The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-26
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


WALTER MEsIcK recently caught alive 400
pound bear in Wexford county.
MDpLEvuIE is out OF debt and has money
on hand, and will raise no tax the present year.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph Publishing Com
pany have declared a cash dividend OF five per
cent. on all stock.
THE Pointe aux Peaux Wine Company have
shipped two cases Of native wine. for exhibit
ton at the Centennial.
NELLIE SULLIVAN, of Marquette, aged twelve
years, while carelessly handling a revolver,
shot herself through the body.
The people OF Flint, according to the Demo
crdt, express regret at the sale Of mig" a ia
vorite American Express horse that had done
service in the city for many years.
THE Houghton Lake Pioneer says "a few
days since a boom containing about 100000
feet of logs broke loose from it's fastenings and
the logs were scattered all over the lake."
A MAPLE RAPIDs boy is improving on the old
way. Instead OF shooting himself, only with
the nice little pistol fond friends have given
boy.
| WRITER in the Mason Ne,cs who has looked
the matter over pretty carefully says farmers
cannot expect to sell their wool this seas on for
more than twenty-eight to thirty-two cents
pound.
The suit that has been pending for some
time between the city OF Marshall and
private parties for damages sustained by
the bursting of a sewer is TO be settled by ar
bitration.
AT Detroit, the other day, boy, aged
fifteen, while shooting at target with an old
musket, accidentally shot Mrs. j. Cohen on
Salton street, inhicting a serious but it is
thought not fatal wound.
THE Bay City Novelty Iron Works were de-
stroyed by fire at an early hour one morning
last week. Nothing was saved except the
books and papers in the safe. The origin OF
the fire is unknown. Loss $4,000.
Mr.. A. G. SHAW, from Marshall, is about
to open general abstract Office in Reed City.
complete set of abstracts of both Osceola
and Lake counties will be secured. as arrange
ments have been made for that purpose.
Two BROTHERS, named Jones, one Of whom
formerly lived in Wayland and the other in
Dorr or Leighton, in Allegan county, have been
sent to the Illinois penitentisry from Paxton
Ford county, one year each, for forgery.
MRS. Thomas NJ. CROKER, aged ffty-two
years, and for many years resident of Mount
Clemens died few days ago, after lingering
illness. Mrs. Croker leaves large family
and a great number OF friends TO mourn her
death.
]. II. WOODWARD, of North Plains, while in
sane, attempted to kill his twenty-year old
daughter by striking her upon the head
with bar of iron. Her cries bought as
sistance, and her father was placed in safe
custody.
AT Howard City, on Sunday last, David
Exchange with his throat cut from ear to ear,
severing both jugular veins. Temporary in
sanity was the cause. Deceased was a single
man, aged thirty years.
STEVE PoKAGoS, an old Indian well known to
Allegan county people, died at Morgan May
bees, in Allegan, last Sunday. He was there
on fishing excursion, Hartford, Van Buren,
county, being his first home. His age is sup
posed to be about eighty years.
SAYS the Louisville Courier-Journdl: "Peo-
pie who wish to take little summer trip, and
at the same time avoid the crowd and noise Of
the Centennial, can run up to Battle Creek,
Michigan, for few days and look at the old
Bible there. 1t is now in its 243d year."
PETER BELL worthy citizen of Grand Lodge,
has received intelligence of the death of rela-
tive in Ireland who leaves an estate said to be
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only among few, and the probabilities are
that Mr.. Bell will receive handsome fortune.
So says the Republican.
L. j. MURPHY, brakeman on the Grand
Rapids and Indiana railroad. while coupling
cars at Kalamazoo one morning last week,
slipped and fell, the wheels Of the cars passing
over his leg, crushing it. The injured limb
had to be amputated. He lies in very critical
condition. He resides in Fort Wayne.
Hon. GEORGE WILLARD has designated the
library OF the Battle Creek high school as
the fortunate institution to receive the United
States Congressional documents authorized
to be distributed by the Interior department,
on condition that the School Board pay all ex-
penses Of transportation and keep the docu-
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DETROIT Post We are sorry for those de-
linquent subscribers up the shore, but it really
begins to look as though they are to be de-
prived of their reading matter. The Tawas
City Gazette says: "If at the end Of another
100 years their account is still unpaid, we shall
discontinue their paper without further notice :"
For an editor we should say the Gazette man is
altogether too sudden.
! ISABELLA DEWITT, a very fine looking girl
nearly eighteen years old, daughter Of James
G. Dewitt, farmer living four miles north OF
Fentonville, committed suicide recently by TAX
ing strychnine. She informed her sister after
taking the dose, giving as reason that she
had been betrayed under promise OF marriage,
and had rather die than face her parents. DIR.
Who'll, Of that village, was hastily summoned,
but the unfortunate girl was dead before ne
arrived.
A MEETING of citizens was held at the City
hall in Battle Creek few nights since to take
action in regard to having rousing centen-
NAL celebration on the coming Fourth OF July.
The finance committee have alre DIV raised
$3.50 and nope i'm a short time to increase the