The true northerner., 1884-04-24

scHooLoRArr has placed liquor bonds at
90, 900.
FULLY 100 buildings arc now going up ~
Menominee.
MASKED robbers entered house at Harris
vile, robbed 1t, murdered son of the family,
and maltreated the others.
SHEPARDsvILLE may proudly as well as
truthfully boast of having the best church
building of any place Of its size IN Michigan.
MRS. ]. N. SCOTT was the first white person
born on Lake Superior, but she is still young
and spry enough to havo secured the post
mastership at Phoenix.
CAssIUs FISK, of Clinton, has lemon tree
from which he recently picked a ripe lemon
3h inches In diameter, which had been
eighteen months ripening.
CEMENT foundation eighteen inches thick
is laid on tho stratum OF gravel over which
the kalamazoo Court House is built, to pre-
vent any possible settling.
THADDEus DE LAMOsospIER, an Indian
half-breed. the Notary Public of Saginaw
City, is under arrest on the charge of violat-
ing the United States pension law.
THE contract for building the new Lenawee
County Court House has been let to Allen e.
Van Tassel, Of Ionia, the lowest responsible
bidders, for S47, 400, they using stone from
Stony Point, jackson County.
ELEANoRA CLARK, aged Ii years, recently
applied to Detroit Justice TO be sent TO the
Reform School for Girls, claiming that her
homo was so unpleasant rs TO be impossible
| TO live there. Her application was refused.
THE Lincoln Hotel, at standish, owned by
NJ. Mccormick, of Pinconnng, and occupied
by James Ross, was destroyed by fire together
with building adjoining it, owned by Mrs.
| ST. John. The loss on the hotel is covered by
insurance. Ross lost most of his household
| goods.
| RECENTLY some experimental anglers ut
Tecumseh bated their lines with dynamite.
| The result was superfuously successful, and
tho authorities want TO know If Michigan,
who protects her flnny tribes against gun
and spear, will do nothing against blowing
them up.
OWING to the expansion OF the iron floor
under the rotunda at the Capitol, the marble
Goor on the first story adjoining II, leading
to each OF the main corridors, has raised SO
that 1t has become necessary to take por-
ton Of it up and relay it. The work is now
in progress.
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS dealers every
where through Central and Southern Michi-
gan are erecting new buildings and making
| other noticeable improvements preparatory
| to a lively machine trade, which shows their
confidence in the success of the wheat and
other crops this season.
THE following recent deaths Of old settlers
are announced: Mrs. Calkins, pioneer OF
Romeo, aged 90; Mrs. w. w. Smith, of Mar
shall, aged 81; Philander Spencer, Of Ar
mada, aged 70; Mrs. Owen B. Coffin, of Os-
500, Hilsdale County, aged S3; George II.
walton, of Hadley aged II; Justin II. But
Ter, Of Metamora, Lapeer County, aged 20;
John Seeley, former resident OF Galesburg
and Augusta, aged ST. Mrs. Ncwcomb VIII
COX, OF Sherwood, Branch County, aged r.;
David Curtis, in Whitewater Township, aged
81; Mrs. Hewlett, in Dandy, Ionia County,
aged 9s; Calvin Smith, IA pioneer of Novia,
Oakland County, aged "A; Gideon Draper, Of
Armada aged 20; Cyrus Lusk, at Quincy,
aged 65; s. d. Bargess, OF Chesterfield
Macomb County, aged -; Ferris l.. Clements
aged about 60. and an old resident OF Green
Oak, Livingston County; Mrs. Diadema Lcet,
an old pioneer of Utica, Macomb County,
aged Sc; Erastus Clemons of Kalamo Eaton
County, aged 81; Mrs. Capt. Eddy Irons, aged
,3 who first moved to Grand Haven in 1s43,
and then to Pentwater in 1858; Mrs. Marian
Richards, OF Exeter, Monroe County, aged
50; Mrs. Robert N. Fuller, who had lived in
Raisin Valley Lenawee County, since 1886,
aged 70.