The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-30
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

The Brooklyn School Board have
hired J. O. Jocelyn. of Albion, as prin-
cipal.
THE number of missing" husbands
in Detroit is causing very serious ap-
prehensions.
A MAN named Jonathan Meyer, visit
ing at Schoolcraft, has been arrested
charged with the murder of Mr..
Kintzler, of Snyder county, Pa.
KETCHUM BRoTHERs, the well-known
carriage builders of Romeo, in this
State, have failed. The assets and liza
bilities are not stated. A compromise
will probably be made.
The family residence of the late Capt.
q. b. Ward was sold under foreclosure
to the Connecticut Life Insurance Com
pany lately, for 1926, 900, and the lots adj
Joining to the same concern for SIC, 800.
JOHN j. STEVENS, one of the oldest
residents of East Saginaw, died few days
ago. He was one of the Oldest employees
OF the Flint and Pere Marquette railway,
and as baggage-master had large ac-
quaintance.
JOHN PIoKELL and Pat Doherty es-
capped from States prison at jackson,
recently, while working in a coal mine
outside. Pickell escaped three years
ago, was brought back in April, and was
serving out his old term.
The Nationals of the Detroit district
have nominated John Hebron for Con-
gress; John w. Stone has been renom-
mated by the Fifth district Republicans;
Hugh McCurdy by the Sixth district
Democrats; James L. Mead by the Sixth
district Nationals; and O'Brien j. Atkin-
son by the Seventh district Democrats.
Northwestern Mining Journal: The
personal property of the Saginaw mine
is being removed from the island as rap
idly as possible, and ere long the To-
cation will be utterly abandoned, and
suffered to revert once more into the
"forest primeval," from which it was
momentarily reclaimed by a speculative
within.
A New YORK dispatch says: cat
meeting of the grain trade interests OF
the Produce Exchange, resolutions were
passed requesting the Chairman of the
Committee on Grain to instruct inspec-
tors to put amber Michigan wheat into
the grade of No. red, if liz his iudg-
ment it is good enough. 1t was also re-
solved that No. 2 amber should be in
cluded in the call.
LITTLE way from the mouth of Oc-
qheve river, in Pressure Isle county, is
lake with water between forty and fifty
feet deep in the center, and Astounding
in the finest pike, while the neighbor-
hood of the shore is covered with the
largest clans. Thousands of bushels
could be collected, while in some places
upon the bank the shells are piled up
several feet high.
AT Port Austin, not long since, Mrs.
J. b. Newcomb attempted suicide with
Paris green. Her recovery was dorb
full at last accounts. Her husband Was
beaten to death in a drunken row at
Port Crescent last winter, and that
great trouble, with ill-health, made life
burden. The remedies had to be adj
ministered by force, as she was bound
to go.
A MILWAUKEE dispatch says that a
travelling agent, known as j. ID. Palmer
at Bay City, and as Phil. A. Downer in
Milwaukee, was arrested for bigamy, at
the instance of widow, Emily A. Rich,
of Bay City, to whom he was married
three months ago. The prisoner had
married widow named Kirby, in Roch-
ester, N. Y, last fall and settled in Mil
waukee, and Mrs. Rich has just discov-
cred this fact. His marital experiences
so far foot up as follows: Wife No. L
Now resides in Iowa, the mother of six
children. Wife No. pa Mrs. Kirby,
married at Rochester, N. Y, Aug. 20,
1877, by the Rev. Sankey, now resident
on Reel street, South Side. Wife No.
3-Once the widow Emile A.. Kirby,
married at Bay City, Mich, the prisoner
there assuming the name of J. d.
Palmer. The Bay City wife is bent on
revenge, and Palmer owner will be
likely to go to State prison for a long |
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