The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-05
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

PATRICK FITZPATRICK, a resident of
Grand Rapids, disappeared six weeks
since, and it is feared has met with foul
play.
Miss CLARA MosELY, of Union City,
has just returned from the Sandwich
Islands, where she has been. spending
the past few years.
A JACKSON court has granted divorce
to Mrs. Daniel Benson, whose plea was
that she and Daniel were only joking
when they got married.
THE earnings of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern railroad for the
month of September this year were ST.
262, 700; same month last year, 81, 532, =
602.
The steam pile-driver Enterprise, at
East Saginaw, owned by w. Fitzgerald,
valued at $1,000, was destroyed by fire
the other night. 1t is supposed the fire
was incendiary.
The works of the Mastic Roofing
Company Mt Kalamazoo were almost to-
tally destroyed by fire on Wednesday of
last week. Loss $4,000. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
Four enterprising students Mt Albion
College have arranged lecture course
for the coming winter. The speakers
now engaged are Carl Schurz, j. G..
Holland, Josh Billings and Ann Eliza.
POSTMASTER SEAToN, of jackson, has
- bill upon which is written the
legend, "Taken out of the mOccasin of
a dead squaw belonging to Black Kettles
band, January II, 1S69-Allen Wetz-
lor."
CAPT. S. w. HILL, of Isle Royal,
found in September last gold arrow
point, two inches long and half an
inch wide, supposed to have been made
10y the race which formerly inhabited
the island.
A SPECIAL school meeting at Kala.
mazoo, last week, voted to reconsider the
vote cast at the last annual meeting in
regard to issuing bonds to the amount of
$40, 200, and selecting the site for an
other school-house.
The Board of Supervisors have COM
pleted an estimate of the valuation of
property in Kent county, and make it
$40, 900, 900, over one half of which is
in Grand Rapids. The population of
the county is estimated at 10000.
The Detroit NeWs learns that Mrs.
Stoddard, of Olivet, gave birth to five
children, a few days since, and all are
alive and well. On a former occasion
she ushered family of three into the
cradle. Sympathy is extended to the
extensive father.
Ct. M. BoDLEY, an intelligent mechanic
of Battle Creek, possesses one of the
finest and most extensive collections of
mounted insects in Central Michigan.
He works hard at his trade every day
and devotes his leisure moments to the
study of entomology.
Mrs. FRANCIS TIrUs, of Battle Creek,
has recently completed IA large book on
the life of the well known and venerable
colored woman, Sojourner Truth. 1t is
ready for the press, and 200 copies of
the book will be issued Mt once by the
Adventists' publishing-house.
ONE million three hundred and sixty
five thousand dollars is the aggregate
appropriation for building the new Cap
itol, and there has been expended 1914?
200. lS, leaving $3.50, 799. 80 of the appro'
priation unexpended. The amount ex-
pended the present fiscal year is $217,
927.56.
HENRY HARRINGTON, charged with the
murder of William Stewart at An Sable,
has been committed for trial in the Cir
cult Court at Tawas in May next. Mrs.
Rivers, milliner, formerly of Midland,
has been held as an accOmphce. She is
also in jail being unable to furnish
81, GOO bail.
The trial OF Emory Nye, charged With
the murder of Robert Molineaux, will
take place at Marshall, Nov. 8. Nye's
mother, who is very wealthy, has secured
for his counsel ex-Gov. Blair, of this
State John Van Amman, the celebrated
criminal lawyer of Chicago, and Henry
II. Brown, of Battle Creek.
DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out last Thurs
day evening on the premises of George
Reed, in the village of Otisville, in
Genesee county, and before the flames
could be checked his extensive sash, door
and blind factory was entirely consumed.
The total loss is about $4,000, with no
insurance. Mr.. Reed has been very I'M
fortunate, having been twice burned out
within period of four years.
WHILE John Ross, of Kalamazoo, was
excavating well on the farm of Z. s.
Wicks, in Cooper township, one day
last week, the earth caved in, burying
him to the depth of % feet. The alarm
was given, and soon large number of
persons were gathered, and squads as
large as could work advantageously al
ternated until the body was reached at
3 o'clock next morning. Life had been
extinct for several hours.
THOMAS +. McENALLY, the boy sent
to the State Prison from Detroit, two
years ago, for burning the Detroit Stove
Works, has been sent to the Prison Insane
Asylum. His mania is of the br6oding,
melancholy kind. A year ago in fit of
passion he tried to kill keeper i'll the
cigar shop, and the keeper had charity
enough to believe that he was crazy
then. This, however, is Tommys only
dereliction while at Jackson.
THE Coroner's investigation of the
murder of William Stewart, ut An Sable,
resulted in the arrest of Henry Earring.
ton as principa and Mrs. Rivers as an
accemplice. It is supposed thar Far
rington had two men assist i'll the muir
der, and that they have fled to the woods.