The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-09-06

Bears are reported very plenty in o.
seso county.
Mum has paid $50, 600 for wheat since
July 8. N
THE Muir Reform Club has given up
its rooms.
Az SABLE is afflicted with the roller
skating fever.
EMERY BROTHERS, of East Tawas, have
made 8, 700 barrels of salt this season.
JACKSON is going to put her city pris-
oners at hard labor on the public works.
The plans for new city building at
Bay City have been accepted by the
Common Council.
DURING last week the receipts Of
wheat in Detroit were 1913, 1915 bushels,
and shipments 757, l51.
A NEW Universalist Church, to replace
the one burned last spring, is about to
be erected in Bay City.
THE new spring and axle factory in
process of erection at Kalamazoo will be
ready for business about the LIST of No
vember.
ALL but two of the saloon keepers of
Newaygo county have paid their taxes,
and the warrants for those are in the
Sheriff's hands.
JOHN F. SMoNs, of Newaygo, offers a
premium of So to the couple who will
be married on the county fair grounds
the second day of the fair.
A MAN named jonathan Meyer, visit
ing at Schoolcraft, has been arrested
charged with the murder of a Mr.
Kintzler, of Snyder county, Pa.
A SMALL child belonging to Mrs.
Lemuel Hazen, of Westphalia, wan
dered from home, and was found hang
ing by the neck from between the pickets
of neighboring fence, dead.
Mr.. BLAIR has been fined $40 for al
lowing Canada thistles to grow upon his
farm in Ovid, Clinton county.
In a thunder at Kalamazoo,
week before last, lightning struck six.
teen out of nineteen telegraph poles in
succession.
VIM. HAzEN, hotel-keeper at Salt
River, Isabella county, was mulcte6 last
week in $40 fine and costs, for selling
liquor to minors.
A LARGE she-wolf has recently been
killed near Vassar. She has been MAX
ing havoc among the sheep, which had
been charged to the dogs.
Mr. PARKER, of Muir, went to Ionia
to see the circus. He only took in the
moral part of 1.-THE animals-and lit
tie game with the boys. 1t cost him
$65. Then he told an officer, and the
gamblers refunded his money to keep
out OF Jail.
THE store occupied by Simon Frank,
at the Cliff mine, Lake Superior, in
Guiding the pOstoffice, was burned re-
Gently. Loss $4,000; insured for
S., 900.
A YOUNG lady of Croton has conclu-
ded to compete for the special premium
offered by Mr.. Raider for the best SAM
pie of blowing by lady at the Newaygo
county fair.
Mr.. CLINTON NELSON, farmer of
Riley, Clinton county, has started new
speculation. He visits Detroit, buys
the WORKOUT street-car horses for a
nominal figure, takes them home, gives
them rest and fat pasture, and makes
them over half or two-thirds as good as
new.
Northwestern Mining Journal: The
personal property of the Saginaw mine
is being removed from the island az 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.
The Executive Board of the Iosco
County Agricultural Society have at last
secured the purchase of eight and one
fourth acres of land, lying midway be-
tween Tawas City and East Tawas, and
the same is being surveyed and laid out
for permanent fair ground for the So
ciety.
Hon. A. V. Away, of Manistee, who
was recently appointed Circuit Judge of
the Nineteenth Circuit, has entered upon
the duties of his Office, and will hold
his first term of court In Osceola county
the fore part of September. The APP
pointments for holding Circuit Court
throughout the district, as made by
Judge Wheeler, will not be changed.
WHILE loading car of wheat at the
Granger elevator, at Fenton, Frank
Wakeman, son of l.. B. Wakeman, one
of the employees, ventured into the bin
and was instantly drawn down, his body
stopping the wheat from running. The
men commenced looking for the cause
and found his feet in the spout at the
bottom of the bin. The bottom of the
bin was broken in, letting the wheat on
the floor below. Although every effort
was made to get him out after they dis
covered him, it took about ten minutes
before they succeeded. Drs. Knapp
and Wixom we're present and pro-
nounced him dead. He was 13 years old.
ANOTHER frightfui nitro-glycerine ex-
plosion took place near Negaunee last
week, by which three men were instant
ly torn to pieces. It occurred in the
Champion mine in the following man.
ner: Four men were charging holes
with this murderous stuff about noon
near the bottom of the mine. One of
the men started up ladder as the other
three were pouring nitro-glycerine into
the hole. With a crash and without
warning, the entire amount they had,
about five pounds, exploded, killing the
fhraa ynay, Instantly Tho y,oop xrbo