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

Michigan City, employing 500 hands. will
move TO Muskegon.
The register of Marshall tramp house
exhibits |. 100 entries during the past win
tor-a period of three months.
Eugene GROCER. prominent farmer
OF Cambridge. has died of injuries re-
ocivcd 10y being struck by n falling tree.
A West Branch lady has saved all the
dimes that came into her possession in
the past four years. and they now amount
10 500.
The cheese factory at Raisinville will
begin operations on April I. Dunbars *
Jenkins. of Samaria, being the new pro-
prietors.
Hay is sold nj Muskegon at 5000 to
S11. and good beech wood is only worth
81 - Il cord, and pine 81 for a cord and
Il half.
Chippewa County has 800 farms with
in its limits, which makes il easily the
banner agricultural county of the Upper
Peninsula.
An icc-boat ran from Mackinac Island
10 Bots Blanc light. distance of seven
miles, in three and Il half minutes one
day last week
have ordered hose and chemical cxtin-
guishers purchased for every building
OH the campus.
A piece of machinery flew Mt James ID.
Wilson, of the Montague Iron Works,
breaking several ribs and causing posi-
bly, fatal injuries
The Plymouth Fair Association is in
the field early with the announcement
of their fair for this year. The dates are
Sept II to 20, inclusive.
Two foxes got into chicken coop be-
longing to n Deerheld girl and killed four
teen hens. The girl killed the foxes, how
ever, and sold the skin of one of them for
So, so she isn't out much on the transac-
ton after all.
The Supreme Court granted writ or
error in the case of DR.. Myron L. Fo-
gelsong of Hillsdale, who was convicted
at Hillsdale several months ago of pois-
oning his wife and sentenced TO State
prison for life.
A movement is on foot at Ionia TO pur-
chase a twenty acre tract lying between
the wagon works and the electric light
works, and convert il into an amusement
park. having baseball ground, skating
rink, riding park, etc.
A farmer living near Pleasant Valley
went to Shepherd one day last week and
filled up on ''forty-rod" He was so long
going home that he froze both feet, which
are in terrible condition and probably
will have to be amputatcd.
A prominent farmer of Livonia has
chopped five acres of apple orchard into
firewood this winter. He says it doesn't
pay to cucumber the ground with apple
trees as long as the codling moth is so
actively engaged in business.
A franchise to establish an electric
| light plant is asked for from Benton
Harbor by Peter English. The power
Is to he obtained by damming the Paw
Paw River about one mile from the city.
| The dam will be 1000 feet long and give
fall of fifteen feet.
The Fifth Infantry Band, NJ. y. c.,
whose term of enlistment expires this
month, has decided not to re-enlist in the
State service. They were called into &C
ton for twenty seven days at Ironwood
last summer, and cannot afford to lose
| that much time again.
Clarence Eddy, of Chicago, will give Il
special organ recital during the May fes-
tival in Ann Arbor. This makes the
fourth concert of the series which ends
with the performance Of BerlioZ's Dam
nation of Faust by the choral union of
go voices, the Boston festival orchestra
of thirty-six pieces and the following
soloists Nine. Nordica, soprano; Rose
Stuart, soprano Gertrude May Stein
contrato; Rieger, tenor; Max Heinrich,
baritone; Clark of New York. bass. The
festival will cost $4,000, $1,000 more
than last year.
Sunday morning, between and )
o'clock, Postmaster \. McBain, of Owes
So was discovered in an abandoned mill
race near the works of the brewing con-
! pany. His face was despatched with
blood and his hair was matted. The
blood gushed from q CHASTITY wound on
the back of his head. The would-be as
sassn, believing his victim to be dead, it
is believed, dragged the body to the Sc
cluded place where it was found for the
purpose of hiding the crime until escape
could be effected. The assailant attempt
ed robbery, but he was evidently fright
eIed away. Mr.. McBain can give no ac-
count of the assault and the police are
also mystified.
Calvin Deforest, a farmer near Oakley,
shot and killed his brother George Tues
day The act was committed in self
defense, after Calvin himself had been
seriously wounded. George, who was
considered by many of unsound mind,
has been the terror of the neighborhood
for some time. He was terribly abusive
/ to all his relatives. A short time ago he
beat his aged father and mother severe
| ly, without any provocation whatever,
and his brothers and sisters felt unsafe
in his presence. His last and fatal ex-
plot was when he drove his sister, Mrs.
Alfred Beers, ont of her home. The
frightened woman called upon her broth
or Calvin for protection, when the shoot
! ing ensued.
Battle Greek police had a lively fracas
with two tramps Tuesday. The men
were offering razors, jewelry and revol-
vers for sale at suspicious prices, and as
two officers attempted to arrest them in
a barber shop each tramp pulled two re-
volvers and, getting the drop on the Off
GERS. escaped. A running fire was kept
up for about two miles into the country,
several officers and crowd of civilians