The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-02-05


live place for them.
Flint roughs insult ladies' at the Saliva
tion Army meetings
"A very fine feldspar mine is being
worked near Republic, Marquette County.
Adrian claims to have smaller num-
Der of Hebrew residents than any other city
in the State.
Bay City's test salt-well has reached
depth of 2,570 feet, and formation Of
black shale has been struck.
Kalamazoo has Young Mems Chris
tian Association, organized with the I'M
usually large number of seventy charter
members.
There is profit Of $50. O0oa year made
in the coopering business at Flint Six
shops divide the bonanza and $50 men do
the work.
"A son of United States Senator Con-
ger was last week married to daughter Of
Mr. John b. Lyon, one of Chicagos chief
grain merchants and shippers.
The Clinton Union has an opinion that
Albion should support its newspapers bet
ter, and support better newspapers at the
same time, before it talks of becoming q
city.
So little business is transacted ut, and
drummers so scarce in Battle Creek, that
the Journal takes occasion TO say: Two
travelling men were seen on the streets this
morning.
George Post, Of Dansyille, had some
words with his father and went and hanged
himself. He was cut down and resusci-
tated, but declares that he will repeat the
attempt at the first opportunity.
Bargains" may be found in small
cities as well as large, says the Detroit
Ners. A little grocery around the corner
in Owosso announces great slaughter
sale of sauerkraut and clothes pins.
The veteran Democrat, Col. Edward
Sawyer. of Grand Blanc, is probably one
of the oldest living Masons. Col. Sawyer
was born in Oxford, N. H., Aug. ~, 1888,
and was made Mason in 1909, at the age
of 81.
The Clerk of Calhoun County was
asked by some farmers to seal milk meas
ures for them. He first thought it was a
joke. but, having looked up the law, app
piled to the Treasurer. The Treasurer
hadn't any standard, and couldn't get any
from Lansing, but the Marshall Township
Clerk finally came to the rescue, and the
farmers got their measures sealed with due
form and ceremony.
News has just been received of the
finding of the body of j. N. Smith, for
merly resident of Bath, Clinton County,
who was lost in Dakota blizzard Dec. 90;
also the body of his travelling companion,
Charles Cole. Mr.. Smith was one of the
most prominent farmers of Michigan. He
left Lansing some weeks ago with some
brood horses for his Dakota stock ranch,
and, while driving through from the rail-
road terminus was overtaken by the bliz-
card, and his men became separated Smith
and Cole were never heard of again until
they were found wrapped in their blankets,
for them. Smith was over so years of age,
and leaves family in Lansing.
1t is proposed in case Battle Creek
should net see fit to put in water works this
year, that as a matter of fire protection, they
lay series of pipe along the main streets,
extending to the outskirts of the city, which
could be connected with the rotary fire
pumps at Human & Wards, Harris mill,
and the Battle Greek Machinery Company,
in the same way that the West End pipe is
connected with the Reriew and Herald
pump This would provide the city with
fire protection on the outside portions at q
distance from water, and would also be
ready to use when gen raj system of wa
ter works may be established. This would
be a cheap and simple way of providing
Battle Creek with what it has long needed.
adequate fire protection.
The verdict of the Coroner's jury in
the case Of Martha Bell, of Belleville, in
this county, is far from satisfactory. 1t de-
clares that she came to her death by an
overdose of aconite administered to her by
Myron Bumps. 1t does not appear in the
verdict whether this overdose was given ac-
cidentally or not. Aconite is a deadly
poison, and the administration of deadly
poison to q young girl by young man
with whom, according to the testimony, she
had been very intimate, requires more ex-
PLANTATION than this verdict affords. Bumpus
was not physician. Why should he be
killing young woman by giving her ex-
cessive doses of deadly poson2 This is
far more serious matter than the Coroner's
jury seem to have judged it, 1t recalls the
mysterious death of another Martha-Mar-
tina Whitla-also living and dying in this
vicinity, whose irregular intmacies had
made it desirable for some one to put her
out of the way, and put out of the way SIC
was. But in Michigan murder is becoming
so easy and so common that the verdict OF
jury merely announcing that young man
has killed young woman by giving her
poison enough TO kill her, excites no re-