The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-08-03

present.
THE Mount Plea SAINT pillow works are
again In operation.
A FEMALE barber is one OF the at
fractions OF Midland.
A PLow and harrow factory is to be
opened at Mancelona.
KALAMAZOO college has summer
school of sixty pupils.
MONTFoRD BUTTERFIELD drowned
while bathing at Detour.
KALAMAZOO COUNTY farmers report
the potato crop is not worth digging.
A NEW business block will be cree ed
at Muir soon, being the third this
year.
A CANCER on the lip caus d the
death CT Antoine Procunier, Harris
vile.
VIM. SESSIONS, an ex-member OF the
Legislature aid a pioneer OF lonia
County, sdead.
CANNED BEEF made the five members
of John Rocks family, at Battle Creek,
sick unto death.
MARTIN KOKKEN, Norwegian, lost
an arm by being run over by an cleo
trio car in Manistee.
PRINCE ROBINS, a Gilmore, Benzie
County, farmer, lost his home and all
his goods by forest fires.
A CALL ior a report from all the
State banks has been issued by Bank
Commissioner Sherwood.
A SHORTAGE OF fuel at Benton Har-
Dor is given as a re son for the shut
down OF the Buss machine shop.
JOHN l.. CURTISs, member of the
State Senate in 1885 and mayor Of
Grand Rapids in 1884, is dead, aged So
The lie lie neutrality-suspicious. chang
ed some time ago from weekly to a
semi-weekly, but will change back
again soon.
ADRIAN put on metropolitan airs
with daily ball game horse-racing, a
balloon ascen5ion-and comic opera all
the week
LABOR COMMISSIONER MORSE is
very much Disguised with the Ironwood
miners in not accepting his proposed
compromises
SAMUEL BOOTH, OF Eden, Ingham
County. lost twenty acres of hay by
fire, which was started by spark from
passing engine.
CHEBoYGAN people are mulling over
the problem whether to give a cash
bonus and site for the location Of a
box-factory there.
The Midland pail factory is to be
moved to Fort Smith, Ark, and with
it the employees. Midland will thus
lose forty families.
A HUMAN finger and a human tooth
were found in Port Huron water works,
and search will be made for the re-
mainder Of the body.
JOSEPH HARE, of Leslie, aged 65
years, fell from load of wheat Thurs
day and broke his neck. His fall was
caused by sunstroke.
1T cost an Adrian man S10.55 to cal
another, who had taken a strikers
place at To edo, "scab;" besides he & II
a thrashing thrown in.
THE residence of Benjamin Bum at
Athens was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground. The loss is
$1,000 with Fl, 900 insurance.
TIE Y. NJ. c. A. at Adrian has a
corner on base ball grounds, so all ball
cranks have to join the association to
get the privilege OF the diamond.
A MAN giving the name of Charles
| Dudley deserted his wife, whom he
married in Chicago few days ago. in
| Kalamazoo, taking her diamond ring
and $25.
a 5-YEAR-OLD boy, son of August
| Birtch, a farmer near Port Huron,
was caught by the knives of a moving
machine, and his foot SO badly lacerat-
ed it may have TO be amputated.
RANSOM j. WILTsE, settling clerk
in the United States Express Company
at Chicago, was arrested at Grand Rap
ids. On March % he disappeared with
1000, and has just been run to earth.
THE State census gives Port Huron
Is, 1873, loss of l,U32. The people
claim that blunder has been made,
! and the school census enumerators will
try TO show there is an increase in
stead of decrease.
! A SMALL black worm, bearing some
resemblance to the pernicious army
worm, is ravaging crops about East
Jordan. They are countless in num-
Der and several fields of growing corn
and oats have teen destroyed.
CHARLES FARMER was on Monday
appointed general superintendent of
the Chicago, st. Jose b and Renton
Harbor Transportation Co. Arrange
ments have been made to put on an
other stu mer during the peach ship
ping season.
THE Arthur Hou o, at Midland, mar
rowly escaped destruction by fire. The
b'aze started in the center of the build
ing and burned hole through the
roof. Good work by the city fire de-
partment saved the building The loss
is Only 500, fully insured.
BURGLARS entered the hardware
store OF w. .. Mcbride, at Romulus,
by b eaking in a rear door, and stole
$Z5 worth of goods including several
boxes of cutlery and revolver5. Cross
meat market and restaurant was also
entered, but nothing of value taken
DURING a storm George Coates, aged
SO. farmer residing in Madison, near
AID ian, undertook TO close the big
barn door, but as he rem we'd the prop
the wind swung the door against him
with such violence as to hurl him head
long some distance, breaking his hip
bone lie could not walk, was alone,
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