The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-11-18
QuarreIed Over Cows.

years old, gave himself up to the village
officers Oh "a charge OF murder. The
homicide, OF VIII Oh he onfesses himself
guilty, was committed three miles north
east OF Chesaning The Dodge and
Shock families, who reside there, on adj
jacent FARMS have quarre,ed for many
years, the bitter feeling between them
amounting almost to feud. Several
cows owned by the Dodges broke into a
field owned by the Shocks an the latter
promptly locked the animals up VIM.
Dodge and younger brother located
them after long search and demanded
possession OF them, which the Shocks
refused. William carried double-bar-
relied shotgun and threatened to shoot If
the cows were not turned over to him.
A violent quarrel 70 lowed, during which
young Dodge made good his threat He
fired his weapon at Charles Shock, the
load tearing great hole in his chest and
killing him instantly. The murdered
man was "A years old.
FLOYD GARDENER, of Climax, was
! playing with rubber cord in school and
snapped one end Of it into Lester FL
wells eve. 1t Is feared the sight Of the
organ is destroyed.
JOHN Cook, of Wimot, was walking
4
ance, stopped and shook hands. Cook
began to talk about the weather ands
Immediately dropped dead.
MENOMINEE thieves recently robbed
the contribution box in the priests
house OF sos, and carried off bodily q fine
oleander placed in front Of the bay win
dow at Protestant pastors house.
AT Arthur's Bay, eighteen miles from
| inna hon 1f,,rx
several tenement houses and other struc-
lures, together with large quantity Of
lumber, burned, the loss being $50, 900.
WILL HILBER, OF Groveland, Oakland
County, turned up missing, and the next
day his body was found in swamp near
his fathers place, with the throat cut
No reason for his suicide is known, ex-
cept the Inconvenience he suffered from
asthma
IT may be two or three weeks before
further w rk is done in the matter of re-
covering the cargo of the long lost Pc
wabic. The Emerald is at Alpena await
ing tie arriving of another deep-sea div
ing suit, the one worn by the unfortunate
Diver Pelky hay ing been uined when lie
'ost his life.
WHILE the steamer Griffin was max
ing Lake Huron port the other day, the
chief engineer came out of his hot
quarters and put his head out of a port
hole TO see how the boat was progress
ing. He'll think twice, yes, four or five
times, before he does il again. A sailor
on the deck above let go fender Just
then which swept down and all but gull
otined the engineer. The heavy piece
Of timber broke his Jaw, married the
beauty of one side OF his face, so that
his best girl won 'dn't know him, and all
but broke his neck
Lone and formidable professions on
country roads in Kalamazoo county,
which look little di lance off like trains
of field artillery, are found on nvestiga-
ton to be merely parties of farmers
starting off with no more desperate pur-
pose than hunting the little retiring
hOme-,Oving woodchuck in thickly popu-
lated woodchuck districts. They take a
lot of the tank wagons used to supply
thresher engines with water and drown
the poor little fellows in their hoes
THOMAS III. MILLS, aged 25, Port
Huron druggist, died suddenly of rheum-
atsm of the heart
WIN. BIGGER, of the West Bay City
branch of the Salvation Army, is under
arrest, charged with not supporting his
wife.
LOUIS AUSTIN was throw against a
telegraph pole in runaway at West
Bay City and has not since teen able to
/ talk straight.
Mrs. LECKEY, matron Of the Bliss
Hospital at Saginaw, has gone to Mani
toba to take charge of Presbyterian
Indian school
FITZPATRICK, on the northern division
al A A NJ ID
been rebaptized new name Yuma
Biggest enterprise at present there Is
nine charcoal kins and more to be built
SHEPHERD horsemen have just dis
covered that there is In the suburbs a
splendid piece of land just suited for
whole mile kite track, and an effort Is
being made TO organize company to
build it.
WHILE Stephen Van Ripper, of Onon-
daga, Ingham County, was looking down
into rabbit or some other kind of
hole his gun was discharged, blowing off
his chin and one hand and putting out
both eyes. He will die.
A METHODIST pastors wife in Maple
Rapids does the punctuating of thirdly"
and "fourihly" on the pulpit when tho
pastor himself / under the weather, and
the people are inclined 90 think the
"clingng vine" is an Improvement on the
soak"
AT a Cadillac social affair VIM. Heath.
the host invited Charles Turner up
stairs and then kicked him down again.
Turner would probably have been killed,
II he hadn't been intoxicated, and as It
Is will be lucky If he pulls through all
right.
THE farmers in several townships OF
Jackson County are close up to the
golden stairs. They have organized a
vigilance committee, and a spotter has
been appointed in each school district to
constitute complaining witness against
Sabbath Nimrods.
A son Of Joseph Duquette, peniten-
| tiary bird sent to Jackson i'm 1856 for
the horrible murder OF little child, has
Just discovered the whereabouts of his
/ father aud called on him at the nrieon