The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-10-08
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Detroit. DOS, 600 s9,329
Ex-Gov. ALPHEUs ;. FITCH, of Ann
Arbor, recently celebrated his sGth birth
day.
Hon. f. l.. WooDMAN, OF Worthwhile,
Wayne County, has been a subscriber TO
the Detroit Free Press for fifty consecu-
tive years.
LUMBER, 54,645 feet; shingles 100;
lath, 1850, are the figures OF Saginaw's
shipment during September.
Mrs. SUSAN CECIL, nearly 100 years
old, and probably the oldest woman in
the State, died in Milan, Washtenaw
County, this week.
AN elegant bank building is to be
erected in Newberry, Luce County
THE weekly crop bulletin has been dis
continued for the season and instead a
monthly bulletin will be issued beginning
November /.
WILLIAM NORRIS, of Reed City, we'll
known farmer, was thrown from load
OF wood and instantly killed by the
wheels of the cart passing over his neck.
A MEETING of the Michigan Board Of
Pharmacy for the purpose of examining
candidates for registration, will be held
at Lansing Wednesday and Thursday,
Nov. and g.
EDWARD SoPP, of South Lyon, set his
gun against fence while he climbed
over. In doing so he struck his foot
against the trigger, the charge blowing
a big hole in his breast and causing in
slant death.
CHELSEA has twO-story frame house
about half mile from the center of tho
village that is haunted by strange faces
and a woman and boy spooks. Some
claim To recognize the faces as belonging
TO people who have been recently buried,
and this lends terror to the situation.
THE Peninsula Land Company, at
Newberry, is starting ffty-three-acre
experimental farm upon which TO show
immigrants what kind of dirt Luce
! County is made of.
THE Supreme Court calendar for this
term contains 200 eases, the most on
record. Kent County furnishes twenty
cases and Wayne County One-fourth Of
the entire number.
Iron MOUNTAIN has a cow club. On
| joining each COW owner pays into tho
| possession, and when members cow
| dies an assessment is made and $40 is
paid 10 the loser After the initiation
fee the assessments are all the members
pay into the club and as the member
| ship already exceeds 100 n comparatively
| insignificant sum is levied upon each.
Three claims have already been paid.
Christopher II. HEWITT Of Mt. Glenn
! ems, has written to the Superintendent
| Of the Castle Garden Labor Bureau, New
| York, imploring aid in securing a wife.
| He has siXty-eight broad acres, he says,
| and SO, 900 in hard cash. and wants a
! a wife 40 years old. He claims that his
moral character is vouched for by the
| Mayor and Circuit Judge Of his town,
and stipulates that the future Mrs. Hew-
| 1T must come TO him as a house,
keeper, and give him chance to study
her disposition before he marries her.
JAMES WATERMAN, who has resided in
| Worthwhile, Wayne County, for upward
| Of sixty. years, died Of cancer a few days
ago, aged Sc years.
Gov. LUCE says the reason he did not
! pitch into the lotteries sooner was that
! he could not do anything as long as the
mail was used, but as soon as he knew Of
! the company establishing agencies he
sent out his warning letter.
THE Flint and Perc Marquette Railroad
| has accepted plans for a new $4,000
! bridge across the Saginaw River at West
Bay City.
THE laborers of the Au Sable Lumber
! Company have seen lots Of bears going
south this fall and from that argue that
| it Is going TO be a severe winter.
THE Presbyterian congregation of Ish-
peming is going to build a $4,000
church.
THE Chicago and ST Paul Railroad,
! having purchased the Milwaukee and
! Northern to get connection with the
$500" Road, is now trying to make ship
J ping arrangements east by the $500"
! line.
UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT INsPEC-
TOR SCHELL is at the $500" and making
it lively for the aliens. He has chased
back one gang of fifteen Dagos and
several smaller parties of would-be
! American laborers.
A TERRIBLE tragedy was enacted in
| Saginaw last week Albert Palmer, a
well-known drayman, aged about 33
years, was shot through the heart and
instantly killed by his brother, VIM. ii.
! Palmer. Both men, while drinking in a
! saloon. got into an alteration. William
went out and returned shortly afterward
with double-barreled shotgun, which
he pointed in threatening manner at
his brother. A bystander grasped the
barrel of the gun and pulled it TO one
side, when Albert whipped out revolt
yer and fired at William, the shot pass
ing through the finger of his right hand.
Without further ado William again pre-
sented the gun at the breast of his
brother and fired, the load of buckshot
passing through his victims heart, max
ing a CHASTITY wound. Alfred fell with
out a murmur, his legs bent under his
body. and, with vivid, upturned face, he
lay. while in his right hand he grasped,
with the grip of death the weapon with
which he had tried TO kill his brother.
CADILLAC has a Hubbard squash that
weighs seventy-tive pounds.
IONA COUNTY farmers have to sell
grapes for $40 per ton.
WEST BAY CITY is TO build a 81, 200
bridge across the Saginaw River.
Ii Is understood that when the Signal
| Service is transferred from the War De-