The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-05-11
From Far and Near.

THE steamer Darmstadt, infected with
scarlet fever, arrived at New York on.
Thursday. Over 100 OF her passengers
are bound for various points in Mich
igan.
A LOCOMOTIVE on the 500 Line ex-
ploded at Whitedale, and Engineer Hub
bard and Fireman Stead were seriously
Injured. Both were badly scalded and
the fireman was thrown sxty-ave feet
by the explosion, dying later. Stead
was married, his family living at Glad
stone.
ADVERTISING is quite trade, and
some people will never learn it. A
farmer at South TobasCo has offered
forty acres of tillage land to any girl
who will lead him to the altar. If he
will add that he will till the land for her,
he will be married man inside OF
week.
The steambarge Yosemite of San
dusky, owned by Walker and others,
valued at about 10000, was burned to
the waters edge while lying at anchor
off Emerson. The Yosemite was built
at Sandusky by Fordham in 1857, and
rebuilt in 1886. She measured 229 tons,
rated A24, and was valued at $4,000.
James Estes and others of Sandusky
were the owners.
LANsING's Board of Education has
been shunted upon the right track, and
other boards will do well to catch on be-
hind. The Lansing schoolboy has got
to stop poisoning himself by smoking
secondhand tobacco in the shape Of
cigarettes, and as it is the nature OF a
boy to do that which is forbidden, the
boards will proceed against the vendors
OF tho pestiferous vermifuge.
AT Jackson, about 4 o'clock in the
morning, Edward Mcdonald was knocked
down and robbed OF about 500, his as
Sailant being a short, thick-set man.
The robbery occurred in the rear OF the
Stowell House. McDonalds head was
quite badly cut. evidently with piecs
OF iron. man named Murphy was ar
rested, but Mcdonald said he was tho
wrong man. No other arrests have been
made.
The entire business portion Of the
village OF Chase, Lake County, was
wiped out Thursday night by a frs
VIII ch started in Ross drug store. The
wind was blowing gale, and in less
than two hours every building on both
sides of the business street, distance
OF three blocks, was in ashes. Sixty-twO
buildings were burned, including the
drug strore, four general stores, three
hotel buildings-one ocoupied-Odd
Fellows Hall, the postofllce, and q
score or more small business places.
There was suspicion that the store in
which the fire started was set on fire,
and a warrant was issued for Druggist
Ross. He has lately been prosecuted
for violation of the liquor laws. The
loss by the fire foots up over 100000,
with but small insurance. There were
plenty of vacant houses in the village
into which the burn d-out residents
have moved with what household effects
they saw d.
KALAMAZOO has q heroine in Miss
Katherine Linehan. On Saturday her
dwelling caught fire and she risked her
life in saving that of her invalid father.
BAY CITY is very proud of her fire de-
partment. 1t has force OF forty seven
men, divided into eight companies and
equipped with engines, aerial truck and
an electric alarm system.
The Supreme Court decided that cor
porations organizing under the laws OF
other States were not subject to the
half-mill franchise tax upon their capt.
tai stock, provided for under the fran
chise law OF 1891. The Court has previ-
ously held that it did not apply to reor-
CARNATIONS, and now that 1t does not to-
corporations organized in other States,
so that all remaining is the taxation OF
the citizens Of the State organizing as
socations, while foreigners escape. The
result will be that citizens will so out OF
the State to organize all corporations,
as they now are doing TO organize min
ing companies in the Upper Peninsula.
The annual State encampment OF the
Order of Maccabees will be held in De-
troit Sept. II, and promises to be second
only to the G.. A. II. Reunion in magni-
tude and Importance. There are now
80 900 members of the order in Michigan,
and it Is growing so rapidly that leading
men OF the order confidently predict
that Ii, 900 will be added between now
and the State encampment. There
were 1000 at Jackson year ago.
The German Catholics of Menominee
recently dedicated $4,000 edifice.
PHILIP TAYLOR, a merchant Of Novi,
took q teacup containing arsenic which
had been left in the cupboard by his
wife, dipped it into water in the dark,
and drank it. The arsenic had been
used by his wife for her complex on.
She Is now a widow.
THE amount of the primary school
money to be apportioned this month by
the Superintendent OF Public 1nstruc-
ton has been determined by the Auditor
General to be $457 900. The amount
one year ago was S424 ZOO, and the in
crease Of $50, 500 is due TO the specific
taxes collected by the Auditor General
much closer than ever before, and some
increase in the amount of specific taxes
received from insurance companies, tele-
graph and telephone companies. The
Increase due to the so-called Richardson
law of 1891 will not be determined nor
become one until June 30, 1892, and is
not included in the figures given above.
The revenues from this source will be
added to the specific taxes available for
the semi-annual apportionment to be
made next November, and will be a large
item. As all me ney collected for specific
taxes can only be used under the pro-
visions of the constitution for the sup
port of primary schools the amount OF
money apportioned will be very materi-
ally increased.