The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-12-07
A poultry show will be held at Ionia

hounty fIiSDit, uetu ~, tStdptu lfouf
the Michigan Asylum for Criminal In
sane at Ionia.
Thirty volunteer teams engaged i'm re-
moving the records from Berrien Springs
TO 1T. Joseph.
Escaping coal tsis caused the death of
the 16-months-Old daughter of w. T..
Cowden at Galien.
Mark Jones, an employee of the Postal
Telegraph Company at Chicago, is down
with the smallpox at Adrian.
Joshua Wade, farmer living two
miles north of Battle Greek, was found
dead in his bed under suspicious circum-
stances.
The Probate Judge Of ManitOu county
has heard only one case in six years. His
salary during the same time was 81 200
per annum.
Even the worm will turn. Michigan
man has sued widow for breach of
promise to marry. This is strictly in line
with equal rights.
1t cost Congressman ID. ID. Atken
81, $50 to he elected. Chairman Russell,
of the Prohibition State Central Commit
tee, spent 50, 1861.
Four girls escaped from the Industrial
Home at Adrian. They got as far as the
postofiice, but the cold, chilly wind soon
drove them home again.
-Four Muskegon boys, ranging in age
from II TO Is, were arrested in a cave
that they had dug in bluff. The cave
was stuffed full of plumber.
Hugh McGee, aged 10, was arrested at
Kalamazoo for stealing pocketbook
and so from Il. S. Persing's coat pocket
in his store; $50 recovered.
George Mussen was shot in the thigh
by the accidental discharge of a rifle
while hunting near Alpena. Mussen
halls from Saranac Lake, y. Y.
A Canadian customs officer named
Howe. of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont, fell I'M
der the cars near Trout Lake, Chip
pewa county, and one of his arms was
cut off.
st. Ignace minors who are found on
the streets alone after 8 o'clock at night
will spend twenty days in the city lock-
up as preventive against their doing
again.
The Marshall School Board has ap-
pointed two truant officers to canvass
the city in order to ascertain how many
children are out of school in violation of
Deputy Game Warden Rivard captured
two carcasses of venson and number
of pelts on n Michigan Central train.
They were being shipped to Indiana from
Bay City contrary TO State law.
On complaint of PostofTice Inspector
Eugene Parsell, Louisa Holm, of Flint,
was arrested by United States Marshal
William a. Miller for using Cancelled post
age stamps. She waived examination.
Molten, the labor agitator, who had
much to do in causing the strike of the
miners at lronwood last summer, and
who was arrested at the time and locked
up, has been in Jail ever since, but last
week was released without anything be-
ing done toward trying him.
Edwin G. Dewolf. n senior engineering
student, is under arrest at Ann Arbor,
charged with stealing some $500 worth Of
instruments and tools belonging to the
mechanical laboratory. Professor NJ. Il.
Cooley had been missing articles for some
time They were found in Dewolf's
room.
The Kalamazoo City Council ended the
lighting controversy by voting to buy the
Kalamazoo Electric Company's electric
apparatus and a site for ST., 600 and
contracting with that company to run
lights until the plant is installed at %
and 30 cents per light for midnight and
all-night lamps.
At Muskegon, Martin Dowd and Frank
Johnson discovered the body of Hans
Hanson lying twenty feet from the shore
in Lake Michigan. There was SS7.1j
in his pockets. Hanson is the second vic
tim of the Antelope's crew lost at Grand
Haven a short time ago whose body has
been recovered.
SO many deer have been killed in Iosco
County this year by hunters who use
dogs that it has been suggested that the
Board of Supervisors offer bounty for
every deer hound killed while on the track
of n deer anywhere in the county. This
might prove more effective in putting
stop to hunting with dogs than any num-
Der Of game wardens could.
John b. Britain. of the Clarendon
hotel, Grand Rapids. against whom there
are pending four complaints for violating
the liquor law and one civil suit in the
Circuit Court Unexpectedly sold out his
interest and cannot be found. He left
behind enough money to pay all his just
debts. In all the cases against him he
was released on his own recognizance.
The Legislative Committee of the
Michigan Teachers Association will sub
NIT report for adoption by the assoca-
ton converting at Lansing next month,
which will recommend the enactment
by the coming Legislature of law pro-
hibiting the employment of any teacher
in the schools of the State who is adj
dicted to the use of tobacco in any form;
also for a provision making the truancy
law more stringent and that none but
citizens of the United States be employ
cd us teachers.
Here's a true story: A Kalamazoo son
of very respectable parents stole some
thing while on n spree, and was sent to
the House of Correction. The enormity
Of the offense bore heavily upon him, and
he determined to lead an exemplary life
upon his release. Radiant with hope, he
hurried home only to be cruelty ordered
out of doors. He got work in Adrian, but
in two days his story was known, and he
was discharged. Then he went on