The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-08-07

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"A State Teachers Institute will be helt
at Coldwater. commencing August IS. an,
continuing through the week.
Tho Presqus Isle County hay crop Il
being got up in excellent condition and L.
above the average in quality and quantity
William W. Clark. aged 67 years. an ole
pioneer Of Blissfeld, died suddenly afte,
an illness of only three days, Of structure Of
tho colon. Mr.. CLARK came to Blissfeld in
1880 from st. Lawrence County, New York.
-Judson Houghtaling. farmer living
near Bronson. was terribly injured by vi
cious Stallion recently. The horse seized
him by the throat, lacen.ted il fearfully. and
nearly choked him to death. He was res
cuod by neighbor.
While two men were moving in the wesl
part Of the town of Albion they heard the
cry of an infant in the direction Of brush
pile. Upon examination they found o
child about week old, neatly dressed and
secretly tucked away under the brush.
About n week before the same child was
heard crying in the region Of an clubhouse on
the premises of a certain person. The
building was tipped over and the child
was fished out.
In n family at Sand Lake, Barry
County, is child 8 years old, .hea' thy and
we'll formed, able to read, but has never
been able to stand erect, to creep or watS
The boy has n method of locomotion which
is series of tumbles much like the side
wise somerSaults known as cart wheels, >
which circus clowns perform with great
speed He moves with astonishing quick
ness, and never gets hurt. 1t is said that
his is case of prenatal impression, his
mother, a few weeks before his birth, hav..
ing been very much frightened and made
hysterical by the grotesque tumbling of a
circus clown.
Herman Miller, one of the men on
gagged in fence building along the Michigan
Central Railroad, was killed the other day,
one mile east OF nj lrshall The men had
left the handclr on the track opposite or
near where they were at work. The mail
traiA west came along and struck the car
before it was entirely removed from the
track. Miller had hold of the car at the
time and it was hurled by the locomotive on
top of Miller, instantly killing him. No
blame can be attached TO the engineer of
the train. The track Mt the point in ques-
ton was straight for upward of mile and
the men had abundance of time to get the
car ont of the way. As it was, the en-
gineer, at the time of the accident, had the
train controlled, and brought it nearly TO q
standstill. 1t is reported that the men in
charge of the car were under the influence
of liquor mt the time.
&C. l.. Beagle, agent for the Mccormick
machines mt Blssfeld, while returning
home after setting up a binder, overlook a
small man. apparently 30 years old, driving
an irons gray colt, probably three years old,
with open buggy and nickel plated harness.
and noticing he acted suspiciously begin
to converse with him, and, upon pretense Of
wanting to buy the horse and buggy, in
duced him TO come to Blssied The man
offered to sell the rig at first for $3.50, and,
by II little bantering, finally dropped to SIS,
and agreed to take part cash and Mr.. Bea-
gle's note for the balance. Mr.. Beagle say
ing he would get him the money in Bliss
field, got him to go here, and, sending Jus
held the man until Mccain came with OH
Ger Harrington instead, and he was prompt
ly arrested as horsethief and put in the
Jail. He soon weakened and confessed that
the horse was stolen.