The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-12-23


and 7, were drowned i'm the river at WI.
liamston, while playing on the fec
CHARLES JARvEY is in the hospital at
Saginaw with serious in;ur es, having
been caught Under rolling logs at a camp
near Grayling.
THE Delta man who committed suicide
the o her day walked thirty six mil in
the mud an rain before he took his life.
No wonder he was blue.
A LUNATIC in the Saginaw jail is gem
eral manager of the moon and fourth
assistant general manager of the sun
with siXty-three associates
HERMAN KREAMER, employed in a
camp near Alpena, is another victim OF
falling tree. He may live, but his
skull will have to be pate. G up.
TIE pugilsts arrested at Kalamazoo
on charge Of prize fighting were re-
lea ed, being succe 'sfu in establishing
the fact tEat 1T was merely a sparring
exhibition.
Mrs. JAMES REILLY, who was injured
on the Saginaw street railroad, sues for
SIC, 900 on her own acc unit and her hus
band sues for 5000 for medical attend
ance and loss of her services.
BUSINESS in Rogers City is wretched
ly dull. Crops in the county were poor
and there is said to be insufficient gra n
to nter the stock. Beef is selling at
cents pound in con equence
JOIN ROSE worked in lumber camp
near Alpena and in chopping down
tree didn't get out of the way soon
enough The tree fell on him, pinning
him TO the ground, breaking both legs.
SE f,,I1,
mixed up sometimes. While there was
cool seighing on a highway in Inwood,
CharlevOiX County, folks going by in cut
ters saw two farmers blowing in an ad.
jacent field
GOOD crops and wood famines run to-
gether. Half the towns in the State
are suffering from wood famine and the
farmers have no piles on hand to haul
in, either, because it has taken all their
time to take care of the crops.
A MODEST Wexford County school
ma am obje is to teaching physiology,
because-well, because. But the trustees
insist that she shall, and from one OF
those books in which carved up human
ity is displayed in every sty.e
A STORY comes from Detour to the eff
feet that a Fren; fisherman there,
named John Bush, being DESTROYS of re-
turning to his former home in Quebec,
sold his Indian wife to another fisher
named Chapeau for S75. They had been
married nearly four years and had had
three CHI ldren.
j. A. WDNEP, of AlLena, the cedar
buyer who has operations all along the
Huron shore, had crooked finger.
physician carved it for the purpose of
Strengthening it out; blood poisoning set
in and Mr. Widner is just shy one-half
of his arm, which had to be removed TO
save his usefulness
WHILE threshing was in progress en-
the farm of +. Boyce, near Mayville,
the engine boiler burst Richard Fur
land was instantly kille |; Bert hamburg
was so badly hurt that he die in an hour,
and James Mitchell was seriously in
jured The barn and contents were
burned with a loss Of $4,000
THE Detroit National Bank has been
robbed by its paying teller, Frederick A.
Harter, of nearly $4,000, and the ex-
traordinaly thing about the robbery is
that, according to the confession OF
Halt,r to the bank directors, the thefts
have extended over series of years in
sma amounts without discovery by the
local United States bank examiner.
THE shoe shop in the prison at Jack
son employs l60 convicts and turns out
1900 pairs of shoes eat h work day in
the year. On April the contract for
convicts' services expires by limitation
and the company Will 90 to Dixon, Ill.
Just what the convicts will be set at to
earn Their very good board and striped
clothing is what now bCthers Warden
Davis He hopes to induce some COM
pany to take up the manufacture OF
shoes in the shops which will be vacated,
but thus far contractors do not seem to
be tumbling over one another to invest
in the enterprise, as the boycott kick
started by the X. of l.. against the goods
manufactured by convict labor shows up
too strongly.
RosEBUsH school closed; it's not lep-
rosy, but scarlet fever.
S 5. CoIB. a prominent citizen of
Ia amazoo, is critically i'll with pneu-
monia.
OF camp of fifty-three woodsmen on
Black River, but three are American
citizens, 1t is said, al the rest being
Swedes.
Mrs CHEsLEY WHEELER, mother of
the ex-Congressman, died at Bay City
from the injuries received In falling
downstairs.
DEER are getting so tame in Northern
Mich gan since the shooting season
closed that they come out OF the woods
into the settlements and eat in the farm
ers' enclosures.
A VERY drowsy Waterman seems to
have been the cause of a serious loss to
the State. and heavier one to the Web
ster Wagon Company at jackson Prison.
Fire did S12, 600 damage.
AT Kalamazoo Mrs. Jos. w. Turner
died aged s5 years. She was one Of the
most prominent pioneers in this part OF
the State Her husbands ninety second
birthday occurred the day before.
KODAK fiends in Northern Michigan
make the most of golden opportunities,
pressing the button on n great variety of
picturesque scenes in connection with
logging operations at the lumber camps.
In response to a demand from Gov
ernor Winans, Daniel Il. Soper, Secre-
tary of State, rendered his resignation,