The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-12-21
STATE NEWS.
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Many Localities I'm
Michigan.

George Zans, of Central Lake, wac
killed in the woods by tree falling or
him.
Port Huron police have started
crusade against the nickel-in-the-slot
machine.
A number of university professors
have volunteered 10 address farmers
clubs this winter.
Marine underwriters are alarmed at
the losses in prospect from lake ship
ping caught in the ice.
\ Chicago syndicate will erect the
largest ice house in Michigan at Spring
Lake near Grand Haven.
Ernest Flynn, of Olivet, was killed by
his horse slipping on the snow while
shying, and falling upon him.
Three Ann Arbor men have returned
from the Klondike without making
their expenses and after great hard
ships.
James Hunter has commenced SUIT
| against the village of Durand for $40
600, for injuries received on a broken
sidewalk.
The Order of Washington and Lin
coin, fraternal insurance, with head
quarters at Detroit, is insolvent and
has discontinued business.
The county roads around Birmng'
ham are still strewn with fallen teie'
phone poles. Great tangles of dead
wire make it necessary for teams 10
take TO the bitches.
Bay City will try and secure either
the prison for women or the school foi
crippled children which will be recon-
mended to the legislature this winter
by the state board of corrections ant
charities.
President Angel in his annual re
port for the year ending September 80
1895. estimates that there is one Mich
igan student in the University o
Michigan for every 1,342 inhabitants o
the state.
Margaret Brophy, of Midland, wh'
has Just been tried for killing her hus
band. has been acquitted, the verde
of the jury being that she did it in sell
defense 1t took the jury three hour
to make the decision.
The Knights of America, an insur
ance order organized at kalamazo
= about two years ago and with colonle
| all over the state, has consolidated wit
the international congress, which ha
headquarters at Dowagiac.
| The Chicago d Grand Trunk Railroa
company has commenced double TRACK
! ing the road for a number of miles be
2 tween Flint and Durand. This is sal
| TO be only a small part of the genera
= scheme to double track the road.
= The St. Johns manufacturing con
= pany's plant, which has been operate
I by a receiver for the past two year
e Will be sold by order of the court
. January "a. The plant is claimed to
the largest exclusive table factory
the world.
Wright, Davis q Co., of SaginaN
owners of the Duluth, Mississippi Rive
d. Northern railway, built original
for a logging road, have sold 9,165 acre
of fine timber land in St. Louis count
and 4.945 acres in ltasca county, Minr
! 10 the Carson Lumber company,
{ Davenport, Ia, the consideration beir
e 100000
d Cyrus Field, aged 60, of Sturgis, a
e tempted to cross the Grand Rapids
5. Indiana crossing on West street with
3 load OF wood and was struck by WI
l. engine. The engine was running at
lie high rate of speed and the body WI
thrown so feet and the wagon cut
n two in the center. Fields head was G.
n off. and he was fearfully mangled.
lie The Michigan Sugar company of b
!, City paid off the farmers last wee
u for the beets delivered TO the facto
in the month of November. 1t to-
id $4,000 to go the rounds, and the mon
l. is already being placed in circulate
n A similar amount will be distributed
rs January and again in February, VIII
2. the campaign ends. 1t is estimat
that $4,000 will be paid out for bee
IN this season.