The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-31

Local and NeishborhOOd News.

The Lawton Leaier announces the
first shipment of peaches from that sta
ton To have taken place on Wednesday
last. They were shipped by III. p. Wat
ers To Battle Creek.
An exchange says that the little red
ants cannot travel over wool or rag
carpet. Cover shelf in your pantry
with flannel and they will not trouble
any dish you may set on it.
Eddie Bailff "A young farm hand,
working near Bangor, was bitten by a
rattle snake last Tuesday. The snake
had been hauled tn the barn on II load
of hay and bit Bailiff while in the NOW
He was doing well AT last report.
The Bangor Adcance- Reflector says;
"Hon. A. =. Dyckman, of South Haven,
was i'm town yesterday and is not bit
discouraged in regard to railroad mat
tiers. Something encouraging will soon
be made public"
A Mrs. Stephen Kinney, living be-
tween Lawton and Schoolcraft, had "A
25-pound ovarian tumor removed by
DIR. Shellito, of Marcelus, and DR.. Wal
dron, of Schoolcraft, a few days since.
The operation was entirely successful.
Senator Mccormick, of this district,
was taken with hemorrhage of the
stomach while in Chicago recently. AT
ter being conveyed to his home in
Fennville he had another attack, and
at last reports was in very critical
condition. [LATER.-Senator McCor-
. mick died Sunday, aged 81 years.
Judge A. j. Mills is making flying
trip to Europe and will be home in Il
few days. Several weeks ago he and
Mrs Mills went to New York to meet
his mother who was expected from her
home in England to make visit in this
city. On arriving in New York Judge
Mills learned that his mother was averse
To making the ocean voyage alone, and
he thereupon decided To cross the water
for her. This he did, leaving Mrs. Mills
in the east. and in few days all are eX-
pected in Kalamazoo kdtdDldGO Tel.
Mention was made in these columns
a couple of weeks since of family
named Sebring, living near Three
Oaks, having been poisoned, presum-
ably by some drug having been put into
their tea. The son, Horace Sebring
now confesses to the crime, and gives
rs a motive the fact that he loved a
young lady in the vicinity; that she de-
clined marrying him on account of his
poverty, and that in order to rid him
self of the family that he might gain
possession of the property, he purchaS-
ed ten cents worth of arsenic and plac-
ed it in the teapot. The mother and
sister are doing finely, but it is thought
the father will die. Young Sebring is
in jail
The executive committee of the Sol
diers' and Sailors association of south
western Michigan has decided that it
would not be best To attempt to hold a
reunion and encampment of the associa-
ton this year, for the reason that the
quarter master-general refuses to allow
the association the use of state tents at
time when the reunion can be held
with any prospects of good weather or
fair attendance. Application for the
tents was made in due form nearly a
year ago for reunion 10 be held Aug
20-23 that date being the time of year
at which the reunions of this association
have always been held. The application
had priority over all others, but the
quarter-masterge general ignored that
fact and let the Northeastern associa-
ton have the tents for their reunion on
the date named We may have word
rs TO his motive for this action some day