The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-08-22

Master Mechanic Rowland is putt


in two new boilers at the Jackson Prison,
each five by fourteen feet, making bat
terry of six boilers. This ia lease is made
necessary by the addition of the new cell
block, which will DO heated by steam.
John Binglestorf was fatally injured
on his farm, five miles southwest of Deer
field. He had hitched colt TO binder
which man named Winters was to drive.
Binglestorf was holding the animal by
the bit when the machine started and the
colt lunged forward, throwing him down,
and he was dragged on the cutter bar
until the team was stopped. The violence
OF the action of the horses threw the ma
chine out of order, else he would have
been killed. AS il was, he received three
frightful gashes on his back and was i'm
paled on the guards of the cutter-bar un-
til neighbors released and carried him
home on stretcher.
Rev. James A. Johnston of Nashua, n.
H., has preached at the First Baptist
Church in Kalamazoo two Sundays and
has endeared himself to the people as
man and preacher At a meeting of the
church a unanimous call was extended to
him to become their pastor. He is not q
candidate of his own motion. Mr.. John
ston is of Scotch descent, native of Nova
Scotia, educated at McGill University,
Montreal and Grocer Theological Sem
paor DbiIoIo1Ol;o
The body of a man supposed
20 be d. Mason, OF Melbourne,
was found floating in the river
aear the railroad bridge at Bay City.
From a railroad ticket found in his pocket
It appears that he started August IL for
st. Helens. 1t is thought that he lost his
balance and fell from a train while pass
ing over the bridge. Deceased was mid
dle-aged. The body was so decomposed
that the features were unacceptable.
Edward Moyle, of Torch Lake, who
recently had the toes of both of his feet
crushed by falling rock in the Huron
mine, died from lockjaw brought on from
he effects of the accident. He leaves a
wife and family.
Henry Rogglerin, an inmate of the
Monroe County House, was severely bit
ten in the left thigh by vicious hog
DIR. Root was called and found that, be-
sides inhicting very ugly wound, the
hog had SEVERED the outside ham string
muscle.
-Danford Shattuck, Of Watertown
says the Clinton County Independent,
has ten acres of "velyet-chaff" wheat
from which he received As bushels. an
average of forty-one and half bushels
to the acre, and weighed sixty-three
pounds to the bushel. Mr.. Shattuck pro-
farm two years ago. 1t has stood at the
head of the list of thirty EIGHT varieties
five years for hardness and large yield
Tho Midland Republican says: Sew
eral times the water works have saved
this town from great fire. When Rear
don's store was on fire in the basement
when the Oscar House was in flames, and
when the cooper-shop was burning on
any of these occasions, the old fire ma
chine would have been powerless, and
many thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty would have been destroyed The
water works have already paid for them
selves.
As John Boughner, of Lansing, was
returning from his sons residence he was
accosted by well-dressed man of medium
height, who asked him for some money
Upon being refused the stranger said with
an oath: Give me some money or l will
kill you" Mr.. Boughner, who is 70 years
of age, turned and started to run as fast
as his lettering legs would permit him.
In bound or two the highwayman over
took him and made a vicious slash at him
with knife. The point of the blade pen
etrated the clothing aud cut the skin, not
deep enough, however, to cause any APP
prehension. The thick clothing saved
him from severe injury, and possibly
death. The stranger Immediately fed.
The proverb that murder will out"
was never more amply exemplified than
in the case of man named Chailes f.
Lane. alias John Desilvia, alias A. l..
Deshazer, who was arrested a few days
ago by Detective Mcdonald in Detroit on
the charge of counterfeiting. On May
Il, 1886, Deshazer, as he was then known,
was arrested at Springfield Mo, charged
by the United States authorities with
having oounterfeited and passed a large
quantity of silver coin. He was given
preliminary examination and held by the
magistrate to await the action of the
grand jury. At first lie was locked up at
Springfield, but his offense was considered
grave one and he was soon after re-
moved TO the Jefferson City, Mo, Jail
His case was to come before grand
jury. to meet in September, 1856 but on
July IL he and three other prisoners made
their escape through a window grating,
which they sawed off. and were not recap
tured, although rewards were offered for