The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-28

The Fenton Tannery at Fenton has
been destroyed by fire.
John Globshinski was killed at Alpena
by the caving of a wall.
The jury in the Holcomb case, Hills
dale, has brought in verdict Of mot guilty."
Baldwin is excited over the announce
ment that peters clay has been discovered
there.
The Osceola Mine schoolhouse has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, about So, 900;
no insurance.
Rev. w. w. wetmore, of Plymouth,
has accepted call to the Presbyterian
Church of Jonesville.
-Faleen, Johnson & Co., Of Ishpeming,
dealers in dry goods, provisions, and feed,
have made an assignment.
A company with $2,OOO,0OO capital
will commence business at the long idle
Grace Iron Furnace, Marquette.
A Clinton County man is reported dead,
at the ripe age of SO, who has buried six
wives, and was living peaceably with tho
seventh.
A meeting of citizens of Bay City has
been held to inaugurate measures in the in
terest of securing additional railroad ia
cilities to that city.
"A recent Richfeld production was q
babe that weighed at its birth thirty eight
ounces. An ordinary finger ring was passed
ever its feet and up to the knee.
Thirty six thousand acres of pine lands
were sold by Mayor Thurber, of Marquette,
to T. II. McGraw & Co., of New York, the
consideration being $360,0O0 cash.
French & Co.'S Touring mill and ele-
vator, containing a large quantity of wheat.
at Vaudeville, have been burned, entailing
a loss of $4,000, with $4,000 insurance.
William Gayhart, of Bath, charged
with burning a dwelling house in the night
time, has been found guilty by the jury
and sentenced to life term in the State
Prison.
The Medical Counsellor, q journal with
which Professor Arndt has been connected,
has been taken up by the faculty Of the
State University, and will hereafter be un-
der their control.
Miss Laura Cook of East Milan. while
walking on the railroad track recently, fell
in fit. Samuel Warner, who CHANGED
along. removed her about twenty minutes
before train passed along.
S. r. Morton, of Adrian, died very un-
expectedly, after q brief illness of pneumo-
nia He was an old soldier and promi-
nent member of the G.. A. R., in which he
has always held responsible official posi-
ton.
B. L. Watts has received and is now
setting up in the University library tower
the Howard clock, recently purchased. 1t
is to cost 81, 900, striking the hours, quar-
tiers, and twice day rings the Cambridge
chime.
The celebrated breach of promise case
of Nellie Mcpherson against Dennis Ryan,
the knitting works proprietor, terminated
in the Supreme Court by the equal division
of the court, which affirmed the decision Of
the lower court.
George w. Hoffman, an old citizen OF
Detroit, died recently in his seventy sixth
year. His father was Lieutenant Colonel
in the war of 1S12-15, and his brother was a
Commissary General of prisoners during the
war of the rebellion.
George Moore, of Litchield, eighteen
years old, while hunting, leaned on the
muzzle of his gun, and the weapon dis
charging, his left arm was torn off at the
shoulder, and he sustained other injuries
which will prove fatal.
Flint has grown tired of feeding and
housing Migrants and disorderly persons ar
rested under the city ordinances, and tho
Genesee County Board of Supervisors have
authorized the city authorities to compel
such persons to work on the streets.
The Hersey House, Blodget Block and
half a dozen stores at Hersey were burned
recently, creating loss of $4,000, with
} insurance of $4,000. A defective fiue in
the Postoflice was the cause of the fire.
, Hersey is small town, and this is heavy
blow TO itg business.
"A sensation was created at the Princess
Theater, Detroit, by the Katisha of the Pyke
} Opera Company, Miss Grace Atherton, leav-
ing the stage and walking down the center
aisle of the theater, stopping every three seats
to show her badly shod feet, and proclaiming
that the manager had not paid her in weeks,
and would not give her enough to buy apair
of shoes. She told the audience to go away,
as the performance would not proceed, but
was persuaded to return to the stage and
resume her part.
| Thomas Campsie and wife, aged about
sixty, living on Bradish street, Adrian,
were discovered recently unconscious from
the effects of coal gas, having been over
J come during the previous night. All efforts
at resuscitation were futile, the wife dying
at three in the morning and the husband in
the afternoon. Indications show that Mr..
Campsie must have taken vessel of hot