The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-01-01
Interesting Items.

Interesting Items.
part of this month.
Three more bodies were recently
/ found at JohnstOwn.
w. f. Gladstone celebrated his eigh-
tieth birthday last Sunday
The jackson Courier announces that
La Grippe has secured dates in that
/ city.
BY special invitation. Mrs. Burrows
will assist at the Presidents reception
| today
4 75-year old dude, of Delta, has
just Tilted 17-year old maiden, of that
village.
Marcelus has shipped five tons of
mud turtles to New York City this
season.
1t is estimated that 600 600 persons
in the United States are addicted to
the opium habit
The widow of Gen. Geo H. Thomas,
/ died suddenly ut her residence in Wash
/ ington, Christmas night.
Uneasy is the head that wears a
] Nlhh H. duN IO NbHNtis NJAAttI ' IL
/ toria's crown weighs nearly ten pounds.
Jon Nagle, of Lansing, is dead He
/ has been employed in the capital for
20 years, was 81 years old and leaves II
children.
Muldoon won his wrestling match
with Carkeck, at Philadelphia, Satur
! day night, by throwing him in forty
/ five minutes
Eleven persons Of one family were
/ burned to death in their beds, ut HUI
rontown, Houghton county, Mich, last
Sunday morning.
James A Lee, Dowagiac's last demC-
cratic postmaster, under Buchanan,
was buried at that city Sunday with
masonic honors, aged "A.
The Ex-Empress of Brazil died sud
denly of heart disease, at Oporto, where
/ she was visiting with her husband,
Dom Pedro, last Saturday.
The Calamut d Hecla mines are
working their surface men on one-third
/ time. This will cause considerable SUI
fering in that vicinity this winter.
John Templeton Coolidge, President
of the Columbia Bank, died at his resi-
dence OF LA Grippe Mr.. Coolidge
was one of the oldest bank presidents
/ i'm Boston.
Nahum Gilbert. register of deeds for
Allegan county, died yesterday. A bull
let has been lodged i'm his abdomen
since the battle of Gettysburg, and this
is supposed TO have ultimately caused
his death.
From the beginning TO the end OF the
Paris Exposition, il was witnessed by
more than d, 000, 900 people. One hun
/ dred ana eleven thousand persons wit
messed its opening; 5000 saw the
great fair close.
1t is said that Rev. Meyers, the Ian
| sing minister who drew 50, 600 i'm a lot
terry recently, has been gulled out of
SIS, 600 of it by real estate sharper,
who sold him presumably imaginary
/ lands i'm east Kentucky for that amount.
A 10-cent whip may appear to be an
/ insignificant affair, but at Albion one of
them has led up to law suit for libel,
a criminal suit for petit larceny, and
was promising civil suit for damages.
| 1t has now been decided to leave the
matter to arbitration.
One day last week two Greenville
women sawed and piled two cords of
wood, took care of span of horses,
two COWS and three pigs, besides doing
the homework for family of four.
| 1t is said that there isn't girl in
Greenville who doesn't wear an en-
gagement ring.
They confidenced n youth up in Sag
inaw county the other day. He was to
be married, and "the boys" told him to
90 to Saginaw on a wedding trip and
stop at the best hotel; that there lisa rival
ry among big hotels in securing bridal
couples, and that none of them charged
a cent the first week. After occupying
a bridal chamber for a week the new
benedict was confronted with bill
that made his hairsstand up. He was
i'm iail for beating hotel at last ac-
counts. When he gets out he should
go to jail for beating "the boys
LA Grippe" or something akin to it,
is raging in Brooklyn and doing it quite
thoroughly City officials, policemen,
fremen and citizens, rich and poor,
are numbered among its victims. In
most eases the patient is subjected to
severe muscular pains, catarrh, great
debility, etc, with numerous concoml-
tant discomfitures, varying in different
cases, some cases running into alice
tons of the bowels and others to those
of the lungs While no instances of
death due directly TO influenza have
been reported, the number of deaths
from pneumonia has increased so re-
markably as to indicate some connec-
ton between the epidemic of so called
influenza and pneumonia.