The true northerner., 1900-03-28
STATE GOSSIP.
Budget OF Interesting Information
Gathered from Many LocaIi-
ties In Michigan.

The Methodists at Hudson will
build a new 800 church edifice this
year.
Albion college students have in
dorsed the candidacy of Prof. Delos
Fall for superintendent of public in
struction.
Some of the fruit growers of Van
Buren, county claim that the peach
trees were badly damaged by the re-
cent cold snap.
Rev. +. NJ. McMillin, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Adrian, fell on
the ice in front of the parsonage and
broke his right leg.
Lapeer authorities offer $7O0 reward
for the arrest and conviction of the
persons who set fire to the Lapeer
Tannery Co.'s plant.
Maj. w. S. Macarthur, of the Third
regiment, NJ. n. G., was presented
with handsome sword by apprecia-
tive citizens of Cheboygan.
Gov. Pingree has appointed w. Worth
Wendell, of Ontanagon circuit court,
commissioner for Ontanagon county,
vice William r. Adams, resigned.
The auditor generals office is receiv-
ing state taxes from the county treas
urers at the rate of $50 900 day. Near
ly all of the counties will have settled
by the close of the present week.
The total amount of logs which
will be floated down the Menominee
river this spring is estimated at 1885,
100000 feet. besides which about co.
10000 feet will be hauled in by
rail.
Sol Frazer has completed his cut of
100000 feet of logs on Deer river, put
in for the Girard Lumber Co. Many
more camps are breaking up, and large
numbers of men are coming out of the
woods daily.
George Spohner, a workman en-
ployed in Chase's sawmill, at Quincy,
was hit by a slab thrown from the
saw and instantly killed. He was AZ
years of age, and an Industrious hard
working man.
The total expenses Of the Ingham
county grand jury investigation were
S3.745.21, and were made up as follows:
Witness fees and expenses, $7O5; Off
GERS claims, $7o7os; jurors fees and
mileage. $1,S9j.30; miscellaneous,
$347.93.
Mrs. Joseph Ellerby, of Adrian. has
received a letter from a lawyer in
Hull, England, informing her that she
has fallen heir to a part of the es-
tate of her cousin. Mary Holmes, who
died in that vicinity a few weeks ago,
the estate being worth $4,000.
\ petition has been filed i'm the cir
cult court al Ann Arbor to close up the
affairs Of the Ann Arbor Turnverein,
which has been in existence since 1878,
and which was known all over the state
at one time by reason of it's superior
athletes. There are but % members
left of the old organization.
Under the additional appropriation
of $40, eco made at the special session
of the legislature. sick and INDECENT
Spanish war veterans will get about
Az per cent. of their claims. which
aggregate $4,000 Auditor General Dix
has commenced paying claims and
will proceed by counties alphabet
ically.
The Peninsula Electric Light e.
Power company. Of Houghton. has vot-
ed to increase its capital stock 20 per
cent. to $500 600, the proceeds of sale
of new stock at par TO be used in add
ing to the equipment. The probability
is that the company will furnish power
for the new Houghton county street
railway. which is to have 40 miles of
track.
Bessie Howard. of Benton Harbor,
by her next friend. Rachel Howard
has commenced suit i'm the circuit
court against David Scherer, a saloon
keeper of the same place, for $4,000
damages. She is the daughter of S.
A. Howard who was found nearly
frozen TO death on the south pier
several weeks ago. She alleges that
Scherer sold her father liquor when
he was intoxicated. causing him TO
wander TO the south pier. Howard's
foot was recently amputated as a re-
suit of the freezing.
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