The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-03

MICHIGAN AFFAlkS.
PIGEONS have not visited Kalamazoo
county in many years
A ]. STERLING, of East Saginaw, has
bright girl baby, days old, weighing two
pounds and six ounces
BOILER explosion In the saw-mill Of No
bles a Benedict, near Sand Beach, Mich,
cauaed the death of Charles Slower, the en-
glneer
MAGGIE PEAKE q patient I'm the Kalamazoo
Insane Asylum, committed suicide by tying
a strip of cotton around her neck till she
choked to death
DRovEE from Morenci, was beaten out
of 1905 As by three-card monte men on a
train between Erie and Cleveland, and was
sent home free by the railroad company.
AS member of the Salvation Army at
Adrian was praying for a stalwaTt young
sinner he grew personal, and used the
young mans name very pointedly in his
petition. Thereupon the unconverted
youth fell upon the petitioner and smote
him hip and thigh
THE resignation of DR.. Franklin, who for
five years has occupied the chair of surgery
and clinical surgery in the Department of
Homeopathy of the Michigan University, has
been accepted, and the doctor will return
at once to St Louis, his former home.
THE little village of Renus, which is stu
ated some five miles from Mecosta, is in q
state of intense excitement over the at
tempt of G. " Hane, young druggist of
hat 1ace IN commit M, nurrona ON
year old girl named Cameron Hane is
married man and has a child, and has here
tofore borne good reputation
In February last Solomon j. Smith was ar
rested and kept in Jail one night in Adrian,
on criminal complaint On examination
he was discharged He has now sued the
complaining witness, Charles Z. Collins, Of
Macon, for S. coo damages, claiming that he
took cold and was injured in health while on
the way to and in jail
JAMES NJ KELSEY, farmer living near
Mooreville, in York Township, was struck by
q freight train on the Toledo, Ann Arbor
and Grand Trunk railway and thrown dis
lance of twenty PAGES. Fortunately, he es-
capped without any broken bones, but was
so badly bruised and shaken that he win be
confined to his bed for several weeks.
A GRATIoT county school teacher whipped
an S-year-old boy because he did not prop
erly learn the multiplication table. The
boy went home and complained of severe
pain in the spine and abdomen, and in few
days he died The teacher is under arrest
for assault and battery. He says that he
only struck the boy six times with pointer
and not violently.
A PECULIARLY interesting case is on trial in
the Circuit Court at Bay City-the Second
National Bank VS.. Henry Schindehette The
bank paid a New York draft which bore
Schindehette's name, and which afterward
was proven to be forgery. Schindehettes
Endorsement was given upon the solicitation
of the maker, who stopped at Schindehette's
hotel The bank sues Schindehette for the
amount Of the draft.
Mr.. MASON BRYANT, of Hudson, was un-
loading hay in his barn, when a large har-
pooh pitchfork, worked by horsepower.
broke from its fastenings near the roof and
fell, one or the tines striking him on the
left cheek, penetrating it, passing through
his tongue, nearly severing it, and coming
out of his right cheek, tearing it out to his
mouth Several teeth were knocked out
and both cheeks and tongue were horribly
lacerated.
AT the laying of a cornerstone of new
church in Saginaw City, Hon b. o. Williams,
of Owosso, said he was present at the laying
of the corner stone of Ste Anne's Church.
in Detroit, in 1Sl7-the first ceremony of the
kind held in the great Northwest Territory.
He first visited the Saginaw valley fifty
three or fifty -four years ago, when three or
four French families few hundred In
dams, and fort were the only representa-
tives Of the city.
THE Coldwater National Bank was robbed
of box of valuable jewelry, the property
of the Hon Henry G. Lewis, the President
Of the bank The cashier was alone in the
bank at the time and was busy, when a man
entered the rear door and stole inside the
counter and into the vault His retreat
made a slight noise which the cashier
noticed. The party with whom he was en-
gagged slipped out suddenly, leaving about
$50 in the bank. The two were soon joined
by third, when all three left in buggy.
Citizens and officers followed in hot pursuit
and headed them off, but being poorly
armed were bullied by the robbers, who
then got q considerable start
Health, In MicI,tUuu