The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-16

BEARS are reported numerous in the
woods north of Saginaw.
AT Muskegon Mrs. A. Doambros was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
MARTIN X. WALKER, living near
Ithaca, Gratiot county, blew out his
brains with gun beside blazing heap
of brush, and was partly cremated.
The picture-frame mill Of j. G. Nc
Elwee, at Big Rapids, Mecosta county,
valued at $40, 900, was swept away by
fire, and fifty men thrown out of employ
ment.
A DEPRAvEp negress at Saranac got
on a spree, the other day, and, after
assaulting another negress, she cut her
own throat, severing the roots of the
tongue.
The Mercy Hospital, at Big Rapids,
has fifty-three patients, and there has
never been time when there has been
so many of them by accidents in mills
and the woods.
The Mnskegon basket and ruit-pack-
age manufa Glory employs from seventy
five to one hundred hands. The COM
pany has manufactured six million
butter dishes this year.
The headquarters of the Superintend-
ent of the State fisheries will hereafter
be at Paris, Mescosta county. All the
effects of the hatchery at Pokagon have
been moved to Paris.
The Delray glass-works, located at
the mouth of the river Rouge, near De-
troit, valued at $45, 900, and employing
seventy men, were swept away by fire.
They will be speedily rebuilt.
AT the Lenawee county soldiers re-
union, Col. Amos Soper, of Clayton,
aged "a, was introduced to the audience
as the only Lenawee county survivor of
the War of 1912. He went home the
next day sick with dysentery, grew
rapidly worse, and died in twenty-four
hours.
AMONG the special premiums offered
at the union fair to be held at Ovid,
will be one for the handsomest-d dressed
young lady under 18 years of age,
whose dress, collar and hat shall be
made by herself, and cost of material
for same not to exceed $15.
HE Saranac Local declares that
Keene, Ionia county, can boast of one
young lady that is no milk-and-water
article. She is the daughter of A.
Bowen. Her father offered her $40 if
she would climb to the top of the steeple
of the Keene church and stand on the
top of the same and rah for Bob niger
soil. She accomplished the feat and re-
ceived the $40.
The Michigan Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, at its late
session in Jackson, made the following
appointments for the ensuing year:
Albion Dstrict-H Hall, p. f. Albion, L.
Masters Battle Greek, ID. +. Barnes Bellevue,
T.. j. Maveety Concord, William Nj. Coplin ;
Cooper street. Jackson, j. Berry Hanover aud
Moscow, w. s. Hunsberger j. Graham Lee
roy, Il. S. Pratt Lltchield, U. Mason Liberty,
j. J.; Hartley MoshervilIe, f. ID. Young N r
shall, q. w. Sherman Marengo, j. nj. Whit
ney Nashville, A. ID. Morton; Olivet, II. ID.
Jerdon; Penheld. J. II. Tanner Parma, j.
Webster South Albion, to be supplied Spring
field, N. Fassett Tekonsha, N. l.. Brockway (;
Tompklns, Il. d. Bacon Particle, J. K Caldell !;
East Main street, Jackson, Wan. Riley.
Coldwater District. j. Buell., y. E.; Allen,
w. Barrett; Bronson, VIM. NJ. Paddock; Butler
Q. II. Fisher; Burlington, o. 5. Paddock; Cold
water, A. p. Moors; Cambria, ID. q. Woodlands
Centreville, Il. L. Kellogg; Constantine w.
Prouty; Girard, T. A. Whtewam; Hillsdale, A.
4. Morrson; Jonesville, +. A. vanderwalker;
Undertook, 10 be supplied; North Adams, M.
ID. Carroll; Osseo, 8. q. Strickland Quincy. N.
Bray; Ransom, to be supplied; Reading, @. =.
Barnes, Sturgis, L. Cooley; Sherwood, }. w.
Buell.; White Pigeon, J. Clubine; Gilead, ID. 0.
Ball; Colon and Leonidas. ]. u. Tallman.