The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-05
MICHIGAN NEWS.
PERSONAL.

CAPT. A. BUCK, of the schooner Alice of De-
troit, made a trip from that city to Liverpool
last season. The distance from the Gulf of st.
Lawrence to Liverpool was made IN ten days,
by great odds tho quickest passage ever made
by n sailing vessel.
A LANSING mother has given birth to twenty
two children-twenty of them girls.
A FARMER in Mason county sends fifteen chill
dren to school, and still has one left to chop
wood, one for housekeeper, one to rock the
cradle and one in the cradle.
JUDGE /. 2. CHnIsTIAScY recently presented
the State Library with a copy of the Neo En-
gland Journal printed in Boston, April g. 1928.
1t il single sheet, eight by twelve inches in
size, the principal reading matter being the
declaration of his Excellency Robert Hunter
Captain-General, to the Council and the an
swer of the Council. At the head of the first
column the startling announcement is made
that there are measures concerning for rem
dering this paper yet more universally esteemed
and useful, in which it is hoped the public will
gratifed, and by which those gentlemen who
desire to be improved in history, philosophy and
poetry will be greatly adyantaged"
The will of the late Capt. Eber b. Ward has
been admitted to probate in the Wayne County
Court, with Irwin w. Potter of Chicago,
George II. Wyman of Cleveland l.. C. Owen
and Samuel II. Mumford of Detroit, as execu-
tors, with bonds in the sum of $50, 600. The
estate, after payment of the debts, it is thought
will net 100000
LEGAL.
DIR. NEcHDuERY, of lansing entered into
written agreement with the wife of ID. T.. Shaw
by which he was given charge Of a little girl
until she arrived at the age of twelve years.
The time having elapsed the parents claimed
the child, but the Doctor refused to give her up
and the child refused to go to her parents She
kidnapped few days ago on her way to
school, but made her escape the same evening
and returned to her foster parents. The father
has brought suit for the recovery of his child.
POLITICAL.
THE State Prohibition Convention met at
Lansing OH the 9th ult, and Henry Fish. of
Port Huron, was chosen Chairman, and O. A.
Brown, Secretary. John Moore of Saginaw,
and Randolph Strickland, of Clinton, were NOM
mated for Justices of the Supreme Court, and
the Rev. J. Sawyer, of Monroe, and A. L. Shub,
of Grand Rapids, for Regents of the University.
RAILROADS.
ALL the property of the Detroit, Hillsdale and
Indiana Railroad Company is advertised to be
sold at auction on February 2Sth to foreclose
the first mortgage.
CASUALTIES.
A Il
few days ago at the--residencc of Mr.. Fred
Williams. little girl while playing near the
stove set her clothing OH fire and was so badly
burned before it could be extinguished as to
cause her death.
A LITTLE daughter of James Hopkins, living
in Detroit, tipped over a tea-kettle containing
boiling water, few days ago, burning herself
80 severely that she died the following day.
Mr.. w. STAGE, of Pavilion Kalamazoo
county, while drawing logs last week, was in
some manner caught under Il rolling log, and so
fastened tina he could not move. He was held
there nearly two hours. enduring excruciating
pain, before his family, alarmed at his long
stay, sought him out, and his wife released him
by hitching the chain and rolling IF the log
with the team. He was almost frozen. and one
leg was badly injured.
THE dwelling of Capt. Sheppard, of Niles, was
burned last Sunday. Loss, $4,000.
An old man named Edward Finnegan while
walking along the railroad track at Appleton
few days ago was struck by the engine of an
incoming freight train, receiving such severe
injuries that his recovery is considered doubtful
CRIME.
c. Meyers, farmer in Kimball st. Clair
county, committed suicide a few days ago bye
cutting his throat with a razor. The deceased
was 80 years of age and leaves wife and nine
children. Family troubles are the supposed
cause.
A BEAST in human form has been arrested at
Grand Rapids and taken TO Grand Haven to
to answer the charge Of attempting to rape a
child of Mrs. Walkers, at Chester, Ottawa
county. His name is Lewis Holmes, aged
forty-two. His victim is but four years old
He was unsuccessful in his attempt to rape the
child, but communicated to her a loathsome
disease, for which she is undergoing treat
ment. There was much excitement and some
talk of lynching the scoundrel.
AN accident at Dexter few days ago resulted
in the discovery of several cadavers ON their
way to the Michigan University at Ann Arbor.
While four boxes from Chicago consigned to a
fictitious firm were being handled one was
broken open, revealing to sight the body of
Young girl sixteen years of age. The four boxes
contained six bodies.
DEATHS.
WHILE party of schoolboys were sleighing
at Royal Oak, a few days ago, Wesley Harmon
suddenly fell. He was taken up and medical
assistance summoned, but death came first
supposed to have been caused by heart disease
Mrs. II. g. KERR one of the Oldest residents
of Jackson county, died few days ago of can
Ger. ba
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Grand Lodge of the Michigan knights of
Pythias, at their recent annual session in De-
troit. elected for =. q. c., II. s. Sanford. Jack
son; q. c. W., j. Long Detroit: G.. v. c.,
Charles d. Little, Saginaw; G. X. of r. and s.,
James Mitchell, Detroit q. M. of f., N. s.
Boynton Port Huron; q. M. at A., o. W. Owl