The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-05-20
WHOLE NUMBER 2148.

Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Labadie,
assisted by a fine company, will give
one of their delightful comedies In Paw
Paw in the near future.
Dan Robb admitted To Justice Shrine
that he was drunk and disOrderly on
Sunday last, and the Squire furnished
him free board and lodging at Lamber-
sons hotel for 30 days To come.
Broughton advertises summer dress
goods this week. We overheard some
ladies talking about this department
the other day, and they agreed the
stock is the most attractive ever shown
in Paw Paw
The county christian endeavor con-
vention will be held in the Disciple
church in this place. The dates will
probably be Tuesday and Wednesday,
June 80 and July1. Ralph f Jennings
will conduct the singing. Rev. j. A.
johnson of Kalamazoo will deliver an
address the first evening. The other
details ot the program have not been
arranged.
Sellick is showing excellent unlaun-
dered shirts at prices ranging from As
cents up. China mattings from 10 cents
up, rugs, curtains, shoes, ETC.. are only
a few of the bargains to be found at the
popular trade center, that are not
mentioned in this weeks adv. When it
comes 10 an all around, up-tO-date dry
goods stock, the thought of Selick's at
once pops into the purchasers mind.
Last Sundays excursion over the ).
II. & +. was much better patronized
than the one of the week before, and
ha nd Aau "
outings will grow in popularity as the
season advances. Next Sunday,
double excursion is offered-to South
Haven for % cents or St. Joseph for so
cents for the round trip from all stations.
The special train will leave Lawton at
$50, Paw Paw at $50, Lawrence at 9:25.
A dispatch TO a state daily from Ben
ton Harbor says: THE Benton Harbor
and eastern transportation company
was granted a franchise May 9TH, by
the council. to enter this city from Mar
cellus Via Decatur, Allegan, Paw Paw,
through three thousand feet of tunnel
TO the canal dockage. The tunnel is
to be built at once and a line of boats
to Chicago will be built by the company"
Paw Paw people know nothing about
what kind of hallucination the writer
of the above was laboring under, but
we are ready to be struck with any
transportation line, from any place to
anywhere.
On investigation, Deputy Game War
den Thayer became convinced that he
had some of the wrong parties under
arrest for the School Section Lake
spearing. Although he caught the
violaters of the law in the very act and
secured the spears and jacks, the party
were mostly unknown to him and he
was misnformed as to their identity.
Consequently, when the case came on
for trial before Justice Shrine last
Wednesday, the complaint was with
drawn and the matter dropped, the re-
spondents, or some of them, paying the
costs. While this raid of the warden
did not result in any convictions, 1t
will doubtless have salutary effect in
deterring parties from spearing contrary
to the law.
On the 18th day of December, 1886,
Joseph Allen and his son Charles Allen
of Grand junction got into an alterca-
ton with John Crocker of the same
place and Charles Allen drew a revolver
and fired at Crocker five times, four
of the shots taking effect, one ball
passing through Crocker's heart. The
Aliens were both arrested and tried
and both found guilty of murder in the
second degree. On the Goth day of Jan
uary, 1887, Charles Allen was sentenced
by Judge Mills to twenty-three years in
the jackson penitentiary and on May
18th following, Joseph Allen was SEN
fenced To the same place for seventeen
years. The father did not live to serve
out his time, but died in prison. The
son has just been paroled by Governor
Rich after an Imprisonment of little
more than nine years The old man had
once before been tried for assault
with intent to murder, but escaped con.
viction "by the skin of his teeth" The
offense with which he was charged was
the shooting of one Andrew Oleson
through the arm with a rifle, at Grand
Junction, on the 25th day of Nov, 1881.
He did not deny the shooting, but
claimed that it was done in self defense.
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