The true northerner., 1900-06-06

Many Bits of Interesting News Pre-
sented In CONDENSED Form for
the Hurried Reader.

The w. G. L. Y. of Michigan is holding
its annual convention at Petoskey.
The smallpox scare at Lakeview and
Edmore is over and the schools have
been reopened.
The Free Methodist camp meeting
will be held at Wagner's grove, four
miles south-of Elba, June 13 to 20.
The total assessment of personal
property in Adrian is $1,617 $40, which
Is an increase of $604.7s7 over 1899.
The milldam at Watervliet went out
recently as the result of a heavy rain
storm, and several thousand dollars
damage was done.
An organization has been formed at
Belding for the purpose of compell-
ing the closing on Sunday of all places
of business in the city.
A. V. Angevine, aged SO, wealthy
South Albion farmer, was found dead
in his pig-pen. Death had been caused
by fall, resulting in a concussion of
the brain.
There is great need of rain in the
northernmost counties of this penin-
sula. Farmers have not yet begun
planting on account of the dryness of
the ground
The question of bonding the city for
$4,000 for the purchase of system
of waterworks is TO be voted upon at
special election to be held at Sault Ste.
Marie on June 10.
From the report of the supervisors
it appears that the total assessment
of personal property in the city OF
Adrian is $1,617, ,610, which is an in
crease of $604,7s7 over 1899.
Lightning struck the Baptist church
at Leslie while services were in prog
ress, and though a great hole was
torn in the roof of the building,
strange to say none of the congrega-
tion was struck.
Members of company L, Thirty-fourth
Michigan volunteers, have formed a
post on lines similar to the G.. A. r.,
and elected Lieut.. John S. Wilson COM
mander. The post will be named after
DR.. Bobb, of Calumet, regimental sur
geon, who died in Cuba.
The assessors roll for this year shows
a valuation of $2,922,3 ,3s4, as against
$1,1s7, 81 for 1899. The assessed vaiua-
ton, however, was reduced by the
board $55,S45, leaving the roll as finally
equalized $2,s66,539, or more than 14O
per cent. greater than last year.
One hundred men employed by the
Fence River Logging company, of Pine
River, are on strike on account of full
pay not being allowed for "spare" time
spent in waiting for a raise in the wa
ter above the dam. Fully 25,00O000O
feet of logs are hung up in consequence
of the strike and low water.
Emma E.Millis, of st. Johns, thinking
her husband dead, applied for a pen
sion, when the department informed
her that he was living in Kentucky and
drawing his pension. She then made
application for an allowance of half
the pension, and has received notice
that il has been granted. Here is a
pointer for others similarly situated.
James Mccormick has been released
from the state prison at Jackson, his
time having expired. but when he left
he took with him the rheumatism he
had been afflicted with when he went
in. He had suffered for years with the
painful disease, and in 1898 some one
told him if he could get into prison the
physicians there could cure him. Ac-
cordingly he stole horse and was sent
up for two years, but as a curative
agency the prison life has not proven
itself very efficient.
Matte Collins was tried, convicted
and headed toward the penitentiary
by jury in Judge Brentano's court,
in Chicago. The tstimony was offered
by James Petch, of Jackson, who
reached Chicago with between $40O
and $500 in his pockets. He met Mat
tie Collins in the Trilby saloon on
State street. When he awakened after
the revel his money was gone. He
went to a police station and told his
story and detectives arrested the
woman and recovered 800 of the
money.