The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-03

son, has been tried fer being vagrant,
but the jury couldn't agree.
PROF. FOWLER, of Hillsdale College,
died last week at Saco, Me-, whence he
had gone for the benefit of his health.
SOME tramps set fire to the wheat
stacks of a farmer near Niles recently,
and destroyed about 500 bushels for
him.
The lumbermen of Manistee have a
Board of Inspectors to examine Lumber
Inspectors. They employ no Inspectors
who cannot produce certificate.
A TRAMP swooped down on Kalamazoo
lately, and attempted to steal minis
ter's coat, but the parson discovered him
and had him taken into custody and put
in Jail.
The Street Railway Company of Bay
City are going to connect their Office
with the telegraph lines, and put in an
instrument to accommodate their freight
business.
L. S. ATTORNEY STANDIsH has sold all the
buildings on land owned by the govern
ment at Grand Rapids, upon which
Court House and Postoffice are to be
built for $780,
THE man who stole the little girl from
the school near Delta lately was after
ward at Grand Ledge. 1t seems that he
had stolen the mother of the girl last
March, and had been living with her
since at Grand Rapids.
Mrs. BENZ. PORTER, of Jackson, died
recently of paralytic stroke, brought
on by fall few days since. She
came to this county in 1888. Her hus
band was killed by runaway thirteen
years ago last month.
SAMUEL H. HURD, well-known COM
mission lumberman, tell from his window
on the third floor of the Taylor House,
in Saginaw City, last Sunday morning,
to the ground, sustaining injuries which
caused his death. Deceased was 81
years old, and leaves a wife and one
| child.
A. d. CORNELL, working in the Etna
mill, at Jackson, lately went up to the
fourth story to oil the machinery. His
clothes caught on shaft, and he was
drawn down to the shaft, but he braced
himself and escaped with a broken
IL y. - e
clothes.
A MAN named Murphy was run over
by construction train on the Chicago,
Saginaw and Canada railroad at River
dale Station, last week, crushing his left
leg and badly brrlising the other one.
He was standing on the track and did
not observe the train, which was backing
into the station. He will have to undergo
amputation of the wounded member.
AT Marquette, on Monday morning
last, Mrs. Parsons, woman who sepa-
rated from her husband some weeks
since, on account of his gross immorali-
ties, in fit of dependency poisoned
her three-year-old child. The child was
put out to nurse. The mother went to
see it, making the remark, "He is too
mean father to support his boy" and
administered dose of morphine. The
boy died at o'clock IL the afternoon
Mrs. Parsons is in Jail.
ALBERT MoLToR, a merchant and lum-
herman of Rogers City, and Edward
Sullivan, his bookkeeper, were both shot,
probably fatally, while standing at a desk
III Molitor's store one night last week.
Fourteen buckshot entered Molitor's
side. Sullivan was shot in the face, re-
ceiying a fearful wound. The shots were
fired through q window, and the assassin
t is unknown, but is supposed to be one o.
Molitors laborers, who had been dis
, charged during the day.
AT Marquette, few days since, while
Frank Branedt, a brakeman on the Mar
quette, Houghton and Ontonagon rail
road, was disconnecting q special car
containing some of the officers of tn,
Union Pacific road, from train of or,
cars, he was knocked down and fatally
injured, the entire train of twenty carr
passing over both arms and limbs, caus
ing death in few hours. He was 81
e years of age, and leaves q wife and tire,
} children. Before leaving the city tn
party with the special car raised ovel
800, which was presented to his wife.
. The Michigan Central railroad ha
just issued new local passenger tariff
the rates of which are more equalize'
than they nave been heretofore, adjust
ing them on the basis of three cents
mile as near as practicable. The rate
from Chicago to the principal points ol
the road are as follows: Detroit, IS
Wayne Junction, IS; Ypsilanti, $7.65
Ann Arbor, $40; Chelesa, $3.50
Jackson, 1925; Albion, $3.50; Battl
l. Croal, G1 on KalamaZOO 81 25 Niles