The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-17

SAMUEL O'DEA, of Oscoda. had tho toes OF
his right foot sawed of WIN le trying to kick
piece of pine away from small saw.
DURING fire at West Bay City. q girl OF
10 years ran back into burning building TO
save a baby which had been forgotten.
Both were burned. but not dangerously
TIM two resident buyers of Oswego have
purchased 80, 900 pounds OF wool this year
The average price was a trifie more than
2911 cents per pound
THE Pope has sent q picture TO be exhib-
tied at the Detroit Art-Loan Exposition
which he will contribute to the permanent
museum. should the society form one
PONTIAC Biz Poster: The Orchard Lake
Military Academy Is to have new $50 OO0
buildings after the plans Of w. T. Brown, OF
Detroit They will be commenced at an early
date, and are to built of brick, with stone
trimmings
GorTIIEB HELLER, OF Lima, became sud
denly raving maniac, and has been sent to
the Pontiac Asylum Fred Kaercher. aged
70, who had been taking care of Hell or, went
home soon after and suddenly fell dead OF
heart disease.
A srREET-cAn conductor In Saginaw allowed
his children to play with his ell-punch, and
was informed next day by the company
that he was Q, 800 $50 fares short He offers
to leave his children In pawn until he makes
up the money.
EXTENSIVE and thorough repairs are being
made at the State Normal School, and the
grounds in the rear are being graded The
main building Is being painted outside and
In, the halls and corridors grained, the walls
and ceilings tinted and calcimined, and tho
chapel grained and fresooed-al at an ex-
pense of over $4,000
Ed PARKER, Of Evart obtained $40 OF an
attorney, giving ohattel mortgage on
team. He then went to Canada or else
where, and 1t is alleged that the team
proved to belong to some one else. Parker
was found at Midland, where he was
arrested and taken To the Hersey jail
| SAGINAW Herald: Taken as a whole, our
information Is that except clover, corn and
marsh hay, the crops in Saginaw county viii
be fully up to the average this year. Fruit
Is light and poor, apples and plums, gener-
ally. total failure With fair We ather for
the next four or six weeks, farmers will
find the year reasonably favorable
THE boiler of portable engine used to
out fuel for the locomotives on the A w.
Wright Lumber Companys log railroad, in
Roscommon county, exploded, killing the
engineer, Philip Breard, and two employees
named Abraham Cole and Fred Oulette.
! Samuel MoClelland was also considerably
hurt Low water is attributed as the cause.
! GREAT excitement prevails in the town Of
East Tawas, Tawas City, and Au Sable over
violations of the liquor laws, and many az
rests have been made One OF the sensa-
tonal features of the trouble at East Tawas
was the recent beating OF Chicago man
named Henry Davis by an indignant lady,
the weapon of attack being her trusty para
sol
EUN1CE POTTER, 16-year-old daughter of
Henry Potter, of Williamsburg, attempted
to poison her father by putting paris green
into raisins and the raislns into rice pud-
ding and giving the pudding to her father.
( He was taken very i'll, and would have died
but for the prompt use OF the stomach
pump The girl confessed the crime, and
was sentenced to five years at Adrian
LAFAYETTE WOODRUFF, of Henrietta, aban-
doned her husband and child, last spring.
and disappeared with George Heughtelling,
who also left his family. After roaming
around with him. and becoming tired of
that kind of living she left him, and finally
turned up in Henrietta again, where her
patient husband has been waiting to wei
come her back IL she Is disposed to settle
| down
Tm Oscoda Salt and Lumber Company's
iron mill, at Oscoda, burned 1t is total
/ loss Two hundred men are thrown out OF
employment The mill was partially insured.
The cause of the fire is unknown The min
was one of the best in the State, and its
destruction is great loss to the place as
well as the company. The mill was built In
1879 and cost s75,0Oa. The insurance
amounts to 1000, divided among sixteen
companies
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