The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-03-29
STATE NEWS.
Much az an Interesting Nature Will
lie Found I'm the Paragraphs
below.

Houchton will have new 100000
cold storage plant.
A company is being formed at Ypsi-
lanti for the development of mari beds
recently found in that vicinity.
Mrs. Mary +. Milrose, of Milan, aged
81. who at one time owned the larger
portion of that village, is dead.
Alma college is to have a special
chair of chemistry next year TO relieve
the professor of general science.
Teachers in the public schools all
over the state are taking an interest
i'm the new educational bill for Detroit.
Fremont's largest store building was
recently destroyed by fire. Nothing
was saved from the stores or dwellings
above.
Bad Axe is to have another grain ele-
vator, which will be ready for business
by the time the crops begin to come in
next fall.
The regimental and company rec
ords of the Thirty first Michigan are
being put in shape so that muster out
can be quickly accomplished.
The Detroit school board has passed
the following rule: f'No person except
a citizen of the United States will be
eligible TO employment by this board
c. III. Hackley, Muskegon's philan-
thropist, has returned from Salt Lake,
where he has been for two months on
account of his health. He is much inn
proved.
Houghton is growing so rapidly that
the present water supply will soon be
insufficient and the question of bond
ing the city for SEQ, 600 Ito extend it is
being agitated.
One peach grower near Buchanan
lost his entire orchard of 1900 trees, by
the big freeze in February. All of the
peach trees in that vicinity are un-
doubtedly killed.
1t is feared by relatives that Mrs.
Elizabeth Spottswood, of Grand Rapids,
was one of the victims of the Windsor
hotel fire in New York, where she was
employed as laundress.
The Michigan Central shops at the
Jackson junction will at once begin the
work to build six eight-wheeled loco
motives. Ten locomotives will be built
in all. two of them being ten-wheel-
crs.
James II. Whitley and Adam Foster,
two aged Lansing pioneers, are dead.
The former laid the foundation for a
prosperous career by driving team be-
tween Lansing and Detroit at an early
day.
During the past ten years Mattison
township farmer has sold or used at
home 141s tons of eggs laid by his hens.
He thinks poultry the most profitable
feature of farming taken year in and
year out.
Whitehall is going TO lose one of its
largest industries. the tannery, which
employs 800 hands. The company is de-
sirous of locating nearer Chicago, and
Benton Harbor will make an effort 10
secure the plum.
Sentiment at Portland seems 10 be in
favor of securing the new Columbus,
Marquette d Northeastern railroad,
and the work of raising $17,500, the
sum which Portland is expected to con-
tribute, will be pushed.
Chairman ID. j. Campau, of the demo-
cratic state central committee, has is
sued a letter to county chairmen in
dorsing the proposed constitutional
amendment providing for an appellate
court TO aid the supreme court.
. 10 90 ho .,1,,,,
Of the three state prisons at Lansing il
developed that there are 100 less con-
victs in prison this year than there
were last. The number of tramps in
the state has also greatly decreased.
The bankers of the thumb" are get.
ting in more money on deposit than
they can handle to advantage, and as q
consequence there has been a red
ton of interest rates. 1t is evident that
prosperity has finally struck the rural
districts.
Eleven of the Sweet Holstein herd
were found afflicted with tuberculosis
by state officials at Grand Rapids
Wednesday and were killed and ere
mated. j. j. Woodman, of Paw Paw
secretary of the state live stock com.
mission, was present.
DR.. A. w. Hit, the best authority in
the United States on leprosy, has re
Gently become converted TO the Sew
enth Day Adventist faith, and is stay
ing with the saints at Battle Creek
The conference of the Adventist church
will send him to India to work among
the lepers.
The plans for the new chicory fac
tory to be built at Port Huron contem
plate the erection of a plant the mos
extensive in this country. The maiI
building will be 100 by 1s2 feet in size
two stories high, which will include the
factory storeroom and drying kilns. Al
the buildings will be of brick.
A bad rear-end collision occurred a
New Boston, Mich, Wednesday morn
ing, owing to the heavy fog, between
two regular southbound freights OF
the Flint & Pere Marquette railroad
Fireman Hales was instantly killed ant
Engineer Rose and Brakeman Smitl
injured. One of the companys fines
locomotives is a complete wreck.