The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-04-21

KALAMAZOO asylum is full.

KALAMAZOO asylum is full.
IMMIGRANT Swedes are going into the
Traverse bay region this season.
The Mayor and Common Council OF
Laporte, Ind, have been visiting Kala-
mazOo.
The charcoal kilns to be built al
Orona, Osceola county, will employ 10C
men.
A NEW Catholic church il to be built
at Alpena, to be known rs st. Bernard's
Church.
In some parts of Calhoun county wild
geese are so bold as to visit the corn
cribs of farmers.
In the township OF Kalamazoo 1920 OF
the dog tax must go to pay for sheep
killed by the ours.
IT is reported that there are nineteen
iron properties under lease in and about
Crystal Falls at the present time.
The city of Muskegon is making ar
rangements to transpose the old ceme-
terry into public park.
MAPLE RAPIDS Dispatch: Wheat Is
looking remarkably well this spring,
many farmers saying they never saw it
better.
GREAT faith is felt along the whole
line of the proposed Ovid and Traverse
Bay railroad in the ultimate success of
that project.
JOHN TEATs, farmer near Mount
Clemens, had his neck broken by a
horse. He was leading the animal to
water, when it gave sudden jerk.
WILLIAM HATCH, born in 1885 and a
resident of the township of Homer, Cal
houn county, since 1910, attended the
polls and voted at the late election.
THE Eclipse Hose Company No. 2, of
Reed City. is making pre- arations for
the Big Rapids tournament, and has
ordered hose cart from Seneca Falls.
NELSON PEAsE, aged 10 years, son
of l.. II. Pease, a farmer living two
miles south OF Maple Rapids, was
thrown from horse and had his leg
broken.
THE net profit of the iron mines Of
the Upper Peninsula If Michigan last
year exceeded in amount those of all the
gold and silver mines OF the whole
United States.
JOHN FEFLER, while endeavoring to
cross a small lake on some logs, near
Harrison, Clare county, fell in and was
drowned. He leaves wife and eight
children in destitute circumstance
ALBERT FAIRCHILD, who was sent from
Mecosta county to State prison for life
one year ago last January for setting fire
to some bu ldings in Morley, has been
granted n new trial.
KALAMAZOO Gazette On election day
there was a family i'll this city in which
a birth, child baptism, a wedding and
death occurred, the actor OF each oil
these events being different person.
Two YOUNG men, who went from Chi.
cago to Battle Greek to work on the
Grand Trunk IA lroad. broke out with
smallpox shortly after their arrival.
They were removed to the pest-house.
ROMEO Observer: Sanilac county
failed to get satisfactory railroad con
nection with Detroit, but baby with
two heads has been born up there, which
is greater distinction, if not as protita'
BILE.
Mrs. ELIZA HODGES, poor, hard
working woman of Saranac, lost all the
money she had by her pocketbook acci.
dentaly falling into the fire. Citizens
promptly made up purse to reimburse
her.
FIRE destroyed about 10000 bushels
of charcoal, together with the coal sheds
in which it was stored. and the carpenter
and blacksmith shops of the Spring
Lake Ton Company, OF Fruitport. The
loss is 50, 900; no insurance.
BURGLARS forced an entrance to the
drug store of Hamilton Bros. lat Eaton
Rapids, drilled and blew open the safe
and secured $3.50 in cash and postage
stamps TO the amount of $50. The safe
was large and almost new, and was seri-
ously damaged.
REED CRY, Osceola county, numbers
1900, and is In a prospecting condition
| The amount expended for building pur
poses during the year 1881 was nearly
double the amount for 1880.
"THE Big Rapids wagon works" is the
name of $50, 900 stock company jus
organized at Big Rapids, which expects
to give employment to fifty men. The
site for the works is an advantageous
one at the upper or Tioga dam.
Mrs. LIBBIE ARTISAN was knocke.
down with club and robbed of small
amount of money by John Collins a
Battle Creek. Collins left Mrs. Artisan
for dead and left town, but was captured
on the train and is now in Jail at Mar
shall. Both were colored.
HANCOCK Mining Journal On Mon
day afternoon half stick of Hercule
powder was found among the rocl
dumped into the bins at the Osceol'
mill. How it got there is mystery
and what the result would have been
had it got under one of the stamp heads
imagination only can tell.
A 2-YEAR-oLD child of A. Cochran
in Winfield, Eaton county. fell through
six-inch stovepipe hole 10 feet upol
the stove below but, beyond soaring
the hired girl to death, no harm wa
done, except few bruises. Sworn t.
before notary public by one of tn
leading citizens of Eaton county.
On Klockidy creek, Ogemaw county
l.. Grunnell took a cant hook aud start
ed log which was lodged on the chut
over the dam. The log carried hin
through the chute, under W ter, anon