The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-08-15

AT present there II not case OF small
pox in the State. at least SO says the State
Board of Health.
Ogemaw County Court House and Jail
and Sherifrs residence ut West Branch are
nearly completed. and will soon be ready
for the brick.
Owen Hankcrd. Of Henrietta, had
ninety three sheep killed by lightning
the other night. When found in the
morning they all lay in piles under the
tree, which was a small one, with the ex-
ception OF ore, which was about ten rods
away. He had also 100 more sheep in the
same field. which were all right in the
morning. He thinks they were not under
tho tree, as they were not affected in the
least
The Evangelical Church on East Wes-
ley street, Jackson, is nearly completed,
and will be ready for dedication Sept. 2.
Bishop Bowman, of Chicago, will deliver
the dedicatory sermon.
An increase of 400 baths in the month
of June over last year in a single bath
house, and almost as great an increase in
July, says the Mt. Clements Press, doesn't
look much like a poor summer for bust
ness at the springs. The fact of the city
spreading out over more territory, its
boarding houses and hotels now being
widely scattered, makes things look less
lively around the public square than in
past years but the fact remains and the
business Of the bath houses proves it.
that there are more people in Mt. Glenn
ents to-day taking the mineral baths than
one year ago.
The girls who struck at Hargrave,
Haven Il Co.'S mill at Bay City for SIPS
per day, have had their wages satisfactor-
lily adjusted and everything is now running
smoothly.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, at Ann Arbor, has announced its de-
cision on complaint of the Kentucky and
Indiana Bridge Company against the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pany. The commission holds that the
complainant is common carrier, and the
defendant is bound to give equal facilities
for interchange of traffic with others.
Commissioner Schoonmaker dissented.
Opinions will be fled in the case here
after at Washington.
"A man who was known to his fellow
soldiers of Company H, Third Artillery,
now stationed in Washington, d. c., as
Fred Mccullough, was FRUSTRATED by the
heat and died short while after. An in
vestigation made by the police is said to
have disclosed the fact that his real name
was Philip Irving Thurber, and that he
came originally from Detroit, where he is
said to have been we'll connected All
that the members of his company gener-
ally knew OF him was that he enlisted in
the West, was q man of education and
gentlemanly demeanor, and that on ac-
count of his fine handwriting he had been
made regimental clerk. The story as told
to the police is that Thurber up to six
years ago held responsible position in
banking house in Detroit, which he re-
signed to 60 10 st. Louis. Here he fell
into evil habits, became short in his ac-
counts, and finally killed man, though
he insisted this last act was in elf-de-
Tense. He escaped from that city without
being suspected of the killing and enlisted
in the army his term of service expiring
last February, since which time he has
been acting as clerk for one of the local
steamboat companies of Washington until
few weeks ago, when he was discharged
for drunkenness
The Rev. DR.. Samuel S. Harris,
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East
ern Michigan since 1872 sailed about six
weeks ago, in company with his daughter,
for Europe to spend few months there
in recreation. A cable dispatch has been
received at Detroit by the Rev. DR..
Blanchard, rector of st. Johns Episco-
pal Church, from London, England, in
which Herbert c.. Park of Detroit in
forms him that Bishop Harris has been
stricken down with paralysis in London.
The other members Of Bishop Harris
family are sojourning at Mackinac Island.
The Lake County officers might as
we'll release Doc Andrews from the charge
of numbering julius c. Bailey, the Cold
water schoolboy. The boy is now a man
grown and resides in Chicago. His broth
err, j. w. Bailey, lives at l25 West jack
son street, Chicago, and another brother
is foreman for Boardman Il Rose, bus
linemen of Kalamazoo. julius worked
there in hardware store three years after
leaving Lake County. in March, 1881, and
two years afterward drove baggage
wagon in Kalamazoo. When he returned
he said the old man was dead and his
widow didn't like him. The death bed
confession is merely hoax.
-Ismi Martin, the sixteen-year-old
, girl forger, was arrested at Detroit on
warrant charging her with uttering q
forged check drawn by J. II. 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.