The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-29
EIGHT High School graduates a

NJ Drdnu INdpios.
SEVERAL celery farms have been
started near Negaunee.
A CASE of CHAMBERS was reported at
Fenton, and the animal was shot.
The graduating class OF the Bay
City high school numbers thirty-four.
MASON will not celebrate this year,
but her neig bors, Holt ard Dansville,
will.
ONE THOUSAND commission men
from Chicago spent Sunday in st. Jo-
seph.
THE Corrigan. Mckinley g. Co. mine,
near Crysta, Fall, will b, opened with
seventy men.
LANsINi authorities are waging war
on tobacco dealers who sci ciga, cites
to small boys.
among them &C institute Ironwood's
graduating class.
JOHN WOODS, aged 49, while in bath
8 n, was drowned.
THE people who were poisoned by
eating ice cream at Ann Arbor are all
getting along very nicely.
AT Flint, George NJ. Spears tin and
rag shop was struck by lightning and
bnrned. The loss is s., 900.
BURGLARS chloroformed the six in
mates OF Muskegon house and got
only S7.s5 for all that trouble.
LIGHTNING destroyed Harrison
Carlls barn, near Armada, together
with two horses and other property.
I'VE LIrTLEFIELD quite recently set
some traps in the woods in the vicinity
of Cheboygan and caughta large bear.
The new census, jut completed,
shows Ionia to have ], $50 families and
1923 people, an increase in four years
of 526.
The late rains at Belleville have
greatly improved the looks of crops,
and now everything points to boInti-
full harvest.
HENRY MATTHIAS, of Roos Township,
near Battle Creek, was kicked in the
stomach by runaway horse and died
from his injuries
THE petition of W. II. Thacker, the
alleged wife murderer, of Benzonia,
for writ OF habeas corpus, has been
denied by Judge Corbett.
BEWARE of Confidence Men Do
Not Change Money for S rangers, is
inscribed on 81 MS in Chicago AMI
Grand Trunk Railway cars.
AT Forestville, Henry Leonhardt
wa, found dead with bullet hole in
his breast and a revolver close by. 1t
is supposed to be case OF suicide.
Lou GILBERT and Miss Mabel Will
son, of Chesaning, were thrown from
buggy by runaway horse, and both
were injured, not seriously, however.
OLD Mrs. Bush, OF Novi, aged los, Is
haze and hearty, and can be seen near
ly every day, out about the yard,
smarter, physically, than most people
at 70 or 80.
IN 1864 an Ottawa County mother
named her young hopeful Abraham
Lincoln. He has just distinguished
himself by picking 144 quarts OF straw
berries in day
AT Alpena, William Shepard and
Thomas Branscombe, who We're arrest
ed as counterfeiters, admitted that
they made bogus coins, but said they
did it just for fun.
TIE Coroner who held the inquest
on the Battle Creek wreck victims pre-
sented to Auditor General Turner what
seemed TO be an eXorbitant bill. The
Supreme Court has Just ordered 1t
paid.
PoNTIAC's high school had 500 Wis
itors last year. II would be good
thing II the average citizen visited
the public schools little oftener.
Perhaps If parents made practice of
going their boys would not be so liable
to play hockey.
ABRAHAM BURDEN, prominent
farmer of Marion, was found dead in
the field. He had been scraping off a
ditch bank with young team. 1t is
thought the horses ran away, the
scraper handle striking Mr.. Burden
and breaking his reck.
ADRIAN is much excited because a
fat Jersey cow that was slaughtered q
short time ago was found TO have been
the victim of tut erculosis. The ami
NAL belonged to an Adrian lawyer, and
had been pastured on farm with many
other Jerseys. One other COW was
suspected and killed, but the disease
had not spread any further. People
who use butter and cheese are much
excited
The lottery business in the Bay
Cities is said to be of enormous pro-
portions. Several large prizes sent
here adver ised the concerns wonder
thousands of dollars are not sent out to
enrich their Golfers. Tickets in half
dozen or more mpanies are displayed
for "a O. and few, IL any, OF the deal
ers make any pretense at even con-
cealing their business.
HEALTH OFFICER HoCHsTEIN, OF
Kalamazoo, is being cursed about as
DR.. Leod is in Detroit. Saturday night
a case of smallpox was reported on
box car DIR. Hochstein took the tramp
TO the Jail, but the Sheriff would not
let him in. Then he left the supposed
patient in the all yard, while at least
800 persons crowded around, exposing
themselves to dangerous degree
The city was in turmoil as res lit
of parading the tramp around the
streets.
JOHN GALEHoUSF, an insurance
man from Grand Rapids, who is one of
principal witne sses for the people in
the prosecution OF violators of the
local option law in Antrim County and