The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-11-11


A HOSPITAL project is being agitated
at Kalamazoo.
AN Oxford Justice of the Peace has
been fned for being drunk.
THE bicycle nuisance on the side
walks is becoming intolerable in Mar
shall.
ST.. LOUIS Herald, Wheat never
looked better in this section at this time
of the year.
A MUsKEGoN policeman stopped a
Lansing militiaman from whistling an
obscene tune"
A STRANGE and fatal disease has brok-
en- out at Pennington, Oakland county,
and several deaths are reported.
JAMES WIrHERELL, an old man of
Vermontville village, Eaton county, was
instantly killed by a runaway, team.
A PACKAGE of Scent stamps worth
81 800 was spirited out of the postoffice
at Kalamazoo, and can not be traced.
The Saginaw county Court House is
to remain in Saginaw City, which is to
erect new building TO cost $50, 900 to
800, 900.
Rev. EVERETT l.. RExFoRD, Univer-
salist pastor of Detroit, has applied for
a divorce on the ground of cruelty and
misconduct.
DANIEL RUsK, a se-trainer, was
instantly killed near Kalamazoo, by
being thrown from a sulky in which he
was breaking a colt.
KALAMAZOO Telegraph: "Wheat is
reported much injured in Climax and
vicinity by the white grub, some fields
being nearly ruined. The heavy rains
seem to check their working"
The salt shipments by water from
Bay City during October were the small
est of any month since 1875, amounting
to only 36, 929 barrels. This falling off
is due to the scarcity of boats. caused
by the inactivity of the grain trade.
The authorities appropriated SO, 900 to
build Jail, but the committee only used
about 81, 500, and got a good building.
That is one of the few instances record
ed where public appropriations held out
to complete the work intended. -SchOOL-
craft County Pioneer.
The Cheboygan test salt well. which
seems to be more of test of endurance
and determination on the part of the
managers than otherwise, is slowly 10
creasing in depth. 1t is now down 602
feet, and the rock found at this point is
the same as that in which they have
been working over 400 feet, being ex-
tremely brittle limestone.
Two KALAMAZOO ladies were driving
on road some miles from the city, and
saw q man driving colt before a sulky.
The animal suddenly kicked up and
struck the man in the head, knocking
him from the seat. They went to him
as soon as possible and raised his head,
but he only breathed three times after
ward. Shortly youngish-looking man
came running up and said it was his IA
ther-in-law, and soon a young woman
came up and said it was her father. The
scene was heartrending. The women
were so greatly excited that they did not
learn the name of the unfortunate man.
A LETTER from Negaunee says The
business of the prospectors, although
very fascinating and engaged in by many
individuals, is often full of financial dis
asters. Fortunes are spent yearly In
prospecting without any paying sue
cess. Again, rich mine is found at a
small expense. Many stories are related
of the fortunes and misfortunes of this
region. A company spent SIS, 900 near
this town in exploring and opening up a
mine. After drilling many feet, as q
last resort, they gave up the enterprise
poor men. Other parties extended the
boring operations six inches further and
found fortune.
REPORTS to the State Board of Health,
Lansing, for the week ending Oct. s,
1881, by forty-three observers of diseases
in different parts of the State, show causes
of sickness as follows:
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