The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-13
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

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THE salaries of policemen in Detroit
have been reduced about IL per cent.
AN unknown colored boy fell into the
river at Detroit, the other day, and was
drowned.
AN Ishpeming chemist has invented a
cheap invisible ink, for writing on postal
cards.
A FARMER near Lyons had to pay $l5
for practicing deception in selling his
wool.
THERE are said to be more deer in the
vicinity of Houghton lake now than for
years previously.
AN S.year-old son of E. Ellison was
drowned near the lower dam of Big
Rapids, last week.
The Mason House of Big Rapids has
abolished its bar and will hang out
temperance sign.
JOHN WELLER, laborer, fell into an
open well mt Kalamazoo and was drowned.
He had no family.
MILES GoRHAM, famer living south
east of Ionia, had his legs broken by
log rolling upon him while logging.
MECOsTA COUNTY has traded her poor
farm and So, 500 in cash for 200 acres of
land near the city of Big Rapids.
The Bay City authorities are shooting
the surplus dogs there. One forenoon
last week they killed fifty.
THE Missaukee county jail is to let, it
having been built about year ago and
never had an occupant
EAST SAGINAW has an establishment
for the manufacture of dairy salt, with q
capacity of 200 barrels per day
THE Second ward of Manistee, where
all the editors live, had forty-one births
and only four deaths in the year 1876.
EDGAR KEYS, of Oshtemo, has had his
barn burned, his horses poisoned, and
all his chickens killed, by some scamp.
While Henry Specht and friend were
fishing from the Michigan Central dock,
at Detroit, recently, he fell in and was
drowned. fa'
Mrs. TURNER, of Yankee Springs,
Barry county, committed suicide with a
razor, few days since. Cause tempo
rary insanity. faor ror Ittf
ALL of the freeholders of Breckin-
ridge, Gratiot county, have signed an
agreement to prevent the sale of liquors
in that town. f|8
HENRY FIrCH and Mrs. Fisher, of st.
Johns, who were shot by Fisher, some
time ago, are recovering from their
wounds.
Mr.. STEWARDS house at Omena, Lee
lanaw county, was struck by lightning
and little boys clothing set on fire,
burning him fatally. awE
The excitement over the small-p in
Altoona county has about died out, and
little more fears are apprehended of any
further trouble.
NEVER apply Paris green to potato
vines in dry state. Already one death
has occurred this season from inhaling
the poison in dry state.
A WOMAN named Ann Murphy recently
died at the Wayne county house who
was so Paralyzed that the only member
she could use was her tongue.
In the Isabella county Circuit Court,
Judge Hart has sentenced John Dunning,
brutal Loomis wife-beater, to a nine
years term in the State penitentiary.
The last of the Rushings, who have
given the people of Wayne county so
much trouble as cattle thieves, etc, has
been arrested charged with burglary.
ONE of Judge Hilton's admirers in De-
troit is so violent in his hatred of the
Hebrews that he will not allow his little
boy to play oiA the iews-harp
THERE is baby in Freelonds, Sag
inaw county, with only one eye; the
place where the other should be is per-
fectly smooth, with no eyelid or socket.
BENJAMIN FISH, of Kalamazoo, tells of
a remarkable bill fish he caught in Long
lake, last week. 1t was over four feet
long, and had a bill eight inches in
length.
MIR. JAMES PARKS was almost instantly
killed at Clam Lake while working in a
saw-mill A board flew from the saw he
was running and struck him in the stom-
ach.
RETURNS from all parts of the Twenty
third Judicial District show that Jona-
than b. Tuttle, of Alpena, has been
elected Judge by 1876 majority. Pressure
Isle gave him 152 majority, and Alpena
313.
APPLICATION was made to the State
Board of Control, at its session in Ian
sing last week, for an appropriation for
a new State road from West Branch to
Houghton lake. a distance of twenty-five
miles
WILLIAM CoNKLIN, of Greenbush, COM
mitted suicide few days ago by shoot
ing himself through the head with a re-
volver. The deceased was 40 years old,
a large lumberman, and we'll known in
Saginaw valley.
Miss ELLA OLDs, daughter of Rev. G.
G. Odds, of Parma, while cleaning pair
of white kid gloves with naphtha, got
her hands too near the fire, the gloves
ignited, and her hands and arms were
terribly burned nearly to the elbow.
The wife of John L,ltzow, of Nash
vile, has been crazy for some time. Re-
turning to his house her husband found
the baby, aged year, dead, and the
mother calmly laying it out, and the sup
position is that she strangled it to death.
A BROOKLYN woman has three sons.
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