The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-08-05

Pontiac has been having great
temperance revival.
WEST BRANCH, Ogemaw county. boasts
of Canada thistles over six feet high.
THos. BECKER, an Oakland county
pioneer, was found dead in his bed
few mornings since.
The Kalamazoo Times advocates the
erection of new courthouse for kala-
mazoo county.
F. /. WILSON, of Howard City, devotes
his entire time and talents to catching
frogs and shipping them to Chicago.
THE residence of l.. H. Armstrong, OF
Muir, Ionia county, was recently des-
troyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; insured
for $1,000.
OFFICIAL notice is given that the State
Reform School for Girls, at Adrian, Len
awee county. will be opened for recep-
ton of offenders after Aug. l.
BEvINs' single mill, six miles west of
Leroy, Osceola county. was destroyed
by fire, together with 10000 shingles.
Loss, "A, 900; insured for $1,000.
GEORGE ANDREWS, of Flint, Genesee
county, has a piano that was built in
1910, and it is claimed it is the oldest
instrument of the kind In the State.
A LOCAL telegraph line has been es-
tablished in Birmingham connecting
several of the business houses. 1t is
almost as good as telephone exchange.
Mrs. G. l.. BENJAMIN, of Saginaw
City, committed suicide by drowning
herself in o cistern. She had been in
poor health and respondent for some
months.
THE Directors OF the Ontonagon and
Brule River railway have elected Ezra
Rust, of East Saginaw, President, and
mapped out the route to the Wisconsin
State line.
Mrs. MARGARET HAYsMER, of Bush
nell, Montgomery county, ATTEMPTED to
commit suicide because her husband
promised to take her to the Ionia races
and did not keep his word.
AN unknown man, supposed to be one
of the employees of Barnum's circus. was
found dead in terribly mangled condi-
ton in the yards of the Michigan Cen
trail railroad, at Kalamazoo.
A 3-YEAR-oLD boy of Frederick Win
ters, of Potterville, Eaton county, fell
into pail of boiling water white his
mother was hopping the floor, and was
scalded frightfully. He lived but few
hours.
THE wife of John Greenslade, well
known oil merchant of Detroit. was out
driving, when n loaded ice-wagon backed
against her carriage, throwing her out
and producing conclusion Of the brain,
from which she died
A SERIES of quarrels between Daniel
Guggs and Joel Bloomfield, farmers liv-
ing near st. Charles, Saginaw county,
eliminated by Griggs shooting and NOR
tally wounding Bloomfield Griggs has
been arrested. Both parties have hith-
erto borne an excellent reputation.
AT Muir, Ionia county, small honse,
occupied by Alonzo Derrick, his wife
and six children, accidentally took fire
and burned to the ground. The fire
originated in an upper chamber, where
three children, one a deaf mute, aged II
years, and two other boys, aged and 3,
were sleeping, and, it being impossible
TO rescue them, they were suffocated and
burned to an unacceptable mass. The
remains were gathered up and buried in
one coffin.
As THE result of quarrel between
neighbors, in the township of st.
Charles, Saginaw county, David Griggs
shot Joel Bloomfield, seven buckshot
taking effect in Boomfield's body, from
the effect of which, in the opinion OF
his physicians, Bloomfield will die.
Griggs was arrested, and is now in joii
mt Saginaw City. The parties lived on
adjoining farms. Griggs had caused
son of Bloomfeld's to be arrested for
disorderly conduct, and Bloomfield
charged Griggs with having poisoned
an OK.
ExGov. JOHN j. BAGLEY, of Detroit,
died at the Occidental Hotel, in San
Francisco, CAL, on the 9th of July.
Gov. Bagley had been gradually break
ing down for some two years, but during
the last six months his disease had as
sumed alarming proportions. Fatty de-
generation of the heart was the chief
cause of his death, aggravated by drop
sy, govt and trouble with the circula-
ton. Gov. Bagley was born in Medina,
n. Y, July "a, 1892. His education
was received in the district school at
Lockport, N. Y. He left school at ID,
removing with his father to Constantine.
Mich. His father being poor man, the
future Governor had TO work for living,
but he found time during his leisure
hours while clerk in country store to
peruse everything in the reading line
which came within his reach. From
1S47 to 1858 Gov. Bagley lived in De-
troit, working in tobacco factory, when
he engaged in the same business for
His establishment is one of
the largest in the West. He has been
active III various other business enter
prises. He was President of the Detroit
Safe Company, Director of the Ameri.
can National Bank, and stakeholder
and Director in many other enterprises.
He was Governor of Michigan from 1872
to 1876, and for n number of years Chair.
man of the Republican State Central Com
mllIee. In Instantly relations Gov. Bagley
was peculiarly fortunate. His wife was
the daughter of the Rev. Samuel New