The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-11-12

The Union House took fire Sunday
from stove i'm one of the upper rooms,
and came very near concluding Mr..
Lees tenure as landlord. A timely dis
cOvery and liberal doses of water saved
the building from obstruction.
James Bennett and Chas. Smolk are
moving To Lawton, where they are to
open bakery and restaurant. Mr..
Bennett has had many years experience
as IA public caterer and we hope he will
succeed in his new enterprise
Mrs. Philura Palmer, mentioned last
week as having suffered paralytic
shock, is in very critical condition
and her friends fear the most serious
termination. She is tenderly cared for
at the home of her sister, Mrs w. r..
Shrine.
The steamer Williams, of the South
Haven-Chicago line, is i'm dry dock at
Chicago, having her bottom cleaned
and planking looked to. When the
needed repairs are completed she will
return to South Haven and go into
winter quarters.
Mrs. Jane Walton, of Cassopolis, by
her will has left $500 to the PreSbyter-
ian church of that place and SO 900 To
the several missionary boards of that
faith Several years ago she made "A
very handsome donation To the Michi-
igan Female seminary.
Sergeant Conger chief of the Michi-
gan weather service, has been rendered
the position of manager of the signal
corps display at the worlds fair The
appointment was proffered upon the
recommendation of Gen. Greedy. Con
ger will probably accept.
The common council have made "A CON
tract with the Western Electric Co. of
Chicago, through Mr. Ayres, their
agent, To put i'm an electric plant, erect
and maintain sixteen are lights for ten
years at $1,000 per year, the plant to be
in operation within six months.
Judge Buck opened the November
term of the circuit court Monday, dis
posed of few cases, heard some mo-
tiOns, and on Tuesday morning adj
iourned court to Friday of this week
The jurors for the term are required to
be in attendance next Monday.
DR.. Hamilton has added full line
of groceries To his business, opening up
in this branch last Saturday. His stock
is fresh and new, everything the choicest
of its kind, and will be sold at the low
est living figures. All purchases will be
delivered free in the corporation.
The Lawton Ledder says that Geo. III.
RiX of that place would like To run for
sheriff at the next election. George is
a good fellow, and there would be but
one thing in the way of his success in
case of his nomination, and that is that
Van Buren, is Republican county. See?
w j. Sampson, an attorney who left
Marcellus a few months ago and went
to HilIsdale to reside, was nominated by
the Democrats of that county for pros
ecuting attorny and came within eleven
votes of being elected. The Hillsdale
Democrat gives Mr. Sampson credit for
making brilliant canvass.
The result of the recent election in
Cass county was decidedly miXed-the
Republicans having pluralities for gov
ernOr, state senator, representative and
the county ticket except sheriff and
clerk, while the Democrats carried the
county for Yaple by 26 and elected their
1t behooves our older and more ex.
perienced builders to look a little to
their laurels when a man little known
as a mechanic, as VIM Bryant is, turns
out so good IA job as that of cara Thayer's
horse barn. 1t is neat and well con.
structed and would be a credit to a
much more pretentious workman.
Mrs Levi Beardsley, while on her
way home from town Monday noon,
was thrown from the vehicle when near
JEFF. Chaffee's residence and very seri-
ously injured - the hip and back bone
being separated and the thigh bone
cracked. DR. Hamilton was called and
made the sufferer as comfortable as
possible.
A party of six or seven young men
started from the Clifton house last Sun
day forenoon just before church time,
with full equipment of dogs and guns,
for hnnting excursion. Whether they
considered it right or wrong is "A matter
between them and their consciences,
but there can be no question as to the
example set.
President Wilcox, of the Kalamazoo
college, has resigned. This action is
the outgrowth of the hazing affair of
last term, for participation in which
several students were expelled. The
trustees of the college were in favor of
reinstating these young men, but Mr..
Wilcox strenuously opposed it, hence
his withdrawal.
The man unknown" arrested for
the larceny of watch from a dwelling
house in Volinia some weeks since, on
his plea of guilty, yesterday morning,
was sentenced by Judge Buck to five
years at jackson. VIM. Brown, on the
same plea, for the larceny of an over
coat from the Rix house at Lawton, was
sentenced to four years at Ionia.
Chief Simon Pokagon, of Pottawato-
mie Indians, has recently returned to
his home in Berrien county from Law
renee Kansas, whittier he had taken
twenty-five smart Indian children to be
educated at the Haskell Institute at
government expense. He took six
pupils TO that institution in 1899, max
ing twenty-eight in attendance from
this state. in another generation the
Pottawatomies will be fully modernized
and Indians only in name.
Last week we made brief mention OF
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