The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-07
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

DETROIT has 900 ynembers Of the Order
of United Workmen. 81
A STEAM Touring. mill with three run
of stone is to be built at Shaftsburg.
Two cHILpBrN were hooked by a
vicious COW in Bay City the other day.
IONA people are going to put in force
the law relative to placing fish-shutes in
dams.
A NUMBER of German rifiemen in
jackson have organized Schuetzen-
Verein.
SAGINAW lumbermen utilize the tele-
phone to communicate between their
mills and downtown affairs.
THE Hubbardston horsemen advertise
trotting meeting on July 3, and 8.
Purses of 81, $50.
THE eighteenth annual convention of
the Michigan State Sabbath School AS
ISOLATION will be held at Flint, June 25,
26 and 81.
WOMEN will be admitted as delegates
to the annual sessions of the Michigan
Congregational associations hereafter.
A FIRE near East Saginaw, the other
day, destroyed two frame buildings and
$4,000 slaves total loss, 5000; insur-
ance, So, 600.
CAPT. HENRY SMITH, of Pavilion, has
just had Mimic ball extracted from his
person, where it was deposited by
Confederate thirteen years ago.
JOHN G. WHITTIER has written let
ter to ex-Lieut. Gov. Holt, thanking
him for his interest in Jonathan Walker,
the man with the branded hand"
THE Flint Globe says that ex-State
Senator Peter White, of Marquette, has
been sorely afflicted by the death of
three children-two sons, aged 4 and IL
years, and daughter years old.
PTUs RoMBAcH died at Eagle river,
Lake Superior, last week, from wounds
received in an alteration with Frank
King, month ago. The latter is in
Jail.
THE annual reunion of the Sixth
Michigan Heavy Artillery will be held
at the Burdick House, Kalamazoo. June
20, the day of the sailors and soldiers
reunion at that place.
IT is understood at East Saginaw that
James F. Joy has expressed himself as
ready to commence operations on the
Saginaw and Vassar railroad, and all
that remains is for East Saginaw to say
the word.
THE Marquette Journal states that
out of sixty hemesteads taken up
through the land office at that place,
forty-seven were located in Chippewa
county. The settlers are mostly from
Canada.
THE night express south on the Chi
cago and Lake Michigan railroad was
ditched the other night near Manlius by
wash-out. One car was burned, two
totally demolished, and the engine
thrown into the ditch.
Mrs. MARIETTA GIBSON, mother of
DIR. w. A. Gibson, resident of Jack
son for over forty years, died last week
from the effects of injuries received
year ago by falling from a step-ladder
while picking cherries. She was aged
SO years.
The Presbyterians of Kalamazoo have
recently repaired and improved their
church, at considerable expense, and
when the work was completed they owed
about S., 600. Sunday last they raised
money enough to pay the entire debt.
DEPUTY SHERIFF WIcKHAM, of Ros-
common county, has arrested, at Mid
land, Edward Knappen, the defaulting
Treasurer of Denton township, Ros-
common county. He had been hiding
for two years, but was caught mapping.
A FARMER named Andrews, near Nor
ris, Wayne county, shot supposed
burglar dead one night last week. 1t was
afterward found that he was an insane
man, named O'Donnell, and father-in-
law of ex-policeman Harrington, of
Detroit.
Mr. RICHARD GARDNER died in the
Scotch settlement, near Dearborn, a few
days since, aged II. Born in England,
he emigrated to this country in 1926,
and, after remaining in Detroit and vi
cinity three years, settled on his farm
in Dearborn, on which he has continu-
ously resided for period of fifty years.
THE Assistant Manager of the Detroit
Opera House was hauled before the Po-
lice Court last week for marking seats as
taken when, in reality, they were not re-
SeTNeu. uc law DIONluts blldt dly
ager found guilty of this offense shall be
fined not less than 81 and not more than
So for every seat so marked.
SOME boys in MARYLAND started show
in cellar. The admission was 2 cents.
The performance ranged from recitations
to somersaults, and feature was marks
manship of the kind that killed Volante.
A 1O-year-old boy held an apple on his
head for a larger boy to shoot at, but
the attempt was failure. Just as the
marksman took aim, the target-boy felt
the apple slipping off, reached up to
catch it, and had bullet-hole put neatly
through his hand. The wounded lads
mother made raid on the show and
closed it.
THE Gratiot Journal says that at the
June term of the Supreme Court
mandamus suit will be tried in behalf of
the county against the State of Michi-
gan. Prosecuting Attorney Whitney will
ask that Auditor General Ely be re-
quired to show cause why he should not
draw his warrant on the State Treasurer
for the money due Gratiot county as per
cent. interest on one-half the swamp
lands Sold in that county since 1858. |
The sum claimed for Gratiot Jan. 1,