The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-01-18

A Clio man has killed 700 sparrows
since the season opened last fall.
Mrs. $. s. Showers, of Oakley, cut hec
hand on the spur of chicken she was
dressing. She will lose the hand.
Joseph Griffin was caught in the act OF
stealing n pair of rubbers at Bay City
and the next morning went TO Jail for
month.
Mrs. O. Il. Fifeld, aged 80, wife of
Mayor Fiheld, of Benton Harbor, and Q.
III. Lineaweaver, aged 80, passed away
Sunday.
The store of Samuel Moffett, at Flint,
was burglarized and $50 in cash, besides
considerable quantity of merchan-
disc, tnken.
While attending horse which was
hitched in its stall. Hugh Johnson, living
near st. Joseph, was kicked to death. He
leaves family.
Mrs. Polly Dixon died ut her home in
Pulaski, Jackson County, aged 90 years.
She was the oldest woman in the county
with one exception.
Mrs. J. G. Runycn, Troy lady, has
quite a curiosity in the way of n flower.
1t is n white chrysanthemum, and at
present has over 800 blossoms.
Benton Harbor citizens are trying to
persuade the officials of the railways
touching that point that new union
depot is an immediate necessity.
III. Hill, of Omaha, is his name. Mark
the words. Omaha, and not Basswoods
Corners. He turned out the gas in a
Flint hotel, and was nearly dead when
found.
The newly elected officers of Huron
County cannot move their families to Bad
Axe the county seat, as there are no va
cant houses in the village to accommodate
them.
EX-Attorney General A. A. Ellis has
already settled down as an everyday law
yer at Ionia. He is associated with
Charles Locke. graduate Of the State
University.
Eddy Bros, Capt. John Shaw and
Capt. Howard Shaw, of Bay City, have
contracted for steamship to be 352 feet
keel, 372 feet over all, 441a feet beam,
and 81 feet hold, and TO cost upward of
S225,000
John Murray, Chicago and West
Michigan conductor at Muskegon, was
saved by coat button. He slipped from
the front platform of switch engine and
would have been crushed to death under
the wheels had not the button caught
and held him up until the engine was
stopped.
A Southfield hermit, who doesn't squan-
der much money for soap, has had Il
patch Of dirt on his left chop for four or
five years. It's alleged since the drouth
was broken up, that this beauty spot has
become an oasis on a sandy desert of face
and now is covered with nice grassy
sod
j. ID. Hagaman, the ex-medium Of
Adrian, offers 81 900 to any medium who
can produce manifestation he can't
duplicate. He says the whole business
is a humbug A few days after Anna
Eva Fay appeared in Adrian Hagaman
and his daughter did everything that
Eva did.
A Grand Rapids girl has a mania for
riding in the city ambulance, and the
number of times she is suddenly injured
on the streets is caution. The last
time they got a physician to examine
her. Mabel at once decided there was
nothing the matter with her, and fed
! like n whirlwind.
Arrangements are being made for a
rally of old soldiers to be held at Lans-
ing some time during the month of March.
The occasion will be one of particular
interest to survivors Of the Seventeenth,
Nineteenth and Twentieth regiments of
infantry as on the day to be selected
the colors of these regiments, which were
lost during the war, will be returned.
The flags were recovered through the eff
forts of Senator Patton, and will be for
warded for preservation in the State
museum.
There's an Oagland County man that
Is entitled to the State championship for
meanness. He is well-to-do and has stacks
of quilts and bedding. NOW, boys" he
said to several mechanics, who were un.
fortunately helping him to erect build
ing, "it's getting near bed time and rain.
ing pretty hard; you take this lantern
and you'll find the straw middling dry in
the south end of the stack bring n bun
die and Wen make shalIe-down fol
YOU" An odoriferous horse blanket was
used for a covering and the unfortunate
"bread- winners" shivered OFF q sort OF
nightmare sleep, without removing boots
or clothing after taking the precautior
TO hide their tools, put on mlttenS and Tie
their earlaps down.
The eliminating outrages in series Of
attempts on the life Of Mrs. Alice Wat
son, the housekeeper of Peter Kraus
an employe in the United States custom,
service at Detroit, was made when, OF
leaving the rear door of the Kraus home
she was seized by two unknown womer
dragged into a shed, gagged and thrown
TO the earth. Her assailants then poured
kerosene oil over all her clothing, but evi
IDENTIFY lost their nerve just before be
ginning the cremation OF their victim, 70
they fled precipitately. Mrs. Watson i
seriously injured. The assault is laid a
the door of some of KTaus' late Wife
relatives. Mrs. Watsol has been re
ceiving poisoned candy and the like 70
several weeks.
A farmer with prophetic whiskers an,
n desire TO smoke entered an Ann Arbo
saloon and purchased a cigar, which h
attempted to light at an alcohol lamp III
''muffed" the job and spilled the alcoho
i'm his whiskers, which took fire. ImmedI
ately an era of great activity set in wit