The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-07-12
Additional Local.


plant is now in operation.
DIR. Bills is the peculiarly appropriate
name of Cass county physician.
The woods ut Lake Park caught fire
the other day A number of trees were
burned.
j. Ii. Waters IL Co. talk TO our read
ers to-day about the new vapor stove
they are handling.
Attorney f. A. Crane and Judge A.
Nj. Stearns of Kalamazoo were in town
Wednesday on business.
Those who are to take part i'm the
cantata, will meet at the opera house
at o'clock next Tuesday afternoon for
the first rehearsal.
Walter, the 5-year old child of Mr.
and Mrs. w. j. Kemp of South Haven,
was burned to death last Sunday after
noon while playing with matches.
Buyers are pleased and benefited by
the reduction and always the lowest
prices that they notice when trading at
the Cummings dry goods store, conse-
quently their trade is good
The Paw Paw Valley Spiritual asso-
citation will hold grove meeting at
Lakeside Park, Eagle Lake, on Sunday
next. Mrs a + Sheets of Grand Ledge
will be the speaker.
A Lawton man named Conklin found
his horse dead in the pasture Tuesday
morning with bullet hole in its breast.
1t is supposed to be the work of some
enemy, the wound being too well aimed
To be accidental The horse was quite
valuable.
On the 4th of July, four tramps Civ
ing their names as Peter johnson, Gay
lord Shirley, Otto Ellsworth and Bert
Hussleman probably fictitious names)
broke into the residence of George
Chamberlain at Hartford and stole two
suits of clothes, some sixteen dollars IN
money, Il part of which was Sunday
school money, and other property.
They were unprecedented at Benton
Harbor just as they were about to take
the boat Tor Chicago, brought back To
Hartford, taken before Justice EdmOndS
on charge of larceny from dwelling
house in the day time, where they had
an examination and were held for trial
in the sum of $500 each, in default of
which they were committed To Jail to
await trial at the September term of
court. w cuHcSudJ dlJCllOOu, lhty
made an attempt 10 escape from jail
that was very nearly successful. They
tore out the masonry on one side OF the
water closet vault and then tunneled
into the ial yard, which is surrounded
by high fence, with fire shovel.
Three ot the men thus escaped from
the jail building into the jail yard; the
fourth, a large man, did not succeed in
passing through the tunnel, Two of
the men in the yard hosted the third,
light man, To the top of the fence,
and he dropped to the ground on the
outside. Sheriff LambersOn'S son Ralph
saw him and gave chase, Overtaking
him and returning him to the jail The
plucky women of the family stood
guard around the yard while Ralph no
tilted his father, who was at barber
shop. They FASTENED to the jail and
the two thieves had not yet succeeded
in scaling the high fence when they ar
rived. When the sheriff attempted To
enter the yard he found the men had
hooked the doors on the inside. Ralph
then went up an outside stairway, got
on top of the fence and dropped into
the yard. The large man then thought
he SAW chance of escape, rushed TO
the door from which he had heard the
lock removed, unhuoked it and ran
squarely against Sheriff Lamberson's
manly form. He stopped. Ralph col
Jared the other fellow aud they were
safely JAILED and locked in cells The
discovery of the attempt to escape and
the capture of the prisoners was most
fortunate. The mode of egress from
the jail proper was almost identical
with that of Nye, the clever railroad
ticket office thief who escaped last win
ter and has not been recaptured. The
tunnel through which they escaped is
being as etfectually stopped as posi-
BILE, but the next clever crook who gets
into the old shell will have no difficulty
in finding some other weak spot. The
structure is disgrace to the county,
and should long ago have been replaced
by more modern and substantial
building. We would suggest that to
insure greater safety the sheriff have
the jail repapered and barbed wire
fence stretched around the building;
such measures would be fully as wise
and eficacious as some of those adopt
ed in the past.
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