The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-13
State Items.

State Items.
Lansing people want better Lake
Shore passenger service
Eliza Court, "Prince" Michael's bre-
vet wife, is out on $4,000 bail.
The Michigan Central is building a
fine doubletrack bridge across the river
at Kalamazoo.
William Bear, aged 81, an inmate of
the Manistee county house, drowned
himself last Friday night
The trackmen on the Grand Trunk
railwry between Schoolcraft and Cass-
opolis have formed local organization.
The Michigan Centrals greenhouses
at Niles furnished 1900 bouquets dur
ing June for the roads feminine pas
sengers.
Charles Herr of Detroit attempted to
sober up from spree Saturday by TAX
ing plunge bath, but the shock killed
him instantly.
SO many men get drunk at Benton
Harbor on Sunday that the Pdttadtun1
of that city suggests the name of the
day be changed to Jagday.
Captain Joseph Kern, of Company +,
Nj. S. r., was thrown from his brOncho
horse last Saturday at Saginaw and
badly injured about the head and back.
Fred Pruess, aged Is, was struck be-
hind the left ear by a big splinter from
a board in Eastman's planning mill at
Carrollton, last Saturday, and instantly
killed.
The Republican state convention will
be held in Arbeiter hall, Saginaw, in
stead of the Academy of Music. The
local committee decided upon the
change.
Flint taxpayers are hot because the
city fathers paid $500 to compromise a
defective sidewalk damage suit, and
then suppressed the deal from publica-
! ton in the records.
"I'm going to shoot YOU" said smart
Robert Shaw of Port Huron, as he was
pointing gun at Harry Hambln, aged
g. Hamblin may die, and Shaw claims
it was accidental.
b. IL. Jonkers, an Allegan county
farmer, hung himself at Overisel, leav-
ing his wife with six children to face
the financial difficulties he was too cow
ardly to contend with.
The magnificent new Woman's Hos
pital and Foundlings Home in Detroit
was dedicated last Saturday afternoon
with appropriate exercises. The build
ings and grounds cost 100000
A Codwater youth has just received
$500 check from his father, which the
latter had promised him ID years ago,
II he would not touch tobacco OF liquor
before he was II years of age.
Adelbert Wicks, of Volinia township,
Cass county, who recently attempted to
commit an assault on young woman
school teacher near that place, has been
adjudged insane and committed To the
Kalamazoo asylum.
The body of an unknown man, with u
stone attached to his neck, was found
floating down the Detroit ri\ er Satur-
day opposite Belle Isle. He was about
30 years of age with black hair and gray
whiskers.
Reports from Providence II. l., state
that Mrs. Sadie Crandell has applied
for divorce from her husband, Il well
known Michigan minister. He married
this woman at nine different times and
places.
A man named Hamilton of Reading,
attempted to insert cartridge in his
revolver. 1t would not enter He then
placed the barrel against his leg,
pounded the cylinder, and naturally
has large hole in his hip.
A Finn who came to Negaunee several
years ago has ever since sent his wife
in the old country part of his earnings.
He learned last week that his wife was
in Negaunee living with another fellow
by whom she had one child.
A red hot caucus between the Journal
and Gazette factions was held in Allegan
Saturday night. The Journal came out
ahead, getting 16 Pngree delegates out
of 20. 1t looks as if Pingree would get
the entire delegation Tuesday.
Lansing Democrats as well as men,
bers of the state administration were
greatly excited, not to say stunned,
over the announcement that Hon. Geo.
l.. Yaple would speak at a Peoples
Party ratification meeting which was
to be held in that city last night. This
was the first intimation they had that
the "Boy from Mendon" had sloughed
away from them, and although the fact
of his coming had been freely adver-
tised, they hesitated to believe in his
apostacy from the "faith" until they
should see him i'm the flesh and hear
him raise his voice in laudation Of the
tenets of Weaver and Field. Their
memories must be short, or they would
be carried back few short years and
see him fighting for Weaver, then as
now blatant greenbacker.