The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-03-02

THERE are said TO be 1860 pors.Jns In
Kalamazoo living on charity.
AUD. GEN. TURNER has 50 far sold
$4,000 worth of tax titles. Applica-
tions are pouring in every day.
SIEPKE MINNEMA, a farmer, was
struck by a train in Grand Rapids and
tossed high in the air. He will die.
AT Hager, Frederick We ,rfall slash
Ell his wife with ca e knife, and after
setting fire to the house hanged him.
self.
NINETY-EIGHT new members were
admitted into the Sault Methodist
church as a result of the recent re-
vival.
AT Adrian. Mrs. Cora Mountain com
mitted su.c d. by m rphine. She was
infatuated with William 1tssig, a mar
led man.
TIE little hamlet of Cheshire in
Allegan County, has sixty converts as
the res lit OF recent series OF revival
serv ce'.
ALPENA is going to get an electric
street railway, sure. A Chi,ago com
pany has franchise on some OF the
principal streets.
| CHARLEVOIX schoolma ans arc soft
hearted. When they whip kids they
feel so sorry that they pay them 5
cents to stop crying.
A BATTLE CREEK man, who has been
reading the pa ers, figures that there
have been $4,000 conversions in Michi-
gan since snow first began to fly.
WHEN Miss Eva Anderson, of Mus
kegon, died she left $1,000. She had
saved the money during the past twelve
years working for $3 or 81 week
REV. J. BREWSTER HUBBs, the
Grand Rapids Episcopal divine, who
came out for socialism a short time
ago, has now announced him-elf q
| singletaXer.
The Muskegon Log Towing Associa-
| tion handled 1859, 54S logs last year.
| This is the SIN illest number handled
since 1865. The largest was 6l5, Az
39S, in 1884.
A MARQUETTE hoy got drunk in
school and slugged the principal so
hard the latter had to call for as
! si5tance. Even then he escaped from
his pursuers and fled to the street.
The Insurance compan es ordered
the Sault Common Council to build two
additional hose houses. The city has
not done so, and now insurance rates
have been advanced twenty-five per
cent.
WHAT is said to be largest pine tree
ever cut in the Upper Peninsula was
recently felled near Chass ell, Houghton
County. II was five feet five inches in
diameter, and sixteen feet in circum-
| ference.
JAMES BLACKMoRE and William
Eagle, ia mers, were arrested at AL
! Iena for smuggling horses from Can
| ada The men claimed to be immi-
grants, and this got the horses in free
of duty.
THE Tamarack cooperative store at
Calumet has probably made more
MONEY the Iast year than has the mine
itself. 1t will divide among its stock
holders $50, COO as the profits on last
years business.
Miss NORA MERITHEW, of Osceola
Township, Livingston County, took a
dose Of aconite to cure a cold, and it
came very near doing so. The doctors
had to work four hours to get the young
lady out of danger.
ANYONE who turns in false q arm
at Ovid hereafter must cover his tracks
we'll, as the Council has passed an or
dinance providing that anyone guilty
OF such an offense shall be fined S25 or
jailed for ninety days.
FIRE broke out in the Oaks Hou Q,
the leading hotel in Reed City, and the
building was entirely destroyed. Much
of the contents was taken out in bad
condition. The loss on the building is
placed at S12,0 900, with 81 200 insurance.
AN aged and eccentric farmer by the
name of Harmer, living near Ceresco,
died recently. He was known to have
considerable money hidden away, but
left NJ clue as to its whereabouts. His
son found about $500 in gold coin in
small bag in an cat bin. Continuing
his search, he unearthed $1,000 more
in the bottom of the bin.
HORACE SMITH, of Dimondale has a
SOW which he thinks is record smash
err. Within one year fifteen days
she turned out three filters of pigs
forty-four in all. During this time
Horace has sold $S5 worth of live hogs,
slaughtered four from the second lit
ter. which weighed 30 pounds each,
for his own use, and is wintering three
besides the mother.
AN Albion female physician has as
much pluck as man. She was called
to neighboring village and started
out in the dead of night. She had
not gone very far when she sank in
snow bank up to her waist, and came
near perishing, but she bravely strug-
gled on, walking two miles in snow so
deep that she could make only few
steps minute. She got to her pa
tient in good time, however.
EDWARD PERKINS died recently at
Owosso. He had separated from his
first wife, whom he married in 1856,
and believing her dead, married again.
In his lifet me he accumulated and
sold considerable property, his second
wife signing the title deeds. But he
died poor. Now wife No. ! appears,
and has succeeded in collecting large
amounts from parties who bought real
estate from Mr.. Perkins, and who fear
cloud on their titles. She will also
apply for widows pension, as Perkins
was a veteran.
G. VERNON RICH has removed from
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