The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-11-23

"A OF. LOUIS man wants to buy i 600
600, 900 slaves this winter.
NASHVILLE, Barry county, hasn't
enough tenement houses to supply the
demand.
SAGE & Co. 8 mill at Bay City will
close on the oath inst, and set It's men
adrift.
The Kalamazoo Council has appro-
priated 81 900 to be expended in straight
ening Portage creek.
Rev. w. p. MAYNARD, a well-known
Methodist minister of this State. died
recently at Denver.
OLNEY BATES, Richmond lad. was
killed by the accidental discharge of his
gun while he was hunting.
MRS. JOHNSON was killed at Kalama-
zoo while on her way to church in that
village. She was thrown from her car
riage.
In Clinton county the growing wheat
| crop has become 80 rank that manv
farmers have deemed il advisable to
turn In their stock to eat it down. Some
pieces have jointed.
Two BOYS, aged and 10 years, sons
respectively of Charles Wah1 and John
d. Maxted, were drowned while skating
on pond at Manistee, few days since.
The bodies were recovered.
Two CLINTON county doctors charged
the county 1894 for setting broken leg
and subsequent attendance upon the pa
tent, but the Supervisors thought $3.50
was enough for pauper's leg.
THE numbers of the trains on the Mich
igan Central main line and branches now
run from No. l to No. 208; no two
trains on the main line or any of its
branches are numbered alike.
THE Sheriff of Bay county has attached
Campbell Il Co.'S entire property at
Pinconning and Glencoe. There are
nine writs, the largest being the Mer-
chants Bank of Canada, for $4,000
A PARTY of eleven gentlemen, among
whom was an artist employed on Scri6-
ner's Monthly, have been on hunting
expedition to the woods of Northern
Michigan. They killed twenty-one deer.
DAVID MORGAN, miner in the Con-
cord copper mine, fell distance of
about $50 feet, and was, of course,
crushed almost out of recognition. The
remains were buried as soon as possible.
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in the leg Of Lawrence Caney's boot, at
| 10 a. m. at IL a. M he was convicted of
larceny, and at p. m. he was in the
Ionia House of Correction on three
months sentence.
GEORGE JOHNSON, a brakeman, of De-
troit, was killed under the wheels of the
way freight, near Leoni, the other day.
The remains were taken to Detroit. Mr..
johnson was 30 years of age, and leaves
a wife.
JAMES WILKINSON is the name OF the
man found dead in a sail-boat in Sagi-
nav bay. The Coroner returned ver-
dict of death from exposure, having
been freezing in the water eight hours.
The deceased lived near Portland Mich
igan.
THE Supervisors of Tuscola county
have voted to erect hospital building
on the county farm, at a cost of 81 900,
and have also resolved to submit to the
vote of the electors at the spring cleo
ton the question of borrowing SO, 600
to build county Jail.
A 3-YEAR-oLD son of Burt Hull, of
Stanton, was playing on the railroad
track the other day, and would have
been run over by an approaching train
had not neighbours dog rushed up,
seized him by the back and dragged him
out of danger. The incident was wit
messed by several persons.
GEORGE w. RIDER, a constable at
J Reed City, one of the gang of thieves
and burglars who operated 80 extensive
ly in that place and was arrested early
J in September with three others, was
, found guilty in the Circuit Court at
Hersey and sentenced to State prison
seven years. The jury were out only
three minutes.
AT Newaygo, the other day, Aaron
Thompson, an old and formerly wealthy
! and much respected citizen, was sem
, fenced to State prison for five and q
half wears. He hired two men, Mapes
and Wright, to burn church near his
residence. Mapes and Wright, after
breaking Jail twice, once after going to
State prison, were sent there and are
both to be kept there five years.
DANIEL KosTENBADER, of Emerson,
Gratiot county, the other day, fired at q
monstrous bear which had taken refuge
in the top of tree sixty feet from the
ground, and brought him down at the
first shot. Bruin had been foraging on
swine in the neighborhood quite extern
sively, and, when dressed, weighed 494
pounds. The hide weighed 52& pounds,
and 16 gallons of oil were extracted from
the carcass.
A LETTER from Grindstone City states
that the schooner Berlin, of Buffalo,
struck reef during gale last week
and went to pieces. Captain johnson
, and the cook, colored man, name un-
r known, were drowned. The remainder
of the crew, four in number, chung to
the wreck all night and until A p. m.
the next day, when they were reached
by life-boat, and two of them rescued
J alive, the other two, the Captains sor
> and sailor, name unknown, having
died from exposure.
2 THE rafting season on the Tittabawas
! Sc, the main numbering stream of the
g Saginaw district, has closed. The mum
). Der of pieces RATED is 234, 000,0 78. The
& total amount RATED during the season
. is estimated at 410, 900, 900 feet, which il