The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-11

bronson business men employ night
olice force.
"A sturgeon weighing 1876 pounds wos
caught in Marble Lake. near Quincy.
During the past year only two arrests for
drunkenness have been made in Bronson.
"A new Methodist Protestant Church is
TO be built at Leonard, Oakland County,
and Sl,l68 has been pledged toward the
cost.
"A man who registered in st. Paul
Mimi hotel as d. l.. Blackstone. OF
Adrian, cut his throat after retiring to his
room.
Jennie Farley, hotel girl at Jackson.
committed suicide. During the past sir
months she had been keeping company
with Jud Crouch.
Two negroes are under &rest in Detroit
for stealing two tons of records of the rev.
enue department. The paper was utterly
worthless to the thieves.
While repairs were being made on the
Alma water works the pond was drawn off,
rendering the water supply impure and
causing great deal of sickness.
Frederick V. Smith. founder of the
Branch County Agricultural Society, and
formerly an editor, expired at Coldwater,
in the seventy sixth year of his age.
Patrick WEIGH, we'll known resident of
Hudson, was instantly killed by passen-
ger train which he was attempting TO pass.
He had a son who met similar fate several
years ago, and another was killed by light
ming last year.
MIR. A. A. Crozier, of Ann Arbor, has
recently been appointed assistant to Dr.
George Vasey, botanist TO the United States
Department If Agriculture. Mr.. G. is a
graduate of the Michigan Agricultural Col
lege, and is we'll known to the horticultur-
lists Of the State as an able and intelligent
botanist.
The inquest upon the body of DR.. NJ.
w. Smith, the Mt. Clemens dentist, who
was found in his Office, resulted in a verdict
of accidental death from the effects Of chic
reform admin stored by himself to alleviate
pain. 1t was shown at the inquest that
the Doctor frequently used the drug, and
had great confidence in his ability 10 use it
discreetly.
"A saloon-keeper of Huron County
some time ago presented as bondsman a
person who set too high value on his
property in order to enable him to sign tae
bond. The Town Board put their own es-
innate upon his property and rejected him.
He appealed to the Supreme Court, which
has just decided that they can't go behind
the decision of the board, which seems to
have been fairly made.
"A lady of Jackson, who had been suf-
fering from sick headache and sore
throat for several days, prepared a remedy
one night, containing vinegar, of which
she took little before going to bed, leav-
ing the spoon in the tulnbler The neyt
morning she hurriedly took another spoon
full, and was poisoned by the verdegris
that had formed on the spoon by the vine
gar. A physicians efforts were necessary
| 10 overcome the eHectS.
| Mrs. Olive G.. Graves, an old resident
of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, died of
| old age. She was born in Onondaga
County, n. Y, and removed to Ypsilanti
! in 1885. She taught the first school at Ypsi-
lanti, and Gen. Rosecrans Of the regular
army, was one of her pupils. She was 81
years of age and very highly respected in
the community in which she lived. She
was the mother of John Graves, the Dep
uty Clerk of the United States Courts, and
also of Albert Graves, prominent resident
of Ypsilanti, who has for number OF
| years been Supervisor of that township.
| "A queer trade was made in Bay City
one in which the documents were signed,
sealed, and delivered" on the spst. G.. l..
| Fox had eighty acres of land on the Chip
pewa River which he had never seen. This
| David Ferguson. Mr.. Vance had never
| seen the land nor Mr.. Fox the barge, which
is now at Detroit wi lumber. The query
is, which of the two gentlemen got the best
|
newly acquired property as soon as pos
sble, and Mr.. Fox is anxiously awaiting
the return of his vessel. 1t is rumored f.
J. Vance will transform the land into q
summer resort and try and get the Ferguson
as an excursion boat.-Free Press.
! Horace H. Cady, one of the oldest
pioneers of Macomb County, in fact the
oldest American settler of the county, died
n, his residence in Macomb Township Mr.
Cady was born in Hadly, Windham Coun-
| ty, Conn.,, Feb. 90, 1901. He received o
common school education. In 1921 he en-
| igrated to Michigan, embarking at Black
Rock in the famous steamboat Walk
in-the- Water. He was one whole week in
| getting from Buffalo to Detroit, and he re-
lated that it took twelve yoke of oxen and
one span of horses to tow the boat over the
rapids below the mouth of Buffalo Creek.
Mr.. Cady upon arriving in Michigan set
tied a! Mt. Clemens in 1921 be removed &c
the Township of Macomb, where he has