The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-28
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

EAST SAGINAW reports marriage in
which the ages of the high contracting
parties aggregates 20 years-groom, Is
years old; bride, Is.
THREE dwellings,, one owned by Eddie
Johnson and two by Garfield & Wheeler,
burned at Manistee recently. Loss,
81, 900; insured for 81, 400
CHARLES GRANT, of Bengal, and
William Diets, of Wacousta, are pen
sioners of 1912, residing in Clinton
county.
Col. EBENEzER GOULD, an old resi-
dent of Shiawassee county, died recently
at Owosso. He was Colonel of the Sixth
Michigan Cavalry.
THE soldiers OF the late war, residing
in Midland county, had grand reunion
and picnic dinner at Sias' grove, Mid
land City, the other day.
THE annual meeting of the Michigan
Soldiers and Sailors Monument Associ-
alton was held at the office of Secretary
Romeyn in Detroit last week.
BERTHE SHAFFER, aged 6 years, was
accidentally jostled off of gate. post at
Maple Grove, and the post fell upon
him, breaking his neck and causing in
slant death.
G.. S. STRATToN's picture-frame fac
tory and the Detroit block works, on At
water street, Detroit, were burned the
other day. The loss is about SO, 900:
covered by insurance.
LAST week Miss Ida Jacobs sucided
by shooting herself through the heart,
at Detroit. She belonged at Norwalk,
o., and it is believed that the act was in
spired by an unpleasant course of love.
ABOUT 200 men are actively at work
on the extension of the Detroit, Lansing
and Northern Branch railroad north Of
Stanton. 1t is to be completed and in
running order to McBride's mills, five
north of Stanton, Oct. l.
LEVI ScHoFIELD escaped from the
State prison few days since, while
working outside. He was sent for three
years, year and half ago, for horse
stealing. He is not more than half
witted, and has passed most of his time
in the asylum.
JOHN ADAMS, of Fowler, undertook to
lift his gun up by the muzzle the ham,
mer caught on a log and exploded the
charge, and it took effect in Mr.. Adams
bowels causing his death.
VAIL & CRANES cracker factory, at
Detroit, was destroyed by fire, the other
night. Loss, on building, SO, 500; fully
insured; on machinery, $4,000; insured
for $500; on stock, $1,000; fully in.
sured.
DETROIT has had considerable small
pox within the past year, and citizens
naturally were alarmed. To protect
themselves a general vaccination of the
people was provided for at the expense
of the city, and cost of 81, 015.25.
WHILE playing with number of small
companions on the banks OF the Thorn
apple river, at Vaudeville, the 7-year-
old son of Edwin Fallas fell or was
pushed in the water, and drowned be-
fore assistance arrived. The body was
recovered in an hour.
Two SAILORS from the propeller J. S.
Fay, went shore at Marquette, got
drunk, and had terrible fight with
knives. John O'Brien was fatally stabbed
by Frank Mclean. He received two
terrible slashes and stab in the back.
Mclean has been arrested.
The African Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference of the State has made the fol-
lowing appointments Bethel, Detroit,
J. Meacham Ebenezer, Detroit, r.
Jeffries Ypsilanti, j. Rundy Kalama-
zoo, John McSmith Ann Arbor. H. b.
Gordon st. Joseph, j. A. Jordon
Pontiac, j. J. Grow Greencastle, J..
H. Clay; Marion, Richard Hutchinson
Cory Lewis Ratcliff; Saginaw, John
Myers Marshall, j. r. Coates Grand
Rapids, John w. Harper.
AT Portland, a few days ago, the
Rev. J. w. Reid's youngest child, boy
2 years of age, went into the woodshed,
and, seeing a drawing knife hanging
overhead, took long stick with which
he pushed the knife from the nail on
which it was hanging. The knife fell
with the edge downward, landing
directly on the bridge of the child's
nose, cutting entirely through to the
face, allowing the end of the nose to
drop down on the lower lip.
JACOB BoYoE's barn at Carson, Mont
calm county, was burned recently with
600 bushels of wheat, large quantity OF
Oheo uho uuei u nCW
chine belonging to John Kipp, of North
Shade, Gratiot county. Loss, 81, 500;
insurance 5000. Caused bya boy firing a
gun inside the barn, supposing that he
was only swapping cap, the wadding
setting fire to the straw.
AT the meeting of the Michigan
Conference of the M. E. Church Bishop
Merrill made the following appoint
ments:
Grand Traverse District-Presiding Elder,
A. p. Moores Traverse City, Nj. NJ. Callen
Bear Lake, s. Steele Elk Rapids, W. II.
Stinchcomb Northport, J. A. Broadly Charlie
voix. b. H. Whitman Boyne Falls, j. Z.
Golden Petoskey. w. L. Tilden Cheboygan.
G. p. Whitaker Little Traverse, j. Nj. Whit
ney ; Mancelona and Kalkaska, Joseph Green
sted Cadillac, l.. Dodds Monroe Center, G..
s. Hicks. All other charges in the district to
be supplied
Coid,cater Misunderstanding Elder, Israel
Cogshall Coldwater, j. /. Buell.; Girard, W.
NJ. Paddock Allen, s. N. Merritt Quincy,
C. G. Odds Sturgis, J. Graham Cambria, Nj.
w. Darling Jonesville, w. NJ. Ball Hillsdale,
A. H. Gillett North Adams, William Colby
Osseo. M. Browning Bronson, j. Clubine
Burr Oak, j. w. White Gilead, G.. W. Hoag
Centerville, II. G. Peck Constantine, @. ID.