The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-27
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.
An Interesting Summary of the More I'm :
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-wod-
dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.

VIII " an experienced DrOOmmaker when
his lie sentence at Jackson ends
REvs. w. MoEEDYK, j. Taylor, and
Ill. f.. Dosker have been appointed q
committee on establishing an additional
chat" at Hope College.
TnE bridgeport Maccabees have been
enj,lned from using the church for de-
gree work; the Judge ruling that the
goat is anything but sacrifcial one.
WILL JENKINS, of Bay City, has just
received $4,000, the price of one leg the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company cut off
at Cleveland.
THE temperance ladies of Manistee
have completed $4,000 home for girls
who need reformation. The grounds be-
longing to the home cover twenty acres.
MANY wool growers in this State have
for several years past been in the habit
OF tying their fleece with binding Irvine.
Eastern wool buyers have recently issued
Il circular TO their State purchasers
| notifying them that feeces must be tied
with wool Irvine or stand discount of
two cents
THE salaries of the professors of Hope
| College have been increased from 81, 900
TO 81, 100.
A CONSTRUCTION train has begun work
ballast'ng for a medium gauge on the
Sand Beach Division of the Flint ana
Pere Marquette.
PROF. DAVID SWING, of Chicago, will
deliver the commencement address to
the Orchard Lake boys June A.
THE Gaylord NeUs man congratulates
himself that he has issued six volumes
of his paper, and "we haven't had to eat
lsawduSt, either"
THERE are 300 men working in the
Wheeler ship-yards at West Bay City,
This is an even 1000 less than usual in
q busy season.
THE divided United Brethren Church
has gotten into the justice court at
Wadron because liberal and radical,
pounded one another Radical Smith,
in the melee, was worsted by Liberal
Double, and Justice Smith fined the VIC
tor s.. He paid it willingly.
A DETROIT policeman has been ac-
quilted upon trial for not entering tho
church upon his beat in which a mad
dog was creating terrible commotion.
He swore that he thought they were
only electing a deacon.
JAMES M. STERLING, a prominent
business man and politician of Monroe.
died of pneumonia. He was SO years
old and had lived in Monroe over half q
century.
THEY come, the merry insect train
The borers and the dippers;
The little gnats waltz in again,
And exc the gallinippers.
The weevil and the cusworm now
Do polish up their armor;
The chinch bug makes his vernal bow
In ambush for the farmer.
The weird curculio setteth out
To mad the fruit-tree tillers,
And in each garden Turk about
Ten billion caterpillarS
-ChebOygdn Democrat
JOHN CASTLE, rich farmer of Grant
Township, was shot by a spring gun
while entering the yard of Wslter
Richards. Castle and Richards are
neighbors and Of late stories have been
circulating connecting Castle and Rich
ards pretty wife. These stories reached
Richards, and he quarreed with Castle
and forbade him the house. Castle gave
no heed to the order, and was on his way
to call on Richards, when he was shot.
Caste bled TO death in fifteen minutes,
and did not make any statement. Inves-
tigation showed that Richards has set a
gun in the path loaded with buckshot,
and then attached a string and lever to
the gate to shoot whoever came in. He
said he was afraid of incendaries He
is now in Jail.
THERE have been thirty-eight dry
goods failures in Jackson in exactly that
many years that of John j. Tuomey
being the latest and heaviest.
HuLsDALE wants new charter which
will make the Treasurer and Clerk cleo
tive and give the city permission to own
tl.e electric light plant.
FRANK \. ID. GEORGE is an ex-convict
who is attracting attention to himself at
jackson about these days. George orig
inally hailed from Detroit, and enjoys
the distinction Of having served five sem
fences in the State Penitentiary and at
least one in Ohio He left the prison in
Jackson the last time about the day
Warden Hatch lost his seat at that in
stitution, and seems TO have not at all
profited by the teachings of the eX-
Warden from the reform books. He is
now on trial in the Prison City on the
charge of having obtained 500 from u
life convict named Sylvanus Nj. Daniels,
on promise so get the latter's case be-
fore the Supreme Court. George forged
the name of Frank l.. Dodge, of Lam
sing, TO a letter, In which was writtenl
the assertion that the case would, in ALI
probability, be favorably reported by the.
Supreme Court in day or two. Tho
letter also contained the request that
Daniels at once pay Mr.. George S25 as
clincher. Warden Davis got on to the
game and made complaint against the
ex-convict and he has had a partial
hearing.
FIRE destroyed twenty blocks of Mus
kegon business houses and residences
with an estimated loss OF S50o,000. The
flames started in Langwelfs livery, on
Clay avenue, in the rear of the Lang
well Hotel. The stores on the east side
of Pine street were destroyed as also
many buildings on Webster avenue, in
Guiding the court house and Jail. Every
business house on Pine street was
burned. Terrace street was the western
terminus OF the fire. The flames we're
checked only at Isabella street, a dis
lance OF ten blocks from the starting
poipt Tho rosibancoS hurpa6 m harad