The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-05-19
MICHIGAN NEWS

NJ IOplnhOee, OueDOyBih county.
FLAMES swept away the Contra
House, at Big Rapids, Mecosta county
Mrs. SARAH KEEN, pioneer of Com
stock. Kalamazoo county, has passed
from earth.
Two CASES of small pox in East Sagi-
nav, and "a number of persons have been
exposed.
The Courier says that there is pro-
ject On foot TO erect a $50, 900 opera
house i'll East Saginaw.
Two MILLION feet of lumber were de-
stroyed by fire at White Hall, Muske-
gon county. loss, $45, 900; insurance,
$50, 000
HERMAN BLANCHARD, one OF the pi-
oneers of Cooper, Kalamazoo county,
died at the age of SO.
In South Saginaw, Hugh Summers
was knocked down androbbed of $12 and
his watch by two footpads.
CRoswELI Democrat: Over 5000
bushels of seed have been distributed at
the relief agency here this spring.
CARSON CRY Record. Many pieces
of wheat are reported quite badly in
jured by the freezing and thawing of the
past winter.
Mrs. AMY MOORE, aged 20, widow of
VIM. A. Moore, we'll known throughout
Ionia county, cut her throat with ra-
zor i'll fit of dependency.
THE Ninth Annual Convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
will be held at Kalamazoo, May %, "a
and 25, in the Presbyterian Church.
AT Melvin, John Ross, aged 80, was
hit on the temple and instantly killed by
timber from a stump puller which
broke under the strain put upon it.
The farmhouse of Chas. Hubner, six
miles from Bay City, was totally de-
stroyed by fire, together with contents.
1t caught fire from defective chimney.
THE extensive grindstone mill, scythe-
stone factory and saw-mill of the Lake
Huron Stone Company, at Grindstone
City, were entirely destroyed by fire.
Loss, $40, 900 to $15,00O
AT Manistee, fire destroyed a Metho-
dist Church, two saloons, hotel, a shoe
shop and three dwellings, Loss, $l0,-
600; no insurance. The fire is supposed
to have been incendiary in its origin.
THE Hon. Noah p Loveridge, of Cold
water, has accepted the appointment of
assistant to the Solicitor General of the
Interior Department at Washington,
and will leave for there early next week.
THE movement to raise a fund to Sc
cure monument III memory of the late
Rev. John ID. Pierce, at Marshall, is be-
ing pushed. and has received the in
dorsement of the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
KALAMAZoo's new Opera House, one
of the finest dramatic temples in the
West, was opened on the evening of the
9Th inst, with John Mccullough in his
great play of "Virginius. The struct-
ure cost $4,000, and seats 1900
people.
BAD AXE Tribune :: With one, ii not
two, railroads now secured to Bad Axe,
and which will run trains through our
village within three months, it can be no
stretch of imagination to predict treble
population within the next fifteen
lths.
JOHN CAsTINGNEY's little son, 9! years
old, was drowned at Bay City. A family
living in the same house were engaged
in washing, left the cover off the cistern
and the little fellow, in playing about
the yard, fell in and was dead when dis
covered.
SERGEANT FINLEY has been engaged
in investigating the recent tornado, for
the signal service. He reports, among
the curiosities of the storm, that III one
place the funnel OF wind passed between
an elm and hickory, forty four feet
apart, without breaking twig from
either, while an oak in the center be-
tween them, two and half feet thick,
was broken off at the roots. In another
place the track of destruction was onlG
twelve feet wide.
HURON COUNTY NelOs: 1t is with
great satisfaction we are able to state
that the fruit on the shores of Lake
Huron and Saginaw bay was not il jured
by the freeze. 1t looks as though an
abundant crop of peaches, plums, apples,
grapes, etc, this year in these parts
would demonstrate that here is the real
"fruit belt of Michigan.
THERE was wholesale runaway on
Water street, Bay City. there being nine
frightened teams on the go at the same
time. Buggies were broken and
smashed, horses cut and wounded, and
one man received injuries which may re-
suit in his death. His skull was tract
ured by being struck by some part of a
runaway rig. Another man was thrown
through window, but was not injured.
SHELBY independent The State
Fish Hatchery is now located at Paris,
Mecosta county. Supt. Portman visited
this county this week, and reported
that the little streams where trout have
heretofore been planted are rapidly fill
ing up with the speckled beauties. j..
II. Butler and VIM. Sprigg went on
Thursday to Paris, to get supply of
salmor to plant in various streams in
the county.
THE first annual convention of the
Michigan Inter Collegiate Society As
ISOLATION was held at Albion, Calhoun
county. Six societies were represented,
each from different colleges. The ses-
sion was a very interesting one. The
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year President, l.. Coonev,
Kalamazoo; Vice President. NJ o.
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