The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-03-11
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

| In Hillsdale. The victim, Mrs Susanna
Walker, is widow about As years old
and lives alone After hard days
work she went home late. She was
awakend by some one bursting open the
| front door She was struck on the left
side OF the head and face a number OF
savage blows with heavy club, which
rendered her unconscious. When she
regained consciousness, she said a man
had broken open the door and saying
something about revenge attacked her.
Officers arrested Dave Walters, man
about 35 years of age. When taken to
the Jail and examined closely blood was
found on Walters shirt in number of
places. He claims the blood was due to
a ferret biting his ear. The attending
| physician says there is no hope of Mrs.
Walkers recovery. Her head rs pounded
almost to jelly
THE last Agricultural College bulletin
tells farmers how Canada thistles, red
root, MULLEN, toad fax, rib grass, and
narrow dock look, and how TO kill them
without the use of hoe. The instruc-
tions are sent free to anybody.
THE big propeller Russell Sage,
beached below Cheboygan in storm last
! November, will be pumped out and res
cued by the Port Huron Wrecking Com
pany. 1t is loaded with iron ore.
Fred Emmont, OF Saginaw, who kept
a dead mans name on the pay roll OF the
Flint & Pere Marquette Road and drew
the dead mans salary, has been sent to
Jackson for eighteen months. He con-
fessed
THERE is more room for hard-workers
up in Antrim County than the people
know what to do with, and this is given
as a possibility: c. Kalbfeisch and his
boys have cut off two acres of his poor
est timber this winter, with the following
cash results therefrom: Logs, Sos; block
wood, $500; kiln wood, $50; total, S65s.
!, As Mr.. Kalbneisch carries his green wood
over and seasons ii, selling it In the fall,
5000 is to be added to the above total,
making SS5s, or a forest product Of S429
! per acre.
Ar Detroit, William p. Wells, one of
the most distinguished Michigan lawyers,
dropped dead in the County Court, just
after having finished an argument. He
had been Collector of Customs under
! President Johnson, was Chairman of tho
/ general council of the American Bar
Association, Kent professor of law in
the University of Michigan, and one OF
the leading Democrats Of the State He
|
CHARLES G.. LEARNED. of Port Austin,
is dead. He was "a years Old, and had
| farm OF /, 800 acres under tillage
THE residents of interior Africa would
do well TO send a missionary to Saginaw
TO tell the officers that it is not humane
TO allow an inhuman mother TO exhibit
two-pound baby at freakorium for IS
week until the monstrosty dies.
w. H. EASTMAN, of Antrim County,
says it's irony of fate when the one of
| his horses not insured was killed in a
runaway accident, and its mate, with
500 policy on his head, escaped without
injury.
THE Bay City Mission saved twenty
three sinners last year, and il will take
$3.50 to get as many this year. Charita-
| bic people are beginning TO think the
per capita price is too high.
THE St Clair County Savings Bank
will be the title of new bank in Port
| Huron. 1t will have home-nickel-in-
the-slot system, with a once-a-month
collection.
JUDGE STEERE says there are many
dreadfully tough places in Chippewa
| County, and he wants grand jury to
see about them.
THE Presbyterian ladies of st. Louis
are publishing cook book TO help pay
the church expenses.
KALAMAzoo's big capsule concern has
been merged into an indianapolis COM
pany, and therefore the celery city
walls.
A CHILD was recently born to James
Hamilton and wife, of Bessemer. The
strange part of the item is the fact that
the parents are 20 and G5 years old.
TIE Democrats have nominated John
| O. Champlin TO succeed himself as JUS
tice of the Supreme Court
LOUIS j. BARNES, of Sagin aw, and the
daughter of prominent citizen wore
| just repeating the vows which would
make them man and wife, in the presence
of large company of friends, when he
| was arrested, at the instance of Ida
| George, charged with being the father
| of her child. The prospective bride
| tainted, but upon recovering declared
| she would marry Barnes anyway. Upon
| trial, Barnes was convicted
CONTRACTS have been let for twenty
| five new buildings at Durand. They are
mostly for homes.
JUD CROUCH, Of Jackson who for
seven years has been under $50, 900 for
| his appearance to answer for the famous
| Crouch murder, is now free. The case
was nolle prosecuted.
THE Michigan p. Of /. have decided to
make no union with any other order
THE Supreme Court has established
| the right OF County Clerks TO suppress
| the files in Legal cases at their, discretion.
| The opinion holds that in divorce cases
| the public Is certainly not interested,
and that the pusbc interests would be
best subserved y the charges In divorce
| cases were never published
JOIN II. DESMOND, Of Port Huron,
gets the appointment of mechanical en-
gineer in the Railroad Commission er's
Office. He has been Grand Trunk en-
gineer nineteen years
An effort is now being made to get
Uncle Sam TO realize Saginaw is con-
colldated and wants only one Postoffice.
The red tape necessary to the abolition