The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-03-30

A MARINE CITY man carries an old
fashion d English bull's-eye watch that
is 12) years old.
JOHN CIPHER, of Lapeer. died near
LARGER. He was 81 years cd and had
served in the war of 1872.
CHARLES MEYERS, an inmate of the
Soldiers Home at Grand Rapids, was
killed by dummy train.
INDIAN LAKE sinners are being
bombarded by the Adventists, Meth
odist and Crusaders all at once.
GEORGE MEERDING, Janitor Of the
Kalamazoo public library, was found
dead in the basement OF the building.
WILLIAM BURKE, wealthy farmer
of Ann Arbor died suddenly. He was
peculiar character and was "A years
old
The Calumet & Hecla mine is send
ing upward of 81, 900 tons of mineral
daily to its stamp mills at Lake Lin
| den.
AT the session Of the Detroit district
Of the Epworth League at Ypsilanti
nearly 1000 were present from Detroit
and other towns.
DIR. w. II. GUM, the Grand Rapids
physician convicted tf criminal assault
at Stanton, has been sentenced to jack
son for seven years.
A MUSHROOM woman thrashed her
husband on public street She said
he had sneaked $75 of her money and
blown it in at a carousal.
BRUCE MILLS, Of Yp5ilanti, aged 3
years. drank about half cupful OF
kerosene oil when no Cne was around,
and it nearly proved fatal.
ANTHONY ALE, Mt. Clemens pea
nut vender, cut his wife's head with
Ratchet. Four years ago ALE shot
and killed Detroit man in a dispute.
The debts of the West Michigan Ag-
ricultural Society are being wiped out
by Secretary Fisher, who reports that
everything is being adjusted harmoni-
ously.
MUSHROOM parties have bought the
Buffalo steamer Nyack, to run on the
lake between Muskegon and Milwau-
kee. The steamer was built at q cost
of $50,
J. w. WEIDMAN, of Lakeview, has
purcha Ell 4,C00 acres of stump land in
Isabella County. He'll build saw mill
and start a new town to be known as
Weidman.
The lock force at the SEQ are busy
preparing for the opening of naviga.
ton and making everything in roadi,
ness for the reception of the first boat,
whenever she may appear.
THE ,timate for the support of the
Indian school at Mt. Pleasant during
1895 has been increased from $24 260 tc
SO, 800. 1t is proposed to have 80 pu.
pills at the school instead of leo.
A ARoN +. SERvIS, who died at Wood.
vile, Newaygo County, at the age Ol
| 60 years, was for many years a resident
of Genesee County and for twenty-five
| years an active minister of the gospel
in this State.
L. G. TRUAX'S shingle mill at Ktnde,
Huron County, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being Sl,100, with no insur-
ance. A spark falling in pile of saw
dust is thought to have been the cause
| of the blaze.
THIRTY-FIvE cases OF measles were
reported in Grand Rapids on Friday.
| Its rapid spread is said to be due TO
the fact that no attention is heing paid
! to the quarantine rules established by
the Board of Health.
THE Weekly Tribune, of Manistique,
in speaking of citizen who had been
fined so for beating his wife. says that
any man who has contracted such a
habit should be fined 81 100000 and i'm
prisoned for 800 years.
A HOWL is going up from Muskegou
and Grand Rapids over the schedule Of
the Chicago and West Michigan Rail-
road. BY it these two towns have no
service with Chicago from Saturday
morning to late Sunday night.
CRYSTAL FALLS, a village of only a
few hundred souls, has q debt of $40,-
geo hanging over lis had. For that rea-
son it is pretty hard to get man who
will act as village president, and for
once the Office beg5 the man.
AT Muskegon muskrats are being
killed on the public streets. There
isn't so much danger now as there was
OF being waylaid by the animals, bit
dead in the face, or being brutally
pounded by their long, flexible tails.
GEORGE CLARK, of Vas sar, drives q
colt with a hard mouth, and it cost him
just 81 the other day. He was out
driving, and when he came to the HUI
ron avenue bridge the colt did not
care to be pulled down 10 walk, so
Mr.. Clark was fined by Justice Bourns
for fast driving.
THE saloon of A. Nichols, in LOOMS,
looks as if cyclone had struck it.
Somebody who poses as reformer cut
and destroyed the cover Ct the pool
table, cut up the cards, carried off the
pool balls an fourteen kegs of beer,
and left lamp burning in the cellar
without chimney.
DANIEL II. WATERS, a wealthy citi-
zen of Grand Rapids, died in Florida.
Before he went south he made hun
dreds of poor families happy by his
contribution of S. to the relief
commission. He had always been gen.
erous, and although a millionaire had
worked as hard as a day laborer.
1T is somewhat early in the season
for fish stories, b 1t the Stanton Herald
has the following: The high wind last
Saturday night blew over ten bushels
OF fish cut of Pearl Lake upon the pro
jecting slabs of the wharf on the west
shore. They were mostly black bass