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

Merrill, Saginaw County, is to have
an old-style Fourth of July celebration
this year.
Central Lake, Antrim County, is rent
from center to circumference over di-
yorce case.
Wheat in the southern part of the
State has headed out and the harvest
will be on within few weeks.
They know not what they do. The
st. Ignace people are trying to get up
brass band as permanent institution.
-Bellaire has new grocery and is
going to have water works, and has a band
pavilion and other city" appurtenances.
Worms are reported to be destroying
the strawberry vines in various parts of
the State, and fruit growers find them a
new and formidable enemy.
The too abundant use of water on
lawns and the continued wetting of shaded
places is said to be injurious to health.
Kalamazoo put stop to the too free use
of water for that reason.
The second reunion of the Michigan
Legislative Association has ended. The
association elected the following officers:
President, Alpheus Felch, of Ann Arbor;
Secretary, Daniel L. Crossman, of Will
liamston; Treasurer, John Strong, of
Monroe. Executive Committee, l.. Nj.
Sellars, of Cedar Springs; ID. p. Marley,
of West Branch; J. w. Belknap, of Green
Vile; E. F. Conley, of Detroit; Cass E.
Harrington, of Pontiac
There is within two miles of the GEN.
power than is needed to turn the wheels
for laboring population of 5000, and it
doesn't include the Muskegon River either.
Why can't something be done with it is
the general query.
Andrew Muckle. aged 33, conductor
on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Rail-
way, was instantly killed near Leroy. He
was coupling cars when he slipped and a
car passed over him! He leaves wife
and three children.
Burt Hunt went to Ontonagon, recent
ly, with his last catch of fur, among which
he had two fine large bear skins, one Of
which he mot, aud the other he trapped,
in the vicinity of the ls-mile camp. Bear
were quite plentiful out that way last
spring he says. The refuse heaps along
the line Of the railroad where the men
camped last fall furnished them sufficient
food.
Lumber sales are reported at East
Saginaw of 100000 feet at so, $50, and
! S3S; 5000, 900 feet at from Sl4 to $40
straight $4,000 feet at S2S per NJ,
straight measure; 5000, 900 feet of Upper
Peninsula stock, to be cut, at $40, $40,
and SSS, and 100000 of dry, at Detour
to Chicago parties at SIS straight.
A wealthy resident of Worcester,
Mass, named McCuller, was stopping at
a hotel at Mount Clemens, with his wife,
the latter also being accompanied by a
lady friend. The trio were evidently we'll
supplied with money, and the ladies'
| Early one morning man entered one of
| their rooms and secured 81 500 in notes
and drafts. The lady accompanying Mrs.
| McCuller witnessed the robbery from her
adjoining room, but dared not scream.
! The thief ransacked the two rooms, but
overlooked the diamonds of Mrs. McCul-
! Ter, which she had fortunately wrapped
up in her neckwear when she retired.
These consisted of brooch, ear rings,
and a solid diamond finger ring, the whole
worth several thousand dollars. All of
Mrs Culler's rings and three gold watches
of the occupants of the rooms were Sc
| cured.
The State militia encampment will
/ be on Mackinac Island this season, and
will also include some United States
troops Two companies from the Twenty
third United States Infantry will leave
Fort Wayne on July 6. They will pitch
their tents adjoining the camp of the
Fourth Regiment of State troops. and
will mess themselves, the State provid-
ing the tents The regular army officers
/ look with q great deal of satisfaction up
on the new policy of the War Department
which has made the innovation of detail
ing regulars to camp practice and service
with the militia, and believe that it will
result benefcially to all. The Fourth
Regiment will leave Detroit on July 10.
-whooping cough is epidemic at Shop
herd.
The Tittabawassee Boom Company is
employing 500 men.
Lansing has already raise.l $1,000
toward its Fourth of July celebration
fund.
At Detroit, John Munchthaler, keeper
of a candy and cigar store, shot and killed
his wife and then killed himself.
VIM. Miles, of near Shepherd, Isa-
bella County, killed two bears recently
They weighed respectively 25O and 200
/ pounds.
L. G.. Carpenter, Assistant Professor
/ of Mathematics i'm the State Agricultural