The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-11-30
From Far and Near.

| dealers have organized.
WEST BAY CITY's police force is
| going to drive all gamblers out OF town.
ONE ward school has been closed al
West Bay City on account Of the prev
alonce OF diphtheria.
A SoIoTA man lost / 100 bushels OF
! potatoes last week. A cold night did il.
The man couldn't find time TO dig them.
The crop o. clover seed in the Thumb"
turned out splendidly. A Bad Axe firm
paid S93 for six bags of clover seed last
week.
SEVERAL attempts at incendiarlsm
have lately been made at Vernon, and
people will now engage a night watch
! man.
| PROF. Nj. O. GRAVES was at Cheboy-
gan bound over TO the Circuit Court on
a charge of falsely certifying to NOM
nations.
GEORGE LEININGER, German resid-
! ing near Mt. Clemens, took dose OF
strychnine in fit of dependency. He
was 20 years OF age.
ID. NJ. NEALE, an Australian, now
visiting Bay City friends, has in his
possession the watch worn by Lord
| Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar
The Giatwck, Smith & Fryer Lum-
Der Company, OF Oscoda, still has
enough lumber in that section to keep
the concern busy cutting till Aug.
| next.
EX-Gov. SwINEFoRD says he would
not accept another appointment as Gov
| ernor of Alaska, unless backed by petit
tions extensively signed by inhabitants
of that territory.
JAMES MCDONALD, prisoner in tho
Sault jail, tried to commit suicide by
the laudanum route. He may recover.
He has been in Jail about two months
on charge of larceny.
AN old soldier near Harbert is train
| ing turkey for the Worlds Fair. He
has already accomplished so much that
1t will drop over and play off dead, and
dance all the latest dances.
WHILE sweeping, Mrs. w. II. Erie
link, of Kalamazoo, knocked a leg out
from under a red-hot stove. The stove
struck a child's head In falling. The
infant was badly bruised and burned.
AT Escanaba, it was reported by cap
ta!ns Of arriving vessels that the wreck
OF the steamer Gilcher, which foundered
in the recent gale, has been washed
ashore at High Island in Lake Michi-
gan.
The Calumet and Hecla Mining Co.
at Boston declared dividend of So per
share, payable Dec. 16. This makes
$2,OOO,C0J paid in dividends this year.
and total of dividends of $3S, $50, 900
to date.
HURON COUNTY boys will be taught
that it doesn't pay TO have fun" in
church deputy sheriff arrived at Bad
Axe with four kids from Huron. They
were arrested on charge of disturbing
a religious meeting.
w. & A. MACARTHUR, Of heboygan,
have just purchased enough timber in
Canada to run their mill ten years.
This is one OF the best points on the
lakes to cut Canadian timber into lum
Der, as RATS are not exposed to the
fury OF Lake Huron more than twenty
four hours in transit.
george SToCKBURGER five years ago
left his home at Marine City for TIE
West. Four years ago last August he
sent letter from Washington stating
that he was going TO the interior OF Ore
gon. Nothing was heard from him after
that. and his relatives mouIned him for
dead. In 1890 Norman H. Young, OF
Centerville, Idaho. subscribed for
that this was a friend Of George, who
got tt e paper so as to keep him posted
on affairs at home. He has now re-
turned, but offers no explanation of his
conduct.
A MOST shocking accident occurred at
the Richardson paper mill, Monroe.
Two Toys went to the engine-room to
learn the cause Of the irregular motion
of the ma hinery, when to their horror
they found the body of n man whipping
around the main shaft and striking the
floor at each revolution. An alarm was
given and the engine stopped, when the
victim was found to be Rainey Novarre.
the engineer. The legs were whipped
off at the knees, the arms and several
ribs were broken, and bruises were
found on the head. Novarre was mar
ricd and leaves family.
HOLLYWOOD, Gladwin County, Is to
have n boom. tract of 30 acres has
been plated and will be added to the
town.
J. ID. BENNETT and wife, who for inc
past six years have been missionaries III
Africa, have returned to their ola hoino
in Mundy.
DANIEL FINCH, aged 80, was pie ked
I'D at So ginaw after he had siepI GU, ot
doors for three nights. He halis from
Grand Rapids.
AuevsT wErr, aged 26, died at sag
,,axv from the effect OF being struck III
the abdomen the other morning py
slab flying back from saw.
ALoNzo STONE, employed In an AL
mona mill. fell from train. striking on
he bead and shoulders. He was dan
gerously injured internally.
At Lansing, Mich, Nov %, Luther
Ripley, aged "a, former State Organizer
of the Patrons of Industry and State
Lecturer of the Farmers Alliance, died
from suffocation incident to tumor.
ISAAC BACKMAN, who seriously
stabbed Finlan er in a saloon at the
Atlantic mine, was convicted OF assault
to do great bodily harm less than
murder.
NOTHING has as yet been heard OF
John Braniff and John Soderstrom, the
two missing Grand Marais fishermen.
and it seems certain that they were
drowned