The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-15

burned recently. with contents.
The Copper Herald, of Hancock, will
make the second daily published in the
Upper Peninsula.
The Trap Shooting Association meet
ing will be held at East Saginaw May 8, 6,
dent.
George w. Campbell's general store al
Atlas burned recently, together with an ad-
joining building in which were the head
quarters of the G> A. r.
United States Indian Agent Stevens,
of Flint, has appointed Miss Mary e. Wag-
ley, of Cross Village, teacher of the Indian
school at Middle Village.
An Adrian drug firm gives away the
girls of that city by announcing that it has
recently ordered six barrels of chewing
gum, which it expects to retail in short
time.
The fve-y ear-old son Of Edward Pres
ton, of White Pigeon, was drowned recently
while playing on the bank of the mill race.
The bodyswas found in the mill race, half
a mile from where he fell in.
Rev. James Cooper, ID. D., of Detroit,
District Secretary Of the American Baptist
Home Mission Society, died recently. He
was at one time pastor of church at
Flint. He leaves a wife and six children.
Norris Alexander, known as KNOCK"
Alexander, of Chesaning murder fame, who
was released about a year ago after serv-
ing a ten years sentence, was arrested
on suspicion of participating with Ny
ron Crosby in the burglary committed at
Mount Morris December 20 last
Ramsey Gregory, of Bay City, return
ing home the other night from neighbours,
discovered man carrying off robe and
harness from his fathers barn, and upon
accosting him was shot through the heart,
living long enough to relate the cause of
his death TO his father, who came out on
hearing the firing.
The annual report of DR.. Palmer,
physician at the State prison at Jackson,
will show an improved sanitary condition.
The amount of labor lost through sickness
in 1885, with 730 prisoners, is only about
twenty five per cent. of that lost in 1881,
with 1872 prisoners. There We're eight
deaths during the past year.
The Executive Committee Of the Grand
Army Association Of Southwestern Michi-
gan has decided to hold the annual encamp-
ment of the Association in Hillsdale, on
the 2ith, 25th, Goth, and 9th of August.
The Association is composed of the G.. A.
Il. Posts in the counties of Branch, Hills
dale, Jackson, Washtenaw, Lanawee, and
Monroe.
"A woman was found drowned in ditch
in the suburbs of East Saginaw. She was
identified as Annie Powers, alias Annie
Fisher. She and James Maloney were to-
gether about midnight, both being drunk.
and the police arrested Maloney, when the
woman walked off, and, it is supposed, fell
into the ditch and was unable to extricate
herself.
Two little daughters of Thomas Row.
land, living in Saginaw County, were pois-
oned by eating some wild parsnips that grew
in the door-yard. The youngest child died
within an hour after eating the herb, and
the other raxt morning. A girl still older
and the mother were both violently i'll
from the same cause, but saved by timely
medical aid
At an inquest into the recent fire at
Bronson, which destroyed the fine new
brick block of stores, and resulted in the
death of Mrs. Timothy Hurley and her
daughter, and the serious injury of Mr..
Hurley and the other children, the jury
found that the fire was caused by the explo-
sion of q metal lamp in the store, and was
accidental, and not the result of any negli-
gence.
At the March meeting of the Board Of
Regents of the University the American
Medical Missionary Society asked them to
empower the proper officers to admit such
students to the Medical College as the So
ciety should receive, under a rule requiring
them to furnish satisfactory testimonials of
! earnest Christian character, without charge
for lecture fees. The Board decided that
the request could not properly be granted.
Leave of absence was granted to G. NJ.
Gayley, Assistant Professor of Latin, to
pursue studies in Germany, for one year
from October /, 1886.
Attorney General Taggart has rendered
an opinion on the law giving the bodies of
paupers to the State University for dissec-
ton which will be of interest. The Med
ical Superintendent of the Northern Asylum
asked whether the body of an inmate
should be sent to Ann Arbor when the rel
atives of the deceased request burial at the
asylum, but are unable to bear the expense.
The Attorney General says: IL do not place
this construction upon the statute. The
former part of the section places the matter
so that two requisites must exist to author
ize the sending of such bodies to Ann Ar
Dor; first, that the body is that of person
not claimed by any relative, and, second,
one that may be required to be buried at