The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-01


ALMos NECK. of Rochester, has watch
100 years old.
The clover-seed crop Is pretty near a fail
uro in Michigan.
A TOOTH-PICK factory I'm Harbor Springs
uses ~, 900 cords of wood per annum.
THE lively town of Osweyo gives nourish-
mcnt to twenty-five manufacturing institu-
tons.
THE Flint wooden mills are now turning out
300 yards of cloth and 200 pounds of yarn
daily.
Inch boards bedded in pure beach sand
form the basis for cedar-block pavement in
East Saginaw.
MRS. SToLL, OF Pontiac, died recently from
the effects of removal of twenty pound
tumor from her side.
THE German Lutheran school at Adrian
has been closed on account of the prevalence
of typhoid fever.
A YOUNG lad named La France was acct
dentally shot and killed. near Altoona, bya
hunter, who mistook him for bear
j. CAMPIoN, of Midland county, suspected
OF dealing in counterfeit money, has boon
acquitted and discharged from custody.
A MANIAC is roaming IN the woods south of
Ithaca in nude state, and all attempts 10
capture him thus far have been unsuccessful.
BY the bursting Of a grindstone in the
works of the Michigan Stove company, at
Detroit, Michael Poctrikas was instantly
killed.
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near Portage, was cut in rude characters the
following words Lake Simcoe, August,
1917"
JOSEPH HILDRETH CARTER, of Ann Arbor
who is only IL years old, was recently sem
fenced to the Reform school for five years for
horse-stealing.
PORTIONS of the skt Teton of some huge an
imal probably fourteen or more feet long in
life, have been unearthed on the fasm of A.
Frazier near Corunna.
PHYSICIANS have until Dec. 0 to register.
Those unregistered, after that daee cannot
collect fees for practice. The fee for regis
tering with the County Clerk is 80 cent?.
ALpENA Argus: There is a man in this
country who boasts that he has killed 100 deer,
and that the carcasses were left on the ground
TO rot.
JOHN HANLEY, Canadian 30 years old,
had his skull crushed by falling tree at
Cameron Merrll's camp, near Beaver
Lake. His body was brought TO Saginaw,
which has been his home for some years.
CHARGES of fraud are being made b1a Flint
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for building an addition TO the Deaf and
Dumb institute was awarded to person
whose figures amounted to $4,000 more than
the lowest bid.
THERE is now on exhibition at the Office OF
the Coldwater Journal a stone which, on
being broken open in the process of dressing
il TO fit into wall, showed that it contained
two large iron nails. The nails are still com
paratively rusty. The stone is very hard.
JUDGE GEDDEs, of Lcnawee county, has APP
pointed Josephus NJ. Robertson, of Blissfeld,
a special commissioner to straighten, clean
out, widen and deepen the river Raisn from
the junction of its two branches in the town
| ship of Ralsn, Lenawee county, to its outlet
! in Lake Erie
THE principal event of last week was the
killing of large bear by Russell Fisher and
| George Main. The bears had been destroy
ing Fishers corn for some time so they con-
| cluded to wait and watch, and, If possible,
shoot them. At s o'clock the bear came
directly in front of the house and looked up
to see what he could see. The boys saw more
than he did and shot an ounce ball between
his eyes, which probably killed him, though
they didn't cease firing until he stopped
! trying to get away He weighed 225 pounds,
and they hauled him over here the next day
for the people to see. There have been sew
eral others shot, but they managed to get
away Mr.. Rangdel, just west of here, shot
one, struck it with his gun, and finally "went
! for it" with his knife, and even jumped on
! its back and stabbed 1t repeatedly, but it bore
! him Off toward the bushes, so he had to let go
and return home minus his bear.-Grdnd
! Traverse Herald.
COMING down on the road the other day
from Detroit was young woman who had
her heart set on being the first one to get of
the cars at Owosso. The engine Stacked up a
| little, and the young woman who was about
TO give an exhibition of her agility in getting
Off train of cars very quick, while they
were in motion, made her calculations, and,
striking an attitude about as graceful as that
of woman, who is splitting wood or fright
ening chickens she let herself go. Before
she got through with the acrobatic act she
was performing in the sand, every part of
her franc had pounded the soft earth. The
| $50 people who stood about the depot were in
perfect amazement at the whirlwind of sand,
hustle, hair, striped hose, ribbon and crino-
line that was taking place at the rear end of
the cars. When the momentum had ceased
and the form. of the misguided young woman
lay in n dsordered heap on the ground the
crowd rushed to her assistance "Are you
hurt?" "Can you stand?' and similar ques-
tons were asked her, but she made no reply.
| She soon recovered from the shock, however,
and her first thought was her bangs" Both
hands flew to her forehead to examine the
condition of the gorilla-like fringe that was
hanging there. She adjusted it, and then re-
marked, I'm all right" Her hat was found
about twenty feet from the spot where dire
| had an racently reiuned which she