The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24

year tiidu lhbt.
The First National Bank OF Muir has
gone out of business.
JAMES CURRY, of Stanton, is in Jail for
"making motions" at another man with
a gun.
A LOCAL Board of Insurance Under
writer's has been formed at Kalamazoo,
and rates get boost upward, it is said.
LARGE numbers of grayling are being
caught in the Cedar river, Gladwin
county.
WAYNE county has l, IA places within
her borders where intoxicating drinks
are sold.
THE collections of internal revenue for
the Third Revenue District for April
amounted to 1913, 1877.
The Michigan Central Railroad Com
pany is erecting at Kalamazoo a water
tank with capacity of $500 barrels.
A YOUNG man named Angus Smith was
drowned in the Manistee river, six miles
north of Manton, Wexford county.
The ninth annual reunion of the Sol
diers' and Sailors Association of Michi-
gan will be held in Kalamazoo, Thurs
day, June 20.
A STATE Catholic total abstinence so
ciety was organized at East Saginaw,
few days since. A State Convention will
be held at Bay City, July A.
AT Corunna, Mr.. and Mrs. s. @. john
son, old settlers and highly esteemed,
celebrated their golden wedding recent
ly, with numerous surrounding of
friends.
Miss FANNY u. LOWELL, of Climax,
Kalamazoo county, proves Ineligible to
the Office of town Superintendent of
Schools, to which she was recently ap-
pointed.
THE Detroit Telegraph says the State
militia wlll not go into encampment this
year. Adjt. Gen. Robertson is in favor
OF making a brigade out of the three
Michigan regiments.
The committee of Presbyterians have
contracted for the erection of hotel on
their grounds at Petoskey. The work
on the Bay View House, on the Metho-
dist grounds, is progressing firely.
TEE forty-fourth annual convention of
the Protestant Episcopal Church. in the
Diocese OF Michigan, will be held in
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Wednesday, June 3.
A WOMAN named Wolford, living near
Crockery lake, Newaygo county, cut
her own throat recently and then tried
to kill another woman, and dropped
dead while chasing her.
EANs8Us SMITH, q young man, fell
from the Indiana railroad bridge into
the Manistee river, the other day, and
was drowned. He went there recently
from East Saginaw, where his relatives
live.
AT the twenty-second annual conclave
of the Michigan Grand Commandery of
knights Templar, held at Detroit last
week, the following were elected: Grand
Commander, Hollis f. Knapp; Deputy
Grand Commander, Frank Henderson.
LEWIS CAMERON, a farmer, was instant
ly killed near Newaygo by tree falling
on him while he was chopping. 1t
struck him on the head. He leaves
wife, whose former husband was killed
in the same manner, in the same neigh
borhood.
JOHN J. ADAM, President of the State
Pioneer Society, gives notice that the
State Pioneer Society will meet at Te-
cumseh, Wednesday, June II, 1878, at
10 O'Clock a. M, there to hold its fourth
social reunion.
LyDINGToN boasts of her tall men.
Six of them aggregate thirty-seven feet
eleven and three-eighths inches; the two
tallest measuring each six feet five and
a quarter inches; and the shortest six
feet three inches.
A CANADIAN schooner has Just taken
from Marquette for Quebec 20, 900 cubic
feet of square timber cut in Marquette
county, and which will ultimately find
market in England. Another shipment
will be made in July.
MRS ELvIRA TREADwELL, widow of
Seymour b. Treadwell, who was Com
missioner of the State Land Office from
1854 until 1858, died of consumption re-
Gently at Jacksonville, Fla, aged %
years. She had resided in the South for
several years past.
Mrs. NANCY KNIGHT, aged "a. died
few days since at Jackson. She had
lived in that county over 40 years, set
thing with her husband, a Christian min
lister, in Hanover in 1886. She never
rallied from the effects of fall from the
omnibus last fall by which her hip was
broken.
BAY CRY, learning lesson from the
Saginaw fire, is taking steps to rigidly
enforce the ordinance which provides
that no steam craft shall be permitted,
under penalty of from 500 to $500, to
approach within 200 feet of any wharf,
, unless the smoke-stack is covered with
spark catcher ha ling meshes not larger
then one. quarter of an inch in size.
THE number of admissions to the
: Home of the Friendless in Detroit dur
: ing the past year was STA /; women over
20 years, 173 young girls, 80; women
: with children, "a ; children accompanied
: by parents, 90; unaccompanied, %.
, The number now in the house is "a, of
, whom are women, 35 boys, and IL
girls. The health of the institution has
been excellent, only two severe cases of
sickness, and no deaths.
Mr.. MARTIN, of Morris & Martin,
millers of Reed City, had narrow es-
cape from terrible death recently. He
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