The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-06-23
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.


THE postoffice at Arvon, Baraga coun-
ty, is re-established.
A TALLY-Ho coach club has been
formed at Kalamazoo.
A POST of the G.. A. II. is being or
ganized in Bay City.
Mr.. GILLETTE was drowned near Bay
City while diving logs.
JAMES LALoNDE, aged ii, was drowned
at Cheboygan while fishing.
CHARLES BAoHMAN, g. years old, fell
into the lake at Muskegon and was
drowned.
ALBION boasts OF horse ~ years old
which still draws a buggy with spirit
and energy.
THK Fourth of July celebration
scheme in East Saginaw appears to have
petered OFT.
The Michigan Central passenger de-
pot at Cheboygan was robbed OF $50 by
sneak thieves.
sHEEP KILLING dog at Boyne Falls,
Charlevoix county, was shot by the con-
stable in due process of law.
The walls around Fort Wayne, ut De-
troit, are being repaired. Congress APP
propriated SO, 900 for the work.
THE editor of the Ionia National
thinks there is a snake thirty feet long
lowering around the stone quarry in his
vicinity
MAIL.MEssENGER service is discontin-
ued at East Saginaw, and railroad station
to South Saginaw, and Westville to
McBrides.
CLINTON county has 2S5 pensioners,
and last year $5S, 087 was distributed
among them. This amount includes
arrears paid.
JAMES STEVENSON was killed by light
ming at Austin, Sanilac county. Three
men standing near him at the time were
shocked severely.
TWENTY FIVE dollars reward is offered
for the capture of William II. Thomas,
alias Oshkosh" who broke jail and es-
capped at Kalamazoo.
A BABE of Benjamin j. Kelyer, of
West Bay City, was found dead i'll bed,
doubtless smothered by its parents in
the night while asleep.
INTELLIGENCE comes from Germany
that Miss Agnes Huntington, formerly
of Kalamazoo, has achieved great sue
cess at Leipsic as singer.
THE Cheboygan Tribune says Charles
Spaulding, while fishing off the dock,
caught a whitetish weighing three and a
half pounds. with worm for bait.
CHARLES McCLUsKEY, a resident of
West Branch, Ogemaw county, was found
in the woods near Saginaw with his
throat cut. he was temporarily insane.
In West Bay City, the child of Morris
Abear was bitten by a dog, said to be
owned by John Nicholson. Before
night that dog and several others were
dead.
A WRITER in the Saginaw Courier
urges the formation of frst-class base
ball club there, with a view to having
Saginaw capture the league champion
ship of 1888.
MCGRAw's mill and salt block, plan
ing mill, tramways, barns, ETC., said to
be the largest lumber factory in the
world, twelve miles below East Saginaw,
have been sold for $3.50, 900.
THE name of the postofiice at Sand
Hill, Wayne county, has been changed
20 Willmarth. The postoffice at Bush
well Center, Montcalm county, is dis
continued; mail to Fenwick.
EMMA PARKHURst has recovered YER
dict of 81, 900 damages in the Saginaw
Circuit Court against f. f. Johnson for
the death of her husband, killed at
Johnson's lime-kiln two years ago.
Hon. ROBERT STEVENSON, of Menomi-
nee, manager of the Ludington, Wells
Il Van Setback Lumber Company, and
member of the Legislature, died from
injuries received at a fire in the yards.
HE Cadillac NelOS asserts that Mr..
Law, of that place, left new umbrella
hanging out doors in front of his store
all night, rainy night, recently, and
nobody took it. That must have been
the worst umbrella In the State.
The SaginaWian Never before have
we seen the fruit trees in this region so
loaded with promises of mammoth fruit
crop. Apples, pears, plums, peaches
and cherries are all getting right down
to business.
AMONG the patients at ST. Mary's Hos
pital, Detroit, is young lady not yet
Is years old, who weighs about 260
pounds. She is there III the hope of re-
ceiving treatment which may result in
relieving her of her obesity.
A TERRIFIC wind and hail storm visit
ed Bay City, blowing down the smoke
stacks of four mills and the drill-house
tower, doing damage of from 50, 600 to
So, 200. Hail. stones measuring one aid
a quarter inches in diameter were picked
up.
SPENCER G. Coz, an aged Police
Court lawyer of Buffalo, while inspect
ing old papers, found a deed covering
$40 acres of landin Wayne county, Mich.
which he purchased in 1867. The
document has been missing for twenty
years.
AN unknown woman aged about 80
was taken with fit in the streets of
Saginaw, and was removed to the city
prison where doctor attended her, but
She died in a few hours. The name L.
M. Mclaughlin was upon one of her
handkerchiefs, but the Coroner's in
quest failed to develop who she was or