The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-10-15
MICHIGAN NEWS.

A Mr.. GRAHAM accidently killed him
self while hunting near Yorkville last
week.
Work on the Chicago, Saginaw and
Canada railroad is progressing favor
ably.
TIE State Prison mt Jackson has now
7S7 convicts-the largest number ever
confined there.
KENT county Changers have opened a
general store at Grand Rapids, with
capital of 100000.
Ex-AUDIToR-G GENERAL HUMPHREY has
accepted the position of Warden of the
Jackson State Prison, rendered him by
Gov. Bagley.
EDWARD BARRON, freight conductor
on the Detroit and Bay City railroad,
was killed by the cars at Columbiaville
last Thursday.
DANIEL HARRINGTON, who was accused
of killing his vie last spring, has lately
been found drowned in the well in his
own cellar, at Red Jacket.
PROF. JAMES G. WATSON, of the Michi-
gan University, has reached Ann Arbor
on the return from his trip to China to
observe the transit of Venus.
A RECENT decision of the Michigan
Supreme Court is thought to save Kala-
mazoo $167, 600 in a suit with the Cont
mental Improvement Company railroad
bonds.
The Lowell Journal says Mrs. Ruby
Jones, of Chicago, and Mrs. Ruby TEN
pie, of Nebraska, are visiting Mrs. Ruby
Sunderlin, in Lowell, whose little daugh-
ter's name is Ruby.
JOHN SCHNEIDER, OF Detroit, biga-
mist, was lately killed by railroad train,
just as his misdoings were getting him
into trouble. So they didn't get such a
"big thing on Schneider" as they antici-
pated.
T.. j. STERLING, of Marquette, aged 30
years, has been held in bonds of 81 900
to answer in the Circuit Court to the
charge of ravishing a little girl of -
years. The details of the affair are pc
culiarly disgusting.
JOHN NORRIS has resigned the position
of Warden at the State Prison and Will
liam Humphrey, of Lansing, ex-Auditor-
General and well known as a gentleman
of fine executive talent, has been APP
pointed and has accepted.
THE death of Miss King at the burn
ing of the Herndon Hotel at Marshall is
ascribed to an overweening feeling of
modesty, which prevented her in her I'M
clothed condition from stepping upon a
ladder upon which fireman stood wait
ing to rescue her.
A STRONG effort is being made by the
friends of Hillsdale College to erect the
fourth building of the group, which is to
be building 52x72 feet, three stories
high. 1t is to be occupied 10y the com
mercial and telegraph departments, and
also to be used rs dormitory for the
gentlemen.
Two SUDDEN deaths occurred ut Fast
Saginaw on Friday last. An old man
mailing from Marlette, Saniac county
was found dead in bed at the National
House, and Henry Simpson, sawyer al
Hemlock City, dropped dead at the
Porter House.
JUDGE WOODRUFF, of Marshall, sen
fenced Geo. Sutliff to the Detroit Hous.
of Correction for the period of eighteen
months and Ed. Killam thirty months
to the same place. These ae the juve
nile burglars who burglarized the store
of J. g. r. Rutter some weeks ago.
THE residence of Joseph Robischung
at Kalamazoo, was burglarized one nigh
last week. The robbers extracted onl,
800 in money from the premises. Mr.
Robischung claims if they had post
poned their engagement with him TWEEN
ty-four hours they could have secured
handsome compensation for their trou