The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-05-12

Il w ElDMAN,du luSdut man,
was killed by the cars near Marshall.
FIFTEEN trotting horses taken from
Detroit to London were sold for FL, 507.
MRS. JOHN Norris, of near Elk Rap
ids, has recently given birth to twins for
fourth time.
HENRY TURKER, farmer, near Sagi-
nav City, while cutting straw, sliced off
one of his fingers.
GEORGE HAYES, aged 80, died ut Mar
lette. He was one of the oldest pioneers
in Sanilac county.
SUPERVISOR DARWIN A. THOMPSON, of
Branch county, died suddenly, a lew
days ago, of measles.
PORT SANILAc is to have a grist mill
completed and ready for business in sea-
son for the approaching harvest.
The Big Rapids Pioneer Magnet has
cut off the hyphen and last half OF its
name and enlarged the daily edition.
Pop How're, late editor and chief
stoker of the Big Rapids Herald, is now
foreman of the Grinnell Qowa) hide
pendent.
The Saginaw Courier publishes list
OF seventy-three casualties since Nov.
last, in numbering and logging, of which
forty were fatal.
AN East Saginaw man of means has
sent Rev. Tbeo. Nelson, OF that place, a
check for $500, with which TO assist him
to trip to Europe.
HENRY SMALLEY, formerly editor of
the st. Louis Her0Id, died suddenly OF
apoplexy while takinga bath at the San
itarium, in that place.
ONE AND A HALF MILLIONS of white
fish-fry have been deposited in Little
Traverse bay, and 10, 900 brook trout in
the streams near Petoskey.
PETER Coon one of the Oldest citizens
OF Lyons. Ionia county, was found dead
in his bed at his store. ApopleXy Is the
supposed cause of his death.
The fine residence of Benz. Drake, of
Kalamazoo county, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, 50, 500. The furniture and
household goods were saved.
IT is proposed at Detroit to employ
Frederick Law Olmstead for three years
to improve Belle Isle by the Park Com
missioners, at salary of 81, 900.
The Battle Greek Common Council
has raised liquor bonds to $4,000, and
it is claimed that several saloon keepers
will have TO go ont of the business.
A SILVER watch lost near Coldwater, a
year ago, has been found in n plowed
field and restored to its owner When
wound up again it started off as good as
new.
LIQUOR bonds at Ionia are So, 900 a
year, and the Mayor and others con-
nected with the city Government pro-
pose that saloon keepers shall live up to
the strict letter of the law, it is as
serted.
LIVINGSTON county Democrat Twenty
thousand dollars have been guaranteed
to manufacture Teasdale's fruit evap-
orator in Howell, and run "a large fruit
drying establishment in connection
Herewith.
MUSHROOM NeUs: Seven years ago
potatoes sold for 25 cents per bushel to
the groceries, and anybody who would
go to farmers pit and take them ont
was welcome to all he could carry away.
To-day they sell for 81. 20, and half the
farmers in this vicinity will be obliged
to purchase tubers for planting.
FRANK WILSON is wanted at East
Saginaw for skipping with horse ana
buggy which he hired at Fred Graves
livery-stable. Twenty five dollars re-
ward is offered for the return of the prop
erty, and $25 more for the apprehension
of the thief. Sorrel horse, white stripe
in the face, heavy tail, sprung in the
knees little, top side-bar buggy.
A VERY singular circumstance hap
pened on the farm of Edward Youmans,
near Farwell, Clare county. Mr.. You-
mans went to dinner and left his oxen
eating hay at some little distance from
the house, and on returning after dim
ner he found both oxen dead one with
his neck broken and the other APP
parently choked to death.
The inquest over the remains of John
Goheen, who disappeared last Novem-
Der from Saginaw, and whose body was
found some days ago in the river ut that
place, resulted in verdict that his
death was caused by blow on the head
from club or some other instrument,
breaking his skull, after which his body
was doubtless thrown into the river.
HUGH M. SKATER, Kalamazoo
county pioneer, and leading citizen of
Galesburg for fifty years, died recently
of dropsy. He was of the noted Snafter
family of Vermont. Oscar and James
M. Shafter, two eminent lawyers so well
known in California, were his brothers.
Oscar, at his death few years ago, was
Judge of the Supreme Court OF CAL
ifornia.
ITHACA Journal! Mrs. Charles Vro-
man, of this village, had somewhat
singular and painful experience. 1t ap-
pears that Mr.. V. had set a steel trap
near his hog-pen for the purpose of
catching rats. A ferret, kept about the
mill, got caught in this trap and made
such fuss over it that Mrs. V. went to
its relief The ferret, however, seized
her by the thumb with it's teeth. The
cries of Mrs. V. soon brought II. b. Fox
to her relief, as he resides hard by. He
showed his jack-knife down the ferret's
throat, but it stubbornly refueed to let
go its grip. Just then j. j. Matthews
happened along, when he procured n
stick and pricd the ferret's jaws apart,
thus liberating Mrs. V. from her painful
position.
SoNE Of the friends of Sheriff John