The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-07-25

Lenawee, Adrian Sept. 2j-28
Lapeer, Lapeer Sept 24-27.
Manistee, Onekaina, Sept. 1920.
Macomb, Mount Clemens. Sept. 1923.
Oakland, Pontiac. Sept. 20-2l.
Oceana. Hart, Sept. lila.
Tuscola, Nassar, Sept. 1928
Washtenaw Ann Arbor, Sept 2J-2s
--Bruin, good many of him, is nosing
around Fraser, Bay County. One under
took to carry off o 200-pound hog the
other night, but it was too much hog for
him.
Mrs. H. E. Allen, of Saginaw City,
committed suicide by shooting herself.
The cause was ill-health
In his flock of sheep Chas. Swines-
berg, of Genoa, had three -year-old
ewes that sheered, respectively, l35, l4a,
and l45 pounds of wool to the fleece.
His whole flock of eighty -one sheep, thir-
ty-five of which are yearlings, sheared an
average of nine pounds four ounces to the
head, and the clip was sold for twenty
three cents, straight.
L. T.. Martin, graduate of Kalama-
zoo College last commencement, has been
appointed TO good position in the Gov
eminent schools of Japan, and has de-
parted to assume charge.
The displacement of switch by
some one with malicious intent derailed
the Grand Trunk limited express at the
new Mount Olivet Cemetery, fourteen
miles from Detroit. The train ran short
distance on the ties and then upset, loco
motive and all except the sleeper, which
was the last car on the train. William
Baby, the fireman, was buried under the
engine and was dead when taken out.
Some of the passengers were badly shaken
up and bruised, and one, Miss Rosa Quirk,
of Mount Clemens, was seriously injured
about the head, back and shoulders. A
reward of $500 has been offered for the
arrest of the person who tempered with
the switch.
-Ismi Martin, the sixteen-year-old
girl forger, was arrested at Detroit on a
warrant charging her with uttering a
forged check drawn by j. H. 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
reports OF her cunning swindling are
coming in from many business houses.
When the officers went TO her mothers
house to make the arrest Ismi leaped out
of window and ran like a deer 1t took
four policemen to surround her and take
her to the police court. In default of
$500 bail she went 10 jail
An explosion, of which the detectives
are working hard to find the cause. oc-
Cured in the vault of the County Clerks
office, in the City Hall building, in De-
troit. At 10 o'clock in the morning the
clerks were hard at work in the room,
when suddenly terrific noise was heard,
and a moment later the occupants of the
room found themselves occupying I'M
comfortable and undignifed positions on
the floor, surrounded. and half covered up
by the ruins Of what had once been the
Office furniture. The clerks speedily
crawled from under tho debris and ran
from the building as though their lives
depended upon their speed. When they
came back they found number of fire.
men coolly extinguishing a little blaze
which was destroying the records and coun-
ty papers in the vault. Just what caused
the explosion is unknown. but that it was
something possessed of great power is
evident from the ruin caused, the heavy
brick wall forming one side of the vault
being completely blown out. No one was
seriously hurt, though score of persons
who were in the room mt the time received
slight scratches and bruises. The first
theory advanced. as to the cause of tho
accident was that escaping gas had be-
come ignited. This is improbable, as no
gas is used in the room, oil the lighting
being done by electricity. Moreover, three
men who had been in the vault but few
minutes before had noticed no smell of
gas. Detectives are working on the
theory that burglars attempted to blow up
the entire City Hall in the hope that dur
ing the confusion they could obtain the
5000, 900 which was in the Tax Collectors
Office directly over the wrecked room.
"A fatal shooting affray took place at
Seney in which George Everett received
three bullets in his breast and will die,
and a man naIked McCleary was shot
through the shoulder The shooter was
Thomas Hayes, one of the proprietors of
a hotel there. He got into a row with
McCleary and another man, and was
getting badly punished when Everett
sprang in also. Seeing the odds were in
creasing, Hayes pulled revolver and
shot with the ADORE results. Hayes has
not been arrested.