The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-07-07
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.

ONE WHAT III Day Olty cOntdlns OUU
fishermen.
SoAP-BUBBLE soc;als are the rage in
Battle Greek.
CRoPs are reported in excellent condi-
ton IN Calhoun county.
Four men were injured, in Bay City,
by the fall of scaffold.
w. HALLEcK, aged IL, was bitten by
messasauga near Holly.
THE spire of the nj. f. Church, in
Ovid, was shattered by lightning,
A GIRL in the Kalamazoo paper-mill
found go in package of Iowa rags.
A SON of Ed Lawrence, aged 6 year
was drowned In q cistern at East Sar.
NAV.
THE Schooicraf County Pioneer says
potatoes will be staple crop in that
region.
The Cheboyganites think they have
the liveliest village for its size in the
State.
Crops of all kinds never looked better
in the region around Cheboygan than at
present.
The Cheboygan Tribune says that
trout weighing forty pounds was brought
into that port.
The Episcopalians of Saginaw City are
contemplating the erection of new
church edifice.
THE Albion Republican says $4,000
has been pledged for the erection of
Baptist church in that place.
AT East Saginaw James Logan, a col
ored youth, about Is years Old, was
drowned in Saginaw river while bathing.
IT has been decided 10y the managers
OF the State fair to make chariot racing
one of the attractions of the approaching
exhibition.
BURGLARS entered the house of
Thomas w. Fletcher, city editor of the
Kalamazoo Gazette, and stole SO in cash
and certificate of deposit.
SHIPMENTS of iron ore from the Uppor
Peninsula for the season up to June Is
foot up 726,Sl6 tons, nearly twice as
much as during tho same period last
year.
FooR inches in the Detroit City Hall
are to be filled, at the expense of Beta
Hubbard, with life-size statues of Mar
quette, La Sale, Cadillac and Father
Richard.
DONALD McCAsKELL, a drover from
Manitoba, was robbed of 81, $50 at the
Michigan Central depot in Detroit by
two thieves whose acquaintance he made
III Chicago.
A MAN who assaulted a Kalamazoo
policeman has paid about $40 for it, but
another man who was cruelty beaten and
almost killed by Kalamazoo policeman
hasn't been able yet to recover cent.
Ar Connabell's tile works, in Jack
son, where fifty-three men were at work,
a boiler exploded, killing one man and
fatally scalding another, causing a loss
of 10000.
ALBION College is now firmly estab-
lished, has reached a higher prosperity
than it has ever before known, and both
its resources and current receipts and
the number of students are steadily in.
creasing.
FRANK REED lost the end of his left
middle finger, at Whitehall, under a
saw; and, in the afternoon of the same
day, his brother John lost his left thumb
and two fingers in the same way. 1t
seems to run In the family.
bella HUBBARD has presented Detroit
with stone statues OF Marquette, La
Sale, Cadillac and Father Richard to be
set in as many inches of the Campus
Martius and the Griswold street facades
of the City Hall.
The Bay City Tribune says The
nitro glycerine factory Oh the bay shore
near Oak Grove looks like thing of
death. There are no visitors to it, every
one being kept at distance by the fear
OF being torpedoed.
THE Battle Creek Journal has the fol-
lowing warming: The plasterers and ma
sons in this city complain that they are
overrun with tramp masons, who engage
to work, then borrow money, steal their
tools, and Lave for new fields in which
to repeat their little scheme. Beware of
them.
MISE Mail: Since the "no tax sale
decision editors on the plains are anx-
| iously awaiting the time when the ripen-
ing huckleberries shall furnish them the
means of prolonging a meager existence.
In localities where the life-saving buckle
berry refuses to grow the editors will
probably all die.
HENRY WIGGINs and companion
found a bottle of corrosive sublimate in
a Bay City hotel, and Virgins was put
ting 1T to his lips to taste single drop
and find out what it was when his COM
panion for a joke pushed his elbow,
spilling the fluid on his face and making
him swallow little involuntarily. After
some hours of agony the doctors sue
ceeded in relieving him.
A SON of Oliver Depue, of Galesburg,
aged 6 years, was killed by the cars as
the train was passing the school house.
The child attempted to cross the track,
but seeing the train close on him became
confused, started down the track just
outside the rail and was hit by one cor
nef of the baggage Car.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph saws:
The prizes in spelling at Mt. Holyoke
Seminary were taken by Miss Emma
| Kuhl, of Pueblo, Col. and Miss Mary
7 Clark, of Kalamazoo. The first prize
was q choice edition of Shakespeare in
fifteen small volumes, and the second an
illustrated edition OF Longfellow's