The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-03-13

being shut down week for repairs. So
much straw has been taken there of late
that both the Mitchell and the Richard
son mills have been compelled to decline
further purchases until theirlpresent stock
is reduced.
The paragraph published by us few
weeks ago. says the Birmingham Eccen-
trio, stating that the Tack Company was
running both night and day in order to fill
its orders, has brought much anxiety to
certain former residents of the town, now
scattered here and there. That the quiet
of the town should be disturbed by day is
bad enough, but that the nightly slum-
bers Of its worthless be disturbed is past
belief.
j. j. Anderson, a retired, wealthy
business man of Monroe, was driving on
the ice on the Raisin River with Rev. T.
q. Potter, when the ice broke and let
horses ard cutter into the river. Potter
was rescued, but Anderson was swept un-
der the ice and drowned.
The Grand Trunk ferryboat Transit,
which has been out of commission for
several years, was burned at her dock at
Windsor. Loss, SO, 600.
1t has come to light, says a special
telegram from Pontiac, that an attendant,
ii. +. Taylor, of the insane asylum so in
jured patient named William Davis that
he died in half an hour. While passing
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neck with his fist. Taylor flew into a
passion, lost his senses, and grappled
with Davis. For five minutes they scuf-
fed in the hall before help could be OBJ
tanned. 1t is charged that Taylor, who
had Davis by the waist, raised him and
threw him across the arm of heavy oak
bench. He followed this with his weight
and held him down. AS each weighed 100
pounds, the fall was terrific. When help
arrived Davis was ordered to 60 on his
daily walk with the other patients. He salt.
he didn't want to, and either fell or was
pushed down seven sters of the stairs
with an attendant on each side. The poor
fellow was then walked over mile. He fell
W INC HIOuuu boNcIdl tllucS, Dut WAS
compelled to 90 on. At last he died, and
was carried up stairs. The Coroner's in
quest showed that every rib except two
was broken on the left side. His chest
bone was broken in the strongest part
and the knees and elbows were skinned.
During the walk the ragged edges of the
bones had sawed off the bones and arter-
les until the whole body was filed with
blood. He was terribly injured. host
of officials and five lunatics testified at
the inquest in the asylum parlor that the
whole thing was done in self defense.
The Prosecuting Attorney thinks there is
another side o. the story The jury re-
turned verdict that the man was killed
in self defense.
EDDY, Avery & EDDY have shipped
s 900, geo feet of logs by rail from Lake
Station to Averill, where they were banked
on the Tittabawassee.
Burglars blew open the safe in Cook
& Co. S hardware store at Bellaire. The
doors Were blown to pieces and the con-
tents damaged, the money being destroyed
by the explosion. Citizens tracked the
thieves in the snow and overlook q man
near Central Lake, who gave the name of
Frank Howard, of Bay City. Howard
showed fight and emptied one revolver at
his pursuers, one ball striking Town
Treasurer Adams, inaicting a serious
wound. Howard took to the woods and
Adams was taken back to Bellaire. An
other party started after Howard and
when cornered he again pulled gun, but
finally surrendered.
In the Circuit Court at Detroit de-
cision has been rendered in the suit
brought by d. NJ. Richardson against r.
A. Alger and G. II. Bull to restrain them
from selling certain stocks in the Diamond
Match Company. Richardson transferred
to them this stock as security for indorse-
ments on commercial paper, with the I'M
Outstanding that they were to receive one
half the dividend during the term of in
dorsement. They were indorsers for $751;
900, and received in all SOS, 400 in the in
vestment. They now claim that they were
not only entitled to this, but to their pro-
portion of the profit, making in all about
Sl37, 900. But the court found that their
compensation should be S67, 0S3, which is
one-half of the net proceeds during the
time of Endorsement 1t also orders that
the stock be transferred back, and also the
excess of money received, with interest at
6 per cent.
"A church fight has been inaugursted
at Sterling by the arrest of DR.. Frank E..
Abbott ard wife, William Lutz and wife,
and L. II. Trait and wife, all prominent
people, for stealing and taking out of the
NJ. Z. Church lamp, which started the
present heated and bitter feeling between
the Presbyterian and Methodist societies.
Both sides were represented in court by
attorneys. To give security for costs one
of the trustees gave chattel mortgage on
one of his yoke of oxen. People went
from distance of twelve miles to listen
to the evidence, but owing to flaw being
found in the papers the defendants were