The true northerner., 1892-11-30
State Items.

OThere is talk boring for oil in Mt.
Clemens.
The Cassopolis public school is closed
on account of diphtheria.
Monroe county teachers league meets
next Saturday at Monroe.
Owosso has purchased a new and i'm
proved hook and ladder truck.
Escanaba is TO have new a tannery
that will employ 500 hands.
Small game is more plentiful around
Carleton than has been known for
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Laversie cele
brated their silver wedding at Hudson
Saturday night.
The Heart butter factory is paying
one cent per pound for milk and receiv-
ing 81 cents per pound for butter.
Circuit court convenes at Adrian
December 13. The criminal caledar
will be the heaviest for many terms.
John Butcher of Grand Ledge, mur-
derer, waived examination at Charlotte
on Friday and was committed without
bail
All lOuld IIldIl WdHlS w lIlNCSt pIb ,OOO
in an oat meal mill at Eaton Rapids,
and have the citizens put in as much
| more.
Peter English, of Benton Harbor, is
negotiating with the authorities of
Buchanan to put in a system of water
works.
Harry A. Cossitt of OwossO has been
elected representative at large of Mich
igan by the League of American
Wheelmen.
Attorney General Ellis has gone to
Alpena, where he will represent the
state in the trial of the alleged Mollitor
murderers.
The Ishpeming Daily Press, edited
by j. Maurice Finn, recent Democratic
candidate for congress, has suspended
publication.
| Emil Gosch, one of the insane mur-
derers who escaped from the asylum at
Ionia, last Tuesday, has been recap
tured at Elmdale.
Burglars cut hole through door at
Benton Harbor Thursday night, entered
millinery establishment and stole
pair of lady's suspenders.
Charley Raymond fell 32 feet at
Bangor while putting up "A smoke stack
the other day. He received dislocat-
ed shoulder and other severe injuries.
IL. H. Teetzell, 4G years old, was
found dead in his bed over his black
smith shop in Benton Harbor Friday.
He leavs So, 900 Knights of Honor insur-
ance.
VIM. S. Kirby, a well.known Kalama-
ZOO horse breeder and proprietor of the
Valley stock farm, is very ill. Eminent
physicians pronounce his condition to
be critical.
The charitable people of Grand
Rapids organized as citizens commit
tee of 100 and distributed over 900
Thanksgiving dinners to as many
needy families.
ii. s. Seage of Lansing, special agent
for the Traders Insurance company,
and one of the best known insurance
men in Michigan, is being backed
strongly for insurance commissioner.
In Muskegon county William II.
Smith, the Republican candidate for
sheriff, slides into the Office over VIM.
ID. Cathcart, the Democratic candidate,
by plurality of ten. The recount was
completed on Saturday last.
Horace Hollenbeck, sr, bet on
Harrison, and as a consequence will be
seen some day soon sitting on promi-
nent street corner in St. Johns playing
a violin. He will keep it up for five
hours if not murdered before that time
by an outraged people.
Hon. John Cole, of Newaygo, member
of the Republican state central COM
mittee from the Ninth congressional
district, has accepted the position of
chief clerk of the auditor generals office,
rendered him by Hon Stanley w.
Turner, auditor general-elect.
Prof Geo. f. Rogers, principal of the
Plainwell high school, was arrested one
day last week on warrant sworn out
by the father of Ray Poore, charging
assault and battery. The trouble has
been brewing for some time and in
subordination has been rampant
Bobbie Davis, the -year-old son of
Thomas Davis of Fort Gratiot, was
leading a COW with long rope. The
animl became frightened and ran away.
The rope caught around the boys foot
and he was dragged around the street
and over the railroad tracks and
terribly injured. His skull was frac.
tured and ile was internally injured.