The true northerner., 1900-04-18

Interesting BITS of lnforma ti0n Gath
cred from Many Localities
I'm Michigan.

Port Huron Ice cOmpanfes nave
raised this seasons rate one dollar.
Fire did $4,000 worth of damage to
the stock of the Fred Macy Furniture
company, Grand Rapids.
The Pontiac club has leased the large
Bigelow cottage at Cass lake, and ex-
poets to keep open house there this
summer.
The Michigan Central Railroad COM
pany is making preparations to put in
double track between Jackson and
Niles the coming summer.
Grand Rapids Hollanders have ex-
tended an invitation TO Former Assist
ant Secretary of the Interior Webster
Davis to lecture in Grand Rapids.
Henry Quick, a well-known farmer
living mile east of Cassopolis, fell
from the loft of his barn and broke his
neck, dying instantly. He was 10 years
old.
Hiram Taylor was arrested at Owos-
so Wednesday charged with attempt
ing to wreck Michigan Central train
near Henderson week ago. He con-
| fessed.
Adit. Gen. Case says that while Col.
Boynton will no longer have the COM
mand of his regiment, he will still be
colonel in the national guard, subject
to detail at any time.
The new state printers have signed
the contract for the two years begin
ming June 30, and gave bond for $4O,-
eco conditioned on the faithful per-
| .ormance of the work.
The matter of having a paid fire de-
partner is being agitated at Benton
Harbor, and as the need of such an in
stituton is apparent it is likely that
one will be provided in the near future.
A special election will be held at
| Sparta on April %, to vote on PROPOSE
| tion to bond the school district for $S,-
| 600 to erect new school, which is bad
| ly needed, the present ones being
greatly overcrowded.
Charlotte claims the distinction of
having the youngest city clerk in Mich
| igan. Murl ii. DeFoe, city editor of the
| Leader, and the well-known newspaper
correspondent, was elected just 20 days
after becoming 81 years of age.
DR.. j. Il. Hulst, son-in-law of Vice
| Consul John Stekatee at Grand Rapids,
may 90 TO the Transvaal as n repre-
sentative of IIollanders in Michigan, to
personally ascertain the situation
there and the need of relief for suffer
| ers.
Quartermaster General Atkinson
has been informed that $4,000 worth
of military supplies, the contribution
of the general government, await his
orders. They will be sent for at once,
and the work of equipping the military
companies will proceed at once.
The Marquette City & Presque Isle
Street Railway company has filed
blanket mortgage for $4,000 on its
plant, rolling stock and all other prop
erty to the American Trust and Saw
ings bank of Chicago as trustee for
holders of it's new issue of bonds.
The people of Sunfield at the recent
town meeting appropriated money to
! improve the highways leading into the
village. The local merchants will Sc
cure a large amount of business from
the farming communities roundabout
which now goes to other places located
on better roads.
Railroad Commissioner Osborn is
about to introduce a device gotten up
| in his office by the use of which a sim
gle railroad gate tender may operate
| gates at five single street crossings.
The gate consists of a line of ropes
hanging nearly TO the ground, and the
method of operating them is a novel
one.
DR.. Toyama, the first japanese stu
dent graduated from the University of
Michigan, is dead in Japan. He gradu-
ated in 1876. He had been one of the
most prominent men in Japan, having
served in the imperial university as
professor of sociology, dean of the
literary department, and finally presi-
| dent.
The sheriff Of Calhoun county and
| his deputies were wrestling with a
! ghastly discovery near Homer recent
| ly. 1t was reported that the bones of
horse trader, supposed to have been
murdered last fall, had been discov-
cred, but investigation points to the
fact that the bones are those of some
person buried there over 40 years ago.
Those engaged in numbering in the
upper peninsula the past winter say
| that il has been the most successful
season for some years back. They have
had good weather throughout, and
have been able to get out the full
amount of logs they had figured on
The cut in upper Michigan will prob
ably be not less than 500, 600, 900 feet Of
pine, hemlock and hardwood.