The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-10-25

SMALLPOX has broken out at Bald
win.
THE Sisters of Mercy are building an
academy at Big Rapids.
CHEBoYGAN has been having some
gorgeous lunar rainbows.
LESS wheat is being sown this fall
than last throughout the State.
SEVERAL Polish families, direct from
Poland, have recently settled in Jack
son, and more are expected.
LUMBERMEN are starting their teams
for the woods, and work in the logging
camps will begin earlier than usual.
THERE are about $1,000 Presbyterians
in this State, and last year they gave an
average of % cents each for home mis-
sions
A DARKEY at Bay City maintains that
his name is Isaiah the Prophet. He
says it is all the name he ever has been
known by.
ROMEO people insist on being buried
in Eastlake collins, and the Detroit
Ne,cs says that is running fashion into
the ground.
A CERTAIN Jackson Alderman is a
bright fellow. He placed can of pow
der in or on his coal stove to dry the
can. 1t dried.
A LITTLE girl named Anna Foekes
was seriously burned in Jackson, her
clothing catching fire from bonfire.
She will recover.
JUDGE MARsTON, of the Supreme
Court, has purchased tract of land at
Kawkawlin, and, it is said, he proposes
to make a summer resort of it.
A wELL-KNowN Detroit lady temper
ance lecturer carries with her minia
ture distillery, and illustrates herlectures
by distilling alcohol from cider.
A PILE of wood at Wayne, containing
600 or 800 cords, took fire recently and
was burned. 1t was the property of the
Michigan Central Railroad Company.
The Synod of Michigan proposes the
erection of monument over the grave
of the Rev. Calvin Clark, for so long a
period their faithful and beloved mis-
sionary.
DEER-sLAUGHTERING is now going on
extensively in Northern Michigan. 1t
is done in sheer wantOnness, as the warm
weather precludes the possibility of
shipping the venison to market.
RANSOM GooDsPEED, farmer living
two miles from Vaudeville, Barry coun-
ty, was gored to death by stag, which
tossed and trampled him half an hour
before his body was recovered. A neigh
Dor who tried to rescue him narrowly
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prominent farmers of Barry county,
owned the best farm, and had lived in
the county forty years.
THE Iron Port, of Escanaba, tells
horrible story of crime and murder.
1t states that Philomen Thompson, who
lived in the township of Mamma, Delta
county, and who was at one time Dep
uty United States Marshal has been
having criminal intercourse with one of
his granddaughters, a girl about 10
years of age. When the matter became
known the old man fed to the woods,
and it is now charged that he was
searched for, found, and murdered by
his son, Douglas II. Thompson, con-
stable named Thomas Conklin, and an
Indian who had lived in his family who
was known as Thomas Wanwaugaso.
On complaint of Conklin search was
made, and the body was found in Big
Fish Dam creek, with charge of shot
in the head, and marks of pounding on
the body.
Mrs. MATTE FARRELL, aged nearly
70 years, was found dead upon the floor
of her bedroom, in miserable house at
Detroit, one morning last week. There
was blood upon the floor, on the base
board, and on trunk that stood at the
foot of the bed. The old woman was
wrapped in quilts, the covering of the
bed, from off which she had apparently
rolled in the agony of death, her hands
clutching the coverings firmly. Her
face was bruised badly, and over her
right eye was an ugly cash. Her neck
was broken also. The police suspected
foul play, and arrested Henry Ian
guage, son of the deceased, who, with
his little 4-year-old daughter, were the
other occupants of the apartments
The prisoner protested his innocence,
and, as he left the house, shook his fin
ger menacingly at the child The latter
was questioned, and, despite her tender
years, gives an intelligent and clear ac-
count of the tragedy in her own child
ish way. At first she would only say,
Papa tot me not to say anythin'," but
finally related how her father struck and
kicked her grandmother, and, when the
latter was dead, made the little one hold
candle while he washed the blood from
the face of the corpse.