The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-08-11
MICHIGAN NEWS.

factory.
NINETEEN sbingle mills at Manistee
and three at Ludington have shut down.
A BOY named Caleb McCabe, aged 10,
was drowned at East Saginaw, while
bathing.
Mrs. j. f. CLARK, of Charlotte, sud
denly became keaf. Her case puzzles
the doctors.
JOHN BENSON, an engineer at l.. Sands
saw-nill, fell from tug and was
drowned at Owkama.
HENRY DAVIDSON attempted to alb
duct the 4year-old boy of Elder Teal,
at Charlotte. He was arrested and
jailed.
MIR. AND Mrs. OLDs, near st. Joseph.
had child born which only weighs Il
pounds. Nobody can blame them, it is
such little one.
BURGLARS blew open the safe in the
office Of Ii. Barrows, at Armada, Ma
comb county, and stole $1,000. No
clew to the rascals.
CHARLES WHITE, express driver at
Battle Creek, killed himself with NOR
phine because he was arrested on a
charge of stealing trunk.
AT Marshall, William Conway, while
putting ont a light at the railroad sema-
phore, fell forty feet, breaking an arm
and receiving bad internal injuries.
JOHN SToNEBREAKER, of Crystal. Mont
calm county, while chasing a calf with
hoe in his hand. fell and cut the cords
of his wrist on the blade of the hoe.
Mrs. CATHARINE KING of East Sagi-
nav, was relieved of a tape-worm 1876
feet long and fve-eighths of an inch
wide. She had been ill eleven years.
AFTER year or two fooling about the
matter, the Sanilac county folks pro-
pose to do something to put stop to
the extensive cattle-stealing going on in
that county.
ELI GALLoP, of Eagle, Eaton county,
lost six acres of wheat in the field by fire
on the Both ult., caused by spark from
a passing railway train, the wheat being
next to the track.
The body of Fred Colvin, Captain of
the schooner Clayton Belle, which WAS
sunk on Lake Huron on April II, was
found floating down the st. Clair river,
ut Port Huron, the other day.
A COMPETITIVE examination will be
held in Port Huron, Sept. 7, for the
selection of candidate to he appointed
to a West Point cadetship from the old
Seventh Congressional district.
JACOB KITE, while shingling on a
house-roof in North Branch, accidentally
hit his head with the hammer, stunning
him. He then rolled off the roof and
broke his back, so that his lower half Is
paralyzed.
AT Lakeside, Berrien county, six
year-old girl named Newland was told
by little boy that he would cut off her
hand if she would lay it on block of
wood. She did so. when he did cut off
three fingers.
A TOTAL of CIT dogs have been i'm
pounded in Detroit during the last three
months. Of these 545 have been
drowned, 80 redeemed, "a sold, % re-
leased, sent to the medical colleges, 2
died. and 80 remain III the pound.
BIGELow, the receiving teller of the
National Bank of the Republic, at Wash
ington, ID. c., and who absconded in
June, because of deficit of SIS 600 in
his accounts, permitted himself to be
arrested at Port Huron the other day.
ANDREW G.. OLSON, of Whitehall, was
convicted the third time of selling liquor
without a bond filed with the County
Treasu or, and sentenced to paw 300
fine, and imprisonment SO days but he
appealed the case like the other two.
LAWRENCE & CuArIN, at Kalamazoo,
are manufacturing the largest pudding
machine in the world for the Chaplin
pneumatic works at Chicago, for the
manufacture of steel and iron by the
newprocess directly from pig-iron.
THE new Women's Christian Temper
ance Union Hall at Manistee, built By
r. G.. Peters and dedicated in May last,
caught fire from a defective furnace and
was totally destroyed. Loss, $50, 900 (;
insured for $l4, 900. 1t will be rebuilt
ut once in better manner than before.
CHARLOTTE Republican At Kalamo,
az John Shaver's harvest hands were
finishing up piece of wheat. rabbit
started. The dog started after the rabbit /;
so did the binder so did the driver; SO did
the horses SO did the reaper. The
rabbit was killed. and the cost of repair
ing the reaper was about $40.
WHILE George Thomas, of Eagle,
Eaton county, was harvesting wheat with
self-binder, the machine suddenly
caught fire from friction and burned
with about three-quarters of an acre OF
wheat. The fire originated underneath
the binding apparatus. and before Mr..
Thomas could get off the reaper and I'm.
hitch his team it was all In flames.
A MUSHROOM dog attacked circular
saw, which he thought was putting on
100 many airs in sawmill. The fight
was lively for few seconds when the
dog retired with one leg sawed off, his
throat cut, his nose split and his teeth
al gone, aud other injuries. He man.
aged to crawl out OF the mill and die
while the saw thoughtfully murmured
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A YOUNG man named Lahart, OF
Bridgehanpton, Sanilac county, was
wounded in the hand 10y revolver on
the Fourth, the ball entering his hand
in the palm and blowing furrow the
whole length of one finger. He was do
ing well, when he went to n logging bee
md drank frequently of whisky. This
incraosed the infiam m alton and lock ia "a