The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-08-28


james Lewis. a cook in Swans res
taurant, Detroit, met with singular and
horrible accident a few nights ago
Everybody in the restaurant was startled by
the sound OF something crashing down the
dumb-waitef shaft. The walters who ran 10 the
shaft found Lewis doubled up and standing on
his head ON the dumb waiter. As the aperture
through which they could SEQ him WAS too mar
row 10 get him out, IL necessary To tear off
one side Of the shaft which was done quickly
Lewis whom released was bleeding profusey
from wound on the head. He was taken 10
the hospital, where DIR. Mulheron found that the
mans skull was fractured. The physicians
state that the chances for life or death are
about even. Lewis had been drinking beer with
friend In the kitchen ON the third floor and
both had fallen asleep Lewis must have been
sitting ON the ledge OF the shaft and while
asleep. fell backwards and down the shaft, u
distance OF fifty feet
AT East Saginaw Philip Harsch, a
brakeman on the Flint and Pere Mar
quette Railroad, was caught between a
fat aud box car and his head crushed to
jelly.
The Flint and Pere Marquette Road
has commenced running standard guage
trains over the Port Huron Division be-
tween Saginaw and Yale. formerly Brock
way Center, distance of sixty-siS miles.
The road will be completed into Port
Huron in October.
-Horatio Gage, aged 20 years, is serv-
ing sentence in the Bay County Jail on
the charge of vagrancy, Two years ago.
while living in Arenac County, he lost
his wife, daughters and other relatives
L 4 - IL.
and he was sent to the Pontiac Asylum.
Having been discharged as cured he re-
turned to Arenac County. Homeless
and penniless he wandered around until
he was arrested at Bay City.
-Thirty-two brass bands and $4,000
visitors made the fifth annual reunion of
the Michigan and Ohio Band As ISOLATION.
at Monroe last week, the largest and most
successful in the history of the organic
alton, and surpassed any demonstration
of the kind ever attempted in Michigan.
The thirty-two bands played in unison in
the grove during the afternoon and their
parade through the principal streets of
the city at o'clock, consolidated into one
and playing in concert, were features of
the occasion, which passed off without
any accident of any kind. The next re-
union will be held at Adrian.
A Mackinac Island club house cook
has won $4,000 in a lottery.
The Ontonagon Herald is now ground
out by steam and on a new Campbell
press.
The energetic East Saginaw Rifles
propose to blow in $l2, 900 or Sl4, 900 on
a new armory.
Alex A. Harrington, of the Alpena
National Bank. has been appointed cash
Ter of the State Treasury.
The Lansing Common Council has
compromised $4,000 damage suit
against the city by paying the plaintiff,
Mary Dundas, 81, 500 in cash. She fell
through defective sidewalk.
Lansing dispatch to the Detroit Free
Press: col. George z. Sanford has left
for Chicago to purchase an outfit for n
printing Office, and will launch the State
Democrat as a weekly paper in Lansing
later on. 1t will be Democratic
The graduating class of the State
Agricultural College this year numbers
forty-three the largest in the history OF
the institution. Appended is the list:
David F. Anderson, Berlamont, Van Buren,
| County; Ray :. Baker, st. Clair Falls Wis.
! Arthur ID. Baker, Lansing; Birtley X. Caufeld
| Cleveland. Ohio George l.. Chase, Detroit
| Lemuel Churchill Three Oaks Fred ~ CLARK
! Highland Station, Oakland County Rolla j
} Clelahd, Coopeville Louis A. Clinton, Grand
| Rapids Will Curtis, Hatch Grove Wis. eager
| G. Davis, Cortland Ohio; William Il. Davis
| Wacousta John W. Earle, Albion, Ind. Geo
| l. Flower, Detroit; David A. GARFIELD, Albion.
| Mich. Ellsworth A. Holden, Oyiatt; Perry q.
| Holden, Oyiatt: Oliver G. Hollister. Laiugs-
| burg; George j. jerks, Sand Beach; William
| Lightbody, st. Clair; Ernest G.. Lodeman.
! Ypsilanti Alfred l.. Marhoff, Galesburg Harry
| a. Martin Lawrence; ThCs. McGrath, Dennison
/ Alex Moore Fort GratiOt Frank j. Nishan-
! der, Blumfield John w O Ban non Terra Coupe
Edward N. Pagelson, Grand Haven; Frank M
| Paine Lockford: Walter s. Palmer Napoleon
Lindsay w. Rice, Grand Rapids Waldo f.. Rob.
| merit, Detroit Orlando j. Root, Mason: VIM
! L. ROssman, Portland Frank NJ. Seibert, Ere
! mont. Ohio; Hobart A. Stewart. FlEt: Mary
| Smith, Agricultural College James w. Tourney
| Lawrence; Chas. VI. Todd, WtkemRn, Ohio
| Vim. II. Van Devort, Agricultural College How
| ard II. Weed. Lansing; Robert II. Wilson, Ma
! son; Arthur G. Wilson, Mason.
The degree of Master of Sciences was
conferred upon three candidates, namely
| Fred G. Miller, of Grand Rapids, grad
uate of the college and the builder OF
Wells Hall; C. f. Smith, Schoolcraft;
and Chas. S. Crandall, of the Agricult-
ural College.
AT Sault Ste Marie DR.. Brown
Sequard's elixir of youth has been admin
istered by Drs. Harrison and Richardson
to several aged men with most marvelou,
result &. In one case pancrobilin wst
added to the preparation before inject or
under he skin. making it easy 10 assimi
late. Uncle Solomon, pauper, aged 81
almost wholly blind, rheumatic, and ap.
parently on the verge of the grave, wai
given thirty drops of the preparation. Ii
in few minutes he exclaimed that b,
could see. He walked without crutchet
Tor tho first time in twelve years; hi
hearing was much improved, and his pulse
was made fas,er and stronger. The re-
markable part of the experiment is tina