The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-10-03
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.


Correction and Charities are making tour
of the State institutions.
Flower thieves ore pest that Kalama-
zoo is afflicted witt. at present.
Reunion of ex-prisoners Of war at
Ovid Nov 22 and %.
The Kalamazoo county house has
thirty inmates.
The Crescent Match Company's works
at Saginaw City have started up, after
having been idle since July /. The works
employ fifty hands, thirty-ive girls and
fifteen men and boys.
Mrs. Royal C. Sayles, of Canton, acct
dentally fell off backward from the stoop
of her residence and struck her back against
bell post, inhicting serious injuries.
-Alpena has four bands now.
The Anderson Road Cart Company of
Lansing shipped 100 carts to North Caro-
lima one week.
Willie Chase, of Plymouth, who was
so seriously kicked in the abdomen by q
horse, is now pronounced by his physician
out of danger.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph says: "The
grape crop is reported to be light as com
pared with last years yield. Adolph
Seller, who usually brings to market the
finest of grapes iii great quantities, says
he will not have half crop. Mr.. Lin
coin says his vintage will not be one third
of what it was last year
DR. J. Chamberlin of Romeo, is dead,
after severe illness of brief duration. The
Doctor had been afflicted with lung trouble
for several years past, and death was not
wholly unexpected. He had been a resi-
dent of Romeo about twenty years, and
leaves wife and four children, three
boys and one girl He was 20 years OF
age.
The Saginaw Courier says There is
in East Saginaw secret organization of
ladies at whose meetings nothing but ele-
waiting subjects are discussed and from
which gossip and scandal is excluded as n
poisonous thing. God bless every one OF
its members, and may the influence they
exert extend until it is felt throughout the
entire community.
Eugene Dresser, of Pulaski. left his
home September Is to go to the State Fair
at Jackson, since which time all trace of
him has been lost No cause is assigned
for his mysterious disappearance
The lO2d birthday OF Mrs. Sarah
Campbell who resides with her daughter,
| Mrs. Beckwith, about three miles north of
Jackson, was ~ celebrated, and about a
dozen of her friends made the occasion a
pleasant one by their presence. The old
lady is remarkably healthy for one of her
| age, and although she is unable 70 stand,
converses and appears to greatly enjoy
visits from her friends and acquaiptances.
About fifteen of the thilty-three
women who were married to James W.
Brown, the champion Benedict, since
lsS3 confronted him in the Recorder S
Court in Detroit. The list of vic
TINS included Helen Brownlee and
Annie Winters, of Chicago, who,
with Annie VI. Hazel, Mary Benjamin,
and Nancy Robertson, were the only ones
called on TO give evidence against Brown.
| The Benjamin woman was the prosecut-
ing witness 1t was established that
Browns method was to advertise for
a housekeeper, select as a victim
the one from among the applicants
who pleased him most, and marry her
as soon as possible. He would desert
her after a few days. Five clergymen
of Detroit certified TO marrying Brown to
as many different women, and the case
against him was so clear that the prose-
cutor left it to the jury without argument.
Brown testified in his own behalf and
made n sorry mess of IL, contradicting
himself at every turn. He protested not
to remember any of his dupes, asserted
that he was only once married, and that
his wife was dead, and that he had once
been confined as lunatic at New Orleans.
Brown was pallid end looked like a sick
man. 1t is claimed that he ate soap
stolen from the Jail washstand to give
himself that appearance and excite sym
pathy. During the trial Nancy Robert
sons indignation could not be repressed
and she denounced Brown as pcrfdious
wretch The jury agreed with her evil
IDENTIFY, for they, took but four minutes to
find him guilty The Judge sentenced
him to four years and six months in the
penitentiary. The extreme penalty for
bigamy is five years.
George Barnhart, who has made a
practice of frequently riding on D., L. and
n. freight trains from Plymouth to his
home, two and half miles west of that
place, and jumping off, had so far escaped
injury until the other evening, when in
disembarking he underestimate the
speed of the train, which resulted in a
broken arm and several severe bruises.
twenty-five boys and the same num-
Der of girls are TO be sent from the Isa-
bella County Indian Reservation to the
school at Carlisle, Pa.
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