The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-06

FIRE destroyed $4,000 worth of lumber at
Churchills wharf Alpena Insurance, sls-
OO0
FATHER CHAMBuLE, one OF the pioneer
Catholic priests of Detroit, is dead, aged 81
years
OVER 5000 pounds of fish have been taken
from the two Herring lakes in Benzie county
this spring.
FISHING along the north shore Of Lake
Michigan Is very poor this season, the catch
being the lghtest known for years
THE water-works company at Adrian,
after going down twenty-five or thirty feet.
struck a vein OF quicksand sixty feet thick
NOTORIOUS house on the outskirts of
Coldwater, kept by Josie Myers was burned.
together with the contents and apparel of
the inmates. Total loss about $4,000; in
sured for 900
FROM motives of mischief, disguised a.
svirtuous indignation" certain wild citizens
made raid on the Frost House. at the Sand
hill, near st. Louis, Gratiot county, and de-
molished doors and windows The inmates
fed in terror.
The residence of Dr. House of Tecumseh
was entered by burglar The doctor pur-
sued the robber, ran him into fence cor
ner, covered him with a revolver and made
him surrender He was taken to jail at
Adrian He gives his name as Dunlap and
says that he lives in Ann Arbor.
AT LAnse, recently, little boy was kicked
to death by circus horse. He was leading
the horse to water, and had twisted the
strap to his wrist The horse became I'M
manageable, and the boy was thrown down,
dragged some distance, and kicked SO
severely that he died in about an hour.
MISUNDERSTANDING LUDNGToN, of Huron
county gives the following as the dates
when apple trees came into full leaf and
bloom Eighteen hundred and fifty, May
81; 1852, June Is, the latest recorded; 1860,
June 1; 1869, May 80; 1871, May %; 1873, June
/; 1875, June L; 1880, May 10, the earliest for
thirty years; 1882, June 8; 1888, June 5.
AMENzo MELENDY sold and delivered to s.
B. Mallory, hog that weighed $40 pounds.
On Saturday, June 16, the hog was sold and
again weighed, this time, only seventeen
days from the time it was bought, it
brought down the scales at AS pounds,
gain of los pounds or little over six
pounds day for the seventeen days
Reading Telephone.
FRED c. FIFIELD was recently lost In the
woods of Penoka range He worked him
self to camp after being out five nights and
four days He luckily had matches with
him. and by burning dry limbs managed to
keep warm during the nights. He had moth
ing to eat during this time, and he kept up
.is pluck through the whole time About
sorty men were searching for him, but he
came out without striking them.
YOUNG man, accompanied by q young
woman, apparently not over IS yesgs of age,
came into Vaudeville in search of a legal
adviser After finding the proper person,
they proceeded TO state their case, as fol-
lows: The young lady had been married
twice She left her first husband; he mar
ried again Her second husband she left
Sut he remains unmarried She now wishes
to unite her destiny with that of the young
man who accompanied her. The young man
was evidently afraid his fair one would take
wings and fly away, and 80 he kept close
hold of her haLl during their meanderings
around town.
MARTIN BRoPHEY, farnsS- whose home is
in the Gown of New Haven, nortSs Of Owosso,
was beaten to death at West Owosso by Jack
Phelps or Phillips, and Arthur Steinhc2
two individuals who had been on heavy
caroucsl Meeting Brophey in the street
they struck him and then chased him Ow-
ing to the hour Brophey was unable to find
protection and was overtaken and beaten to
insansibility, dying soon after the ruz6ans
left him. Steinhoff was arrested, and
officers are in pursuit of Phelps Brophey
was an Industrious and respectable man, and
leaves family.
A DEPLoRABLE attempt = self-destruction
was made by Mrs PerrytCollins, of Deerfeld
township. Mrs. Collins is only-16 years q
see, and lives with her husband in the same
house with his parents, who are well-known
and highly -respeeted people. Mrs Collins
and her mother-in-law did not get on well
together, and the younger lady, whose
parents have moved North since her map
riage, is supposed to have become homesick.
| At any rate, she went to Deerfield village,
and securing enough Paris green to poison
q dozen men, ate it all. The great quantity
! taken and the timely efforts of DR.. Yale, who
was summoned, alone saved her life.
Health In Michigan.
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