The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-03

Over 100 children have died from
diphtheria at springwells this season.
-Litchfield has hook and ladder COM
pany composed of boys 10 to Ia years of
age.
"A number Of buildings at St Ignace
were burned Monday night, the loss reach
ing $4,000.
George w. Chase, one of the cid pio-
neers of Branch County. died recently.
aged 81 years.
--Ju &c Thomas M. Cooley has been
elected TO the chair Of history in the
Michigan University.
"A sunfower ninc feet high and con-
tanning 100 blossoms is in the possession
of an Ann Arbor man.
Mrs Charity Crosby, the Oldest lady in
Grand Rapids, is ninety-s six years of age.
She has outlived all her children.
Ferdinand Yahuki. in Jail ut Frankfort
for murder, committed suicide by hanging
shortly before the hour set for sentence.
Indian Pete" living near Nashville,
tells the News that his mother died re-
Gently, aged 100. and that she hadn't gray
hair in her head.
Are there to be street signs in Detroit?
A city Of this size might almost as well be
without streets as without signs to distin-
guish them.-Free Press.
-Hillsdalo College conferred the degree
cf Doctor of Laws on Governor Alger.
The Governor in return recently sent his
check for 5000 for the college endowment
fund.
The infant child of Charles Sullivan,
living in Detroit, apparently died last Tues
day, and was prepared for buril. Wednes-
day, while the family were gathered about
its coffin, the child suddenly began to'cry,
and is now regaining its health.
The kalamazoo policemen and fremen
had game of baseball and the cops"
came out ahead. Now the fremen protest
that the police nine was made up largely OF
expert ball players sworn in as special po-
licemen for the day of the game. Free
Press.
Anna Inez McGill, aged IL. of TecumA
sch. gave some gials an apple, and her
fathers stingy soul was SO wrought up over
the matter that he kept her confined to her
room up stairs. only allowing her to GO
down to her meals, She dropped letter
out of the window TO the Marshal. which
was found. MoGilp has been policed for
cruelty to tho girl before. kalamazoo
Telegraph.
This is what befsl Calumet dog; In
an encounter with a'porcupine his jaw was
filled with quilts. and his master, to get
him out Of his pain,. tsok him to the woods,
threw him into pit. put five bullets into
his body. thumpsd his head with fence
rail, and left him. SIS he supposed, dead
But he wasn't, and returned after four days
of death, slightly hungry, but otherwise
apparently good fcS along hfe.-Katama-
goo Telegraph.
Mr.. Eliot Allisl Cd the Scientific So
ciety, recently showed us what appeared to
be about spoonful of bottled insects that
resembled small white flies, but which
were really the newly Matched products of
the seventeen yearlocust. They were just
in condition to begin seeking the ground
for their long burrow in the subsoil, not to
appear again until the year 1902, when with
gool luck their second coming would be
fulfilled. The miniature locusts were in =
lively, squirming condition. and seemed
very anxious to escape from their confne.
ment.-Adrian Record
Will Carleton "a New York correspond
ent writes) is man of middle age, slender
in figure, and spare in the face, and wear
ing only small ''goatse" on his chin. He,
does not show trace of the worldly airlso.
common among tho literary men of the
day He does not look sophisticated,
neither has lac the slightest affectation Of
awkwardness or roughness. He is simply
a quiet, unassuming American of the. Old
school-almost a typical Uncle SAM In
appearance, who, to- judge from his. face.
is simply and terribly in earnest He lives
mode 'tly in Brooklyn, does not belong to
the Au,h9rs' Club. and is never metin the
regular New York gatherings of writers.
Briefly. he is man of the people. modest,
intelligent. active and gifted with pecul-
lar power Of expressing rhythmically what
the people think and feel.
The bet Was OF.
A fsw days ago, after couple OF esteem