The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-12

The Plymouth village ordinances are to
be revised.
"A law and order league has been organ
lied at Hastings.
1t costs about $40. 900 this year to run
the city Of Apena.
Bay City ladies propose starting an a.
sembly of the Knights Of Labor.
Michigan has fifteen of the forty-Hvs
trout streams in the United States.
-Champlain Green, an old resident Of
Pennington, aged 81, died there recently.
The lumber fleets cannot take away the
lumber as fast as the Manistique mills
cut it.
The City National Bank of Kalamazoo
has been chartered to take the place Of the
old City Bank.
Lansing boasts of more lame and de-
formed men and women than any city Of its
size in the State.
Ed Linsey, Of South Bay City, says
that the black worms have destroyed $500
worth of his onion crop.
Mrs. Arthur Braman attempted suicids
by taking strychnine at Bay City. Thu
stomach pump saved her.
Frank Cutting gets ninety days at the
House of Correction for stealing two pairs
of boots of James Cannon, of Bancroft.
1t was one of the lady students at the
university who said: "No, sir, fish do NOT
have lungs. They breathe with their fms
"A young man at Birmingham has been
acquitted of charge of petit larceny, after
jury trial, the sum involved being So
cents.
The Capital Gate Company, of Lansing,
has built an addition 24x100 feet to its new
works, and when completed will turn out
about 1000 gates every day.
The total shipments Of iron ore up to
May 81 from the Upper Peninsula were 1885,
0S9 tons. Up to the same date last year the
shipments were only 1O8,677 tons.
Farmers Of the far northern counties
have plenty of good potatoes left, which
they are feeding to their hogs rather than
"A veracious commercial traveller is re-
sponsible for the statement that Flint has
more money invested in the liquor business
than any other city Of its size in Michigan.
Judge Daniel Goodwin has presented
the Mackinac Board of Supervisors with
claim for 5000 for extra services rendered
that county as District Judge twenty years
ago.
-Huffman's mineral well at Lansing ia
down eighty feet and is flowing at the rate
of $3.50 gallons Of water every twenty-fou
hours. An analysis of the water is being
made.
Mrs. G. P. Sharman, lady residing
near Alma, Gratiot County, WAS returning
home, when she fell from the wagon and
the wheels passed over her neck, causing
instant death.
AT Oxford farmer drew $500 in o
lottery swindle, and was sent to the bank to
get $500 before he could get his money, but
soon convinced the tiller Of the soil that he
would be $500 out of pocket if he was given
the cash.
"A young man of Morley, Mecosta
County, is threatened with the terrors Of
prosecution by young lady of neighbor-
ing hamlet for sending her letter with the
stamp put on the envelope wrong end up.
No one seems to know under what law the
suit is to be brought or why the young lady
should be so terribly offended.
"A fire occurred in the Canada House al
Big Rapids, which ruined the building.
Loss, $500; insured for 81, 500. The loss
of the proprietors of the house, Chabott q
Trebace, is $4,000. The occupants of the
house barely escaped, leaving all clothing
behind The fire started in the kitchen, and
is supposed to be of incendiary origin.
Health I'm Michigan.
| Reports to the State Board of Health, Lansing.