The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-15

RIE National womau's Temperance union,
in session ut Detroit, reelected Miss Frances
Il. Willard President
N. II. BELL, OF wahoo, Neb., claims lite Z,
a large area of land on which Elm Hall,
Gratiot county, stands.
FLINr's new water-works system was put
10 several Severe and practical tests lately
and stood them all well.
WILLIAM STERLING. a young man Of Dorr.
feeling that the world was nothing To him.
took poison and killed himself.
THE first domicle erected on Mackinac
island Is now being demolished. mark ON
the timber shows that IL was built in 1929
JNo. +. SWEENEY, who shot Jacob Jonsen at
East Saginaw while Intoxicated, was brought
out of Jail, his bail reduced from $4,000 to
s5, 900 and furnished.
HENRY HEINISGER, OF Chelsea, boasts of
having raised beet that weighs nine and
three-quarters pounds and is fifteen and
half inches in circumference.
AN insane patient at the Bay City hospital,
by tho name of John Benton, jumped from
the hird-story window, but fortunately lodged
On an awning, thereby saving him from
severe injuries.
A DANISH immigrant who passed through
Adrian, bound west, had blanket which he
had brought from Denmark, ana on which
were neatly woven portraits of Garfield, Ar
thur and Hancock.
A HAT identified AS belonging to the miss
ing girl, Nettie Kirke, who disappeared from
Saginaw recently, was found in tie mill boom
at T.. +. Gouds mill, but the body has not
yet been recovered
! A CHICAGO commercial traveller says that
in small village in Northern Michigan no
found notice pinned on the door Of store
which read: Gone 10 bury any wife, will be-
back in thirty minutes
LOWELL Journal: A man from up North
visited the Art Loan In Detroit the other day
and offered 80 for $4,000 painting-frame
and all. He didn't get the picture and was
glad of it afterward, for he went TO n dollar
store and bought one nearly as large for 10
cents. 1t pays to look around.
JOHN ROBERTSON, Adjutant General of the
State, announces the following appointments
In the First brigade: Charles w. Calkins, As
sstant Adjutant General; James II. Kidd.
Assistant Inspector; Joseph G. Herkner AS
sstant Quartcrmaster; WILDER A. Hendrix.
Brigade Surgeon; William A. Butler, Jr.,
ABIDE Camp; Alonzo b. Porter, -de-Camp
YOUNG woman from st. Joseph, Mo-,
named Lungerhausen, was requested by her
rowing husband 10 meet MIN in Saginaw, with
their babe. Failing to find him there, she ap-
"A l,sa
ems. Receiving no encouragement, she adj
minstered morphine to herself and child.
with fatal effect upon the latter. Money il
now being collected for the poor woman.
A SERIOUS accident occurred ut c. X. Eddy
& Sons mill at East Saginaw. Thomas Bah
cock, the foreman, had assembled ladder for
the purpose Of adjusting portion of the
machinery which had gotten out of gear. In
some unaccountable manner he fell from the
ladder to the floor beneath, his skull being
fractured and left side OF his face terribly
laccrated. The injuries TO his face were OF
such character that the removal of the left
eye was necessitatcd, which operation was
successfully performed, but his recovery il
considered doubtful.
THE following is CLEANED from the annua,
session Of the Apena Board of Supervis ors:
Paupers cost during the year Si,45S.7l, of
which 81, 956. As was for the relief of paupers
outside the county poor-house. Twenty men
and four women were maintained in the poor
house, OF the following nationality: Ameri-
cans, 8; Canadians, q; French, 3; Irish. 4;
Germans, Poles and Norwcgians, | each.
Temporary relief was given TO over 200 per-
sons, representing tifty-threc families. Tho
State and county tax apportioned TO Alpcna
city is $40. 100. 40. The assessed valuation OF
Alpena city, as equalized, is 81, 533,000
MICHIGAN has taken many prizes at the In
ternaional Fisheries exhibition ut London
In the United States department of that ex-
hibition were hung the shields of all the States
in the Union with the exception of that of
Michigan. When Detroiter asked the man
in charge the cause of this omission, as Mich
gan was certainly one of the most important
States for frcsh-watcr fishing and for fish
culture, the answer was that there was no
room. When it was pointed out that there
were several vacant places, he said he guessed
Michigan was forgotten. However, the
Wolverine State was there when tho prizes
came TO be given out, and that is the main
thing.