The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-09-26
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

"A full round hand. says the Kala-
mazoo Telegraph, on one of our hotel
registers announced the arrival in our city
one day recently of e. Brown, Chicago.
There would be nothing about this an
nouncement to excite comment were il not
for the fact that this Brown was novel
Brown, indeed a most distinguished men,
Der of the great army OF Browns. This
character is none other than the first lady
drummer that ever visited our city. There
is little to distinguish her from other
women and nothing to her discredit. She
wore modest black Tyrolese hat, tight
fitting short broadcloth suit, and about a
No. common-sense boot, of immaculate
fit This was not her beat, but she talked
baking powder between trains with true
Chicago accent and very taking style. Two
heavy dealers tumbled to her persuasive
racket, buying enough ito raise the dead"
even.
The horse stealing epidemic has its
present postoffice address in Ingham Coun-
ty. Thieves broke into the barn of Chas.
+. Stabler, who lives three miles from
Lansing on the Eaton Rapids road, and
stole horse, buggy, harness, whip and
robes. Mr.. Stabler tracked the rig into
Delhi and there met John Miller, who was
engaged on a similarly sad mission. At
Miller's place the thieves had taken fine
3-year-old colt belonging to his son-in-
law, Theodore Furley, and left the Stabler
horse in its place The thieves were trailed
toward Mason by the two A three spring
platform buggy was taken from the barn
Of Wilson Moore who lives one and half
miles north of Lansing. The thieves left
behind them the following modest and un-
obtrusive little note to console Mr.. Moore
for his loss: Dear Mr.. Moore-Do not
think your buggy has been stolen, for it
has not only borrowed it. will bring
it back in a few days. Yours truly, g. r. r. 3"
There are about | l, 900, 600 feet of logs
hung up in Cass River, and they will likely
remain there until the fall freshet releases
them.
1t is proposed to erect Catholic
school at ST. Ignace.
The Jackson public library has had
al addition of $500 worth of books
The Manistique Lumber Company
mas established three camps in the vicin-
i,y o; Soney
The third annual reunion of the Mich
i51n Artillery Association will be held in
the Senate chamber at Lansing, October
Il.
-Sergt Conger has been upto East Sag
NAV and establish he'd signal service station
with 7 j. Granville as observer. A sys-
tenn os weather signals will be established
on the street car lines of that city.
The Agricultural College has issued
bulletin No IS on experiments with
wheat, AID experiments with plaster.
ashes and salt as a top dressing for
meadow ard pasture lands
VIM. Corllin of ST. Johns. has a Corllin
coed duck The bird laid seyenty-seyen
eggs in seventy seven consecutive days.
&C. J. Olsens furniture factory at Es-
canada has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
Sl5, COO
"A State convention of the Young
Womans Christian Association will be
held at Lansing the third week in October
Byron Bowerman, well-to-d farmer
living two miles south of Romeo, while
sowing wheat with a drill, got the forefnger
of his left hand caught in the machine,
and it was mutilated to such an extent that
amputation had TO be performed.
Henry Turn, east of Calkinsville, Isa-
bella County, had just completed thrash
ing his grain when spark set fire to his
barns and stacks, and completely destroyed
them He lost $50 bushels of wheat, 100
of barley, and fourteen acres of oats.
William Johnson, of Romeo, was ac-
cidentally shot by his wife, who was care
lessly handling revolver when it was
discharged, the ball taking off the end of
the forefnger of her left hand, and enter
ing Mr. Robinsons left thigh. The shoot
ing was purely accidental. The wounds
were not serious.
-Alpena physicians have formed pro-
tective association, and the patients had
better do the same.
Planners gun-store at Adrian was
burglarized and a $75 gun and 1000 car
tridges taken.
Adrian expects to have her electric
street railway in operation by the lst of
May.
Jennie NJ. SHETLAND. an employee of
the County Registers Office at Kalamazoo,
was arrested recently for forging the dis
charge of a mortgage. An examination
shows that her operations have been quite
extensive. Percy Sherman, her uncle,
has eight mortgages and transfers of same
from other people to her and none are gen
uine. Several of her other relatives have
been duped in similar manner. Her
swindles are said to foot up $4,000, be-
sides large Indebtedness to many mer-
chants. What she has done with the