The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-17

every fire they attend.
The postoffice at Elsie has been desig-
mated as money-order Office.
THERE is large Immigration into
Cheboygan county this year.
A 3-YEAR-oLD son OF j. Deplanta, of
Hastings, was drowned in cistern re-
Gently.
THE st. Johns Republican says
worthy citizen OF Muir is now living
with his ninth wife.
THREE inmates of Wexford county
Jail, Mt Sherman, made their escape re-
Gently.
ONLY Il per cent. of Michigan's fertile
acres were titled in 1874, according to
the census returns.
TWENTY cars of bird's-eye maple were
shipped from Gaylord, Otsego county,
to Liverpool last week.
JOHN ANDERSON, an old and esteemed
citizen OF Flint, dropped dead, few
days since, at his dinner table.
THE Shiawassee Circuit Court has nine
divorce suits on it's calendar, three
brought by husbands, six by wives.
THE protest of the Michigan lumber
men against the passage of Woods Tariff
bill has attracted general attention in
Congress.
The red-ribbon men of Alpena are
quarreling over the billiard table in their
reading-room. some saying it must be
thrown out, others not.
THE State Committee of the National
party has called the State Convention to
meet at Powers Opera House, in Grand
Rapids, at IL o'clock, June 8.
A NEW postoffice named Oviatt has
been established in Leelanaw county,
between Almira and Kasson, and Levi
Il. Carr appointed Postmaster.
AID. B. PAIN, of Saginaw City, has
filed voluntary petition ia bankruptcy.
His secured liabilities are $50, 000; I'M
secured, $165, 900; assets, 1900.
THE President has issued an executive
order to discontinue the land office at
Traverse City, and transfer its business
and archives to the Office at Reed City.
A MAN named Clark Lovelace, q fire
man in Manistee mill, was caught in
the mill-shafting the other day, and one
leg was completely torn from his body.
THE Congregational church at East
Saginaw has been surprised by the pre-
sentatioI of 3, 000-pound bell from un-
known but strongly suspected donors.
REV. JAMES LEWIS, of Howell, is
among those the Secretary of War has
appointed visitors to West Point Mill
tary Academy at the annual examination
in June.
THE annual camp-meeting OF the M.
E. church will commence at Bay View,
near Petoskey, July 30. Various rail-
roads in the State will carry passengers
for half-fare.
BLANCHE, the daughter of Abner
Davis, of Walton, took poison and died
the other night. Ill health is alleged as
the cause of the deed.
Miss VIOLA RAND, of Maple Grove,
put cartridge on a hot stove to see
what it would do. She found out, and
has an extra hole in her face now.
THE Kalamazoo Gazette says: set is
the intention of the County Agricultural
Society to make the strengthening fes-
tival here day of profit and festivity
ON the ODD of May"
MATTHIAS JAsPERs, confined in the Jail
In Houghton for some trivial offense,
killed himself by strangulation the other
night. Early the evening before his ar
rest he tried to drown himself.
A CONVENTION of physicians was in
session at Fremont, Newaygo county,
last week, engaged in the organization
of medical society, to become auxiliary
to the Grand River Valley Society.
The Postmaster General has estab-
lished postoffice at Parmalee station
on the Grand River Valley road, in Barry
county, to be known as Parmalee, and
has appointed Erastus X. Parmalee
Postmaster.
REPRESENTATIVE A. w. FAIR, of Man.
istee, has just purchased 7-year-old
full. blood Norman stallion, weight
1910 pounds, paying therefor $4,000.
This stallion was imported from France
last year.
THE Lake Superior chief who signed
the treaty between the Government and
the Chippewa Indians-Gen. Cass rep
resenting the United States-in 1919, is
named Cas- ka-ke-shik, and he still lives,
four miles east of Marquette.
DURING the village caucus at Mt.
Clemens, the other evening, in the en-
gine-house, the floor gave away, precip-
itating $50 men fifteen feet to the floor
below. None were seriously injured,
but many were badly bruised.
RoYALC. REMIcK, for twenty-four years
resident of this State, and one of the
largest operators in pine lands and lum-
Der, as well as man very prominent in
social and business circles, died quite
suddenly at his camp on Pine river few
days ago, aged 66 years.
The Sheriffs of the State met at Ian
sing last week and perfected an organ
ization for their mutual assistance and
cooperation. James r. Dart was made
President, and r.. A. Demont Secre-
tary. The membership 10 forty. The
next meeting will be held at jackson,
Nov. 90.
LOUIS BURLAYETTE, submarine diver,
and succeeded in doing
very difficult job at the Sarnia water
works. He sawed off thirty. five piles
fifteen feet below the surface which were