The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-10-25

SENATOR PALMER has subscribed literally
TO help the East Saginaw Unitarians build a
church.
ROBERT CoAprLER, an old resident of To-
cumseh, committed suicide on his wife's
grave in the village cemetery.
GIRL named Trimmer, only years old,
fell into place where celery il washed in
Kalamazoo recently, and was drowned
The Saginaw Courier estimates the lumber
cut of the Saginaw river mills at S7O,OOOOO0
feet. That is nearly 100000 feet less than
last year.
A DETROIT cripple, after hanging for near
ly an hour TO pier I'm the river recently, was
finally rescued by an officer in an exhausted
condition.
Two SISTERS, wives OF farmers i'm Mccosta
county, have become violently insane through
religious excitement and have been taken by
an officer TO Grand Rapids.
WHILE the men were at dinner the saw.
single and planning mill of Andrew Hettin-
ger at Melita, Bay county, caught fire and
burned with all its contents. Loss, $4,000;
no insurance.
last session OF the legislature makes it the
duty of the owner, proprietor, lessee or keep
er of any hotel or inn more than two stories
high 10 provide suitable ladders or other safe
fire-escapes, from each and every floor above
the second story, and each room thereon OF
such building. .
THE new law prohibiting the expectation OF
deer, wild turkey and quail from Canada has
now taken effect, and sportsmen are deter
mined to have it ssrictly enforced. Hundreds
of pounds of game have been annually
slaughtered by hunters from the States, and
the law is designed to shut them out. The
penalty is $500 for each offense.
\ CORRESPONDENT calls attention to
item in the Detroit Nclcs and other papers
concerning colored female lawyers two of
whom were alleged TO be in practice in this
country, and states that the one credited to
Michigan is not colored. The article origin
ally appeared in a Southern colored newspa-
per and was indorscd by "a Washington law
journal.
n. a. PARKER, attorney ut law, Frankfort,
has specimen of prehistoric times in the
portion of Indian body-with face, part of
skull and thoraX complete-showing the tissue
of flesh and muscle. This specimen was
found by the caving Of a bank, and uncover
ing the body. There Is tuft of hair over
one temple-and the teeth are all complete.
The head-dress was made of unique braid
ing of leather, with large number of tassels
of buffalo hair incased in triangular prisms
of copper. This copper has seemed to form
sulphate through the action of the body and
SOIL and had preservative influence on the
tissues of the face. This specimen ought to
be in the hands of some antiquarian, who
would find it n link in the chain of the past
Frankfort Express.
BERGMAN, the Cleveland diver, tells the
following story: "Once l went up TO Twin
lakes, near Gilcad, to dive for the body of n
man who had gone in swimming with two
companions. | found an immense concourse
of people on the shore. The gricf-stricken
mother had erected IA stand, and was doing an
immense business in sandwiches and circus
lemonade. a collection of $500 for her and
her sons children had been taken up, and
part of it had been set apart to pay me and
foot the burial expenses. | searched several
hours, but found no body. Months afterward
l met man from that region, and he saidi
Say, mister, do you know why you couldn't
find that body? j gave it up. why the
fellow was up the pineres of Michigan.
When he sank he swan to the other shore,
where he had another suit of clothes hid. He
wanted to get away from his wife, and that's
the way he did it."
THE report of the State Salt Inspector for
September shows the product inspected dur
ing the month to have been: