The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-07-21
MICHIGAN NEWS
CAss CRY is to have new hotel.

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CADILLAC has organized new band.
JOSEPH JEWELL, aged 10 OF Bay City,
was drowned while bathing
CoLUMBIAvILLE, Lapeer county, is to
have an 81 800 steam fire engine.
THE store of Geo. w. Halstead, at
Clare, was robbed of $500 by burglars.
The Berrien county newspapers want
Congressional district newspaper asso-
citation.
OVER 100000 pounds of wool have
been purchased at Marshall thus far this
season.
The biggest crop of hay cut in Gin.
ton county this year came of the Court
House Square. W V#
The proposed astronomical observa-
tory at Olivet College will be built this
fall, probably.
G. G.. BALE, of Vermontville, Eaton
county, was thrown from his horse, and
broke three of his ribs. |W
AT Kalamo, Eaton county, Mrs. W. II.
King was thrown from her buggy,
breaking three OF her ribs.
A NEW school house is to be built at
Manistee to replace the one burned
recently. 1t will cost $1,000.
HENRY WILSON, blacksmith, was ar
rested in INLAY City for attempting high
way robbery on DALEY Sellick.
IMMENSE quantities of strawberries
are being shipped from Muskegon,
where the crop Is largely successful.
ATTORNEY GENERAL VAN RIPPER has
begun proceedings In chancery to abate
the alleged dam nuisance at Maple Rap
ids.
Mrs. Moses Cross, of Vermontville,
fell down stairs, with butcher knife III
her hand, and cut her left big finger
nearly off.
The foundation of the new Campau
block at Detroit is said to be more solid
than that of any other private building
in the West.
WIN. HAND, lad of Marshall, was
badly burned by the explosion of the
powder flask with which he was care
lessly foollng.
Two SAILORS of the steam barge Hill
ton, with three others, upset in a small
boat on Lake Michigan, near Muskegon,
ana were drowned.
AS BAwDY-HoUsEs at Detroit are being
broken up, their keepers and inmates
largely emigrate to Chicago, while some
go to the upper lake region.
THERE have been 1000 pounds of
wool marketed at st. Johns this season
at an average price of 37B cents. The
highest price paid was 40 cents.
The eleventh annual meeting of the
Eaton county pioneers was great sue
cess. The address by the Hon. Austin
Blair was eloquent and excellent.
AT Delta, Eaton county, last Sunday
week, the congregation in a church were
riveted to their seats during the sermon.
1t was too fresh varnish that did it.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph rises up
majestically and demands that the au-
thorities shall prohibit the monkey from
accompanying the hand organ in that
village.
NELLIE ToTTLE, aged 40, was found
dead in her bed at Muskegon. Whisky
and the cruelty of her paramour, James
Dixon, are the causes alleged. Dixon
was arrested.
AN enraged stallion ut Coldwater
knocked downs horseman named Leigh
ton, knelt upon him, bit off the under
lip and chin, and shattered the bones of
his left hand.
A HAcKMAN at Kalamazoo, in shutting
the door of his hack, in which were Mrs.
McCawley and her little boy, caushed
one Of the little boys fingers so that it
had to be amputated.
THE Quincy Herald is Of the opinion
that what Quincy wants now is a base
ball club that can scoop the county and
country around. Then her cup of hap
piness will slop over.
A BAY CRY man saw lady swinging
in hammock, and, glancing at her
pedal extremities, exclaimed "Shoot
the feet - for which the wretched caitiff
was fined $2-iust 81 per foot.
AT Portage, Kalamazoo county, fire
cracker frightened horse, and Mrs.
VIM. Scudder was thrown out and had
an arm broken; and her daughter, aged
IL, and her husband were badly bruised.
JABIUs BIssETT, aged rs, one of the
pioneers of Saginaw county, dropped
dead while hoeing potatoes in his garden
in Milwaukee. Cause of death, syncope.
He had lived in the Saginaw valley for
fifty years.
Miss EMMA KEELE, of Saginaw City,
while carrying wash-bowl to wash her
face, tripped and fell, breaking the bowl,
fragment of which entered her left
arm, cutting an artery and endangering
her life.
Two Cadillac boys, aged II and 8
years, respectively, are reported to have
taken a 6-year old playmate into the
woods, bound him to log and whipped
him cruelty, and afterward burned him
with matches.
FRED BUSH, Kalamazoo small boy,
was playing with piece of wire about
five feet long, when he fell and one end
OF the wire was driven into his neck.
The end was bent into q hook shape by
the blow, SO it could not be pulled out,
and doctor had to cut it out.
A SAD accident occurred on the Kaw-
kawlin river, in Bay county, resulting in