The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-08-17


DANIEL MCLEIsTER, aged IL. re-
troit boy, was drowned at Port Huron
while bathing.
WHITE blackberries-not an Irish
bull-are being raised by George Lew
is, OF Emmett.
DUNDEE girls stay out so late nights
that they carry chisels to pry open
windows when they get home.
THIRTY-FIvE buildings, comprising
the business portion of Howard City,
were destroyed. Loss, $l30,00t.
THERE are l,45l convicts in Michi-
gan prisons. OF these 859 are engaged
in industries that compete with free
labor.
hrashed eighteen acres of wheat
the acre.
WHEN bright little Owosso girl
was buried the other da :. six of her
former playmates acted as honorary
pall-bearers.
SIX Detroit boys, bent on numbering
Indians, were pulled out of freight
car at Adrian. They were taken homo
to be spanked.
BATTLE CREEK proposes to celebrate
some day as Battle Creek day, osing
the factor es and stores, so that every
body can take holiday.
IN Standish every mill and factory is
running full blast, and new factory
the Star Wooden Works-is rapidly
approaching completion.
lis a grave question just now aei-
tating the public mini of Durand: they
have no cemetery, and yet they have
their full quota of doctors.
THE wild man who has te rorized
Frankfort for sevela months has been
caught. AS near as can be made out,
the savage's appropria name is jim
Jams.
BRANCH county farmers are greatly
worried over the great Mount OF wild
lettuce which covers their farms. 1t
is rank grower and very hard to kill
or subdue.
PETER JAMES O'NEILL, a pioreer
merchant of Port Huron, died Monday.
He was born in Dublin, Ireland. BY
energy AMI shrewd ess he built up a
large business in Port Huron.
IT is LOW believed that w. A. Car
Isle was not drowned at the 500, but
choke to death ia &c teeth. 1t is
curious theory, scoffed at by rela-
tives, but said TO be based on facts.
The Co unna Baptist church has
become so su ceptible to this drought
that the b lex veneering IS falling
out, necessitating expensive repairs.
Nothing but Baptist chu ch would
suffer like that.
J. NJ. ROBART. who saws he is walk
ing across the continent on wager #
$4,000 has reached Kalamazoo. One
of the conditions is that he shall beg
his way, yet he manages to put up at
the best hotels.
AT MosstCwn the other day the girls
proved the better men. There was
fire, and while the onlookers were idly
gaping three of these girls rushel
brayely into the burning houses and
rescued the inmates.
A SMART-ALECK was going to thrash
a laingsburg merchant because he
was dunned for 81. He laid off his
coat to do it with more ease, and the
merchant quietly tucked the coat away
till the m ney was forthcoming.
Two MASKED men entered the house
of Farmer William C,uibell on Har-
sens Island at midnight, thrust re-
volver a his face, and compelled him
to turn over Sl65 in his desk. Quibell
and his wife are over 20 years old.
CHARLES +. GRIFFITH, the Mexican
editor who was mobbed and nearly
killed becau of an article in his pa
per describing the barbarous doings of
the Penitentes, was proprietor of the
Battle Creek Journal during the war.
BOVINE society item from the White
Cloud Business NJ. A. Porter lost
good cow Friday last. She was burned
quite badly at the time of the Alleyton
fire. We understand Mr.. Douglas
COW is suffering from burns received at
the same time.
WILLIAM O'CoNNoR, an alleged col
lege graduate, who goes about incog.
nitO organizing A. l.. A. lodges among
the laboring men, attempted suicide
In the Kalamazoo jail by hanging. He
was cut down, but begged piteously for
the privilege of dying.
TIE Prohibit.onis,s have placed the
following State ticket in nomination.
For Governor, Alfred NJ. Todd, of kal.
amaZoo; Lieutenant Governor. A. G.
Wisner, of Athens: Secretary of State,
Charles ID. Schemerhorn, of Reading;
State Treasurer, Robert ID. Scott, OF
Pontiac; Auditor General, G. X. Fer.
rim, OF Jackson; Attorney General,
John Giferson, Of Clare; Co nmissioner
of Land Office, George ROLLS, OF Grand
Rapids; member State Board of Edu.
ca io1, barry b. Hatch, of Marquette
Superintende mt Of Public Instruct n,
Fred NJ. White, of ackson; United
States Senator, long term, Prof. Sam
uel Dickey, of Albion; short term,
John Ru sell, of New Haven.
PINE GROVE has a huckleberry
swamp AMI everybody far and near,
knows it. From time immemorial zee.
pie have gone buckle berrying and
traversed this swamp from center to
circumference and no one to dispute
the right. But now comes Mr.. / d
House inecht and says THUS far and nc
fart ler:" but pc u lie do not regard a
blrbed wire unless they run against it,
and when they saw this fence in the
swamp they paid no attention to it,
but attended strictly to bushes, and
filled their pals with berries. Now
Mr.. Houseknecht appears on the scene
and politely requests them TO donate
to him, "a royalty, "a share of the gath