The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-08-04
MICHIGAN NEWS.

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with cedar blocks.
A FIRM of young men in Kalamazoo
are shipping celery South.
FOREST fires have been doing consid-
cradle damage in Iosco county.
The residence of T.. Nj. Burgess, of
Big Rapids, was destroyed by fire.
j. HUNT was caught by belt in a
Manistee mill and hurt 80 that he died.
r. G.. PETERS, of Manistee. has bored
1000 feet for salt, and is going TO try a
new place.
A. w. LovERIDGE, of Saginaw, was
drowned at Marquette by the capsizing
of a sail boat.
A YOUTH of 1S and sweet girl baby
of ID years were married in Fenton a
few days ago.
BAY CRY has an egg-eating champion
who offers TO bet that he can eat 100
eggs in 100 minutes.
MORT BR~s.' tannery was totally de-
stroyed by fire at Reed City. Loss S.
900; insurance 81, 900.
AN injunction has been served stopping
the building of the proposed new Court
House at Saginaw City.
A STANTON blacksmith named McFad-
den pounded man terribly for insult
ing his wife OH the street.
The city of Negaunee offers S25, 900
bonus to any company which will pro-
vide the city with water works.
THE wife of John A. Price, proprietor
of the Midland Exchange Hotel, East
Saginaw, died OF consumption last week.
The grocery store of Thompson Nc
Clary, at East Saginaw, was destroyed
by fire. Loss about 50. 900; insured for
900.
JACOB REITz, of Burnside, Lapeer
county, slipped from the roof of build
ing which he was shingling and broke
his back.
S. S. Foss, prominent among the lum-
ber-dealers of Bay City, lost his life by
being thrown from buggy against a
telegraph pole.
JOHN HUNT, foreman in Russell's
shingle mill, Manistee, while attempting
to remove a belt, was drawn against a
shaft and killed.
LEXINGTON and Port Sanilac are to
have new school houses in the near
future. The former $4,000 and the
latter So, 900 edifice.
FARMERS of Macomb county think
their wheat crop will be one of the largest
of recent years. The peach and apple
crop will be enormous.
AT Lapeer Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, be-
coming disheartened over the drunken
habits of her son, killed her little grand
son and herself with strychnine.
NELSON LEMIER, aged 33, was knocked
overheard from lighter at West Bay
City, and, being unable to swim, was
drowned before assistance could reach
him.
GILBERT G. BURNHAM, aged 9, fell
from thirdstory window into an alley,
in Kalamazoo, striking on his back, but
except severe shaking up he was un-
injured.
AN East Saginaw druggist says the
Saginaw river water assays ''about per
cent. bullheads, l per cent. angleworms,
and trace of every animalcule known
to fresh-water science"
w. II. BACHE, of Kalamazoo. who re-
Gently had nearly 10000 silk worms
busily engaged in making cocoons, has
lost ID, 900 of them from their being fed
on some bad mulberry leaves.
DURING shower at Flint, lightning
struck chimney Of the Bryant House,
and going down the chimney knocked a
stove to pieces and shocked Mrs. Knill
very badly, but did no serious damage.
AUGUST OFT, a saloon-kecper at SaiG-
burgh, Bay county, suicided by shoot
ing himself through the head, the
weapon used being S2-caliber revolver,
the first shot producing instant death.
THE fruit growers OF Van Buren, coun-
ty have again commenced war upon the
yellows In their peach orchards. Large
numbers of trees are being cut down.
One man cut down 100 trees out of an
orchard of 400.
Mrs. DANIEL MCINTYRE, of South
Bay City, a married woman Is years of
age, suicided by administering chloro-
form. She had no children, and those
who know her can assign no reason for
her self-destruction.
Rev. Mr.. PALMER, pastor Of the Con
RItHdblOlldl Ut AhdhOtiobhy EhiOA LII
county, is said to have become almost
mental wreck under the strain of the in
tense religious excitement recently
started at that place by S. A. Burns.
THE North Branch Gazette says: "E.
Wilson, of Burlington, brought a head
of wheat to our Office last week that had,
sticking between the grains of wheat in
the head, a sprig of chess, and offered it
in evidence of the theory that wheat will
turn to chess"
A SON of Sylvester Shake, of Sanilac
county, was burned to death while with
his father in the slashing. Mr.. Shake
left the little fellow near burning log
heap while he went to attend some
cattle, and during his absence the boys
clothes caught fire, with the above
result.
MANIsTEE Times On Monday after
noon frightful and fatal accident DC.
Cured in the shingle mill of Russell
Bros. John Hunt, foreman in the pack
ing room, got his right arm caught in
the small belt that carries the grind
stone. BY this he was drawn upon the
main shaft and in an instant his arm was
torn from the body at the shoulder. He
lived about half an hour.
A yorNc man named T,ahart living i'm