The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-08-10


DUNDEE will soon be lighted by cleo
tricity.
THERE is talk OF annexing Croswell
and Falcon.
THE dreaded army worm has invaded
Sanilac County.
The 500 expects to get tool factory
employing l0J men.
TIE drought Is seriously in .uring
| fruit near South Haven.
BERvILLE, st. Clair County, is TO
have new depot.
FISHERMEN at Algonac report that
they have met with great success this
| season.
HERBERT b. PARTRIDGE, Bay CITY
burglar, got three years at Ionia. He
was only -.
JOHN NJ. SWITCH, Fairfield pioneer,
aged 10, died Sunday, a ter an illness OF
several months.
SYLVESTER RITTENHoUSE, while
temporarily insane, shot and killed
himself at Benton Haabor.
THE Pontiac, Oxford and Northern
Railroad Company is surveying a line
from Kingston to Sanilac Center.
A BREAD riot is now feared at Iron
wood, as 600 men are out of work and
haven't a cent with which to buy food.
OSCAR BRIGGS, OF Saline, committed
suicide by drowning himself in mill
| pond. He was 40 years OF age and very
feeble.
A SHAFT house and other buildings
, at the Pewabic mine. at Iron Noun
tain, Were destroyed by fire. The loss
! is $1,000.
SPARKS from locomotive set fire to
and destroyed the Otter Lake ice
houses belonging to j. f. Heyniger, of
Detroit.
The Manisti ne LAUNDERING Co. s
new mill at Grand Marais is ready
for work, with capacity of 10000, GOO
feet per year.
FIVE HUNDRED pounds OF gas pipe
fell on Edward McKennys foot at ort
Huron, mangling it so that he will be
Il cripple for life.
COLEMAN gets the soldiers and sail
ors' reunion fer Osceola, Isabella, Clare,
Gladwin, and Midland Counties. 1t
will be held sept. Is to u.
MARLETTE wants a better school
house, and special meeting has beeu
called to consider the advisab!lity OF
raising money TO add another addition.
ThE2E are forty-fve saloons at the
Sault, but only twenty-siX have taken
out licenses. Looks as if there were a
go chance for the taxpayers t. make
a kick.
UNION railroad men, debarred from
railroad jobs by the Grand Trunk
lacklist, are leaving Port Huron in
numbers hoping TO receive Jobs else
where,
WHILE running to fire a hose cart
at Adrian was overturned, and fire.
man run over. The latter's ankle was
di ,located. The hose cart was badly
damaged.
ST. CLAIR has but two empty lots re.
naming in its cemetery, and the Re-
publican serves notice on strangers
that this is the poorest place in Michi-
gan to die.
"A THREE-MONTHS-OLD colt in field
near Adrian was so badly frightened
by storm Of thunder and lightning
that it broke its back y contraction
Of the muscles.
JULIUS LINDSTRUM, the salvation
army captain arrested for obstructing
Bay City streets, was found guilty and
fined $50. He has appealed the case to
the Circuit Court.
DURING an electric storm seven
barns and one dwelling house in Hills.
dale Coun Y were struck by lightning
and burned. Not enough rain fell dur.
ing the storm to lay the dust.
FRIDAY the thermometer at the
weather bureau Office at AlLena regis
tered yS $40 degree the highest point
reached since the establishment of the
station tgen y-one years ago.
SEVERAL fan mers in the vicinity OF
Bad Axe sent to firm in Nunda, N.
Y, for set of harness, which they
claim to furnish for 1927, but when
they arrived it was nothing more than
rope made up in IN shape of harne IS.
ST. CLAIR COUNTY farmers are
praying for rain. Everything is as dry
as finder, no rain having fallen for
many weeks. 1t is claimed that there
will not be more than half q potato
crop.
MOSES TUREAU, the West Bay City.
an who kicked his wife in the head for
amusement q short time ago, pleaded
guilty to assau t and battery and in de
fault OF fine O. $45 went 10 Jail for
eighty days
ANDREW RONDo, of Dagget, Me.
nominee County, after search lasting
many years, found a daughter al
Ontonagon who had been separated
from him in 1873. The meeting was
very affecting.
NEGAUNEE miners who went to Sc
bewaing, expecting to get work, came
back disappointed. They say they
were not given cas- enough to kee;
them working half time, and could
heardly earn their board.
A RAILROAD is t. be built from
Grand Haven II Hackley Park mex
spring. The right Of way for the
seven miles has been secured The
road will connect with the Lake Har
Dor Railroad at Mona Lake.
THE Lake Shore Anti-Thief Society
with headquarters at Benton Harbor
has been organized by the fruit grow
ers of Southwestern Michigan As the
name indicates, the purpose of the so
clety is to pro ecute fruit thieves.