The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-03-15
Adolph A. Meyersahm, Grand Rapids
hanged himself


John Edwards, of Montmorency Coun-
~, has caught five wolves this winter
The deep snow was too much for them.
Mrs Andrew Cunning, of Bay City,
has filed complaint in the probate court
TO the effect that her husband is a spend
thrift.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Bennett, of Man
istcc, have been fined heavily for cruelty
beating their adopted daughter, aged. ii
years.
ignatius Pelot, of Mackinac Island,
has never seen railroad track or locomo-
tive though he has seen the smoke watt
ed across the straits. He is SO years old.
Samuel A. Browne, ST., of Kalamazoo,
well-known horse owner and breeder,
died nj Los Angeles. He had been suffer
ing for several months with lung trouble.
A Chesaning young man, who has twice
escaped from Pontiac asylum, for some
time evaded capture by digging cave
and keeping everybody away with a shot
gun.
The Montmorency County court house
ut Atlanta is about completed and the
next term of the Circuit Court will be held
in it. The building is a credit to the
county.
Reynolds & Zcrby, of Berricn Springs,
will start line of boats on the ST. IO-
seph river ut the opening of navigation,
and are fixing up n summer resort at Ber-
rien Springs.
An Indian River fisherman brought up
through the ice an 1S-pound piclerel,
which, on being opened, gave up an UNI
digested leaf of Il Methodist hymnal and
three hairpins.
''Wherc did YOU get that hat?' will soon
be very pertinent question in Jackson
and vicinity. Some wicked person broke
into n freight car and swiped whole
outfit of felt hats.
VIM. J. Campbell. of Grand Rapids, and
Mary Royd. of Duluth, were married ut
Grand Rapids, and neither said word
to the other before, during or after the
ceremony They were stone deaf.
The two-story dwelling of Hawkins
Moore, of Falcon. Sanjlac County, was
destroyed by fire. The deed is supposed
to have been the work of an incendiary.
The loss is 81 800, with $500 insurance.
Mrs. Lucretia Hammond, of Ypsilanti,
mother OF Mrs. Jennie Kline, n member
of the school board of that city, died,
aged 50 years. She had lived in Michigan
since 1914, when she settled in Hillsdale
County.
DIR. James G.. Jackson, of Muskegon,
eX-county physician. became insane and
was taken to Il private hospital in Indiana.
His arrangement is due to the use of
cocaine, to which he became addicted
during severe sickness
Over 800 prominent women Of Battle
Greek organized woman's league. It's
object is the promotion of musical, phi
lanthropic scientific, literary, educational,
artistic and social movements in which
women are interested.
A marble saving mill, TO be first class
in all respects will be erected at Foster
City, Dickinson County, by the Northern
Michigan Marble Company, which owns
quarrics in that section. Operations will
be carried OH on an extensive scale.
An officer went into small. tumble
down house at 400 James street, Bay
City, found the inmate, a Mrs. Hine, suf.
fering from a paralytic stroke. She had
not been attended to for two days. There
had been no food or fire in the house in
that time.
The Citizens Industrial Association of
An Sable had experiments made TO see if
the jack pines so abundant in that sec
ton could not be made of some use and
n chemist engaged by them claims that he
has process by which fine quality of
paper can be manufactured from the pine.
Up in the 0nionagoi, river. near Even,
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day 1t is n log bank which fills the river
for two miles. and rises thirty feet above
the banks of the river The amount in
the bank is estimated at 30,000,000 feet
and this. it is expected, will be nearly
doubled before the season is ended This
is perhaps the largest amount of logs ever
banked in Il single banking ground.
The Peoples Church of Kalamazoo was
packed at the meeting when the question
of taxing church property was brought
up. Mrs. j.. III. Stone announced that she
could afford TO pay her proportion of the
church tax, on the ground that it was n
benefit to do so. and other speakers advo-
Gated the taxation of church prOpCity
not to spite the Catholics or my other
organization, but strictly on the ground
of justice. When tho question, shall
church property be taxed?" was pat, it
was carried by unanimous vote.
Some Flint attorneys were trying an
| exciting case before Justice Swayze, when
one of the legal gentlemen made use of
the word layman" while addressing the
court His honor did not catch the word
just right, and his temper at once rose
higher than his dignity and he gave the
attorney to understand in emphatic terms
that he would not be called highway
man" without rescnting it. There was
some very plain talk on the part Of his
honor, an apology on the part of the at
torney, and a good laugh among the spec.
tators over the queer Misunderstanding.
At the annual meeting Of the Grand
Rapids and Indiana Railway Company
the following directors were elected: w.
o. Hugart, w. II. Shelby, !. III. T. HUI
CART. III. J. HOLSTER, j. NJ. Barnett, T. j.
O'Brien, of Grand Rapids: James Me-
Crca, ]. r. Brooks, John T.. Davidson,
Charles +. Speer, Benjamin Thaw, of
Pittsburg, and w. ii. Barnes and j. y.
Hutchinson. of Philadelphia. The gross
| earnings yere 50 1cl O5e n doorooso 60