The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-20

The body of Charles Maiden, of Che
boygan, who committed suicide several
nights ago by jumping into the river, has
been recovered, disproving the theory
that he had not drowned himself, but had
left town.
Fred Plant is Huron County farmer.
He has been in the habit of keeping a
smudge burning day aud night to keep
away the pesky mosquitoes. One day,
during the absence of the family, the high
wind carried some sparks to his house.
Neighbors discovered the flames in time
to save Plants furniture. There was no
insurance on the house.
The high waterin the Sturgeon River
at the head of the Bay de Noe caused the
dams of the Van Wrinkle Lumber Com
pany to be carried away, and big loss
resulted thereby. Several million feet OF
sawlogs have been scattered through the
woods for miles. and to get these back
into the stream will necessitate an outlay
of many thousands of dollars. One re-
port says it will cost 5000 to replace
the dams and remove the distinctions
from the river.
Some time ago Hattie the wife of
Edwin Warren, of Norway. left him and
returned to her family, and all she pos
sessed was burned up in the great fire.
She was on the street. when she met her
husband. He demanded her return to
his house. She refused. He at once shot
her with a revolver, then picked her up,
and, at the muzzle of the revolver,
marched her through the streets to his
house. She was terribly injured, but
compelled to move. He is in Jail at Iron
Mountain awaiting the appearance of
Judge Lynch. The poor woman will
probably die.
The Michigan weather-service sup
plement to the monthly crop report says
that the temperature for May was four
and four tenths lower than the normal for
thirteen years. The rainfall was three
and fifty one- hundredths, which is slight
ly above the normal The central portion
of the State had the greatest amount. The
prevailing winds were from the southwest
Frosts were reported on eight days previ-
Gus to the 20th. The percentage of veri-
fication of weather and temperature sig
nails was SO $40 per cent. Signals are
displayed from l40 stations and from
baggage cars of twenty six railroad trains
in the State.
jay r. Monroe, young man of un-
usual promise, and Cashier of the Kala-
mazoo Savings Bank. of Kalamazoo,
died of peritonitis.
Women lawyers are becoming power
in the land. Michigan University has al
ready sent out twenty -four young women
holding the degree of LIB. This year a
young woman from the Sandwich Islands,
Miss Alma Hitchcock, will make the
twenty fifth.
The officials OF the 500 Road and the
Atlantic Elevator Company were in Glad
stone the otter day. The object of their
visit was TO Sc ect a site for grain ele-
vator which Will have capacity for mill
ion bushels, and will be built at once.
A recent fire destroyed the principal
business part of Norway. A strong wind
was blowing and the flames jumped rapid
| ly from one wooden building to another.
In the burnt district little was saved, and
careful estimates place the loss at 5000, 900,
with very little insurance. The weather
was cold and stormy, and there was much
suffering among the homeless. The bust
ness part of Norway is in ruins, and the
principal buildings burned. More than
five hundred people are sufferers. The
largest losers by the fire are: G. /. Nc
Elroy, general merchandise, $50 900; A.
| Husson, hotel and fixtures, $4,000; A.
Patenande, drugs and jewelry, Sc, 500; J.
Lindquist, general merchandise, IS, 500;
J. II. Gee, l0500; +. Levy, groceries,
$4,000; l.. Rosenhaimer, general merchan-
disc, Sl3, 500; Anton Odill, liquors,
Sl6,0O0 S. +. High, drugs and jewelry.
! Sl2, 800; Robert Johnson, 1000; Thomas
May, 81, 500; Masonic building, 81 OO0
-hepOTtS from thirteen plaCeS SNOW
that the storm of the 10th inst. was gem
eral, and unprecedented in the amount of
rainfall. The storm broke like the burst
ing of a water-spout, and continued for
two hours, accompanied by heavy light
ming. All the country from the Wisconsin
line to the upper range and the whole
width of the peninsula suffered. At and
| for fifty miles from Houghton the work of
the deluge was most damaging. At Bar
aga, Houghton, Calumet, Lake Linden,
Escanaba, L'Anse, Iron Mountain, Nor
way, Ishpeming Marquette, and as far
east as Seney the storm was terrible. No
approximation of damage is possible.
! Houses were undermined, and in some
cases swept away; culverts and bridges
were destroyed, and miles of fences and
sidewalks were washed away. Although
several railroad culverts were destroyed no
accidents occurred. but travel was gener-
ally delayed on all the peninsular roads.
Three culverts on the Duluth, South Shore
| and Atlantic Railway near Raraca wara