The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-03-29
Record of the Week.

Infdelity is not popular at Benton
Harbor. Bob Ingersoll spoke to row after
row of empty chairs.
Loren Anderson, in the Ithaca Jail, at
tempted suicide, because the Sheriff's
grub" didn't suit him.
Hillsdale figured on getting a munich
pal electric light plant for $4,000, but
before the plant was finished it had cost
$4,000.
A new wrinkle has been introduced in
the high school at Greenville. 1t consists
of lifteen minute lectures twice each week
by we'll known citizens of the town.
Muskegon County market gardeners
are going into celery culture quite extern
sively this season. The prospective
planting is not less than 100000 plants.
Archie Barnhart, of Otterburn, heated
ramrod to redness, then pushed it down
the barrel of his gun to burn out some
paper. The resulting explosion lacerated
his right hand frightfully.
The contract for building an iron bridge
over the Escanaba River, three miles
west of Gladstone, has been let to the
Gillett-Herzog Manufacturing Company,
of Minneapolis, for 5000.
A Benton Harbor preacher last Sunday
propounded n serious question: Can
business man be religious" The Berrien
Springs Era answers: Certainly, if he
advertises and pays the printer"
Two freight trains INDUCED in n rear
end collision at Crooked Lake. The cab
in car Of the standing train was smashed
10 pieces, while the engine of the rear
train lies a complete wreck in a gully.
Grace Howe, n pretty 1S-year-old girl,
startled her fellow-prisoners in Jackson
Jail by well-developed attack of delir-
ium tremens. Although mere child, she
has spent large part of her life in jail
Irving Palmer, Montcalm boy, while
hunting in the woods in Antrim County,
found the skeletons of two buck deers
with horns locked, in which position they
undoubtedly starved to death. Their
antlers were so badly interviewer that il
would be impossible for two men to sep
nrate them.
George w. King manager of the Michi-
gan Drug Company, at Muskegon, has
commenced suit for $4,000 by capias
against NJ. Jensen, owner of the building
occupied by the drug company, who re-
Gently had King arrested on a charge Of
arson. King, it will be remembered, was
discharged
Albert Pack has arranged to purchase
the plant of the Huron Lumber Company,
in Alpena, together with several million
feet Of logs in the river. Mr.. Pack will
operate the mill with the 100000 to
100000 feet of white pine which, with
several other men, he recently acquired
in the Georgian Bay district.
. Joseph T.. Kirby, man of 30 years,
was convicted at Ann Arbor OF assault
upon his 0-year-old step-daughter. He
got sixty-five days in the Detroit House
of Correction. 1t was proved that the
little child was brutally bentcn with
stick until her back was raw. He said
that "the next time he would kill the
brat"
Several smart Plainfield youngsters or
ganized n band of brigands. They held
meetings in the basement of church,
elected president treasurer and other
officers, stole $40, sent for revolvers, and
Matched n conspiracy to hold up one of
the citizens of their village. But alas,
their plans "gang-agley." They were
found out before their weapons arrived
and now good hickory sprouts are at n
premium at Plainfeld.
Doc Bclmerc has been arrested at ST.
Joseph on n charge of bigamy. 1t Is
said he left wife in Tuscola County in
1891 and went to Battle Creek, where he
married again.
Mrs. +. NJ. Edwards and her mother,
Mrs. T.. +. Reading, were seriously
burned by an explosion of gasoline at
Detroit. Mrs. Edwards 2-year-old son
was probably fatally injured.
Grand Rapids Bar Association gave a
banquet in honor of Judge III. III. Lurton's
first visit 20 that city to hold n session
OF the United States Court. About forty
of the leading attorneys attended.