The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-11-23

Tifin. Ohio.
The Battle Greek public schools have
adopted the new vertical system of PEN
manship.
st. Louis now has first-class electric
light plant, having recently added more
water-power.
IS. NJ. Trowbridge's Touring mill ut
South Haven burned. Loss $4,000; par,
TALLY insured.
AT Battle Greek a fire broke out In
the Thomas Block. The damage will
amount to $4,000.
The end of the iron ore shipping sea-
son at Escanaba is in sight. The seasons
record is 100000 tons.
Nearly n hundred leading Baptist
clergymen and educators attended the
twelfth annual Baptist congress at De-
troit. /
e. Nj. Clapp, a prominent lawyer OF
| Kalamazoo, was found dead in bed at
Grand Rapids. He was SO years old,
single, and wealthy
John w. Sharp, father Of Hon. j. Z.
Sharp of Jackson, died suddenly on Mon
day at his home in Brooklyn, jackson
county, aged II years.
There is some talk of making hos
pital out of the Harrington House of st.
Louis, which was recently closed on ac-.
count of poor business.
The Supreme Court admitted to $lO.-
900 bail Inspector Lephart, of Detroits
Board of Education, convicted of solicit
ing a bride, and will review the case.
The faculty of Michigan University
have commanded the publishers of the
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publishing smutty jokes or stop the sheet.
The Apollo Club, at INLAY City,
large musical organization, is practicing
on the cantata "Jephtha and His Daugh-
ter" which will be produced in January.
young German was beset by highway
robbers in broad daylight near the Eloise
depot, knocked down and robbed of $40,
all the money he had. The robbers es-
capped
Two children in the family of George
III. Johnson, of Midland, died of diph-
liberia within an hour of each other.
Other members of the family are i'll with
the same disease.
AT Grand Rapids Mrs. Jerry Lynch,
residing with her three children, made a
desperate attempt to kill herself by cut
ting her throat with razor. Her MIND
, was unbalanced by religion.
A lot of Inlay City boys, all under II
years of age, were caught dead drunk
from hard cider, smoking rotten cigar
, cites, and fairly painting the town red In
! their attempts to appear tough.
, People in Berrien Springs, incon-
venienced by the removal of the county
seat from Berrien Springs to st. Joseph,
will ask the Legislature to split Berrien
County in two. giving their territory a
new government.
Col. Frank Riseley, of Sweets Hotel,
Grand Rapids, has filed chattel mort
cages amounting to $1,000 on all the
furniture and fixtures. The hotel is the
Oldest in the city, and was at one time
6 the most popular.
e The nineteenth semi-annual apportion
e ment of primary school interest money
: has been made by Superintendent of Pub
8 lie instruction Pattengill on the basis OF
e 6S cents for each child of school age III
the State. The whole number of children
included is GIG, 266 and the total sum ap
pCrtioned is $46O,O21.
y -Springport has another case that bal
e fles the skill of the physicians. 1t is tina
! of III. McConkey. Some years ago III
> slept eight months without awaking
{ then suddenly 'came to" and was able t'
s be around for many months apparently
y we'll healthy and vigorous, then student,
$ he dropped to sleep again and was no
! seen for two years until last election
l. day, when he again revived and was abl'
e to come down town and vote.
The Supreme Court granted rehear
ing i'm the ballot-marking case. Chic
Justice McGrath said it was not the pur
S pose of the court to rule that ballots hay
d ing a name erased under the party ticke
n of the election and the name Of the oppos
l. ing candidate marked by Il cross shoul'
= not be counted Such erasure is held t
I. be permissible, although not necessary
r, and all such ballots should be counted
4. This explanation will dispose of scores o
2. contests which were in contemplation a.
Il over the State.
q Willie Goodwin, aged II years, o
North Star, Gratiot county, died the 9th
er day from a strange cause. When h
was about years old he pushed som
10 little flowers which he found into hi
10 nose, and they were not all removed a
r the time Some time afterward he ha
n trouble with one Of his ears, and phys
ID clans who examined him removed som
lie of the flowers from the organ. Eve
he since this he has had trouble with hi
o. ear, and an abscess finally formed, whic
10 ended in his death.
The long looked for charge of Jude
Maxwell to the Bay City grand jur
dealt with everything within reach of tn
40 court in the way of city, county, an
y, township officers, city board, county con
a missioners and appointive officers. III
It. court relates the complaints that hay
r. been made to him about the manner
d. which business has been conducted b
n, certain officials and then charges the jul
to investigate those complaints and,
true, bring in indictments. He said ii
poor board should be indicted for owe
N. drawing the poor fund of the county. Il
by says the supervisors allowed the count
ON treasurer to make from $4,000 to $15
900 year. The police board is criticist
- for allowing alleged violation of laws, f.
=, permitting liquor TO be sold to minors, II
"a allowing dancehouses and houses of n
III signation to exist. The jury is asked
look info the matter and see il any of III