The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-08-22
1t is stated as a remarkable fact. by a

fine sheet of water, that there has never
been a case of drowning at Wolf Lake.
While early potatoes in Mason County
we're a small crop, comparatively speak
ing, the late varieties bid fair to more
than counterbalance the shortage. Late
rains have given them prodigious boost,
and the yield will be an extra large one.
Two bodies were found on the beach
of Burt Lake, near Cheboygan. They
had been washed ash Ore in a storm. The
bodies are believed to be those of two
newspaper men who we're yachting there
and whose boat drifted ashore and was
wrecked. These men were l.. Morey OF
the Minneapolis News and S. w. Bell of
North Adams.
-Excursionists going to Gull Lake,
Kalamazoo County, should visit spring
of water near the Yorkville depot. The
water is the coolest that flows from the
earth. It's temperature is thirty eight
degrees, being as cold as any pitcher of
ice water. This spring is only few rods
from the depot.
The Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph has
been sold, Ex-Governor and Congressman
Dingley of Maine and his son, Z. N.
Dingley, recently of the Leavenworth
(kan.) Times, being the purchasers. w.
l.. Eaton will retire and spend the next
two years in South America and Europe.
Tom Burns, of Riverton, is the only
farmer heard from yet whose hay crop
exceeded that of last year. From the
same ground on which he cut seventeen
tons year ago he, this season, gathered
forty tons.
On the plains of Lake and Mason
Counties white huckleberries are to be
found in small quantities. They are like
their black brethren in all but color.
There was scarcely city or village in
this State in which something was not
done on the day of Gen. Sheridan funeral
to show respect for his memory.
The third annual convention of the
State Assembly Knights of Labor, in ses-
sion at Jackson adopted resolutions in
dorsing the Australian system of voting,
demanding that all wages be paid weekly,
in lawful money of the country that O
uniform system of text books be used in
the schools of the State, and the repeal of
the Baker conspiracy law. The following
officers were elected: Master Workman,
Charles II. Hasse of Lansing; Worthy
Foreman, Edward Van Wrinkle, of Battle
Greek; Secretary, 7. NJ Sheriff, of Kala-
mazoo; Treasurer, H. l. Allen, of School
craft; State Statstician, Henry Ct.
Schultz, of Lansing.
Mrs. Daniel Froost, of Tecumseh, has
disappeared. She left her home July 3,
TO visit friends in Jackson and Ann Arbor
July 10, she left Jackson, saying she was
going to Ann Arbor, since which time
nothing has been heard of her. Mrs.
Froost is 80 years old and of light COM
plex:on. She owns n home at Tecumseh
and property in Clinton and other places
Her domestic relations have always been
happy. She had good sum of money
with her.
Joe Provost, farmers, son living
four miles from Cheboygan, was thrown
from Texas mustang and severely, if
not MORALLY, hurt The horse after
throwing its rider and kicking him,
threw himself repeatedly on his victim,
and had to be driven away with clubs.
Provost was picked up almost dead from
loss of blood. which gushed from his
ears, nose and mouth profusely. His
body was badly bruised and his skull
fractured.
Mrs Joseph Fisher, of Altoona Coun-
ty, went into burning barn to save a set
of harness. She tried to get out on an
opposite side of the barn from where she
entered, found the door locked, had to
rush back through the fire, and was SO
terribly burned that she died some hours
afterward.
j. C. Allen, proprietor of the Howard
House at North Lansing, died from an ILL
ness which was the result of his stepping
on a rusty nail, about the middle of July.
The Lake County officers might as
we'll release Doc Andrews from the charge
of numbering julius c. Bailey, the Cold
water schoolboy. The boy is now man
grown and resides in Chicago. His broth
er, J. W. Bailey lives at l25 West jack
son street, Chicago, and another brother
is foreman for Boardman & Rose, bus
linemen of Kalamazoo. Julius worked
there in a hardware store three years after
leaving Lake County, in March, 1881, and
two years afterward drove a baggage
wagon in Kalamazoo, When he returned
he said the old man was dead and his
widow didn't like him. The death-bed
confession is merely hoax.
-Ismi Martin, the sixteen-year-old
girl forger, was arrested at Detroit on
warrant charging her with uttering a
forged check drawn by J. II. Wilson in
favor of j. II. Martin upon which she
procued SIS. A jeweler charges that the
girl obtained $50 worth of bracelets and
rings from him and pawned them. Other