The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-01-29
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.



dings and Deaths - Crimes. Casualties,
and General News Notes.
The following Michigan pensions
have been granted:
Original Invalid-Colo'ion atkins, deceased.
Romeo; navy, VIM. II. Bennett Allendao;
Harmon f. Stannard, Bancroft; Morr = 5. Hall.
ipsilanti; John w. Howard, Grand Ledge;
John w Lum, Shiloh; Homan Dockham, La
.Corunra James Mofiarty. Hudson; Charles T..
Ross Inlay City; Elias ID. Nash, GobieNils;
Herman Huss, Zilwarkee; John Sipe, Hills
dale; Francis Nj. FOrman. lonia Nelson strock,
Ludngt ION; knud Hanson, Nanistee; VIM.
Smith (inssrel Birmingham Taos J. Harris,
Adrian Allied starks, Ashton [; Ferdinand ID.
Roudenbush, Albion; Amandrus Helm, Caro-;
Warren w Barnum, tarlt,n; Thomas
Maloney, Jackson; William j. Ot'away,
Flushing; James H. Hoseman. Grand Rapids
Henry II. Nandusen, Rolling Prairie; John z.
easier, Hudson Alfred c. Boyd, Cohocton;
Ezra :. Cleveland, Clio; Francis McMann. Sag
u. Hanna Easy; Jehiel V. Dunha deceased,
Ludington; Abram c. Anderson, White Oak
John S. Palmer Soldiers Homel, Grand Rapids
Homer h. Lamos otisville Lewis Miller.
Balch; Lambert Van volkenburg Wayland;
Marshall Hallett. Traverse City; Paul Tranger,
Potterville Milton Moore, Nashville JOY NJ.
Warren Minden City Chester s. Armstrong,
Jack son; Isaac Powlus. sa sinaw City VIM.
n. Hartupee, Grass Lake; Samuel Hunter de
ceased, Dowagiac Calvin A. White, Athens
Henry Bowers, Eaton Rapids; VIM. Willis,
Pontiac
Increase-Nathan ID. Rockwell Glendale;
Edgar Albring, Ottawa Lake Jerome II. Dens-
Brooklyn; Richard Van Gieson, Owosso George
w. BOwles Coldwater; George G. RAYMOND,
Grass Lake; Alexander Amily, Crystal Valley;
George Rogers, Constantine; Abram Scott,
Maple Ridge Reuben ID. Wilkinson, Saginaw;
Moses Frazar, Grand Blank; Robert j.. Noe,
Commerce Henry wixon, Lapeer WIN. Isaacs,
H. Edwards, Girard William ID. Brainerd.
Eaton Rapids; George Collins Lyon, Flint;
benjamin f. Geek; Three Rivers Russell San;
ders, Bronson; Darius w. Johnston, Grand
Rapids; Collins Shilling. Cedar Run Charles
III. Sickle Pinckney; David Hinkle, Rogersville;
Mason T. Smith, Grand Rapids Soldiers HomeD /;
William Hocknell, Nassar Jesse V. Stevens,
Paw Paw; Isaac Perrine, Muskegon John III.
Savage, Carson City; Alonzo Woodruff, Luther.
Restoration and Increase-Reuben Wellman,
Shepherd
Reissue Hiram L. Harrison, Ransom. Reissue
and Increase-John II. Hough, Lapeer. Reissue
jacob III. Garfield, Portage; John f. Wotring.
Ogden Center Marion Kellogg Ionia Charles s.
Dougherty. Ypsilanti Carlos N. Ladd kalama-
zoo Simon Il. Barney, Vicksburg; Henry Nor
ton. CassOpolS. Reissue and lncrea se-JacOb
Wilcox, Dundee
Original Widows - Klaasie Pordok, former
widow of Nicholas Blom, Grand Haven Sarah
E. mother of Album l.. Grant, Pentwater;
Christine, widow OF George Flick Col iwater
Christina B., mother Of George Mueller. Lake
Odessa; Jennie, widow OF Lucius II. Real, Cali
fornia Agnes. widow of Daniel Il. Carr. Alpena
Maggie. widow OF Henry Potter Lapeer City
Mary Jane widow Of Colotion Watkins. Romeo
Agnes, widow of Eber Gereau, St Clair; Sarah
f., widow Of Jehiel V. Durham Ludington
Matilda c. Kipp for. widow of Peter Frey Eek
ford Susan A., widow OF Robert n. Greenfield,
Saginaw City.
Mrs. Delos Hilliker. aged %, suicided
at Port Huron by taking morphine, do
nestle trouble being the cause. Mrs.
Hilliker said she was tired of living and
she thought it would be better if she was
out of the way. Her husband hal been
drinking of late, and she had been very
much depressed by tits fact.
Cyrus Thompson. aged 20, residing
near Dearborn, Wayne County, was frozel
to death while driving from the viii lge to
his home.
The cedar block paving to be done at
Alpena City this year viii be 8, 1915 feet
long and contain 26,Sl2 square yards.
The contract for doing the work has been
awarded.
"A fire at Harrison. Clare County,
burned up $4,000 worth of millinery,
drugs, and groceries.
Mrs. Ben. +. Davis, a prominent So
'ciety lady of Lansing, died suddenly in
Chicago of congestion of the bra II, while
visiting friends inthat city.
A State Sanitary Convention will
be held at Lapeer on March p and Is.
The dead body of Christopher Woah-
mer, of Evansville, Monroe County. was
found on the roadside near Ida. He COM
planned of not feeling WELL and started
for Ida to consult a DOCTOR but never
reached there.
The decorators are now engaged upon
the last room in the Capitol, and when
completed all the rooms above the base
ment will have to be decorated. There
has been appropriated for the purpose
S35, 900, of which amount there is still
$4,000 unexpen ded.
-Hillery Cicott, of Monroe, went into
Snto his house, and told his wife he was
not we'll. He then laid down and expired
Immediately. He was 63 years old, and
was born at Monroe, where he had al
ways lived.
-Kumas, Japanese student at the
university, will return TO his native coun-
try in June to prepare himself for a race
for the japanese Parliament.
Detroit Journal: Richard Wood, now
so prominently before the public in con-
nection with the ballot-box forgery, Gre
ated quite little stir in Lansing in
March last. He arrived at the Capitol
with his ballot-box under one arm and an
introductory letter 10 Gov. Luce from
Gov. Foraker. Gov. Luce did not take
very kindly to either Wood or his glass
box, and the man from Ohio did not get
as much of a swing as he would have
liked.
Mrs. Day, arrested in Michigan and
taken to Kansas on suspicion of being
the CT ginal Mrs. Fender, has become
hopelessly insane Her advanced age, the
hardships of Jail 70, and the severity of
the change have contributed 10 this state
of affairs.
Potter q Sons of Alpena, have some