The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-01
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.
AN Interesting Summary of the More I'm
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-wed-
dings and Deaths-Crimos, Casualties,
and General News Notes.

dings and Deaths-Crimos, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
MAN i'm Wayne County thought his
ten acres OF rye were ruined by lack OF
rain and he cut it for fodder. For the
next few days il raned so hard that the
fodder was spoiled, and now he is pretty
hot.
THE Belt Line of Bay City has been
given an extension of franchise One of
the main provisions of the new franchise
is that the railroad will have to pave one
OF the principal streets which it will
traverse.
By the Port Huron annexation bill the
the new passenger station will be
brought into the city limits. The people
of that city are we'll pleased over tho
passage Of that bill.
Mrs. Ely KELLOGG, a prominent lead
or OF Kalamazoo society, committed sui
eide by taking nuX vomica When tha
doctors arrived she was beyond help, dy,
ing in few minutes The cause of tho
act was oppression on account of private
troubles. Mrs. Kellogg was leader in
social events and was a member of St,
Luke's Episcopal Church.
ARCHITECTS are hustling to secure tho
contracts for the new county buildings
JOHN BROOKS. of Hilsda'e, was 1O5
years old last Thursday Friday nighs
he died suddenly of gangrene.
EDWARD ROGERS has been found guilty
OF murder in the first degree for the
killing of Hattie Moses at Saginaw.
THE Michigan Senate refused to re-
dnce the appropriation for the World'a
Fair from $4,000 TO $100,000
THE fruit-growers of Grand River Wax
ley have organized, and the object or
the society is to ascertain the amount OF
fruit in the neighborhoods where the
members live, and to try and control tAs
packing and shipping.
THE chigger may CHG with all his
mite, and the mocking bird mock and
sing; but the Michigan crops they take
the cake, and corn, you bet, is king.
The cricket may crick, and the frogl9t
may frog, and the farmer may chant his
strain, for the Michigan crop is always
on top-when plenty there is of rain.
The cinch bug may cinch, and the grass.
hopper hop, and the hot winds make
you tire; but il any one says there arc
such things here, just call him horr.-
bic liar. Oklahoma may boom and Texas
howl, and Missouri shoot off her chop;
but this is the place 10 get good home
and raise an extra biz crop -Buttte
Greek Noon.
SOME thought il came In pat
To call IL "baCcurat."
While English sporting law
Insists it's "baccaraw,"
But this idea we've got,
IT'S simply ~baccarot."
battle Greek CdU
a sTREET-CAR motor man at Adrian,
is said TO be suffering from blood poison
ming resulting from the copper brake
handle having worn blister on the
palm of his hand.
THE power station Of the Bay County
Electric Light Company, containing
three large Westinghouse engines and
six dynamoS, was totally destroyed, by
fire. The loss is $50, 900; insurance, Sl0,-
coo. Business houses. hotels, and
number of residences are I'm darkness,
as the company is the sole occupant Of
the field.
BAY City has branch of the League of
American Wheelmen.
PORT Huron had nine women arrested
for being drunk last week.
Ten years ago there were only two In
dams on Les ChenauX Islands, but now
there is a flourshing village there, and o
lively industrial population it is.
A. w. NIBLoCK, of Bay City, ana
prominent throughout the Saginaw Val
ley "a business man, was taken to
Pontiac for private treatment
BY special election at Plymouth it
was decided that the village was to have
water works, which were not 10 cost
over $50,
GLADSTONE has gone crazy over
pamp ccllad "bonn tapcarat
IL four transfers at Bay City last
week IL, 500, 900 feet of lumber changed
hands.
A POLICEMAN in Port Huron resigned
and the city wants a white star on its
dadem because it has broken the spell
"a policeman seldom dies and never re-
signs"
IONA has company that already has
thirty acres OF cucumbers engaged, and
expects to get many more, for the pickles
VIII Oh it proposes TO turn out.
FRANK DAVIS, of Bear Lake discov-
cred a deer swimming across the mar
rows Getting into his boat he started
in pursuit and soon had rope around
its neck, but it struggled so hard that he
had TO let it go TO prevent his Loaf from
being capsiZed He followed the deer
ashore ana found that the animal had
twisted the line around a saplng and
was his easy prey. This plan may be
recommended to summer resorters.
JACK KEHoE. a saloonkeeper OF Man
istee, murdered his mOther-in- Mrs.
Ann Mccormick, aged So, by pounding
her 70 death with beer bottle. He at
tempted to kill his wife, but failed She
received serious internal injuries, besides
a fracture OF the skull and nose, but
will recover. The family quarreled over
property matters. Kehoe gave himself
up.
LET them go their way without bother
row,
IL you find that you cannot turn EN-;
What's the use OF hunting herctics now
When you know that you cannot burn
en-?
-Cheboygdn DcmOcrd.
AFTER an exciting chase by Sergeant