The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-05-25
CAsEvILLE is drilling for cca'.

KALAMAZOO College will have a new
building
ELMIRA is without ho.els, both be-
ing closed.
MRS. ANNA MARY ANN CLARK, Bay
City's smallpox patient, is recovering.
Russell SNowDEN, q 7-year-old OF
Black River. fell from the dock ard
was drowned.
ROBERT SMITH & c., of Lansing,
were awarded the contract for the
State printing.
A LONGSHOREi4EN'S UNION has been
organized at Port Huron, with geo
charter members.
SOME 10000 fruit trees have bcen
planted in Iosco, Alpena and Presque
Isle Counties this spring.
AN ex-minister OF the gospel was
arrested in an Escanaba saloon and
taken t. Jail, dead drunk.
MYRON p. FOGLESONC, the Hi,lsdale
wife poisone-, is said t. be singing In
the prison choir at Jack son.
The postoffice at Yankee Springs,
two mile south Of Grand Rapids,
burned. The mail YVES saved.
THE Antrim Iron Company at Man
celona Will go out of blast May 81, and
remain so ii | the last of August.
F. A. MERRITT, of Dimondale, offers
lot TO the man who will build brick
buildin with plate-glass front
JERRY MAHoNEY, Manistee woods
man, aged 60, took laudanum at the
Jail and died. Hard drink caused his
ruin.
CITY TREASURER COLE, of Iron
Mountain, gets the handsome salary of
$40 year and has to Put u S15O,OC0
bonds.
DOYLE TOWNSHIP, up in Schoolcraft
County, had three saloons last year:
this year it will have only one. Hard
times.
WILLIE BROWN, the C-year-old soa
Of Geo. Brown, of Tawas City, was
playing upon the river bank, fell in,
and was drowned.
WILLIAM A. SOUTHwORTH, % We lrs
old and married, was killed at Bay
City, by being struck by a horse while
riding bicycle
THE United States recruiting Office
has Teen at work in Saginaw for alb ut
year, yet only seyenty-fve recruits
have been obtained.
AS Mrs. A. LADD. of Old Mission,
was preparing chicken she found a
gizzard within gizzard, both distinct
ly formed and in active ser, ice.
SCARCITY of straw il keeping the
Allega1 Paper Company from re sum
ing operation 1t il probable now
that they will not tart up until after
harvest
JOHN LANDoN Is farmer and hear
huntet up in Isabella County. III 8
latest exploit is to capture an old bear
and two cubs in the wood; just north
Of his I rm.
GEORGE BOOTH, of Grand Rapids,
died from laudanum. 1t is not known
whether he took an overdose by acct
dent or committed suicide. His father
lives in Eexter.
+. NJ. SHELLEY, proprietor OF the
Bancroft dog kennel, had five valuable
pointers killed by a ferret Then a
lady Lursue1 the ferret into chicken
coop and killed it with club.
ORPHA WALKER and Nettie Van
Camp, Port Huron girls under 10, were
arrested on a charge OF stealing peck
eth oks and various articles from the
Gle ak room Of the Congregational
Church.
MARSHALL people have come to the
conclusion that the Sena is not going
TO confirm Charles Il. Fe cher for
pojtmaste'. Among the pro ninent
candidates for the place is ex-City At
torney c. S. Joy.
ABOUT a dozen tramps got into
fight in front Of an Owojso hotel.
Knives were freely used, razors were
twisted in dangerous proximity t.
thr ats, clubs were brandished. When
they got through the side y ak a COW
ere with blood.
The Diamond Match Co., of On ona-
n, has made very clean drive this
spring, bringing down i0,000,000 feet,
3 30 900 feet less than last year
They will III day crew only, at O.
du ii of from 20 cents to 81 day
from last years scale.
IN the freight recently shipped from
Caseville TO Cincinnati was one crate
fir, m which the boys kept their fingers.
1t contained eight large swapping tur-
ties, weig ling on an average eight en-
pounds apiece and int ended for turtle
soup at their destination.
QUITE freak of nature was on ex-
hlbltlon ut Marietta, In the shape OF
two little pigs completely grown to-
gether. There wero two complete
bod es back of the shou deis, joining
in on the neck an1 head The front
feet and legs wee complete, and the
union of the bodies t-ok place right
between EN-. The head was Ier-
te t, with the exception of the mouth
which was oIen and bulging with
tongues.
WILLIAM ACQUIRE, the man with
wheels in his head. who confessed ev-
eral tim 3 that he helped kill Butcher
Schilling at Kalamazoo, AID as many
times denied the story again, is the
author OF another gau1y tale. He says
certain no oil keeper, who is no friend
of his, dressed up in woman's clothes,
made love TO an impre sionab,e old
soldier and then threatened to sue the
old MAI fer breach Cf promi o. A lit
tie $40 settled the suit.
THERE Is war in the South Congre-
gational Church at Grard Rapi Is. 1t
dates from a Sunday sch Dol picnic.
NOst of tho taachars and spholara