The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-03-09


TIE dog poisoner is at work at How
ELL but it is the same there as every.
where-the valuable dogs get the meat
that is put out for the worthless ours.
KATIE BUCHANAN and May Hutton
were run over by an iceboat at Alpena.
Both young ladies were badly hurt
and Miss Hutton may be a cripple for
life.
AT Linden. near Flint, platform
collapsed and twenty-five or thirty
persons were more or less injured.
The crowd was listening to burglary
trial.
NEAL MCKENZIE, a farmer at Yale,
who went up to Gladwin County to work
in the lumber woods this winter, was
killed by falling tree five miles from
Gladwin.
ALPENA Maccabees want to put up a
hall of their own, and will try to sell
1000 shares of stock therein at $40
each, which would secure the required
amount.
FARMERS in Worthwhile and vicinity
are grinding their wheat and feeding
it quite extensively to their hogs,
claiming 10 realize good price from it
in that way.
FOUR of Prince Michael's flock are
preaching to the people of Battle
Greek, and the Moon speaks of them as
two long-haired men and two short
haired women.
A CONTRACT for grading and equip
ping an electric street railway from
St Joseph to Stevensville has been let,
and it is expected that cars will be run
ming down the lake shore by June /.
Two CONSTANTINE men are tanning
the hides of Galloway steers for lap
robes. They are said to be finer and
hand ,omer than the best quality OF
buffalo robes, and the best of them can
be sold for $l0
THE Fenton Fruit Shippers Associa-
ton has been so successful in securing
reduction of freight rates that tho
growers in that immediate vicinity
will ave $4,000 in transportation on
the coming fruit crop.
a ST. CLAIR firm will put in 100
barrel roller-proce5s Touring mill at
Richmond II the citizens OF the pace
will furnish site and erect build ng,
or If they will give a bonus sufficient
to secure site and building.
Miss HATTIE BUCHANAN of Alpena
was seriously and perhaps fatally in
iured by being run into by an ice boat
which was going at the rate of thirty
miles an hour. The man who was
steering the ice boat tried to turn out
in time, but just at the critical moment
the tiller broke and he was thrown out
of the beat, leaving it to run itself
FIVE generations were present at
gathering that celebrated the S5th
birthday of Justin Hallsted in Cooper
Township, Kalamazoo County. He and
his wife recently celebrated the sixty
third anniversary of their marriage.
They have six children, twenty-three
grandchildren, ten great-grandchil-
dren, and two great-great-grandchil-
dren.
MICHAEL loren, an eccentric resi-
dent of Brownstown, died in his filthy
cabin, all alone. He had lived there
for many years, in about Sxl0 feet of
space, starving himself to death, and
he would allow no one to come any
where near him. His bed was pallet
OF dirty straw, which he had not
changed in years, and an iron kettle
served for both cooking and washing.
A CERTAIN class OF tax-title sharks.
who have been waxing fat under re-
cent tax law in this State which ar-
parently permitted the purchaser of a
tax title for the years 1887 and 1888 to
receive deed of the property from the
Auditor General, received a severe
setback from the Supreme Court.
Thousands of dollars have been invest
ed by spectators. Valuable proper
ties have been sold for the taxes and
there has been no end of speculation.
OF course, the delinquent taxes will
have to be paid, but the tax-title
spectators are prohibited from ex-
tracing fabulous profits upon their in
vestments, and owners OF property who
have allowed taxes to lapse may re-
deem their belongings from the clutch
es of tax-title sharks.
A RECENT Lansing dispatch says
IL has developed here that the men,
bers of the Board OF State Canvas sers,
who are the Board of Auditors, are
not the only State officers who have
been collecting heavy fees for services
performed. The Auditor General,
Stanley w. Turner, seems to be in it,
too. His expense account since he
went into Office, little over a year
ago, has averaged over Sl00 per month,
while that of his predecessor was
scarcely more than $3.50 for his entire
term of two years. He paid plenty of
money for carriages, hotel expenses.
parlors and sleeping cars, and most Of
all did not itemize his bills, according
to custom. The matter will, no doubt,
be investigated by the Governor.
AT Eass Jordan, fire started in the
Odd Fellows Hall, where the Lady
MaccaDees had been holding a meet
ing. The losers are as follows: Isa-
mans two stores with contents, COM
pletely destroyed, $4,000; buildings
owned by East Jordan Lumber Co.,
nothing saved, $4,000. Maccabees,
Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias
lose everything. The thermometer
was Is below zero at the time of the
fire. No one has any insurance. II
was the worst fire East Jordan ever
had, and the town was saved with diff
Guilty. w. II. Healey, hardware mer-
chant. was DANCE ouslv in ured.