The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
THE labor unions of Battle Creek are
going to erect fine hall.

facture of rubber goods.
AT GibsoLville is an altruistic COM
munity OF which any family may be-
come member by paying 800.
GRAND HAVEN is subdivided into
the Beech Tree, Piety Hill, Dutch
town, Swamp and Sawdust districts.
SToNEwALL J. DE FRANCE will be
tried March ). The attorneys have de-
cided not t. ask for charg e OF venue.
Mr.. AND MRS. LOOMS A. MILLER,
of Grand Rapids, are finally divorced.
They have been having ten years ago.
L. J. LUCAS, for twenty years large
shoe merchant of Grand Rapid, has
filed trust deed in favor of creditors.
JOHN TEARS, of Corunna, is 60 years
old, but still bankers af er profess
sion. He has just begun the study of
law.
COUNTERFEIT quarters are in circu-
latiOn in Ashley. The date of the coin
is 1876. The coin is very poor imita-
ton.
THOMAS j. PARKER. a resident Of
Allegan since 1889. is dead. He was a
49-er and one OF the captors of jeff
Davis.
OLIVE ANDERSON lost husband in
wreck at Vanderbilt in 1890. She
has just recovered $4,000 damages in
the courts.
CADILLAC has won the fight against
transient dealers. S. Yalenstein re-
fused to pay the city license. He has
been fined $50.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE A. BELDING, OF
Amsterdam, n. Y, granddaughter
OF Benedict Arnold, died at North
vile, aged II years.
MRS. ASA WELLS, of Grand Rapids,
was robbed of 81 200 in her home by
two masked men, che of whom is be-
lieved to be her husband.
AT Bay City Willie and Ed Sarisen
and James stills, aged considerably less
than 81, are in Jail charged with being
bold, bad highway robbers.
The Zion Evangelical Church, in
Bay City, which has been nearly dis
rupted by the conference war, is now
/ estoring peace with a rousing revival.
MRS. A. b. BARNUM, of Charlotte,
read ninety-fve volumes of literature
during the past year, to say nothing OF
fifty different magazines and lot OF
newspapers.
The house on Charles Stanleys farm,
near Ypsilanti, burned to the ground,
and three inmates barely escaped with
their lives. the roof falling in minute
after they left.
Mrs. ANNA MCINTOSH, of Coleman,
deliberately walked upon the track in
front of passing locomotive the ether
day and was killed by being ground un-
der the wheels.
THE Grand Rapids Guards have
been holding Midway Plaisance, and
Old Vienna was so realistic that real
lager was sold. The government off GERS
swooped down on them.
WITH niece of gas pipe as ladder,
Convict Billy Howard escaped from the
penitentiary at Jackson. He was serv-
Ing sentence for burglary, and had
been in prison six years.
KALAMAZOO people have inspected
Up silantis public electric light plant,
and found that Ypsi is getting lights
for $3+.67 year, less than one-third
what Kalamazoo has to Pay.
ATHENS is raj, ing bonus Ct $3.50 to
start Touring mill that has lain idle
for score of years. II. j. Weeks, of
Battle Creek, will run the concern
when the cash is forthcoming
Roam Coz, of Climax. while stand
ing on a side track at Battle Creek
Sunday night, wa struck by switch
engine and seriously injured. He was
taken TO his home in Climax.
THE Dickinson County Relief Com
mittee has made another call upon the
General Relief Committee of Detroit
fer assistance in keeping its people of
the Upper Peninsula from starving.
THE agricultural implement plant of
f.. Bement & S ms, at Lansing, was
damaged by fire TO the extent of $1,000.
The loss IS fully covered and large
number of companies are interested.
Mrs. HARRIET MORRISON, wealthy
and aged Jackson widow, paid $4,000
for So pounds of copper and zinc alloy.
be ieving it to be gold. The old lady
is greatly grieved over the swindle.
A RESOLUTION has been introduced
in the Pay City Board of Education to
reduce the salary of the Superinten-
dent of Schools 20 per cent. and the
high school teachers from L. to 20 per
cent.
HENRY NIXON, Penn nimrod, re.
Gently shot the largest bald eagle
killed in southwestern Michigan in q
number of years. The bird measured
nearly twelve feet from tip TO tip of its
wirgs.
THE family of Nelson Burlingame, OF
Flint, were ar used from their slumbers
by the barking of their dog, and found
their house in flames. They had
barely time to get out before the roof
fell in.
MT. CLEMENS rejoice over the COM
pletion of its beautiful boulevard TO
Lake st. Clair. IL cost the city only
S400, but it is expected that 1t will be
worth 100000 to Mt. Clemens in the
course of time.
The pupils Of the Athens High
School will engage in theatrical bust
ness to create fund for equipping the
school with apparatus. Their first
venture will be the drama, The Yam
kee Schoolmaster.
Mrs. ROBERT w. SMITH, whose hus.
band, prominent Kalamazoo business
man, in November, 1892, left home on
business trip through the Northwest
and never returned, has become a raw