The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06
MICHIGAN NEWS.


s. Trowbridge Collector of Internal
Revenue in the First District of Michi-
gan.
THE annual meeting of the State Sun
day School Association will be held at
Grand Rapids, commencing August 81,
and continuing to September 2.
THE steam mills of John Copeland,
near Lapeer, were burned last week, to-
gether with large quantity of lumber.
Loss, S45, 200, and no insurance.
MALCOLM CAMPBELL, of Ludington,
recently killed in the lumber woods, left
his property, about $4,000, to his
mother-in-law. The will is to be con-
tested.
JUDGE CocHRANE, of Detroit, has de
cidea that the new State law imposing q
tax on the liquor traffic is constitutional.
The question will go to the Supreme
Court before it is finally settled.
THK fire-fend has been unusually busy
in this State recently. Fires are re-
ported at Manistee, Grand Rapids, Lud-
ington, Kalamazoo, and other places,
the losses ranging from $1,000 to
$4,000.
A CHICAGO drummer, named f.. A.
Lincoln, while attempting to force an
entrance into the house of Mrs. Helen
Clark, ut Flint, a few nights ago, was shot
in the back by that lady and seriously
wounded.
The banking house of Conger Broth
ers, at Benton Harbor, was entered by
burglars one night last week, but the
scoumdrels became frightened and fled
before getting into the safe, leaving a
portion of their tools.
SIX prisoners effected an escape from
the Kent county Jail, at Grand Rapids,
one night last week, by cutting through
the wall and letting themselves to the
ground by means of a rope made from
sheets taken from the bed.
MOSES A. LUCE, graduate of Hills
dale College, has received the Republi-
can nomination for County Judge of
San Diego, California. The term of
office is four years, and the salary 81, 900
per year, payable in gold.
WILLIAM WILSON, a raftsman, was
drowned in Rifle river, near Sterling, a
few days ago. He was riding a log and
accidentally fell off. He was unable to
swim. His comrades would have saved
him had not the branch they extended
him broke.
VIM. KILMER, the old jail-bird of
Augusta, who was arrested Mt Battle
Creek few days ago for committing
burglaries in broad daylight, has been
sentenced to five years Imprisonment at
Jackson. Kilmer is an old offender,
and was discharged from State Prison
not long since, where he had served a
term of two years.
Mrs. THOMPSON, of Grand Rapids,
horsewhipped butcher named Waldron
the other day, for garnisheeing a third
party to secure the payment of meat
bill owed by Thompson. Waldron was
badly beaten. A large crowd assembled
and cheered the woman.
A FATAL shooting affair occurred at
Hillsdale last week. Two men were dis
covered breaking into the jewelry store
of II. Bryan. While attempting to es-
cape, Charles Moore was fired at by the
Sheriff and fatally wounded. The other
was an unknown person. Both were
captured.
THE State Board of Auditors has
awarded the following contracts fol
1861: Printing, W. s. George & Co.,
Lansing; binding, Butterfield & Burr
Detroit; news, print and book paper
Peninsula Company, Ypsilanti. The bids
are thirty-three per cent. lower than the
present contract prices.
HILLsDALE had n game of baseball
between it's fat and lean men, last week
which was the occasion of more merri
ment than anything else which has oc
Cured there this season. The old-fash
Toned game was played, which used t.
be in the days of "town meetin's an(
"raisin's." Five innings were played
and the score stood 30 to 80.
AT hotel in Grand Rapids, whel
Barnum was in town, and the table wa
set for 10 dinners, there was strik
among the waiting girls for extra pa.
for the extra occasion. The landlor,
paid down without any words, and al
passed off smoothly. But two week
after he called for the striking walters
paid them up, and blandly informe,
them that he had struck for extra hell
and their services were not needed.
The Commissioners for the Snpervi
sion of the Penal, Pauper, and Reforma
tory Institutions of this State, visite,
the Reform School, at Lansing, fe,
days since, and express themselves wei
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