The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-08-29

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killed ffty snakes in i've minutes. Tho
largest was four feet long and the other
forty-nine were fellows who ran into the
parental stomach for refuge"
The meeting of the @Old Crowd" at
Mt Clemens was very successful re-
union of one of the joiliest crowds Of
thirty years ago which still holds annual
reunions. An excursion on the steamer
Ida and lots of fishing were among the
pleasant features.
The Lenawee teachers at the close Of
their institute, gave their instructor. Hen
ry Il. Pattengill, of Lansing, gold
headed cane, and to Instructor X. w.
Putnam and Secretary Z. G.. Walker each
gold-mounted umbrella.
There will be no fair at Menominee
this year, but instead Menominee farmers
exhibit their fire stock, fancy specimens
of fruit and phenomenal farm products at
the Marinette fair. the first institution of
the kind in that county, and which will
without doubt be great success.
Lester Hawley hired a valuable mare
of E. Jay Willard, at Lansing and cele-
brated the arrangements by an after
harvest symposium, in which Mark
Sackner and his younger brother joined
with enthusiasm. The trio drove out to
Milletts and found any amount of un-
diluted excitement in running their horse
up and down the main street until the
animal went down in the ditch, and a
general row followed. The horses right
forward leg was broken in two places, and
she was afterward killed at the request of
Mr.. Willard. Hawley, with head badly
bruised and the skin scraped from his
right cheek in q Wholesale manner, was
| taken to Lansing and spent day in Jail.
The President has signed the Jackson
public building bill.
There live at the little village of
Canandaigua, sixteen miles from Adrian,
couple by the name of Mcclure, who
have been married fifty years, have seven
children and seventeen grandchildren.
The only death that has occurred in the
three generations is one grandchild,
little girl who died in infancy.
Parma, Jackson County, is to have o
rousing fair this fall, the business men
having determined to make it a success.
1t will come off about the last of Septem-
Der on twenty -one acres of land now being
laid out for the purpose. A good-sized
premium list will be given.
Taylor Bros. mill, at Ludington, has
cut but 1000, 900 feet of hemlock logs this
season against s, 900, 900 last year. Never
theless hemlock lumber is coming more
and more into popular favor, and prices
are steadily climbing up. Those who
have handled it extensively claim that
there is just as much money made in the
manufacture of hemlock as in pine, except
pine of the better grades.
"A sensation was created at Sand
Lake, a summer resort fifteen miles from
Adrian, by the sudden appearance of q
swarthy naked man, covered with mud
and slime, and whose fierce antics pro-
nounced him dangerous lunatic. A
hasty exodus of ladies and children fol-
| lowed, and after much trouble the maniac
was secured and held until the officers ar
rived who could take charge of him. He
has been identified as Howard Watkins,
who recently escaped from the Kalamazoo
asylum, and whose home is in Brooklyn,
Jackson County.
The Water Supply Company at Lud-
ington is laying the foundation for the
new Holly pumps, which will have ca
pacity of 100000 gallons a day-four
times greater than the present pumps.
When the work under way is completed,
the company will east about for some
method of supplying better quality of
water, either by sinking wells or extend
ing the pipe farther out into Lake Michi-
gan.
james Davidson's saw-mill at West
Bay City has been destroyed by fire. caus-
| ing a loss of $50, 900. There was no in
surance on the property.
Charles Wagner. Detroit saloon
keeper, shot and instantly killed his
brother John. The two men quarreled
over the price of some drinks, and John
was put out of the saloon. He walked
away and Charles, seizing revolver from
behind the bar, followed and fred two
shots at him, one of which pierced his
brain. The murderer escaped.
The New York Graphic is responsible
| for the following: Prof. Kline, distin-
guished for his mesmeric feats, had an
interesting experience in little Michigan
city q few days ago. He was invited to
attend parlor entertainment, at which
he was asked to exhibit his mesmeric
towers. One of the subjects, Miss Mamis
Leroy, could not be released from the
spell, and some doctors who were sum-
moncd could not account for her con-
dition. The spell was finally partly
broken, but the girl refused to leave
Kline, and when he finally escaped she
became insensitle. Kline was sent for,
and his presence gave her relief Her
father demanded that he break the spell
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