The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-11-25
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County and State.


in the interest of the free silver demo
Gratis Breeze.
Rev. f. G.. Palmer formerly Van
Buren, County Congregational pastor,
is one of the nine candidates for the
postoilice at Rochester. Mich.
Postmaster hester rejected the en-
tire edition of the Munising Republi.
can, because it contained an alleged
lottery advertisement by IA local mer-
chant.
Frank p. Masseney, engineer at the
electric light works in Kalamazoo, shot
and killed himself. He had been sick,
but no other cause is known for the
suicide.
X. |. Jarvis, late pOpocrat candidate
for congress, has engaged in new
avOcation, that of organizing secret
societies. He is giving his attention to
the new fraternal insurance society
called the "Order of Patricians" with
headquarters at Benton Harbor.
While in most towns the petitions be-
ing circulated are for the appointment
of postmaster by President Mckinley,
in Bloomingdale a free silver man is
securing signatures indorsing him for
the appointment under silver presi-
dent in 1900-should one be elected
Detroit Free Press.
A large number of counterfeit five
dollar notes of the series of 1869 are in
circulation throughout northern Indi-
ana. 1t is believed the spurious money
has been sent into that state from near
Decatur, Michigan, where large guam.
tity of of counterfeit money is believed
to have been put in circulation .-Tete-
0raph
Edwin Rugges of Three Rivers heard
a peculiar noise in the basement of his
feed MILL but thought nothing of it and
when his work was done he shut the
mill and went home. His six-year-old
daughter was missing Returning TO
the mill, he found the child dead in the
basement, almost every bone broken.
She had been caught in the belt.
Work on the government piers at
South Haven has been abandoned for
the season. Seven hundred feet of new
wooden work has been completed,
which much improves the condition of
the piers To finish rebuilding and ex-
tending the piers into the lake another
300 feet, in order TO overcome the form
ing of sand bar at the mouth of the
harbor every time there is slight
blow, will require an appropriation of
nearly 100000.
Frank Aurand is in Ohio this week
having gone for set of smaller tools,
with which to complete the oil we'll
The heavy flow of water last struck
makes it necessary to put in small cas-
ing to shut it off, there being about
/ 900 feet of water now in the hole. AL
though the drill is kept going the pro-
gress is very slow, but as soon as the
smaller drills, etc, arrive, the casing
will be put in and better progress will
be made. bangor Breeze.
So far as the steamboats, are concern
ed, lake navigation is closed at South
Haven. Sunday the steamer Glenn ar
rived in port from Chicago on her last
trip, and the steamer City of Kalama.
zoo from Milwaukee, where she has
been running for the past two months.
The Kalamazoo came in under full
head of steam, and when she struck
the sand bar at the mouth of the harbor
she raised IN the air fully eight 10
twelve inches. Soundings were taken
and buoys placed along the harbor and
river to show where the deep water
was, and in this manner she reached
her dock in safety.
A large amount of apples are handled
daily at Edgar Smiths fruit evaporation,
which gives employment to about thirty
hands, and has been operated about four
months this season. II is about the only
industry of which Bangor can boast,
and it is the only one that furnishes any
length of time in the year. The fires
were lighted at the commencement OF
the raspberry season and have kept up
ever since. The product of this industry
has been shipped to France, Germany
and England, besides to various points
in America. The season is now nearly
over, as good drying apples are becom-
ing little scarce.-Bangor Breeze.
Early last week Wednesday night,
fire was discovered in the barn of MIR
Spellman, living five miles south OF
South Haven near Covert A heavy
gale was blowing and before there was
time to get anything from the building
it was solid mass of flames. The barn
was full of the seasons crop and con.
tanned several bushels of grain, together
with all the farming implements. -Four
horses and two cows were burned alive
The loss on the barn and contents is
estimated at $4,000. The cause of the
| fire is unknown, but is supposed To
have been caused by the heating of fod'
der, of which there was large quaint.
| ty in the barn at the time.
The rumor to the effect that the new
Central Michigan railroad has been
gobbled up by an English syndicate has
been confirmed by cablegram receiv.
ed by Jeremiah Boynton, one of the
chief promoters of the new road, which
stated that the 100000 of bonds
which had been sent TO London to be
floated have been disposed of at a highly
satisfactory figure to the sellers. MIR
| Boynton states that the road will now
be pushed rapidly toward completion
aud will be finished within the year
He is very enthusiastic over the deal
and will regard the road as the crown.
ing achievement of his life. Many and
various have been the gigantic enter.
prises that the indomitable Jerry has
engaged in, and his numerous friends
will rejoice with him over the new turn
of fortunes wheel The new road
starts from a point in Northern Ohio,
winds through rich farming country.