The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-01-04
will be sure to spell myrtle m-u-r-t-e-l In
the bill. "-EditOr's Drdrcer, an Hdr-
per's Magazine for January.
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

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convicts and the Ionia prison 200.
VIoroR DWIGHT, of Owosso, ended
his career by taking morphine.
THE State Pioneer Society will hold
its annual meeting in Lansing, Feb. D
and 7.
Il. s. WHITES planning mill at Fyfe
Lake was burned recently. Loss, "a 900;
insurance, $500.
CHAPLAIN HIcKox has started night
school in the State prison for the benefit
of illiterate prisoners.
FRANK BOOTH, aged "a years, was
thrown from buggy at Worthwhile and
almost instantly killed.
The Menominee Herald says maple sap
is running freely in the maple trees up
in that northern region.
CHARLES MASON, aged %, was killed
at Ashland the other day by being
crushed under falling pile of lumber.
The Coroner at Jackson has decided
that Peter Gunther, the man who was
found drowned in Grand river, COM
mitted suicide.
THE people of East Saginaw have
held mass-meeting and appointed COM
mittees to canvass for subscriptions in
aid of the Vassar railroad.
THE annual session of the Michigan
State Sportsmen's Association for the
Protection of Game and Fish will be
held at Battle Greek Feb. and 6.
FRANK PINE, traveller, was nearly
suffocated in bed in the Kalamazoo
House, Kalamazoo, the other night, hav-
ing blown out the gas before retiring.
POSTAL routes have been established
in this State as follows From VANS
con, via Tedro, Emery and Oakshade,
to Morencie from Charleston to Oxford.
E. A. WAKELY, of Greenville, was
violently thrown from his buggy while
driving near the city, and received in
juriss which caused his death. He leaves
wife.
A YOUNG student at Kalamazoo Col
lege named Edward Phelps, went into
the country to spend Christmas, and was
fatally wounded in the forehead 10y the
explosion of q gun.
JAMES M. Mills, Treasurer of the
Central and Atlantic Mining Companies,
of Lake Superior, acknowledges that he
has been robbing them, and has dis
gorged $4,000
II. B. SPENCER, hardware merchant at
East Saginaw, has made an assignment
to +. w. Carlisle for the benefit of his
creditors. His liabilities are supposed
to be $50, 900; assets, S35, 600 to $40, 600.
THE body of Peter Gunther, 45 years
old, was found In the river near Jackson,
the other day. He is supposed to have
been drowned from falling over the
bridge over the race while on his way to
work.
Two springfield peddlers at Vassar
used insulting language to lady be-
cause she would not buy their goods,
and she drew pistol and shot one OF
them in the cheek. She then had them
both arrested, and they compromised by
paying her $l5, costs of arrest, and
making her an humble apology.
WHILE Mrs. Gertie Barnes was address
ing temperance audience in the hall al
Pinckney the other night, the floor gave
way, precipitating rs or 100 people into
the cellar. A number were seriously,
but none fatally, injured. There were
about 500 persons in the building.
THE Michigan delegation in Congress
have recommended j. J. Woodman,
Master of the State Grange, as Com
missioner to the Paris Exposition. The
President is receiving forty or fifty ap'
plications per day, and Commissioner
Mccormick as many more, for places OIL
the commission.
THE Sheriffs of Michigan, Mt their re
cent meeting, organized themselves into
an association, with the following Off
GERS: President, James Dart, of Inghan
county; Vice President, L. w. Stanton
of Oakland county; Secretary, r. A. d.
Mont, of Berrien county; Treasurer, Ly
man Gates, of Kalamazoo county.
THE State Board of Control and the
company proposing to build a railroad
from Marquette to Mackinac have come
to an understanding by which the worl
will be undertaken and completed a
once. The matter was effected by {
compromise. The State waived tn,
bond it had heretofore required for the
completion of the work, and the com
pany conceded the right of the State t.
appoint one Trustee, and Gov. Bagley
was appointed.