The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-31
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

! UNION HALL. NJ halnfnaZcO IN LcllS ht'oN uP
for roller skating rink.
THE German Workingmons Society of East
Saginaw have bought 1915 flag.
AT Hastings, fifty children have died with the
measles III less than two months.
The farmers of Richland, Kalamazoo County,
are losing many of their sheep by that dreadful
malady, dogs.
OVID has an Independent Order OF Red Men.
On the war-path many nights. Home 10 wig
wan very late. Squaw heap mad.
The Michigan Central Railroad will carry the
Mexican war veterans to and from the reunion
at Jackson, JAM 20, for two cents per mile.
Lors of counterfeit 5O-cent pieces of the old
issue are in circulation at Kalamazoo. They
are of home manufacture, and very poor job.
A STRANGE animal is terrifying the farmers
and devouring the stock through the townships
of Maple Grove Johnstown, and Assyria Barry
County.
MAJ. BLUToRD WILSON, Solicitor of the
! United States Treasury, studied at the Michigan
University He was a law student there at the
breaking out of the war.
MAN named Ernest Zimmerman died
Tuesday night of last week in Jail at Negaunee.
/ He was from Little Lake. and was either drunk
or crazy. 1t is supposed he chokod himself.
THE Congregational Chapel, at Charlotte.
which was to be occupied January 1, will not
be completed before February 1, owing to some
delay in obtaining the windows and furniture.
Ar Memphis, last Tuesday week, Martha
! Smith, young woman 10 years of age, died,
as was supposed, but while being prepared for
the grave she revived again and lived until
Saturday.
The other day as Nathan Harris was walking
from Marengo to Marshall, he was knocked
down and robbed by footpads. He lay insensi-
bic on the track until the rumbling of a coming
| freight train reused him.
TIL young men of the Presbyterian Church,
! of Kalamazoo, have formed an organ associa-
ton for the purpose OF purchasing a new or
/ gan, irst-class in all respects. Postmaster
Kendall is President of the society.
! A SPECIAL to the Grand Rapids Times from
Clam Lake says that Hill q Olney general mer-
chants. have made an assignment; liabilities
| SltuOU III Is Thought tuhJ JnelI dssSlS VIII
pay half Of this if carefully handled.
TRAMP broke into the schoo-housc at
kalamazoo the other night, built a fire tore
school-books, roasted potatoes, and stole two
/ thermometers. The building narrowly es-
capped destruction. House Of Correction for
one year.
PosTMAsTEBS have recently beer appointed
i'll this State as follows Farvew, Mason
County, Lorenzo j. Thornton; Mineral
Spring. Newayo County, John c. Borden;
ROCKVILLE, Antrim County. Henry W. Stewart
VI. L. TERREY a well known kalamazoo artist,
is now in Paris, France, pursuing art studies.
Another Kalamazoo artist, Mrs. Louise Thomp-
son Harrison, is Il prominent teacher of paint
ing and drawing in the largest school in Otta-
wa, Canada.
FORTY-EIGHT times during the month of No
vember were the pupils of the Bay City schools
made to pass under the rod, and ninety
times during the last three months has the
beech sprout fell on the backs of hayward
young ideas
THE horse which DIR. VIM. Upjohn, of Hast
ings. rode all through the war, and which took
part in nearly all the great raids made by Gems.
Fitzpatrick and Custer, accidentally broke a leg
on Wednesday Of last week. and it was found
necessary to shoot him. lie had a remarkable
record.
CHAs. l.. KIMBERLY, prominent citizen of
Saginaw City, and well-known lumberman died
suddenly one night last week. He had been
suffering from slight cold for Il couple of
days but no apprehensions were entertained
until pneumonia set in. He owned a mill and
store at st. Charles
OK Wednesday of last week parties who have
control Of the Anderson House property in
Eaton Rapids, took advantage of the absence
of the landlord and lady, and, without warning,
took possession OF the house. Legal proceed
ings will no doubt soon be entered into, and
there will be a warm discussion in court.
GEORGE VAN VALING, gunsmth of Battle
Creek, has on exhibition in his shop a curious
collection of war relics and old hint-lock guns
and pistols. lie has accumulated during the
past ten years collection of forty-five guns,
representing the different styles of muskets
and rifles used by the different civilized nations
in warfare.
ACCORDING to the st. Johns Independent,
love affairs in Clinton County are badly mixed.
At Greenbush young lady was about to marry,
when former sutton replevned sewing ma
chine he had given her whereupon she sued
him for the value of meals eaten at her house
and he in turn is about to sue her for time
spent in counting her.
THE wife of the Rev. A. McSween, formerly
pastor Of the Presbyterian Church at Flint, has
fallen heir, by the death of her father in Aus
tralia, to an immense fortune, which is now il
charge OF the United States Consul awaiting
proof Of ownership. The only heirs are Mrs
McSween aud her brother, who are now ell route
, for the big bonanza.
TnE trial OF Gustav Christ, at Grand Rapids
for the murder of Martin Hoingan resulted il
, the jury returning verdict of guilty in tn,
second degree. Christ is wealthy brewer
and Horrigan, the murdered man, who wal
strictly temperate, went into the saloon wher,
Christ was to stop a fight. lie was fatal,
stabbed and while dying made n declaration
r under oath that Christ was the man who stabbed
him.