The true northerner., 1899-08-09

Interesting BITS Of Information from
Many Localities In
Michigan.


son prison, the smallest number in eight
years.
The thirteenth annual reunion of the
Fifth Michigan infantry will be held
at Saginaw on August 30.
The G. A. II. veterans in Jackson are
making great preparations to attend
the reunion at Philadelphia.
Wheat on the good wheat lands of
Ottawa county will be a rank failure,
but in sandy soil it will yield grand re-
suits.
When President Porfirio Diaz of Mex
leo visits this country in October he will
be invited TO visit the University of
Michigan.
The basket factory at Grand Haven
has been employing 03 hands this sum-
mer and has turned out 1000 berry and
celery crates.
Sault Ste. Marie is to have a new
hospital. 1t will have accommodations
for rs patients and will be ready in
about two months.
There is every prospect now that cars
On the d., =. q N. electric railway will
be running regularly between North
vile and Detroit before September l.
Arrangements are now being made
for the Adventist state camp meeting,
which is 10 be held at Ionia August z
TO 27, inclusive, and big crowd is ex-
pected.
Robert Groves, of Troy township, Oak
land county, has sued the Grand Trunk
Railway company for $4,000 damages
for injuries received at a crossing in
Detroit.
The Syms-Dudley paper mills at
Watervliet were sold TO the American
Writing Paper company, a corporation
in New Jersey, which is capitalized at
$25,000,0O0.
1t is said that S. III. Jones, superin-
tendent of public schools at Cleveland,
is likely to be offered a position as SUI
perintendent of the state normal
schools in Michigan.
William Tebb, a former Grand Haven
newspaper man and associate editor OF
the Grand Haven Clarion in the sixties,
81
England, left him by an uncle.
The young squaw, Martha Shagno-
ably, who set fire to and burned the
main building of the government In
dian school at Mount Pleasant, has been
sentenced TO Adrian until she becomes
of age.
John II. Davis, the hotel promoter,
was sentenced at Detroit TO five years
in the jackson prison for alleged lar
ceny by trickery He got the limit OF
the law, but the case will be appealed
to the supreme court.
A canvass just completed by Labor
Commissioner Cox shows that 10 of the
SO counties of the state have county
houses. Seventy-seven counties report
ed the aggregate value of courthouses
to be $4,455, 300, an average of S57,SG1.
For many years the sand from the
stamp mills in the copper country has
been considered worthless, and the dis
position of il was troublesome prob
lem. Now, however, il is being shipped
to lower lake ports by paving com
panies, who use il in their paving work,
il being considered better than the or
dinary sand for such purposes.
Edward Smith, representative of the
American Federation of Labor, who has
been endeavoring TO organize labor
unions in the copper district, has given
up the attempt as hopeless, frankly say
ing that workmen here are too prosper
Gus. There are $4,000 mine employees
alone in the district and all attempts
10 unionize them are failures because
of the contentment of men with pres
ent conditions.
The man whose name was given as
John Robertson, hailing from Lansing
held up in Chicago for $3.50, was Joseph
Risley, a dairyman. residing near Lam
sing. He has returned and says the
story printed of the robbery is sub
stantially correct. He says he was glad
TO get out of the city alive with the
$3.50 that was recovered. He did not
prosecute because he did not want any
more notoriety.
said to Have Decnmped.