The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-01
MICHIGAN ITEMS.
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SoJoURNER Truth has left Battle
Greek on lecturing tour.
BESSIE BLANK, OF Battle Greek, was
choked by swallowing an ivory cuff
button.
Mr.. AND Mrs. B. J. KNAPP, of Leslie,
celebrated their golden wedding, few
days ago.
CHAUNoEY MARSH, of Stony Run, was
FRUSTRATED by the heat last week and
died in ten minutes.
Hon. GEO. HANNAHs has rendered his
resignation as trustee of the Insane
Asylum at Pontiac.
The International Hotel property at
Kalamazoo has just been sold for $751;
600. Ten years ago it cost $4,000.
PONTIAC figures q loss of $4,000 to
$685. 900 by the storm in that city, and
100000 in the neighboring country.
Mrs. ABRAM ANDERSON, of Danville,
Ingham county, was thrown from
wagon in a runaway, and instantly
killed.
JOHN LUMM, Of Perry, has been SEN
fenced to seven years in the Jackson
prison for shooting his wife, with intent
to kill.
The Kalamazoo school meeting voted
81, 1915 for salary of Superintendent and
teachers, besides 81 900 for teacher Of
vocal music.
ALBERT PUTNAM died at Galesburgh,
last week, from injuries he received
sixteen months ago by falling with two
bushels of corn on his shoulder.
The Marquette Monument Associa-
ton holds its second annual meeting at
Marquette, Aug. and 8, under the
auspices of the State Pioneer Society.
REED CITY will hold special election
for the purpose of voting on the ques-
ton of bonding the village for $4,000
to secure the Wyckon patent system of
water works.
KALAMAZOO Telegraph: The losses of
the Farmers Insurance Company for
the last seven months will exceed $4,000,
most of which occurred from lightning
within three weeks.
The Kalamazoo river is drying up; it
is full of sedges and grasses, the margins
are continually narrowing, and the cur
rent seems to be falling off perceptibly.
At the present rate of decline very
few years will make it sluggish creek.
Two CHILDREN, Ellis and frankie,
aged and years, daughter and
son of A. b. Brown, farmer of River
ton, while playing in the barn, were
burned to death. An older sister, aged
8, gave the alarm, but too late to rescue
them.
AT Ionia, colored barber named
Robinson attempted to kill his wife
day or two ago by giving her two ter
rible blows on the head with hammer.
At the third blow the hammer broke
and the wife got away. She is reported
likely to recover.
A PARTY of tramps was discovered on
Michigan Central freight train near
Marshall, the other day, and, when the
conductor stopped the train to put them
of, they drew revolvers and thus per-
suaded him to allow them to continue
their ride.
A. w. HOWARD has brought suit
against DR.. Van Deusen, of the Kala-
mazoo Asylum, for $25, 900 damages for
injuries alleged to have been sustained
while an inmate of the asylum. How
ard claims that he was strapped to q
chair, was then kicked in the face, and
his jaw broken in two places.
A TRAMP passing through Battle
Greek last week fell into a conversation
with Glenn Wilson, colored man, and
it soon transpired that he was Clem's
old master in Tennessee. Glenn took
him to hotel, gave him good dinner
and 81 in money, and the old man
once a master, now tramp-having
accepted the hospitality of his former
slave, marched on.
LORENZO D. PHELPS, prominent
citizen of Corunna, recently died there
from the effect of an overdose of lauda-
mum. Last December he had paraly-
tic stroke which made him unfit for
business and idiotic He was 80 years
of age, native of Moravia, N. Y, and
had resided there twenty-five years. He
was director of the First National Bank,
high Mason, and esteemed by all.
The Board of State Auditors has
awarded the STATE pruning ana Dlndln8
for the years 1880 and 1881 to w. s..
George & Co., of Lansing. The COM
petition for this work was very lively,
there being twenty-three bids present.
ed. There were also six bids received
for furnishing stationery for the same
years, which were all rejected, owing to
the high price. The contract for print
paper was awarded to the Peninsular
Paper Company.
A SERIOUS shooting affray, which will
probably be attended with fatal results,
occurred at Kalamazoo, recently. Ed
ward Kelly and his chum, Patrick En-
right, were drinking in a saloon in the
north part of the village, when Kelly
got mixed up in fight with two men,
Abe Richmond and l.. Bradley. Kelly
was being severely punished, when En-
right, in defense of his friend, drew a
revolver and fred at Richmond, but,
his aim being inaccurate, the bullet
pierced Kelly's head, inflicting very Sc
we're wound, probably fatal. Kelly is
said to reside at Albany, N. Y, and En-
right at Louisville. The saloon where