The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-08-27
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.
An Interesting Summary of tho Mor- I'm.
portant Doings of Our Neig hbors-wed-
dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.

| lldlldH lIull NtnutIs WIN
was twenty-three years old. graduate
| OF the Ann Arbor Law School, and a
! well-known newspaper man, stopped at
| the stand 10 purchase fruit. The Italian
accused Crimmins of taking one more
| plum than he paid for. Crimmins laugh
ingly denied the imputation, and the
Italian dived under his stand and, with
out warning, placed revolver within
| four inches of Crimmins' left groin and
! fired. Crimmins fell To the sidewalk
and Manill tried TO escape up an alley,
! but the police were too quick for him,
and in less than ten minutes found him
hidden away in the barn of fellow
] countryman. The crowd that gathered
about the stand became wild with rage
and would have lynched the prisoner
! could they have got their hands on him.
A PoRr Huron bicycle rider attempted
| 10 ride past a calf, farmer and a con-
Meeting rope the other day. The two
| calves scared the one, and the calf from
the country bounded all over the road,
| Following as ii the shambles were in
sight. The walking-bcam calves saw an
| opening and made for II, but were too
/ late. When the dust had rised sufficient
ly TO permit an observation, the veloci-
pede was in the ditch broken, the rider
was on his head broken, the farmer on
/ his back broken, and the calf, tail in
! air, was half mile down the road with
n rope and and below railing out be-
I hind II like the rudder of kite.
| THE State Board of Agriculture has
| elected Lieut. j. j. Chittendon as MILL
| tary instructor at the Agricultural Col
lcgc, to succeed Lieut.. Simpson, resigned.
ChittendonAis First Lieutenant in the
| Twenty-second United States Infantry,
and Is now in Texas. He has had twelve
years experience on the frontiers.
The last 81 900 bond of the series OF
S229, 900, issued by Michigan during the
war TO pay bounties, was paid last week
at the State Treasurer's Office. These
| bonds matured in May, and all have now
been called in and redeemed.
THIEVES took $40 from the Michigan
| Central railroad depot in Saginaw while
the agent was at dinner.
Col C. III. SMITH, who was detailed by
tire War Department TO attend the annual
/ encampment of the Michigan State
militia at Goguac Lake, has made his re-
port To the Secretary OF War Col Smith
says that, as rule, the discipline In the
camp was good. Most of the men APP
preciated discipline themselves, and
there was generally spirit and manner
of subOrdnation and respect. Sometimes
company officers appeared 10 be reluctant
| to exercise the authority To enforce dis
| cipline, and in such cases Colonies had to
attend to the matters of discipline too
much in detail. When il is remembered
| that in very many instances at home the
| officers and enlisted men are equal social
| " and peers in business, that company
officers are elected annually by the men,
and the command is in camp only
| five days in the year, the respect,
SUI bordination and discipline observed
may be considered excellent. The drills
were comprehensive, and embraced the
more important battalion and brigade
movements, as the improvement in ac-
| curacy from day TO day was very marked.
Only few Of the troops at any time dur
| inc the war were as we'll drilled in tao
ties "a these troops are to-day. Many
movements by companies and by regi-
ments were nearly faultless. "The State
of Michigan may well be proud OF her
military resources and the appearance of
| her troops" says Col. Smith, in conclus-
| ion. To-day the force compares favor
ably with her glorious military record in
| the war"
THERE was lively fight between two
women in the Griswold House parors in
Detroit the other day. The attacking
party was Mrs. +. Adams, of Cleveland,
| who charged that the other woman, Miss
| Ella Bradley, had abducted her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Adams broke an umbrella
over Miss Bradley's head. The assaulted
woman fought hard to rcpel the on
slaught made upon her, but she was
. l. hnr haf :
| pulled out by the enraSed mother.
A MAN of figures at Saginaw has cal
| culated that the average person trims
| off n thirty-second of an inch OF nail
| from each finger every week, or three
| inches year. The average Of human
| life the world over is forty years. Ten
! feet Of finger nail for each finger-a
round 200 feet from the twenty fingers
and toes. There are 1900, 100000 peO-
| pie in this world, and altogether they
waste, on an average, 100000, 900 feet,
| or 56,s1S.15 miles, of finger nail in "a
| cneraton-suflicient to reach around
the earth and still leave 10000 miles to
do our scratching with. 1t would take
| less than four generations TO raise finger
nail enough TO scratch the eyes out Of
the man in the moon.
lumberman for eighteen years and cut
! annually from 30.00O,000 10 1900, 900
feet &C logs, and he claims TO have
| handled more pine than any other man
I living.
A MAN with the joyful name of Para
disc is In a peck Of trouble at Saginaw
because each of two women claim him
exclusively. He wishes to cling TO the
last Mrs. Paradise.
THE State Board OF Pharmacy held an
examination at Marquette and licensed
the following-namcd gentlemen: VIM.
ID. Barnard, Manistcc; Oliver {. Boyn-
ton, st. Ignace; Arthur Ellsworth, Me-
nominee; James f. Hooking, Crystal
Falls; Charles Sorscn, Red jacket; VIM.
c. Royce, Sault ste. Marie; John Rupp,
West Superior; George Newton, Vicks-
burg; Valdemar Johnson, Ironwood;
Ben II. Hooking, Iron Mountain; Calvin
| Hollinger. Sault Ste. Marie
j. X. GORDON, lumberman on the
| Saginaw river, cut tree recently that
made four 16-foot logs, scaling 1852 feet,
Mrs ELIZABETH McLEoD, daughter OF
the once famous Marinette, queen and
ruler OF a remnant II the Chippewa. tribe
| of Indians, and after whom the city OF