The true northerner., 1899-11-15
STATE GOSSIP.
A Budget OF Interesting Information
Collected from n Number of
Localities.


$40 pounds of poultry in one day re-
Gently.
The Horticultural society of Mich
igan will hold its annual meeting in
holland December 5. 6 and Z.
Hon. X. A. Loveland, a prominent citi-
zen of Saginaw and president of the
Saginaw Lumber and Salt company,
died Thursday, aged 81 years.
All the chemical analysis experts of
Michigan have examined the Michigan
beet sugar product and pronounced it
equal TO the best cane product.
Isaac w Silverstein and Mayer Hulk
man, of Kalamazoo, were sentenced
10 2l months each by Grand Rapids
Judge on the charge of counterfeiting
nickels.
The United States war department
has sent 30 new saddles and sets of
artillery equipment TO the Michigan
Military academy to complete the ar
tilIery department.
The board of state auditors will hold
q special meeting this week at Lansing
o complete the specifications on which
they will ask bids for the state printing
or the next two years beginning July
1. 1900.
Workmen are preparing to remove
the old fire engine hall at Hancock.
which will shortly be taken across
he lake on scows and transformed
into pattern shop at the Carroll
foundry, Houghton.
A cereal coffee factory has been
opened at Mddletown by a man from
Paw Paw. He has purchased three
lots and erected a shanty for roasting
purposes. As the business grows the
building will keep pace.
The Ann Arbor students are pleased
because ID. NJ. Ferry, of Detroit, has
offered $50 TO be divided into three
prizes for the debaters who will be
selected 10 meet the fellows from the
University of Pennsylvania.
A. j. Sawyer g. Son, of Ann Arbor,
are about to bring suit against the
old Ann Arbor street railway and its
successors, the present "Ypsi-Ann"
road, for $1,000, the amount of an old
| Judgment against the older road.
DR. Edward Monroe, of Newport, was
struck by a Lake Shore train near New
port. He died in a few minutes. The
deceased was 81 years old and had been
"A resident of Michigan about 20 years,
having originally come from Canada.
George Quick run into bicycle on
Holly street some time ago and
smashed his head, causing the loss of
one eye He claims the street was not
properly lighted and has begun a suit
for $4,000 against the town Of Holly.
Coroner Watts jury in Ann Arbor
has decided that the Michigan Central
was not to blame for the death Of Aus
tin Gavin. who was killed by a train the
ther night Gavin's own careleSsness
was what caused the accident, said the
Jury.
An epidemic of influenza is killing
many horses near Calumet and caus-
ING much fear Many of the draught
! horses belonging TO the mining com
panies are affected and their loss is
great at time when they are in great
demand.
Charles r. Mains, of Marshall, is out
with a bitter attack on Judge Clement
Smith and says he will take his case
to the United States supreme court.
Mains, il will be remembered, was dis
barred from practice in the Michigan
courts the other day.
Recently the safe of John Calling.
OF Alpena. was robbed of 5000. The
robbery was committed while the sa-
loon. in the front part of which the
safe was located, was crowded. The
only thing between the two was a
board partition ten feet high.
On one Of the Lizard islands, on
the north shore of Lake Superior.
a hunting party recently found some
wreckage from the steamer Western
Reserve. lost several years ago Near
by was also found wreckage of the
Manistee, lost with all hands in 1892
Fred Server. well-known resident
of Standish, received $500 prize money
from the government the other day
! for capturing cotton boats during the
civil war while Mr.. Server was acting
! in the navy on board the Kearsarge.
He has a large family and needs this
| money
|
portion Of Oakland county who went
i'm for sugar beets the past summer
are discouraged over the results The
exceedingly dry weather was so detri-
mental TO the beets that the crops OF
many of the farmers were practically
! total failures.
Aged Lady Killed.
Bay City, Nov. IA Grand Trunk
train struck Mrs Kate Persaile al Car
rpllton as she was crossing a cattle
guard. Mrs. Persaile was taken TO
Saginaw, where she died. She was 60
years old and the mother Of eight chill
dren.
Killed by the Cars.
Newport, Nov. 10.-Dr. James Mum
\oe a once prominent physician of
lis place, was struck by fast train
on the Lake Shore d Michigan