The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-31

-Cioswell's new buildings of last sum-
mer cost $4,000.
A lodge OF colored Good Templars has
been organized at Lansing.
-Four Ann Arbor saloon keepers have
been complained of for keeping open Sun
day.
Citizens in LOOMS are boycotting the
new Postmistress by running an opposition
post.
Canada parties have rented buildings
at Owosso, and will manufacture inside
blinds.
A fine new passenger depot has just
been completed at West Branch, costing
about $4,000.
The calendar of the present term of the
Shiawassee County Court contains nine di-
vorce cases.
The Ann Arbor University Freshmen
are to wear seal-brown "mortar boards, I"
with golden tassels.
-Four boxes of giant powder exploded
ut the Wolverine Mine, blowing the dry
house into little bits.
Frank Hospitaler and q 12-year-old
boy named Either each broke leg while
wrestling at Calumet.
Traverse City's new fire alarm system
will be in operation in a few days. The
boxes at present are six in number.
William Flanagan, recently pardoned
out of the penitentiary by Gov. Alger, was
imprisoned for over thirty three years.
DIR. N. ID. Clark, prominent physician
of Michigan for the past twenty five years,
dropped dead at his home, Chesaning.
Rev. w. H. Milham, fourteen years
Presbyterian pastor at Livonia, N. Y, has
been called to the pastorate Of the same
faith at Hillsdale.
The privilege of appointing cadet for
the Maryland Military Academy, whose
board will be free, has been given to Hon.
f. l.. Dodge, of Lansing.
The big well at the Traverse City Asy-
lum is finished. 1t is sixteen feet in diam
eter, fifty-six feet deep, and already has
seventeen feet of water in it.
S. S. Ellsworth, for several years chief
engineer of the East Saginaw Fire Depart
ment, dropped dead of heart disease. He
was As years old and leaves family.
Secretary Sterling, of the State Agri-
cultural Society, reports 81, 170.25 paid for
premiums awarded at the fair of 1885, and
So, S33.S7 on business orders or for ex-
penses.
1t is thought that the Postoffice at Re-
public. which was burned recently, was
first robbed and set on fire to conceal the
crime. Four years ago 800 was stolen
from the office.
j. H. Alger, an old resident of Bir-
mingham, died at the age of seventy-six
years. He was one of the pioneers of Oak
land and Genesee Counties. He leaves O
wife and four grown children.
The Jackson Wagon Company has re-
ceived an order for several wagons for the
Russian Government, to be shipped to
Odessa, Russia. The order came through
the Russian Vice Consulate at Washington
"A Detroit calendar prints O table head
ed: Michigan legal weights and meas
ures." The people are proud of their legal
weights"-like Cooley and Campbell, Lo-
throp, Pond, and Dickinson. Their names
are frequently found on the calendar,
too.-Free Press.
Work on the University Engineering
Laboratory at Ann Arbor is progressing sc
favorably that it can probably be occupied
before the beginning of the second semes-
ter, Feb. II. The walls are finished and
the roof is being put on.
An undertaken in Detroit was closing
the coffin of Cornelius Flynn, steamboat
fireman, when Coroner Lansing took pos
session of the remains and developed the
fact that his death was caused by MUIR
! derous blow on the skull during an affray
on boat.
Marquette Board of Supervisors have
voted $500 to Nj. j. Griffin, of Ishpeming,
who was shot at Iron River eighteen
months ago by drunken Dane whom he
was trying to arrest. He has been in i'll
health ever since, and the ball can not be
extracted.
Representative Horr's successor ir
Congress, Mr.. Timothy Tarsncy, is said &c
be teller of very funny stories, and there
are hopes that he will swell into the pro-
portions of great American humorist. He
says, however, that he doesn't think the
floor of Congress is the proper place to be
funny.
Arthur Hamilton, who was admitted tc
the hospital at Big Rapids week ago with
| frozen hands, the result of spree and ly.
ing out doors all night in Osceola County
had all the fingers on both hands ampu-
tated. He says he served three years il
the war, enlsting in Company II at Kala.
mazoo, and which company was afterwart
| joined to the Forty fourth Illinois Infantry
As the authors of the Springwell.
/ atrocity would not suffer very much
greater penalty for murder than for burg.
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