The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-03-12
10 lGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE:
LATELY OCCURRED.

An Interesting Summary of the More I'm
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-wcd-
dings and Deaths - Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notcs.
In the Mich gan Prison at Marquette.
a few days ago, Reimunl Holiday. the
notorious train robber and murderer.
tried to kill Keeper Palliser and Convict
Meservey. A letter from Marquette fur
nishes the following particulars OF the
affair:
Deputy Warden Hawley suspected that Holz-
hay intended some outbreak. and sent Keeper
Palliser TO bring up the convict for search. AS
Palliser entered and turned TO lock the cell door
IA usual, HOLIDAY seized him about the neck. at
the same time holding knife at his throat. He
then drew Palliser To the gate, saying 10 the
guard:
xiii me r I will kill this man."
When Deputy Warden Hawley raised his rife
Holiday concluded ne did not want To die just
then and shielded himself With Palliser's body
Finally the latter broke away and escaped
Holiday then seized fellow convict named
Meservey and repeated the same tactics. After
aw bile Holiday sat down on box in the cell still
keeping Meservey between him and the Warden's
ride For two hours Warden rompkins tried to
reason with,the desperate or get a chance 10 dis
arm him. Holiday was cunning and got into
position where n could not be commanded from
he outside windows. Finally his attention was
distracted for an instant by u keeper talking 20
a conNict ON the opposite side OF the cell His
hand, graspng the kuife, was lying on his knee
Warden TOmpSina seized the opportunity and
planted n bullet directly through the knuckles
OF Holidays hand. Tire wounded despera 10
showed no signs of the intense pain hs must
have suffered. Coolly eXclailning, Well, you We
done il, he arose from the box aud surrendered
theblJoi stroamin from his shattered hand.
Question by a Detroit Free Press
correspondent regarding the use of his
name as congressional possibility,
Governor Luce is rerot ted as saying:
Il have not given the matter a moments seTi-
Gus consideration. 1 have no desire or inclna-
ton TO run Tor Congress next fall. Some time
ago told y number OF gentlemen who spoke 70
me regarding tho matter that colld not accept
n Congressional nomination in the sixth DIS
trcr'
Would you accept IA nomination in some
other diStricor"
Il am not nor 10 / expect 10 be. candidate
for Congress from ihis or any other district. 1t
does not comPort with my idea of propriety To
hold one Office while campaigning Tor another
cannot, consis emily with my Own IDEAS, nc
cept any nomination for another Office while
serving as Governor OF Michigan"
Editor Brown, of tho Mt. Pleasant
Tribune, is defendant in two libel suits
which will be tried Il the present term of
the Isabel County Court. If the plain
titfs get what they demand, Mr.. Brown
will be $l5, 90 poorer tn he is at this
writing
Detroit journal. A. A. Dorrance, of
Coldwater, was at one time a newspaper
publisher in Jackson. Little Jim"
o Donnell was the Office imp. Both grew
older as he years sped on. O'Donnell is
in Con gress, and to show his regard for
his old employer m ,de him postmaster
at Coldwater Which makes true the
saying III bread cast upon the waters
will turn up somewhere most every time.
An omnibus. full of passengers, was
run away with at Oscoda and upset. Mrs
{. V. Hicks and Miss Van Valkenberg
we're considerably cut and bruised, the
other p lssengers escaping without injury.
Samuel Wiel, of Saginaw, fell in love
with his pretts cousin, Lisa Refs, of To-
ledo, and by mutual arrangement mar
rage was ag eed upon. The couple are
cousins, and according to the back num-
Der laws OF Ohio they couldn't get mar
ried; hence they went to Windsor, across
the river from Bet oft, were legally and
irreparably joined, and then went to
Toledo, hid the service repeated aud are
now in position to snap their fingers at
the Buckeye hawbucks.
Some days ago Mrs II. a. Sorg, Of
Marine City, went to Port Huron, with
her babe, being afraid to remain at her
home, which had been fired once pre-
sumably by tramp who was refused food
and lodging. The Sorgs were getting
notes from this alleged tramp making all
manner of threats. Officers made n thor
ough investigation, and this resulted in
the arrest of Mary Turner, the servant
She weakened and confessed !. 1t was
she who wrote the no les, at the instance
of the tramp. who is an old frien The
girl Will be sent TO the reform school
Bay City is to have dental college.
A pet colt at Dansville, Ingham
County, attacked n horse drawing n bug
~, in which Mrs. Willis Dakin was
riding. aud the lady was thrown from the
vehicle, sustaining serious and perhaps
tatal Injuries.
The socialists aud anarchists at Bay
City have org ,nized an will fight unjust
tax ition.
Governor Luce has plrdoned Daniel
Sullivan, VIII wa3 sent 10 Sta'e Prison
from l. IKE County in 1885 for nine years
for assault with intent to murder. Sulli-
van st bbed a man named Mckay,
comparative stranger, during a saloon
row. He is pardoned on account OF his
youth, his excellent record in the prison,
and the fact tn It he was under the in
huence of liquor Mt the time of the arfray.
He has given the Governor his pledge
that he will refrain from tho use OF liquor
hereafter.
The SdJinupidn prints a sketch Of
the life, publis services and death of Mr..
Douglas Hougbton, the first State geolo-
gist of Michigan. Ne was appointed by
Gov. Stevens T. Mason in 1888, and in
1914 discovered the iron and copper de-
posts of the Upper Peninsula. He was
aubseoueptlv drowned in Lake Sunerior