The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-08-12
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.
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sonal Pointers.
AJAcKsoN firm kept turtle three
months. Then IL WAS taken down to the
river and released. A week later a noise
was heard at the firms back door, and,
opening up, they found the turtle asking
for admission. The sagacious animal Is
said TO have given way to transports of
JOY at the sight of its former benefac-
tors While In captivity IL learned to
drink beer and chew tobacco, showing
an unmistakable preference for fnecut,
and 1t occasionally smoked cigarette
with evident relish.
AT Oscoda, while engaged in quarrel
In Fred Welchs saloon, Ed Gothro
struck Jacob Cline In the face. He can
not live, as blood vessel in the brain
was burst. Gothro was arrested.
Mrs. DEAN, keeper of a Harrison res
taurant, set fire to her clothes while
lighting lamp and will probably die.
There are no particulars as to whether
new test oil is responsible for the acci-
dent
MARCELLUs' population is increasing
so fast that there are no longer houses
enough to go around, and impatient
young men have 10 pro!ong their court
ship TO scandalous lengths, waiting for
structures to be built to live in after
they are married.
Jos. PETINGALL, an Allegan veteran,
en- route to Detroit, jumped from a
moving train In the Grand Rapids union
depot and fractured his hips
A QUARRY in which material suitable
for curbstones and pavements can be
obtained Is being developed at Bay Port.
CLARK, FARNHAM & Co. s shinge mill
at Even, Ontonagon County, has burn
ed, throwing forty men out Of employ
ment
The biggest bill for sums due on the
English sparrow bounty which Eaton
County ever paid at one time came from
Oneida township, and amounted to
S1O2. n. This sum represented the loss
OF some 9,459 sparrows
ALLEGAN is short or water aud long
on darkness This is because the water
power runs the electric lighting plant
and there is no water lower. The dam
is dry, and all the dams are dry.
WHEN Plainwell people find stag.
gering stranger on their streets they
take him to the horse trough and duck
him And Plainwel wonders why ii
doesn't increase In wealth and popula-
tion.
FLORA GREENALL, 10 years of age,
recently said mo" to John Bargo's pro-
posal of marriage. Now Flora is very
sick, and John is in Jail on q charge of
giving her poison in his taffy. All this
at Ironwood.
HALF A DozEy Kalamazoo bloods were
paralyzed to be arrested and fined for
riding bicycles on the sid walk contrary
10 the provisions Of the city ordinance III
such case made and provided.
KALAMAZOO hopes that a corset manu-
factory will come there and stay.
THE Michigan knights of the grip have
500 members and $500 In the treasury.
and will hold their State meeting at
Jackson on Dec, 20.
SEVERAL weeks ago Mrs Adeline
EAlyer, a middle-aged widow lady who
lived alone in the township of Climax,
was found dead upon the floor OF her
kitchen, strangled by cord that had
been twisted about her neck. The
authorities of Kalamazoo County have
now offered a reward Of $500 for tho de-
lection and conviction of her destroyer.
BOYS at Iron Mountain loosened tho
brakes on some ore cars and let them
run down a steep grade. One of the cars
Jumped the track and smashed cot
tage. For this Abraham Richards, a
colorcd boy, goes to the Reform School.
THE Saginaw Bay Coal Company is
mining about $50 tons Of coal day at
Sebewaing
THE county Of Sanilac marshes pro-
duced 10000 bushels of huckleberries
this year,
AT Muskegon, Thomas Evans, rail-
road workman, has been arrested for an
assault upon young lady.
FROST did considerable damage to crops
on low land all over Michigan.
AT Marine City, William Weed, deck
hand on the steamer Hope, died in fit.
His homo was at Painesvillo, Ohio.
A TRAMP went fooling around Mrs.
VIM. Coombs, when she was alone at her
homo In Sturgis She took clothes
FOUNDER to him and he is now in Cen
terville jail awaiting trial in the Circuit
Court. q, ~. y, AZ X s--; .t5. -,
SAUGATUCK people thought cents
basket too much TO pay for freight on
peaches to Chicago, and have got rival
boat line started.
A MOVEMENT has been started to raise
funds for a library building at Hope
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IT IS expected the track will ballad on
the c. & w. NJ. extension to Elk Rapids
by Sept 1.
Two TRAMPs, who had been trying to
sell Job lot of silverware cheap, have
been arrested at Battle Creek.
The prohibition town of Woodland is
all excitement over the filing Of saloon
bond-the first in the town for number
of years.
PARsoN REED is Free Methodist ex-
horter who went to Flushing few
months ago and created Juror Three
of his converts went insane Finally,
he was compelled by the failure of his
resurces TO seek for labor In the harvest
field He found work with Cyrus Bacon,
one of his converts The two men
quarreled, and the parson disappeared
with a pair of black eyes and several