The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-05-18
McBArN will bond itself for water

says the town has 100000 inhabitants.
THERE are over forty bicycles in La
peer and the era; Is only half grown.
MAYOR FISHER, OF Grand Rapids,
has urged the reduction of all city sal
ares.
JOHN GLEASON walked out of Onto
nagon Jail. Turnkey left the door un-
locked.
TIE farm house of Charles Will
Jams, near Flint, wa, de trOyed by the
high wind.
ISAAC NOBLE, deaf Indian, was
killed by an excursion train, near
Char!evoix.
w. w. KINCH'S residence at Alma
was entered by burglars and $50 worth
of jewelry sto'en.
CoNSTANTINE'S high school has
been placed on the list of schools APP
proved by the university.
TIE Wieren % Hotel at Muskegon
was flooded by the higl water, the
whole ba cement being filled.
at Onondaga and number of stamps
and so re money were taken.
PENNINGTON is dreaming dreams of
connection with Detroit by an electric
road. The distance is only eighteen
mi g.
A QUARTER Ct million logs telong-
ing to Filler & Sons at the head of Man.
istee Lake We destroyed by fire. The
loss will be heavy.
MILFORD'S council has been told by
Pro ecuting Attorney Smith that they
must accept responsible saloon b nds.
men, notwithstanding their previous
refusal.
AT Holland, 5-y earold daughter OF
George Nash fell from chair, strik-
ing her neck on the ed 1e of tub.
When found she was dead, her neck
having been broken.
DIR. AND Mrs. WIN. HUNTINGTON, of
Howe |, celebrate their tiftieth we'd
ding anniversary the other day. The
happy cd couple have spent the entire
fifty years in the village where they
now live.
JAMES LAPREE, Moorland farmer,
sh himself three times while in his
stable. The poor man was sub. ect to
fits. and recent y said that before he
would have another he would kill him
self. He cannot live
GRAND MASTER PHILLIPS, of the
Michigan +. and A. NJ, has accepted
an invitation Cf Bay City to convene
the Grand Lodge at that place May 30
and conduct the ceremony of laying
the City Hall cornerstone.
MATTHEW HARRIS, of the Fewabic
mine, lost both hands by the explosion
Ct giant powder. his skull was shat
tered his jaw broken and he was other
wise injured, but he has survived it all
and is now on the streets as usua.
AT Durand an unknown MAJ was
killed while attempting TO board fast
train. Both legs were cut Off. In the
mans pocket was found a diary con-
tanning the address of A. o. Harrison,
394 Harrison street west, Chicago.
THERE is sti in the hands of the re-
lief committee of Ypsilanti about SCI
that was collected for the suffering
poor in tie Upper Peninsula. IL will
be forwarded to Iron Mountain il the
reports from that place continue to be
lad.
EARL HART, son of L. G.. Hart, of
Benzonia, did le,y suddenly. The
decease / was W ung man. not quite p,
and had worked all day in his usual
health. He hadn't an enemy in the
whole world, and was esteemed by all
who knew HIM.
IMPORTATION from the dissecting-
room of Michigan University Is 60 the
effect that the body of Sophia Kee'er,
Bay County, who died at the insane
asylum at Kalamazoo. was not claimed
by relatives and that the body was
used for dissecting purposes.
FIRE broke out in the Cadillac
Handle mpany bui ding and in less
than an hour reduced it to ashes. The
fact ~ building was entirely de.
stroyed, an largo am )unt of manu-
featured stock in the dry kilns was
also burned. The loss will amount to
$4,000. There was $1,000 insurance en-
the factory, but none on the stock.
The cause OF the fire is not known.
This facto " has been of the best in
dustries in the city, and will undoubt-
edly lee rebuilt.
a BANCROFT man who has got re.
Zig IN makes the following confession
t. local paper: Il humbly confess
before the public that / was the means
OF leaving anonymous notes around the
prem SO OF +. a. Wilcox and also left
one in his house last winter and raped
at his door and run and rang the bell
in the night. | trie hard TO blame it
to his nearest neighbors, BIT failed. 1t
was on account of an old grudge. con-
fesS before God and man, and | have
confessed priva ely, but that will not
undo the wrong | have done him. |
have hal no peace since | have b,en
converted till now. L. A. NJ, one of
y your subsc ibers. Il. ST. also confess
writing al anonymou; letter to Mrs.
A. Is. Stone.
TYENTY-E,GHT years ago the little
daughter of Mrs. Martha Bai mes, of
Saranac, was spirited away by her
father, and di appeared as if from the
face OF the earth. TIE w. man, whose
former name was Martha II ain, after
wards married Mr.. Pimperton. A
sho time ago Ida Williams wrote
from British Columbia illuiring about
Martha Train. 1t was prove be, ond
question that Mrs. Pimrerton was her
mother, and the long lost daughter
started for Michigan. She got here
in time to atten funeral, fJr the ex
element and 10Y over her dauphter',