The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-10-07
Personal and Pertinent Paragraphs.


has been sick for some weeks, arose i'm
her delirium and left the house, scantily
clad. Searching parties looked for her
Tor hours, and, at last, found her near
Twin Lakes, several miles away.
THERE is deer-run four miles from
Shepherd The herd has been caught
browsing quite fre4 uently this summer,
and the population thereof Is variously
estimated at from forty TO eighty. The
local nimrods contemplate camping
out the night before the season opens.
RoBERr II. WARD, co!ored convict
sent to Jackson prison from Detroit, has
in four years saved enough money from
working over time to buy the G2, 800 out
fit OF bus ed barber shop, getting it at
bargain for $500. He will locate in
the city when h S term expires six months
Il om now.
Mrs. GERTRUDE SCHNEIDER rec ,ived
severe injuries to her spine in an ac-l.
dent on the ansing street railway, 20
that when her II arrlagc took place n few
days later she was unable To remove
from her led and the ceremony had To
BE- performed in her chamber. She sues
the company for So, 600 damages.
MILES p. O., Marion Town hip San
lac County, is booming. Within Few
weeks she has acquired, obtained and
now controls daily mail, public hall
and movement for new brick
sanctuary, and Is dlckering for a shoe
maker, harness maker, doctor, tinker
and tailor-all because it is convenient
trading point. Subscriptions are being
laid down and taken up for X O. L. M.
hal, too.
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from Judge Peck, in the Jacks n Com
ty Circuit Court, gave the Judge a great
old song and dance when asked why SEN
tencc should not be pronounced upon
him. A fellow prisoner in the county
jail now confesses that he wrote the
speech for Kelley, and superintendent its
rehearsal until his pupil had it down
fine. The convicted man, however, be-
came confused while giving It to the
Judge and forgot several large chunks
OF 1t, and the author was 20 DISCUS ted
that he gave the snap away.
DIR j. f. ORLINGER, pra cticing ply
stefan at Holt, swallowed mouthful Of
horse liniment composed OF equal parts
OF aconite and arnica, mistakny it for
medicine. He Immediately took as an
emetic liberal dose of sulphate of zinc,
but as that did not Immediately relieve
him, he jumped into his buggy and
drove to Lansing, a distance OF seven
miles at breakneak speed. When he
arrived he was as cold as an oyster, his
eyes protruding from their sockets, and
his heart was beating like a tripham-
mer, but physicians soon succeeded in
putting him beyond danger.
THE balloon craze has claimed another
victim, and as a result OF a foolhardy
venture at Mt Plea ant Lewis Ii. Earl.
OF Marshall, lies deal OF q broken neck
and Frank Thayer, OF Mount Pleasant
Is suffering from fractured arm and
severe internal lures. Earl had made
q successful ascc nsiou by way %
diversion it was ag eed that Thayey anu
Earl should go up together Just be-
fore 6 o'clock the balloon was let go. 1t
shot up rather slowly. with Earl sitting
on the trapeze bar and Thayer suspend
ed few feet below him by some ropes.
The men had reached height of about
forty feet, when oae OF the trapeze
ropes gave way, and Earl and Thayer
came whirling to the ground. Earl was
dead EefOre he was reached by any
of The spectators Thayer's left arm
was badly fractured, and he Is also
severely bruised and in ured internally.
A THIEF took J. II. Knickerbocker's
pocketbook from shim at Port Huron,
removed S7OO, replaced the bills with
strips Of pasteboard and returned the
pocketbook j. H. Knickerbocker didn't
discover his loss until he went TO the
bank at his home in Brown City to de-
posit the money.
j. i. WAsHBURN, the Secretary of the
'Longshoremen's Union at Bay City, who
wcnt away nearly two years ago, lcav-
ing his wife and children rs near starva-
tion as they could so and live, has been
heard from. The mi. cradle stink has
evidently some notion OF coming home
for any money his wife may have earned
and saved, as he has been inquring of
some friends Of the family out We as
TO where she Is.
DANIEL WINTER was undressed so
quickly it made his head swim at West
Fay City the other night He is a
wat Imam in Smaley 81 Woodworth's
sawmill and the main shaft caught him
BY the slack of his apparel, slashed him
around in u circle /. n or fifteen times,
and dropped him minus everything but
his hoes and stockings and freckes.
He was hardly conscious when picked
up, but came around all right
ONE of the most benevolent individ-
uals in Fort Aaron is Detective Buck
ridge. Under Ordinary circumstances
he wouldn't hurt fly, but there are
points at which he draws the line. He
drew it the other day VIXEN Joe Clemmo
took two of the officers fingers into his
mouth and began to eat them Mr..
Buckridge made up face that ticlSled
the bystanders half to death, and stood
it Us long as he cou'd, and then he took
his handouts and knocked the cannibal-
istic Clemmo down and ran him in.
WHEN Hiram c. Myers was 8 years
old, wagon loaded with pretty near
ton of hay ran over him and tho grim
reaper almost gathered him in under tie
wheels When he was 10, he was al
most cut to pieces I'm an edger at the
lumber mill. lie had divers other rar-
row escapes, but the scythe man let him
jog on until few days ago. He went
to work in a lumber camp near Mullet
Lake, Cheboygan County. The next
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