schooners,
with a tonnage of 90,917, reported at
the customs house, and las steamers
and 1s4 schooners, tonnage 117,762
cleared.
The earnings of the Michigan rail
roads for the first nine months of this
year exceed those of last year by near
ly $4,000 0OO according TO a statement
issued Tuesday by Railroad Commits
sioner Wesselius.
The Grand River Horticultural So
clety, maze up OF Irult growers III the
vicinity of Grand Rapids, are urging
the common council of Grand Rapids
TO give the interurban electric lines
franchises in that city and to encour
age their building.
A concern in Chicago. calling itself
the Northwestern Fire Insurance com.
pany, is flooding the state with cir
culars soliciting business. Commission
er Campbell says the company has nc
standing in Illinois, and has no author.
ity to do business in Michigan.
John Kelly, administrator of the es
tate of John Kelly, deceased, secured
| a verdict Of $3.50 in his damage suit
against the Detroit d Pontiac Rail
way company. Kelly was killed in the
trolley car wreck near Bloomfield or
December 4, 1897.
The examination by an expert of the
! books of the county treasurer of Delts
county for several terms back showed
shortages amounting to $6,635, and the