The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-12-21

day.
G.. w. Sharp, one of the leading grocery
men of Stanton, has sold out to Thomas
Earle.
Citizens of Grayling are forming
stock company for the purpose of build
ing an opera house.
Mrs. Hattie Ansley, aged 4G, an asy-
lum patient ut Kalamazoo, hanged her
self with her stocking placed over the bed
post.
Citizens of Berrien Springs have form
ed company with $4,000 capital to dam
the st. Joseph River TO secure water
power.
Thomas Carol. n native of Ireland,
and for many years Waterman for the
Michigan Central at Kalamazoo, died,
aged 53 years.
The parents of Martha Belska, of De
troit, said to have smallpox, drove away
the health officers with n shotgun and
boiling water.
Jacob Halter, who for years wls one of
the most prominent jewelers. in the State,
died at Ann Arbor. The deceased was
~ years of age.
The monthly crop report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture shows that the aver
age yield of potatoes in Michigan is 90,
against 10 last year.
A young child of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Tanning, of Pulaski, was kicked by
horse and before medical assistance ar
rived the little one died.
Kalamazoo celery growers are row of
the opinion that ons!derable dapose was
done by the cold snap of about n month
ago to the growing celery.
The dry goods house of VI. NJ. Bennett
* Co., the oldest mer .antle establishment
in Jackson, discontinued business and
closed it's doors for al time.
The coroners jury in the case Of Fred
Summers. who was found dead near Car
land, Shiawassee County, found he was
killed by his horses running away.
Michigan liquor deihers want the Legis,
lature TO increase the tax Oh drug stores
from $500 TO $500, and Grand Rapids
druggists will oppose the movement.
Robert Webster, an aged farmer living
near South Haven, set fire to his barn and
shot out the eyes OF Eugene Keasey, n
neighbor who liberated the animals in l..
The trial at Owosso Of Mrs. Crsuma
Burpee, charged with boiling the feet CT
her foster son SO that amputation becaue
necessary, ended in q disagreement of tGe
jury.
The congregation and members of che
First Presbyterian Church of Bay City
have in the past -four years subscribed
and contributed ST., 900 to the chutch
funds.
y Fenton boy while skating on Silver
Lake saw through tie ice, il about TWEEN
ty feet of water, II bicycle. He fished it
out, and if an owner doesn't turn UP, will
/ be a wheel ahead.
! Andrew Denike's A4-yearold daughter,
/ of Boone, while walking no an aisle at
/ school, slipped and fell. Her head struck
on the corner % a seat, infiicting n wound
which proved fatal in few hours.
Judge Lane. of Adrian has announced
that he is not II candidate for the nominal
ton for Justice of the Supreme Court, be-
lieving that with Judge Kline in the field
the district ought not to divide its inter
2 csts.
The Michigan Bo;.rd of Health has re-
ceived Il communication from the South
Carolina health dcpa rtmel;t asking for in
formation in regard to the method en-
ployed in the State &C dealing with tuber-
| culOsis.
The furniture mer Of Grand Rapids will
make capital out 81 the recent revela-
tons of extravaganza at Ionia prison.
They will try TO convince the Legislature
that the State canlOt make furniture nj
profit, because skilled artisans are re-
quired and all CONFLICTS arc crude work
men. They destroy NOR: than enough 10
balance the cheapncss OF labor.
Maj. y. S. Boynton has let off q bomb
in the camp of his enemips i'm Grand Rap
ids in the retaining of Claude r. Buchan.
an, young lawyer ana Maccabee of tho
valley city. as his counsel Buchanan is
n member of Valley City Tent and knows
all the plans of tie Boughton faction-uI
to date. He says the Inajor has instruct.
ed him to begin injunction proceedings al
once against Valley City Tent and other
members of the order, restraining them
from sending out any more circulars
against him.
Charles A. Jones, of Tawas City, has
been paid $1,000 By the Detroit, Bay
City and Alpcna Railroad for his little
girls fooishness last spring. She lived
near railroad crossing and with Other
children near the spot was in the habit
of standing on the track before approach
ing trains until the engine was almost
upon her. and then jumping 10 the side
and laughing at the engineer. She die
il once too often, however, and her foo
caught in the track and held her fast
The train was too close to be stopped
and ran over her foot, cutting il off. Tn,
father brought suit against the com
pany for damages and secured n verdic
and the company has settled for 81 900.
The body OF Mrs. l.. Frankenstein, ella,
in snow-white linen and placed in Il rud,
box. was buried at Detroit according I,
the Jewish rites in vogue 1000 years be
fore Jesus restored Lazarus from tn,
tomb. Mrs. Frank enstein died Saturday
aged 10S years. She was the oldest WON
an in Detroit and had remarkable his
tory. Born in Poland in 1856, she was
child when her country became part o
Russia, and remembered the fall of Kos
: ciusko. She also cold vivid stories OF tn
march of Napoleon through Poland on tn
! retreat from Moscow, and had the dis
Z tncton of cooking tie Bonaparte
breakfast in her little home. She emf