The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-09-09
A Red Oak Sensation.

silence that prevailed about the place,
forced an entrance and found the body
or Burns on the bed and across il that of
the woman, About the neck of the
latter was string, and death had re-
suited from strangulation Grostrick
believes that Burns died from natural
causes, while the woman killed herself
from grief. Burns went to that region
about four years ago with pretty young
woman he introduced as his daughter.
lie seemed TO have plenty OF money and
fitted up tasteful home. They seldom
went out and their great fondness for
one another led people to believe they
were not father and daughter. No one
knows whence they came or anything of
their history.
EAST TAwAs fishermen mplain that
their industry is seriously crippled by
the havoc made in their nets by RATS.
At Dearborn the limited express struck
and instantly killed John Ruttiman and
his 7-year-old daughter. Both were
fearfully mangled.
THE front wall of the Union Street
Railway Company's new building on
Washington avenue, at Saginaw, blew
down, involving a loss OF SO, 900.
FRED BoYER, aged Is, with black hair p
and eyes, a cataract on the right optic
and scar on the forehead, disappeared
from Midland, and his parents are anx-
ious to learn his whereabouts
THE rains have injured oats in the
Saginaw valley, but they are a splendid
thing for lumbermen, the rise in the
rivers enabling them to float down
thousands of feet OF hung.up logs e
THE Manufacturing and Improvement
Companys saw mill at East Tawas,
which has been idle for some time, will
start up again, a 1000, 000-foot raft which
will keep it running the rest Of the sea-
son, having arrived
NEAR Lapeer, while Vernon Dilin-
beck was digging a hole by the side of
large stone for the purpose of placing a
fire for blasting, the earth gave way and
the stone fell in on DiIlinbeck and
crushed him to death.
WV. DUMoNT represented himself to
be advance agent for a colony Of fifty
Swiss families who wished to settle in
Kalama; 90. He sold nearly 500 worth
of tickets to a benefit lecture, but had
disappeared when the lecture WAS to be
given.
ST IGNACE has brass band which
but which is said To have learned i'm that
time but four tunes. 1t is also alleged
that No. A. as played on the streets the
other night, caused lights in adjacent
buildings to go out and soured all the
milk within radius Of half ME.
COUNTY TREASURER GREEN, OF Sagi-
nav County, has received from Southern
Nj chigan 81 so of publ. money from some
woman who came into posse sion of it
unlawfully fourteen years ago an whose
alternating conscience has now aroused
sufficiently to make it uncomfortable to
retain it but not enough to force her to
pay interest on it.
TIE Grand Trunk is sending out
printed matter re ative to thu opening of
the Port Huron tunnel in which there
are references to "shunt'ng sidings" and
other things which are not only too
English for any sort of use, you know,
but Pathological The cost of the tun-
mel proper is put at 81, 400. 900, its leagth
is 5000 feet, and it took twelve moths
to construct it. The length with APP
proaches is 1853 feet
ALBERT SALISBURY, Jackson milk
man, has been missing for some time
ABUNDANT crops are promised at such
hop yards as still remain in Michigan.
WILLIAM THOMPSON and Rufus Emer-
son, OF Jackson, are interested in
company which will build flour mills in
Canada.
WILLIE S;ssoN, aged o, rescued from
drowning Freddie Toy, lad of his
own age, who had fal eli off dock at
Alpena
WHILE Andrew Simmons was speed
ing his trotter. Brown Dan, on the race
course at Richmond. the an NAL stumbled
and broke his neck.
TIE First Presbyterian Society Of
Kalamazoo has extended call to the
Rev. Thomas f.. Barr, of Racine, to min
lister to it at salary of 80, 500.
Mrs. MARY JEssoN and Miss Alice
Oman have each begun suits against
Saginaw City for $4,000 damages for
injuries received on defective sidewalks.
TIE Rev. c. w. Stephenson, of Sagi-
nav. has been chosen by the Methodist
Protestant Conference as delegate to
the National Convention of the denom-
nation, held at Westminster, Md, in
May, 1892.
ALIEN. LEvETT, Black River man
charged with bigamy, skipped his tail
also very foolishly. he returned from
Canada the other day and was promptly
gathered in.
A BIG pine was fellcd recently on the
Ocqueoc River IN Pressure Is g County.
1t was sixty-eight inches in diameter at
the cut, and 1872 feet further up It was
fit en- inches thick. 1t sca'ed IL, 294
feet of sound lumber.
TIE Sioux City Nursery and Seed
Company raise i'm Michigan al the peas
and beans they sell for seed They con-
tracted for the entire crop on ], 200 acres
tn year, and will arrange for an in
creased acreage next season.
A CoLoRED clerg ymau collected nearly
$500 TO apply on the debt of an A. M. +.
church at Bay City. 1t is asccrtained
that there is no colored church of that
denomination in the place, and some
little interest Is manifested on the cues
ton as TO what became of the stuff.
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