The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-04-17
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

A SAGINAW CITY man catches nsh in his
flooded cellar.
HILLsDALE COUNTY fruit growers say
prospects are grand.
MICHIGAN mills last year turned out $780,
900, 900 feet of lumber.
THE wolves are very numerous and trouble
some In Presque Isle County.
EAST. SAGINAW officially gave up standard
time and went back to the old style.
Two sAULr STE. MARR boys on snow
shoes recently gave chase to deer and capt
ured 1t.
A CHEBoYoAS man Is proceeding against
parties whom he alleges robbed him twonty
years ago.
IsHPEMSo, in relation to Its number of in
habitants, has tho largest foreign population
OF any city in the Union.
GEORGE wISAss, of Kalamazoo has an
autograph letter written by President Lincoln
three weeks before his death.
TwENTy-NINE persons convicted OF various
crimes In Indian Territory have been shipped
to tho House of Correction ut Detroit.
YPsILANTI is said to BIO named after tho
Greek chieftain. made famous by the speech
of Henry Clay on the Greek revolution.
THE maple sugar crop-thc real article
from the woods-will be light In Michigan
this year. Any amount OF the store variety
will be sold.
THE Kalkaslka Agricultural Society intend
to lay out large sum of money In improve
ments, and will try TO furnish the best agri-
cultural fair of Northern Michigan next fall.
NATHAN Fl. PIERCE, an old citizen OF Ann
Arbor, is dead, aged Ga years. Ho was Ser.
geant-atArms of the State Senate in 1857,
and at various times had held the Offices Of
City Marshal, Deputy Sheriff Of washtenaw
County, and Deputy United States Revenue
Collector.
A LARGE number of farmers in the vicinity
Of Visksburg and Portage invested in IS
soap, and afterward came to the conclusion
that the $40 bill shown them In one of tho
boxes was a swindling bait to lure them on.
warrant was sworn out by one of tho vic
tins, but the sharpers had rushed business,
taken a south-bound train at Mendon, and
got out Of the State.
IT Is said letter has been received at Chess
aiming from Kansas, announcing the fact that
William Smeaton, for twenty-five years a
resident of Chesaning and Brady, and who
sold his farm and moved to Kansas last sum
mer, has shot and killed his wife. The muir
dered woman was the daughter of David
Lowell, n well-to-do farmer of Chesaning, and
leaves several children.
THREE prisoners made their escape from
the County jail at Ann Arbor by digging
through the jail wall Their names are w.
A. Howell, alias John Perry, recently dis
| charged from the State Prison, William Lor-
anger, and James Eaton, colored.. The three
were awaiting trial, the first on a charge of
| obtaining money under false pretenses and
the last two on the charge Of stealing chick
ems. Perry is the detective who gained some
notorety in the first proceedings in the
Crouch case. They had little difficulty in
making an opening large enough TO admit Of
their escape with only a caseknife and an
iron bar, wrenchcd from the interior of the
ALL as their tools. The Jail is in such con-
dtion that the only obstacle to liberty that
prisoner finds is a wall composed of rotten
plank and brick The mortar holding the
brick in place can be detached with the
fingers, and vigorous kick is sufficient to
break the plank sheathing In the interior.
There was originally lining Of boiler
iron, but owing to the decay of the plank
large portion of this has been torn of at
different times by prisoners.
Health In Michigan.
Reports TO the State Board of Health, Lansing.
by observers Of diseases in different parts of the
State show the principal diseases which caused
most sickness in Michigan during the week
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