The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

MICHIGAN ITEMS.
LAKE Huron grindstones are now superseding
all others.
| in a scuffie with some boys 1T the o vid Union
School. last week, Willie Rowe had his collar
bone broken.
A MONSTER whitefsh Weighing seventeen
pounds was recently caught by Isaac Clark, at
whitefish bay.
The Battle Creek Machinery COMPANY re-
Gently received an order for goods from Jeru-
salem, from an Arab merchant.
A MAN who enters the depot building at Pc
wano with cigar in his mouth is liable to be
bounced without moments warning.
Two POLISH lads named John Sontsg and
George Pokiefki, fell down the shaft OF a
sewer tunnel in the outskirts OF Detroit one
night last week, while at play, and were fatally
injured.
THE large paint shop of the Michigan Gen.
trail railroad car works, at Grand Trunk juno
ton, was burned last Saturday night, with
fifteen unfinished carr. Total loss, $40.
Fully insured.
IT is said that a bear is lettering around in
the forest between Delaware mine and Lac La
Belle, Keweenaw county also several animals
Of the lynx species have been seen, OF one lynx
several times.
JOHN SHEHAS, Of Flint, aged Is, was struck
by falling tree at Collarn's lnmber camp on
Pine river, the other day, and instantly killed.
He had been only week in camp. The body
was sent to his parents at Flint.
L. w. MITCHELL, of Severville, Tenn, is the
name Of a cattle drover who, On SATURDAY. Of
a st week, at Clarendon, on the Michigan Gen.
trail Airline road, fell under the cars and had
one leg broken and the other seriously man.
gled. He has since died from his Injuries.
The Portage Lake Mining Gazette SAYS "P.
Roberts has found In Baraga county, not far
from LAnse, deposit of marble-like stone.
laminar in character, which, when polished,
presents most beautiful surface, like that OF
dressed agate. He claims the stone exists in
abundance.
The Battle Creek Journal says 1.-Two chill
dren, one a lad of 6 years, son Of Henry Bril- -
toll, and 2-year old child Of Melvin Wilson,
Johnstown, Barry county, when the Oldest got
hold Of gun standing in the PranaIy and dis
charged it, killing the little child instantly"
On July 81 last, at East Saginaw, a German
named August Ewalt, assaulted his wife on the
street and cut her in a terrible manner, 80 that
her life, for many days, was 2espaired OF. The
case was argued for three days in the Circuit
| ri laat nd it,ru az, al
dict of assault and battery. The verdict exctes
much comment
AN old resident OF Lake Su-erior remarks in
the Negaunee Herald that more snow has fallen
thus far during this month than for the corre-
| spending time in many years. The conductor
OF the L'Anse train reported the snow six
inches deep at the Summit on Saturday morn
ing, while it was from seven to eight inches in
the Sturgeon valley.
RUDOLPH KANDr, grocer OF Mt. Clemens
was dealing out powder to customer Satur-
day, having lighted cigar in his mouth, al
though unconscious Of that circumstance. The
powder ignited, the can exploded, the customer
was burned, little boy standing in the store
was badly hurt and there is great danger that
Mr.. Kandt will lose the sight of both eyes.
MICHAEL MCCARTHY Of North Plains, caught
one OF four cabbage thieves who made de-
structive raid on his garden Sunday. The cap
tured depredator settled the matter by paying
Mccarthy $95. There were in the wagon at
the time of the capture four bags Of corn,
eighteen empty bags, several corn cutters, etc.,
showing that the parties had started out on a
general thieving tour.
DETROIT EUening Nelos: John Trumbull, au-
thor Of "McFingal,' whose remains lie in Elm
wood cemetery, was in early life known as
one Of the Hartford Wits a coterie of brilliant
writer's of the Revolutionary period. Trumbull
was admitted to Yale College when only seven
years old He settled as lawyer in Hartford
in 1881, and lived to be 81 years OF age.
Trumbull avenue in this city perpetuates his
name
The many citizens of Flint are gratlfied to
learn that David Everett, better known as
Blind Dave, an honest old man who has passed
his three-score years, and who has been blind
portion Of that time, about twenty years of
which he has passed in that city and vicinity,
working here and there where he could get an
honest living, for long time in the employ of
the Globe Office, has fallen heir, by the death
Of a relative in California, to a snug little |
fortune, amounting to some $4,000.
SUNDAY morning two burglars made their |
way into the house OF l.. B. Wiley, Of Lyons
township. Mr.. Wiley having awkened imme-
diately attacked the burglar, and fierce conflict
ensued. Miss Mary Wiley heard the noise and |
came down to assist her father. Seizing the
foremost burglar by the hair, she held him
firmly. He begged aud threatened, but she
held on until the confederate escaped and the
first burglar had fired two shots at her father,
the second one of which took effect in the old
gentleman's knee. The robbers have not been
caught.