The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-01-20
From Far and Near.

years, died of the grip
THE United States Court at Grand
Rapids decides that Cadillac must pay
those Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern
Michigan Railroad bonds.
THE Masons' State Benefit Associa-
ton has adopted a graded assessment
schedule ranging from 20 cents to $3.50.
| The membership will still be confined to
the Masonic order
On the testimony of his 12-year-old
daughter, George Patton, OF Bay City,
was convicted of beating his iIsvalid
wife and was sentenced to the Detroit
House of Correction for ninety days.
CHFBoYGAN's new tannery will be a
whale. They are going to put up no
less than thirty eight buildings, one
7O0x4O with an l. 160x40, to accommo-
date the various branches of the bust
ness.
S. S. COBB did not leave his elegant
Kalamazoo home to the Cosmopolitan
| Club OF that place, as had been reported
His $780, estate will be divided
among a sister in Boston and three
brothers.
The harrow trust threatening to cut
prices and ruin business, forced Ira j.
Hunt TO sell out to them for S2,719 his
agricultural implement factory at Kala-
mazoo. He began suit against them for
$50, 900 damages.
CHRIS BUTZER, of White River, Mus
kegon County, sent beet to the Agri-
cultural Department at Washington, and
it was found to contain fifteen per cent.
of sugar. number of farmers there
are going into the sugar industry.
AT Galesburg Christie C. McGoldrick,
| n nlnr toly
sick, his illness resulting little later
in death. The funeral took place on the
very day he and much esteemed young
lady of Galesburg were to have been
married.
FREDERICK BUSH, Mayor of Kalama-
! zoo, died of cancerous affection of the
throat after having suffered two opera
| tions and lingering for two months. The
flags on all public buildings, city and
county, were at half-mast, and the city
hall draped in black.
ALL of Thomas Sands seven children,
at Port Huron, have had diphtheria.
! Two who died were buried without any
funeral service, and the mother and re-
naming five are still i'll with it. Mr.
Sands can't get employment, and the
family have no food or fuel and mighty
little clothing
A STUBBORN juror who didn't believe
that the dog worth over $25 ever lived
! saved Ferris +. Halstead of Jackson,
from long term of imprisonment. He
had, in the belief of all, stolen the dog,
and eleven men wanted it made grand
larceny, but the twelfth man hung out
until they had to settle on petit larceny
and a $50 estimate.
THERE will be national convention
of fourth-class pOstmasters held at
| Washington, Jan. Ia. At State con-
vention held in Lansing, these delegates
were chosen: G.. p. White, Litchfeld;
Mrs Ella f. Marsh, Saline; w. H. Cook,
Akron; L. Farnham, Casnovia; t. Nj.
Sloan, Dimondale. Alternates: Mr.. De-
vine, Hillsdale County; j. Summers,
Chester; j. j. Nash, Marcellus; j.
Schluchter, Berne; S. Tovatt, Sterling.
SOME OF the Shepherd people do not
seem to have warm feeling for the
shepherds of the church focks. Sabbath
night the effect of a powerful discourse
was spoiled by the pastor being COM
| PEELED to say: Brethren, the church has
been very cold tonight. The boys have
picked up all the chips around and a col
lection for wood will now have to be
taken" All this in section where all
beech and maple body sells for so cents
a cord.
SOME of the school districts in the
north part of the State will soon have
reputation equal to the historic rotten
boroughs of England. Up in Wexford
County the school board of fractional
district in Boon and Antioch called a
special meeting. The board consisted
of Mrs. John Hixon, her son Joe and
VIM. Dulyea. They were all present,
and in addition thereto two legal voters.
They voted for the purchase OF site
and the erection OF building, and let
the job to John Hixon for 1896 and adj
journed, peace and harmony prevailing.
Unsuccessful efforts are being made to
revoke the proceedings.
FIRE did $4,000 damage in the Com
mercial Hotel, Escanaba.
EvERIsTE DoRoN is under arrest at
West Bay City, accused of setting fire to
his own house.
The new Federal building in Lansing
will be constructed of blue sandstone,
from the Cleveland (Ohio) fields.
H. J. OLNEY's family at Port Huron
got poisoned with pressed corned beef
and came pretty near taking the tunnel
route.
THE shortage in Court Clerk Gibney's
accounts at Saginaw has resulted in
suit against him and his bondsmen for
So 1000
OVER a year ago Cadillac lady lost
a gold watch. The kid who found IL has
Just returned il. He was keeping 1t
until his girl was big enough to wear 1t.
OFFICIAL reports show that the earn
ings OF Michigan railroads from Jan.
to Oct 1, 1891, were 500 ,023, 173, an in
crease OF S1,143,985 as compared with
the same period of 1890
A YOUNG photographer named Olsen,
intended to shake hands with Miss Hem
nicksen at the G.. & N. w. depot in Me-
nominee. When pulling his hand out of
his pocket, he accidentally discharged
revolver. The ball went through his
RIM md cut away mart of Miss Han