The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-08
ALPENA sawmils are all closed on
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twenty seven oranges inside of thirty
minutes.
w. III. TINSMAN'S fine barn near
Romeo, containing 500 bushels of
wheat, was destroyed by lightning.
THERE isn't loon in ALI e. Coun-
ty, so they say, and it isn't local OF
ton county, either. Just superlatively
good.
REV. +. M. DUFF, of Ann Arbor,
preached in En- nuel Church, De-
troit, Sunday. He rode all the way On
his bicycle.
A TECUMSEH crowd gave minstrel
show in Morenc The audience were
not pleased and rudely left before the
show was out.
The Chaplin mine, which recently
started up again at Iron Mountain, re-
lieving many starving workingmen,
now employs $50 persons.
ARMADA has made up her mind to
celebrate the coming Fourth In the
good old-fashioned manner. and will
try and make moi enough so that they
can be heard il the next county.
GEORGE GIBBS, Of Eckford Town hir,
Calhoun County, is the latest youngest
soldier" / enl sled in 1861, when he
but carried musket.
YPsILANTl la les h I'VE already raised
81 coo for soldiers monument Mrs
Mary A. Starkweather will give 81, 900
II $1,000 more can be raised, the idea
being TO spend $4,000.
WHILE Charles Carpenter was shear
ing sheep near Otter Lake one OF the
animals kicked. driving one point of
the shear into his ne TX al d the other
back of his ear, severing an artery.
Carpent + will probably die.
THE last convict to attempt escape
from lonia was Michael O'Neil, OF De-
troit. He was caught removing bricks
from the wal and had plenty of appa-
ratus for rendering any guard insens-
IDLE who might try to stop him.
A GANG of ten toughs lay in ait for
Eva" gel st r. H. Burke at Sault Ste.
Marie. Mr.. Burke thinks he saved
his life by going up different street
from the che they expected. The
trouble sprang from religious difficult
ties.
The female school teacher who gets
job at ingalls,, Men II inee County,
must cor. err. The advertiseme
says she must be "passably GO look
ing, hold a second-grade certificate,
have rlenty of muscle and wear No.
3 shoe.
A CENTRAL LAKE hotel, says
truthful man In rival town, was sup
rosed to be tedevilled with ghost
The landlord went ior the mysterious
noises, an prying off a few boards.
found hundreds Of bats. Three hun
dred were killed.
A MINISTER from some other town
went into Belding barber shop to get
shaved. He wanted entirely new linen
az d promised t pay literally for every
thing, only he wanted the best shave
going. He gave the barber III cents,
one cent being for the extra Pains.
FRANK TURN, enc of the victims of
the Fatt!e Cle * railroad horror, who
has been in the hospital for seven
months has just left for his home in
Stroudsburg, Pa He was the most
badly injured Of all the survivors. The
Presbyterian church Of his town has
just sent thirty Bibles for use in tie
hospital
IN many of the exchanges received
by the Free Press com, laint is made
that in a number OF orchards the small
black worm which was 50 prevalent
last year is already at work, some trees
being stripped of their foliage. SIP ay-
ing with paris green or london purple
is said to be effective in destroying the
pests.
BAD AXE people have struck upon
new scheme for socials. 1t is known
as tn, "extortion social" The way it
works is this A c)mmittee of six is
app in ed to assess fines. and none but
they are informed Of the rules until
sc me infrac 10 has cost him or her
cents. There are fires com ;ng late,
awkwardness at the table, for married
men talking to other mems wives, and
in fact, for nearly everyth ng. If a
person thinks fine unjust he appeals
10 .ury, but the jurymen cost cents
each.
THE jury at Hastings trying Asa
Tefft for the murde' OF his uncle Le-
roy Rogers, returned a verdict of muir
der in the second degree. Rogers lived
alone on farm, ard Tefft was his
guest in the early part Of last January.
The dav before the murder Tefft made
a pref ense OF going home, returning
pr, baby in the early evening. Tefft
then shot tie old man and mutilate |
him with an AK. 1t Is not believed
there was any quarre'. Rogers was
supposed to have money, and the mur-
der was undoubtedly for the purpose
of robbery.
Mr.. FROST, of Rerville, has q COW,
and that COW created quite sensation
the other day. 1t was tied t. long
rope, so that it could Craze in the vii
lage streets. The inc was so long that
it crossed the sidewalk. While the
milk-producer was chewing her cud
along came a young lady. and noticing
the rope, attempted TO step over it. 1t
was fruitless attempt, for ust tn n
the COW sprang to one side, the rope
Strengthened up, and the young lady
went up. When he came down the
PEOPLE thought there had been NINA.
ture earthquake.
MARSHAL ED. O'DoNNELL, who ar.
rested the alleged moonsSiners in Lake
County, says he drank some of the
product of the stills. 1T Is about the
viloat ct,tH aror manufactured lee