The true northerner., 1899-08-30
FULL OF INTEREST.
Budget of information Gathered
from Many Localities In
Michigan.
The Lansing Elks' carnival was sue

600 to erect a new school building.
Ezra Shoecraft will put in $4,000
lee manufacturing plant at Coldwater.
Muskegon is to have a mammoth
bazaar, 1872 feet square, to be built of
glass and iron.
Saginaw is already talking about
giving a street fair next year TO create
a fund for an auditorium.
The Detroit Journal has kilograms
from 20 towns in Michigan indicating
that the drouth is very severe.
Gen. Alger has denied the recent
Montreal interview stating that he had
declared he was out of politics.
Battle Creek is enjoying a building
boom this summer the like of which
has not been experienced for many
years.
Hope has been abandoned of obtain
ing any trace of the schooner Hunter
Savidge, which was wrecked near Har-
Dor Beach.
The city council of ST. Louis, Mich,
has appropriated in all about $4,000
for the improvement of roads leading
into the city.
The Portland Review says that the
bean crop around there this season
will be one of the largest ever grown
in that section.
Miss Bina West, of Port Huron, was
chosen vice president of the press Sec
tion of the Fraternal Congress in ses-
sion at Chicago.
Reports from various points in CEN
tral Michigan indicate that the bees
have played havoc with the grape crop
during the past fortnight.
The Battle Greek and Kalamazoo
electric roadbed is completed to within
one mile of Galesburg. The company
expect to begin laying steel next week.
The Allegan County Agricultural So
ciety announce that the county fair
will be held from October to 6, in
elusive. w. j. Bryan will be invited to
attend one day.
Eugene Sprague, balloonist of Col
Inns, Ionia county, was killed by street
car in Racine, Wis. He was the second
Collins balloonist TO meet a violent
death within a month.
The new state normal school at Mar
quette will open September 19 in rent
ed building, the latter being necessary
because of failure TO receive funds for
the erection of new buildings.
The steam roller Touring mill at
Vicksburg was burned, causing a $15.-
600 loss, with no insurance. The mill
was owned by S. j. Wing, but Stack
house d Barrett operated it.
During his AZ years as an undertaken
Sias \. Scofeld, of Morenci, has buried
4,277 people, or more than three times
as many as the present whole popula-
tion of the village in which he lives.
Rev. Wilfred Lindsay, of Saugatuck,
will become pastor of the First Congre-
gational church at Allegan about Sep
tember 15 having accepted a call eX-
tended to him by the latter society.
Gen. Will White states that the APP
pointments of Michigan men 10 the
new volunteer regiments have been on
the recommendation of Gov. Pingree
and not of the United States senators.
are particularly interested in the de-
velopment of the free delivery of mails
in rural sections, two routes from
Owosso having proved to be a success.
The secretary of war has ordered one
of the Nizcaya guns TO be sent TO De-
troit; one of the Maria Teresa guns to
Grand Rapids, and one three-inch
bronze gun captured at Santiago TO
Ann Arbor.
T. G.. Anderson, postmaster at Rapid
City, Kalkaska county, is under arrest
charged with embezzlement of United
States funds TO the amount of 800.
He was taken TO Grand Rapids to an
swer to the charge.
Frank j. Manning, of Marcellus, is
unlucky. While campaigning in Cuba
with the Thirty-third Michigan volun-
teers, he lost one Of his feet. Recently
he fell while trying to board a train
and broke his other leg.
1t is claimed by Chicago commission
men that Michigan apple growers are
sending their fruit TO market in bar
rels below the regular size and that in
consequence they are running Mich
igan's reputation and trade in fruit.
The department of science at the
Michigan military academy at Orchard
Lake has been placed under the charge
Of w. f. Edwards. formerly professor
of physics in the University of Washing
ton and principal Of the Niles high
school.
For the first time in many years the
congressman from the Third district
is resident of Albion, and the people
of that city are going to take advantage
of the fact 10 try TO secure an appropria-
tion from the next congress for pub
lie building for the city.
Mrs. Louis Levi, wife of Jewish
peddler of Mt. Clemens, was scalded TO
death in bath tub there. She went in
TO take a bath and sitting on the edge
of the tub turned on the water. She
evidently tainted and fell in head fore
most and the boiling water poured in