The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-01-25


Burt Cameron and Richard Van Dill
Ion, of Grand Rapids, quarrcled during
n snowfall fight. Cameron stabbed Van
Dillon, inficting fatal injuries.
A body, supposed to he that of Gottlicb
Wagh, of Warsaw, Ind, was found in
an abandoned house near Cheboygan. He
was probably suffocated by coal gas.
1t is said that great distress exists
among the poorer people in Muskegon and
Ottawa Counties, and many are suffering
for want of proper food and clothing.
In his annual report State Oil Inspector
McMillen says that during 1894 10000
900 gallons of oil were inspected, and the
net revenue to the State was $4,000.
Friends of Harry Stevenson, who dis
appeared from Prescott a week ago, fear
he has been murdered. He was a lumber
jobber and his clothes have been found
Daniel Weber, a young attorney of
Benton Harbor, recently acquitted of
passing worthless checks is now accused
of forgery. His whereabouts are UNI
known.
school rescinded the rule forbidding stu
and the six suspended students will be re-
instated.
Albert w. Fairchild, formerly of Ben
ton, and for thirteen years on inmate of
the Kalamazoo insane asylum, hanged
himself with a handkerchief fastened to
u window screen.
Twins were recently born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Newell Case, of Battle Greek. One
was born ut 11:55 o'clock Monday night,
Dec. 81, 1894, and the other at 12:05
o'clock Tuesday morning, Jan. 1, 1895.
The law faculty of the University of
Michigan expelled one student for max
ing unseemly noises and suspended two
others. The dean has given notice that
more will follow such outbursts in the
future.
A young man Of Addison, while work
ing in the yard of his home the other day,
picked up gold ring. When the rest of
the family saw it, they identified il as one
which another member of the family had
lost fifteen years ago.
At Manistee Thorvald Peterson, book
keeper for the Manistee and Grand Rap
ids Railroad. was arraigned on four
charges of forging orders for money on
the Manistee and Grand Rapids Railroad
Company. He pleaded guilty, and was
held for trial.
Several weeks ago the charitable Battle
Greek ladies sent boxes of clothing and
$50 in money to the suffering poor in Ne
braska. The Michigan Central carried
the goods free, but Nebraska railroads
charged freight. The same thing is true
of many other contributions from Michi-
gan, and the freight in some cases was
n heavy burden for the sufferers. Rev.
George b. Culp, of Battle Greek, raised n
rumpus in a letter to the Nebraska Gov
ernor, aDd the railroads have refunded
the freight charges.
The annual meeting of the Millers'
State Association, the leading State as
ISOLATION of its kind in the United States,
was held in Lansing. The weekly re-
ports show that the association has during
the year shipped 536,662 barrels of flour
and 17,SSS tons of feed to points outside
the State. This exceeds the amount re-
ported for 1893 by 1, 4S3 barrels of flour
and 5,47S tons of feed. The average
prices received for the year were $2.67
for straight flour, $500 for patent, $14.36
for bran, $15.SS for middlings, and 81
cents for wheat. This is about 60 cents
less for -four than 1893, with the price of
feed few cents better than for that year.
The annual meeting of the West Mchi-
gan Agricultural and Industrial Associa-
ton was held at Grand Rapids. The
treasurer's report showed the receipts of
the last fair to have been $11,673, and
S263 remains on hand after paying all ac-
counts, except $1,700 in debts brought
forward from the previous year. Presi-
dent Hart said the time had passed for
purely agricultural fairs, and that to be
success in the future the annual exhibit
ton must be an exposition open for at
least two weeks. These directors were
elected: 5. $. Bailey, East Paris; T.. b.
Dikeman. Grand Rapids; John Lessiter.
Caledonia; l.. b. Townsend, Ionia: and
Charles w. Johnson, Greenville. At the
meetingof the new board of directors later
the election of officers was deferred until
March /, when a committee will report
the result Of n conference with the man
ayers of the State Fair relative to a pro-
posed consolidation of interests in a fair
to be given this year.
January shows that the number of bush
els Of wheat reported marketed in Deem
Der was !, 494, 1876, and for five months
August to December-6,2 35, 1913 bushels,
or ! ,663, 932 bushels less than in the same
months last year. The average condition
! of livestock is reported thus: Horses, Oh
sheep and cattle, %; and swine, 81 per
cent. The average price Of wheat Jan. 1
was 30 cents; corn, 46 cents; oats, 80
cents per bushel, and hay $7.95 per ton.
The average price of fat cattle was $294,
OF fat hogs $3.96, and of dressed pork
$4.97 per cwt. The average price of
horses, 3 years old and over were SCOTT
mich cows, $27.91 per head; sheep, 1
year old and over, 81 "a; hogs, / year old
and over. $50. There has been de-
cline in all farm products named in the
report, except corn and oats. Corn is 3
cents and oats 1 cent per bushel higher
than one year ago. The loss on wheat is
cents per bushel; fat cattle, 16 cents; fat
hogs, 73 cents and dressed pork, 81. 10 per
cwt. Horses, years and over, have de-
clined SO; mich cows, S1.S2; sheep, l
year and over 30 cents; and hogs, year