The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-23


About 600 shoes are made daily In the
Fargo boot and shoe shop at Jackson
Prison.
AT Carleton the 6-year-old daughter
OF Charles Lafee attempted to etart fire
with kerosene. An explosion resulted,
burning the child fatally.
Citizens Of Detroit will raise "a 700 to
entertain the Michigan Press Association,
provided that no liquor is used.
The female evangelist, under whose
ministrations the Nelson family at Menom-
inee went crazy. is still holding forth in
that village, and the local paper charges
that six other Scandinavians Of that town
have become insane through her preaching.
The woman lays particular stress on that
part Of her preaching which bears upon the
lake Of fire, and the people can't stand it.
I'm small area in the northern part Of
Union City lightning struck at least a dozen
times. Telephone poles were splintered
and the wires burned. Mrs. Chard's house
was struck and young lady in the cellar
did some lively VIII Ring though dancing
is against her principles. The Cengregs-
tional Church was struck twice, destroy
ing the steeple and providing the neigh
bors with kindling wood enough to last ell
summer.
John Edmunds and wife left their
farmhouse, five miles from Windsor, to
make visit to relatives in Windsor, leav-
ing four children at home. When they
returned next day they found their home
reduced to ashes and two of the younger
children burned to a crisp. Two others.
one 10 and the other ., had barely escaped
with their lives.
superintendent Goodenow, of the
Kalamazoo Presbyterian Sunday School,
has distributed among the scholars pack
ages of garden seeds, each containing five
varieties Of flowers. The object is to hold
festival in midsummer, at which three
pr zes will be given for the largest and
prettiest bouquets given from the seeds.
The packages cost the scholars one cent
each.
Xavier Lendall, while driving logs in
Deer River, slipped into the river and was
drowned.
The State Supreme Court has handed
down an opinion declaring unconstitutional
the local option law passed by the last
Legislature. The court, consisting Of five
judges, were unanimous in the declaration.
kaat Ia
brought from Jackson County. Charles
Hauck, saloonkeeper, was arrested and
convicted Of keeping his place open on the
day of the local option election in that
county. The cour: finds half dozen de-
fects in the act, the fatal one being that
the law is defective in its title, being en-
titled an act to regulate" when in reality
it is intended to prohibit.
The opinion says: ACT 4, section %, of the
Constitution OF the State provides that law
shall embrace more than one object, which
shall be expressed in its title. II IL apparent
that the object 10 to prohibit the manufacture
and sale Of liquors and Intoxicating beverages.
guse this object 1t Is clearly to prohibit tho
sale and manufacture. But there is certainly
nothing in the act TO indicate that the object Of
the law was to give the option to the electors Of
any county 70 prohibit the manufacture and
sale OF liquors. TO regulate means that the
business may be engaged in or carried on, sub
joct to established rules or methods. Prohi-
bition abolishes the business entirely. The two
terms are incongruous. The Court is clearly Of
the opinion. for the reasons stated, that the OBJ
| lect OF the local option act Is not expressed In
its title, and hence is unconstitutional and
void: Other serious defects are pointed out by
1. The provision that the election shall bs
called by the County Clerk upor the applics-
| ton bypetition. etc. 10 unwise, as 1t places
aYlff fvtr nIx-
uation. and, further. leaves the law open to
contest when sought to be enforced by prosecu-
| ton.
?. There is no provision for preserving the pc
/ tition.
g. There 10 no provision for giving notice to
4. No provision for furnishing ballot box nor
| whom the polls shall be opened or closed. nor
that the election shall be conducted in accord
ance with any law OF the State.
S. No provision made for canvassing the cleo
ton.
litigation, and involve the administration of .
| criminal law IN uncertainty.
The Central Michigan Agricultural So
ciety will hold its annual fair September
| "a to 20, inclusive.
There are several bears near Deep
River which IRE said to come to the edge
of the town and defy the whole popula-
ton.
-Gogebic County owes Ontonagon
County 3,11S.S7, and has no money in its
treasury.
Marion, the new town in Osceola
County, has no doctor, lawyer, preacher or
newspaper.
"A fair applicant for teachers certif-
cate before the Clinton County examiners
said that the days are longer in summer
than in winter because cold contracts and
heat expands.
In all about 81 800 has been raised for
Mrs. Englebert Reidlinger, whose husband
was drowned while trying to save child at
Saginaw.
-Ypsilanh is rapidly improving for q
city OF its size. In addition to having
well-kept streets and pleasant drives, it is
at present considering the idea of placing
within its limits system of wafer works.
This plan is favored by the Mayor and
several of the Aldermen, but what the re-
suit will be time alone can tell. The COM
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