The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-20
ST. CLAIR counts 2,5I6.
MARINE CITY has 3,438.

NEGAO EE = ' ID uldblOu SnOWS a uc-
crease Of 2l7. 1t is : 81 now.
INGHAM COUNTY has 2a,534 people,
about half of whom live in Lansing.
THE 10. .ulation of Kalamazoo County
is 10, l0i, an incre ase of $50 over 1870
Mrs. JAMES BRoGAN. of Ionia, was
fatally burned by "a gasoline explosion.
FRANK MYRON fell from load Of
hay at Kalamazoo and was instantly
killed
JOHN j. GRIFFITH, one of the oldest
pioneers in Bate Greek, died, aged
50 years.
The disciples of Christ are holding
a evival in big tent in the heart Of
Kalamazoo.
+. l.. MCPHERSON has been elected
principal of Burlington schools for the
ensuing year.
THE census of the city of Marshall
shows gain of nearly 700 since the
last ,nsus was taken.
WILLOW and Waltz are now con-
nected by telephone, and the residents
of both places are proud OF 1t.
WATERvLIET has made contracts for
100 electric light plant, to be used
specially for the Syms Paper Company.
The census of Jackson is just COM
pleted. 1t gives the city a population
of 22,750, an increase in four years OF
nearly 300.
SOUTH HAVEN has increased from
,!5i in 1850 to =, 463 in 1894, showing
the only marked increase OF any town
in Van Buren, County.
CHESTER GIBBS is nearly half a
century old. yet he has left his native
county, Eaton, but thrice in his life,
and then only as far "a Jonesville.
JOE BARNEY, a Mt. Clemens fisher
man, has engaged in the raising of
turtles. He recently shipped 300 to
Baltimore and other Eastern cities.
The Weston furnace at Cooks, Man
istique county, will go into blast at
once after being idle ten IN )nths. That
will start the kilns and make business
good in that locality.
SCORES of Sault Ste. Marie people
searched all night for 6-year-old girl,
and found her IN tho morning asleep in
a clump of bushes about POO yards from
where She disappeared.
THE everest rascal in seven States
is at work in Grand Rapids. He gets
letter-heads Of business firms, writes
out b lis against their customers, and
then collects the money.
SAGE & Co, of New York, own a
choice lot of timber land at Thompson
vile and some of the local lumber men
have been cutting some cherry timber
thereon, and now the sweating process
is to begin.
. naC,,1t Of Tho ct,..lya hn N 90
C, mpany at Adrian had crate of dead
Saturday. They had persisted for lack
by the strike.
FRIENDS of al An Arbor bridal
coupe threw rice when they started
for their hack. The rice hit the horses
instead of the happy couple and run
away ensued. The bride's life was
saved by jumping.
ACCORDING TO the recent census in
Homer there were twenty-seven deaths
and twenty eight births during the
past year. Among those that died
five were over 50 years of age and
eleven over 20 years old.
CHESANING is thinking OF having a
bell rang at a certain hour every even
ing to warn its youngsters that 1t is time
for them to be at home. Complaint is
now made that number of boys re-
main out late at nights and use bad
language.
A VETERAN seaman of Portland had
the smallpox when he was IL years
old, nearly died of swamp fever two
years later, had the yellow fever in
Cuba and the cholera in New Orleans,
but he's a5 well man as one ordinari-
ly sees anywhere, nov.
OFFICERS of the Government were
in Dearborn on Monday and turned
over the old officers quarters to the
village authorities. The building is
a splendid one on Front street and wi |
give rooms for all the village Offices
and still have room ID let.
A NEGRO assaulted Mrs. George Case
and her daughter, Mrs. Marcy, at Bat
tie Creek, on one of the principal
streets. She started TO run away
from him, whereupon he drew q razor
and cut Mrs. Cases throat. She can
not live. The assailant has not been
captured.
WHEN prisoners desire to leave the
Cadillac gaol-they spell it that way
to make it sound more respectable C.
they just lift up board, scrape away
little dirt and run away: and then tho
local papers come out with paragraphs
to the effect they're glad they've gone,
anyhow.
A YOUNG chap returned from the
lumber woods II his old home at Lis
bon and proceeded to show what man
he was. He shot at one fellow for
stealing bottle Of whisky from his
pocket and the next day he shot at an
other friend in barroom. He was
disarmed and sont out OF town.
Miss NAME ALLEN, of Ionia, daugh-
ter OF a pr minent citizen, visited
Windsor, Ont So did Louis l.. Tower,
Of Crosse Pointe. Their respective
PARENTS were mech surprised when
they returned man and wife It was
the second secret marriage of Ionia
young people within a week.
THE remains of what appeared to be
a prehistoric wet goods factory we're