The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-01

A DUNG factory will be started at Petoskey.
NEIL BowERNAN. residing near Lenawee
Junction. and one OF the old pioneers. died at
the ago OF So.
An ex-slave was elected to the Office Of
Justice of the Peace at Sturgis at the recent
township meeting.
DANIEL TRoUT, man 20 years old. drowned
himself near his home in Trimble County, In
eighteen inches of water.
A LADY in Coldwater has rose-bush, tho
stock of which is only eight inches high, and
bears rose three inches in diameter.
WEST MESDoN man has shipped car
load Of mint roots 10 Muskeson. Michigan
furnishes the world half OF its mint crop
now.
The Quincy Chain Lake Channel Company
propose TO put a new steamer on the lakes
this season suitable for traffic and passenger
service.
HORSE fancers at Pontiac are making
huge efforts to have a track built at the fair
grounds, and liberal subscriptions have al
ready been handed in.
CHARLES MILFORD, aged about 80 years,
fell from lighter lying in slip at the rail-
road dock in East Saginaw, and was drowned.
His body was recovered.
A PIcKEREL was caught in Hanchett Lake,
just south of Quincy, which weighed twenty
six and one-half pounds and measured four
feet ono and one-half inches long.
WHEN a Saginaw man wants a dish Of frogs
he takes basin and n carving fork, goes out
into the street in front OF his residence, and,
cautiously pushing the paving block to one
side, I'm q few moments spears all the family
can get away with in a week.
THE Methodist Episcopal Church Building,
in Saginaw City, was totally destroyed by
fire. 1t was built twenty years ago, and the
society had Just completed arrangements for
a new structure. Loss, $4,000; insured Tor
So, 900. The fire is believed TO have been of
incendiary origin.
GEORGE ALLEN and Louellcn Solomon, in
trying to escape from police officers at Stur-
gis, hid in a hay-stack, where Allen COM
menced to smoke. The stack took fire, and
the woman Solomon was frightfully burned.
Allen was severely scorched. He may re-
cover his companion will die.
EIGHT years ago Thomas Britton, Of Du-
rand, Shiawassee County, had his COW stolen.
| A few days 40 man came to him and said
| he had been converted at the Free Methodist
| meeting; that he had done a great wrong,
| and that he stole a cow and sold 1t to a drover
for s17. He now makes restitution by sur
rendering his only COW.
OK Oct 90 last Nettle Kirke, aged IA years,
q respectable schoolgirl OF East Saginaw,
mysteriously disappeared and no trace Of
her was obtained until one day recently, when
her body was found floating in Ten Eyck's
mill boom. The body was badly deconposed,
but no marks of violence were found. 1t is
supposed that she committed suicide.
FROM April l5 1883, to April 10, 1854, there
have been fifty dramatic exhibitions at the
Kalamazoo Academy of Music, besides sew
eral concerts and number of home enter
tainments. The larger receipts were as fol-
lows: Margaret Mather, 1857; Modteska 1894;
DEVILS Auction, $3.50; Silver King, $3.50; Ada
Gray s475; Thatcher, Primrose & Vests
Ministries, S49s.75.
THE boiler in the grist mill Of Daniel Bath
rick, at Dawson Station, eight miles east Of
Flint, burst with terrible effect. The engine
house and mill were implicitly wrecked, and
portions of the boiler and building were
thrown distance of twenty rods. John
Miller, the Engineer, was buried beneath the
ruins and was rescued In dying condition.
Three other persons who we're near the
building when the explosion occurred, we're
injured but not dangerously. The loss oc-
casoned by the isaster is estimated at about
S., 600. The explosion was caused by low
water in the boiler.