The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-11-09
IT cost s2,399 to keep Kalamazoo
County poor in September.

GEORGE WEIGH, one of the fin Q men
who escaped from Hillsdale Jail Sept.
4, has been recaptured.
ROBERT WALDO, a hoy OF Bav City.
fell from the attic t, the basems nt OF
the new City Hall ami was killed.
THE epidem C of diphther.a which
prevaile at Port and has all del out
and the schools have been reopened.
AT Eattle Creek, Grin b. Frisbie' g
barn was destroyed by fire, toge Their
with two valuab Q horses. Loss, 81, 900.
WILLIAMSON has becore a great
market for beans, and tie picking OF
them gives employment to many
hands.
CHARLES GROMBLY a laborer on the
narrow-gauge railway at Fogan's
Gimp, was struck b. falling tree and
killed.
LUCIEN JACOBS. a woodsman work
ing about three miles frem twen, was
Instantly killed by tree falling ross
his head.
IT is reported in Glad tone that CO.
! tee i've of the So line have arrested
the trainwrecker5 who have been burn
ing bridges and obstructing tracks for
several weeks.
BAILEY, village of SOM 5O) peo-
pie, in Mu5kegon County. would like to
have hotel, and one citizen OF the
! village offers to donate site to any
! one who will PIT up the building.
THE pro. ect of starting creame Y
at Bailey. Mu5kegon County, is being
talked over b. the residents of Ca :
novia township and it probab that
the inst tuition VIII be established
ONE of tie six men arrested charged
with causing a wreck on the Grand
Trunk Roal at Battle Creek, Nath IN
j. Dixon, was discharged. The evi.
Gence against him was Insult lcielt.
Ar Iron Mountain Cha Is Engstrom,
bridgetender for the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad, was found un-
der the trestle at the Chaplin mino
with his skull crushed in. it is be-
lieved he was murdered and robbed.
w. II. SHEARER, of st. Joseph Town
ship, raised cabbage this year that
weighs tw nty-live pounds and seven
ounces and measures four feet in cir
conference. This breaks the cabbage
record. 1t / on exhibition at St Jo-
seph.
DANIEL WEBEF, ayoung German at
! torney at Benton Harbor. is in the tolls
on charge of pa sing bogus check }
| on tee First National Bank His game
was TO ask merchant after banking
hours to cash a check, which almost
! invariably was done, it being SUPP osed
that Weber was all right financially.
/ Several bushes; men alleged to
have been taken in by him.
MARTIN COSGROVE. of Baraga, is
nursing lame leg just at present, and
son cone who olated the game laws
of the state in placin a set gun to
blame for it Mr.. Cosgrove was out
| hunting, and while walking along
there was a sudden report, and a charge
of buckshot entered his right leg, in
| flicting a bad wound. Someone had
set a gun, probably hoping to kill a
| deer, and the line wa, in Mr.. Cos
| groves path, go that when he struck
1t with his foot Of course it discharged
| the weapon.
THE Big Four and Vandalia Railway
| Companies have secured the marsh
| proper v lying between ST. Joseph and
Benton Harbor to be dredgei, drained
a used TO immense lumber storage
yards for heavy Chicago dealers and
transfer dist ,ibuiing companies. This
| tract embraces about 400 &C es Of Land
and waite that is of easy access by
| heavy boat, from the lake, it being on
| either side OF the Paw Paw River
along the st. Joseph and the caual.
1 he conditions AMI price are un b.
tai able at present, but estimates
place it over $1,000.
THE st te lie .islature in 1853 en-
a te a law that one-half Of the inter
est at Ier cent. on money derived
| from the lie of swamp lands, sho Id
| GO to the pr mary school fun and the
| other half to the several counties of
| the state for the drainage and reclama-
| ton of lands. County Clerk Gregg, of
| Calhoun County, has recently discov-
cred tf at such "a law existed and that
| Calhoun County had never drawn any
| thing bu5 the primary school fund
| Thus the county has large sum due
from this source, which will be APP
| preciated in the present dull times.
WILLIAM WILSON. farmer of
Franklin Township, / awrence county,
and his wife we arres ed, cha ged
wi h horsewhipping Wilson's mother,
! who Is 30 years OF age. The Offense
was committed Two weeks ago, but the
old woman used t. make complaint
a thou h the marks on her back are
east y dis,inguishable yet. Neighbors
made g eat fuss o er the incident,
and threatened to tar and feather Will
son. A grandson fna " made conf
plant Neigh ors say the old lady,
who lived with the couple, was ne
elected and badly treated for long
time Wilson acknowledges the as
sault it is C aimed, and says he would
do it again, because his mother called
his wife vi @ names.
DELL WADE, of Portland had his
| iugular vein severed in surgical
operation to have re moved a tum lr
VIII ich. involved the jugular veia in
the neck. If it had remained death
would have ensued in a year. A CIV
years agJ the severing of the jugular
vein meant death. With one stroke
the surgeons knife went through the
vein, and it was cut again in another
pace. The ends were clamped TO pre-
vent the loss OF blood. The ends of
the nerve trunks were then stitched
together. the cavity was sponged with
i-chloride of mercury solution, and
later the ends of the vein were put to.
gether. Wade is now at his home