The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-07

Ducket-bnop IN Iontiuc.
1t is believed that an organized party Of
thieves is operating at Flint.
Clinton takes pride in the fact that
there is not vacant store at that place.
During game of poker at Elk Rapids,
Joel Couterie fatally shot Cooley Peter
son.
Charles Morton, a mason, fell from q
three-story building at Owosso and was
fatally injured.
A jackson furniture company has re-
ceived an order from Los Angeles, Cal, for
a car load of furniture.
There is considerable talk of establish
ing q street railway between Owosso and
Corunna, distance of three miles.
A Jackson paper argues, from the fact
that il obtained eight new subscribers from
one small town, that the interest in the
Crouch business survives.
With water works, probable river and
canal improvements, and the proposed rail-
way operations, Sault Ste. Marie promises
to be quite lively next year.
The Moffatt Tug Line, of Detroit, is
much embarrassed and practically wiped
ont. A. n. Moffatt has resigned the posi-
ton of manager. The creditors may not
get 40 cents on the dollar.
-Ex- Governor and Senator Alexander
Ramsey, of Minnesota, member of the
Utah Commission under the Edmunds act,
intends TO settle down to the practice Of
law in Detroit when his term on the COM
mission expires.
VIM. Laraway. pioneer of Kent
County, died at Grand Rapids. He was one
held in high esteem. Some years ago he
suffered stroke of paralysis, from which
he gradually failed.
"A newspaper in Michigan is called the
Smiths. Every article in it relates to a
member of the Smith flmily, and il is SIM
ply appalling to think of the number OF
corrections" that will daily he demanded
of its unfortunate editor.-E Exchange.
Thomas Mayett, of Blackmar, aged
nearly 90 years, died Christmas Day. He
was born in Buclsinghamshire. England,
and came to Michigan in 1894. He had
lived in Jackson County for forty nine
years. He leaves one son and three daugh-
tiers.
John Fiske, one Of the oldest pioneers
~, ;a1
aged so years. He built the old hotel at
Reeds Lake thirty years ago, and was many
years its proprietor He was buried by the
"Old Residents Association, of VIII ich he
was an honored member.
The eyes of the scientific world still
rest on the Hudson COW whose stomach was
cut open to give her owner n chance to re-
cover two bushels of oats stored therein.
The COW still liveth, is getting well, and
promises TO become quite as healthy as any
Of her kline. Free Press.
The death of Mrs. A. Palmer, the wife
of prominent merchant in Three Rivers, is
attributed to sewage poison, which had
contaminated the reservoir of q driven we'll
nearly thirty feet III depth Mr.. Palmer
the same cause, but are now thought to be
convalescing.
A curious case of blood-poisoning was
developed in the case of Ransom Corey,
who died at Quincy few days since. He
was shot in the arm in the war of the re-
bellicn, and il healed and did not trouble
him till abouta week before his death, when
il became troublesome and resulted in
lood-poisoaing, causing his death.
Cards arc out for the wedding of Miss
Edith Foster, daughter of the OK Minister
to Spain, to the Rev. Mr. Dallas, of De-
trot, on the 18th of January. The cere-
mony will be performed at the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington,
by Rev. DIR. William Alvin Bartlett
Whatever explanation may be offered
for the numerous and the singular crimes
in Michigan, most of them pointing to
family jealousies and quarrels, it is certain
that nothing is so much needed at this
tlInc us tue apprehension, ColNlcllOn ana
punishment of few Of the men who have
contributed to these manifold horrors.--
Chicago Herald.
DIR. Henry b. Baker, of Lansing. read
a paper before the American Health Asso-
citation at Washington on "The Relation OF
Rainfall and Water Supply to Cholera"
He showed that cholera always increased
during the dry season, and decreased after
abundant rain. The Association discussed
fully the question of "Hog Cholera"
together with the subject of incubation by
Pasteur's method.
The wife of Col O'Donnell, the new
member from the Third Michigan District,
will prove pleasant acquisition 10 Wash
ington society, being graceful in manner, of
bright wit, and charming in appearance.
The Colonel himself was almost as peculiar
as Gov. Knots aide, with the rank of
Mister He was a private i'm the army.
His title as Colonel was obtained from be-
ing on the Governors STALL Washington
Capital.