The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-11-30


Bread is selling in Inlay City for three
cents per loaf, or two for five.
julius Goldberg, for twenty-three years
a cigar manufactures at Kalamazoo, died,
aged 53.
The Rudel lee Cream Co. at Grand
Rapids. has filed n chattel mortgage.
Liabilities. $1,000.
Port Huron, with 10000 people, has
seventy saloons and y. NJ. g. A. is
now talked of as an antidote.
Miss Cynthia Irish. who had been in
charge of the Kalamazoo asylum cot
tages for twenty-five years, dropped
dead
A Riverdale merchant was fim-ham
med with some eggs from which the con-
tents had been blown and water in
serted.
The Salvation army at Grand Rapids
couldn't raise enough money TO hire ii big
hall and hence lad TO forego a visit from
Gen. Booth.
There was nothing mysterious about
the death Of Proctor Atwood. near Port
Huron. A postmortem showed that he
had heart disease.
A G,000-pound bell is on it's way to Bay
City. 1t is five feet and II half in di-
ameter and will ring ont the hours from
the new City Hall.
Bellaires new hoop factory, employing
seventy-five men. has begun work. The
Buckeye factory at Mancelona has been
removed TO Gladstone.
John l.. Miller. arrested at Oshkosh,
Wis. is wanted at Flint on Il charge of
robbing Hermee Matthias, Il poor Ger
man immigrant, of S2I0.
Andrew Leonard fell from the third
story of the Clarendon Hotel ut Grand
Rapids He walked some distance after
he was hurt, but it is feared he cannot
live.
August Kinder, living three miles south
of Sebewaing, was found dead in his
house by neighbors. He had evidently
committed suicide. No cause is known
for the rash act.
Thos. u. Gilbert, aged 10 one Of the
mOstprominent citizens of Grand Rapids,
is dead. He leaves wife but no children
to inherit his estate, which is estimated
at over 100000. lie kept out of politics,
but in formeryears was frequently known
as a Gubernatorial possibility.
An Inlay City youngster who had
cold saw his elders take cough medicine
out of a bottle. and when he got chance
he took some too. His intention was
good. but he overdid the mater and took
about half the contents Of the bottle.
doctor and stomach pump succeeded in
saving him,
l.. III. Hall, telegraph opera
tor of the Detroit, Lansing and
Northern Railroad, was instantly killed
at Lakeview, the result of attempting TO
board "A freight train moving ut the rate
of fifteen miles an hour. He was a mem
Der of the Knights of the Maccabees and
leaves n widow.
Uncle Harvey |. Baldwin, one of Pal
myras favOrite sons, recently retired"
from the office of Justice of the Peace
after forty-eight years continuous serv-
ice. and said he wouldn't take it again.
But the Palmyra people let him rest just
one term and the squire is once more
in harness. A singular coincidence is
found in the fact that the house Mr.. Bald
win occupies and has for many years.
was once the home Of Tiffany, of Justice
Guide fame.
About Il year ago, the dry goods firm
of Livingston d Bloch, of Kalamazoo,
filed chattel mortgages for large amount,
naming Henry Stern as trustee. Five
suits, involving claims of about $1,000,
growing out of this transaction, are to be
tried in the United States Court. In the
initial suit it is claimed that before fill =
ing the mortgages, Livingston & Bloch
shipped a large quantity of goods TO
| fictitious addresses throughout the State
and that these goods were received by
near relatives or friends of the firm, and
were never paid for.
John Lee, of Eckford, who has been
! burglarized thrice within a few weeks
! and robbed of considerable properly, is
| again the victim of n mysterious plot. A
man representing himself as private de-
| tective called upon him and induced him
to accompany him TO Marshall for the
purpose Of having his fortune told. A
descendant of the witch of Endor told
! Mr.. Lee that he would again be burglar
! lied, and the next time blood would
! flow. What the witch and detective are
after remains TO be seen.
Chicago commission houses must be a
nice lot if several recent stories about
them are true. One of the papers in the
| fruit belt told of two apple-growers near
Fennville who sent part of their product
to a Chicago house. One of them re-
ceived thirty-eight cents for some sixty
| barrels. and the other fifty cents for
| thirty-five barrels. And now comes a
story from the Menominee County Jour
nal 10 the effect that a man in that coun-
! ty sent n quantity of wool TO a commits
sion house in Chicago, and since then has
heard nothing from it or received no pay
for il. Although he has written to them
several times about the natter he cannot
even get the wool back
Two would-be schoolmasters in An
tioch Township, near Cadillac. have lost
all their faith in human nature. One
started in the first morning with chapel
exercises, but was surprised to notice
that no one joined in. Looking up from
his prayers, he saw that two boys were
playing penny-ante in corner of the
room, another was smoking a corn-cob
| uine Before hp had tima IN evnosfulo Z n