The true northerner., 1896-03-18
WHOLE NUMBER 2t39.

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and hard times fully as bad as at home,
though have not left a town without
doing little business. There Is no
doubt of the success of the binder and
buckle | hear fiattering re-
ports from Minnesota, plenty of rain
and good crops, and / am making my
way there as fast as / can"
A dispatch in the Sundays Chicago
papers from Mitchell, s. OAK, said
"W. III. Knowles, merchant of this
city, was found in his room this morn
ing in dying condition, having shot
himself twice in the head with revol-
YER. He had been i'll for several weeks
and harbored the idea that he was
losing his mind. The room and victim
presented horrible sight, he having
crawled out of bed onto the floor and
CROPPED around until exhausted. Pools
of blood were found i'm all parts of the
room. A note was found which stated
that he felt certain that his mind was
failing and that he preferred death to
insanity" Mr.. Knowles was formerly
resident of this county and is well re-
membered by many Paw Paw people.
A personal letter to Paw Paw friend
from Frank l.. Van Ness of Chicago,
says: 81 have just completed very
successful oil portrait of the late Eugene
Field, the poet. 1t was placed on exhi-
bition in Pitkin IL Brooks retail store
on State street, in the large window,
which was specially draped with black
velvet and the finest of cut glass ware
with flowers of his choice Great crowds
have stoed around the window. Mrs
Field has passed on the portrait and
said it was the finest likeness and truer
To character than any of the number of
portraits painted of him by different
artists feel highly flattered by my
success in this particular portrait, as
several artists of high reputation have
failed. / knew Mr.. Field personally,
which gave me better advantage. per-
haps. / am getting all ! can do in this
work"
At the adjourned meeting of the Paw
Paw Republican Club, held Monday
evening at the court house, the com
mittee on organization made report,
which was adopted The officers of the
club are: President, G.. w. Young; vice
president, B. +. Warner; secretary, j.
Chandler; treasurer, Gilbert Mitchell.
These officers are also the executive
committee of the club. A large number
of names were subscribed to the roll of
membership. + A. Wildey, w. X. Sir
rine, Jason Woodman and g. Z. Rawson
were appointed committee to secure
members. 1t is desired to have the
name of every man who believes In the
principles of the republican party, upon
the roll of this club, and any such who ,
have not already identified themselves
with the club, are requested to give
their names to some member of this
committee. Hon. James O'Donnell of
jackson will address the club next
Monday evening.
The NoRTHERNER is indebted to Mr.
A. II. Draper of Lawrence for copy of
the american Tribune, soldiers paper,
containing resolutions passed at reg
ular meeting of Colony Post No. IA, G.
A. r., at Fitzgerald, Georgia, better
known as the "soldiers colony" The
resolutions declare that the articles so
generally published, and copied in the
NORTHERNER, are "a false and mali
cious slander upon the colony and its
members" Also, THAT we have now
on the colony lands nearly eight thou
sand souls; that none are suffering from
hunger or want, and the death rate is
very low; that the climate is exception
ally fine, the soil as good as any that
Georgia can produce, the water pure,
healthy and plenty; that the colony
members are generally satisfied and
contented with the location and pros
poets" The NoRTHERNER is pleased
to publish the settlers version Of the
matter, and we are glad the veterans
are happy and contented.
Prof +. ID. Jacobs is arranging to
hold a musical convention during the
week commencing March 30, to close
with a concert Saturday evening, April
A. The place of holding the convention
has not been definitely decided. He
will charge a fee of $l25, giving to
each member of the class book and
five tickets to the closing concert. To
show in what esteem the services of
Mr.. Jacobs are held away from home,
we print the following letter from Prof.
o. +. Butterfield, the author and con-
ductor, of Belfast, n. Y; Having re-
Gently secured the services of Prof. +.
ID. Jacobs of Chicago TO conduct the
music for the Belfast, N. T., Choral
Union, | take pleasure in stating that
no conductor has ever directed n chorus
of singers in our county who won the
admiration of the people more fully
than did Prof. Jacobs, although we
have had such men as Leslie, Palmer,
Root and others Prof. Jacobs superior
tact in chorus drilling and his ability as
voice builder, render him conductor
worthy of the consideration of any mu
steal society"
Last week Thursday, Deputy Sheriff
+. +. Thomas and Guy Lamberson went
to Kalamazoo to take a man to the asy-
lum. While there, Thomas met w. II.
Dansby, for whom a warrant had been
issued for violation of the local option
law some time previously, Dansby get
ting wind of it and leaving town before
he was arrested Mr. Thomas, of course,
at once placed Dansby under arrest at
Kalamazoo Dansby wanted to tele
graph home for bail so that he would
not have to spend the night in jail after
arriving here, and he was permitted to
do So Then the officer went with
Dansby to the Arlington hotel, where
Mrs. Dansby and children had gone TO
meet him. Their team was ordered
and the family was being loaded in
preparatory to starting for Paw Paw,
when Dansby stepped inside the hotel
door to get grip. No sooner was he