The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-09-28
FLINT has ISL widows among its In.

TIE new electric light plant at
Evart has been completed and is now
running.
The work Of laying the mains for
the water works system at Ontonagon
was begun.
THE cook of Gordon's l0-cent circus
was badly burned on the hands and
face by an explosion OF gasoline at Bay
City.
AT Pinconning the Michigan Gen.
trail round-house burned. / o5s, 81 800.
Supposed to be incendiary.
LLOYD DENISoN, aged 8 years, fell
off a dam into the river near Gowan,
Montcalm county, and was drowned.
PINCONNING may have a feed mill.
/ There was a man from Gagetown look
ing over the ground with a view to
buying a site.
Mr.. COHEN, of Detroit, seized the
dry goods and clothing stock of S.
Blumberg, of Alpena, under $1,000
chattel mortgage.
TdE raising of peppermint and the
distilling of the OIL is one of Decatur's
booming industries. There are now
eleven stills there.
PITT POTTER, a farmer and a tai
ented man, who was educated as a
lawyer, committed suic de at Fostoria
by shooting. No cause is known.
ATHENS viii have new bank. The
institution will lie known as the Farm
ers ~ Merchants Rank and will be I'M
der the management OF n. l.. Rowe.
Gov. RICH has appointed John Fl.
Grant, OF Manistee, Judge of Probate
OF Manistee County, TO fill the va
cancy caused by the death of n. w.
Nelson.
FRANCES HENDERSON, a colored
widow of Ann Arbor, attempted to
commit suicide by drinking turpentine,
but a physician pumped her out and
she may live.
TIE ba n at the st. Joe terminal of
the st. 10 eph and Benton Harbor
Electric Street Railway, also large
livery stable, was destroyed by fire.
The loss was heavy.
Mrs. FERNANDO G.. BEAMAN, relict
of Michigans war Congressman, died
at Adrian aged rs years. Mrs. Bea-
man was prominent in social life in
Washington during the COS.
AT Jackson John r. Norris, aged 33,
suicided by cutting his throat He
weeks. A fit of dependency to which
he was subje t was the cause.
IT is con. idered very dangerous to
shoot the rapids at the 500, yet the
half breeds who have the matter in
charge say they have never seen any
one drowned from their boats.
DANIEL MERR. of Flint. aged so,
was walking around his yard, when he
aff
that had wandered from home. The
old man is in critical condition.
PETER SrEGENA, employed at the
Phi pnix furniture factory, Grand Rap
ids, jumped off an elevator while it
was moving, missed his footing and
was crushed to death against wall
Mrs. ELLA SCOTT, of Fenton, mar
ried the late Richard Scott, not know
ing that he had wife living in Grand
| Rapids. The A. O. u. w. refused TO
paw her $1,000 life insurance. She
went to law and has just won her suit.
MUNICIPAL lighting at Kalamazoo
has been brought up against stone
wall in the shape Of an injunction
which prevents the city, at least tenn
porarily, from entering into any con-
| tract for plant. Citizens don't want
| it very bad.
WHEN a burly tramp invaded Mrs.
| Frank Baaly's house, near Yale, and
brandished big knife, threatening to
dealt him a powerful blow in the face,
brushed him aside and escaped to q
| neigh boris house.
A THREE FORKS surgeon helped sew
up a Kalamazoo mans body. On his
4 ha mic H-pir al
81 ectacles Returning, he re-opened
| the stitches and found he had sewed up
the glasses inside the mans body. So
saith truthful James in the Three
Rivers Tribune.
THE 500 papers boast that while
crops are failure in nearly every 9TH
er county in the Upper Peninsula,
| they're blooming success in Chippe-
wa. The drouth was providentially
prevented from doing any mischief.
| Peas. potatoes and corn are the best
crops raised there.
The Derby Cycle Company, of Chi
cago has contracted with the Jackson
prison board for the employment of
| seventy-five convicts to manufacture
bicycles and tricycles AS the oper-
atives will have no chance to speed the
machines the interest will probably be
of a tagging nature.
AT Linwood, Myron Stevens, farm
err, shot and fatally wounded his half
sisters husband. Amos Gardner, who
worked Stevens farm on shares. The
bullet struck Gardner in the neck
and glanced into the lungs, so the
surgeons could not extract it.
The two men had quarreled
and fought over Stevens share
of crops, when the latter rushed into
the house and came out with revolver
and fred at arms length. He tried to
shoot a second time but was prevented
by Mrs. Gardner, who held her baby
between the men. Stevens wac ar
rested and lodged in all. He says he
shot in self-defense.
THE State Fair this year. from the
exhibitors standpoint, was a pro-
nounced success: and it is thought the
treasurer's report will show a hand
some balance on the right side. Agri-
cultural, manufactured, forest and
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