The true northerner., 1897-07-28
WHOLE NUMBER 22iO.

Will doodulI duu
The hearing was adjourned.
Some sneak broke into Ben. Osborn's
house last Sunday evening while Ben.
and his wife were at church. Entrance
was effected by tearing out the netting
over the bedroom window and raising
the sash The room was ransacked,
dresser drawers broken open and other
depredations committed, but nothing
was carried away Ben. says it was
good joke on the burglar, who evident
ly mistook him for a millionaire, but
he isn't.
Robert Chapman, Paw Paw boy,
who is now business manager OF daily
paper published IN Daytonia, Florida,
met with an accident the other day,
from which he narrowly escaped with
his life He had returned from his
boarding place 70 the newspaper Office,
after supper, and lighted a kerosene
lamp which by mistake had been filled
with gasoline. The lamp exploded.
The building was nearly consumed by
the flames, and Mr.. Chapman was quite
severely burned
On Thursday last, James Waber of
Pine Grove was tried before Justice
Rowland on charge of assault. The
complaining witness, Brit p. Odell, was
the owner OF dog that was suspected
OF having an undue appetite for NUT
ton. Waber came to Odell's premises
and shot the dog. Odell claimed that
he pointed a revolver at him and
threatened to serve him the same way
he did the dog. This Waber denied
The testimony being contradictory, the
jury gave the accused the benefit of
the doubt and acquitted him. n. B.
The dog is dead.
An exchange says: "Under a new
law the judges of probate of Michigan
can issue marriage licenses and also
tie the knot as strong as any full
fledged minister of the gospel" That
Is true, but only in limited sense. 1t
is only under certain peculiar circum-
stances when it may be necessary, for
the protection of the good name of the
woman and the reputation of her family,
that the probate judge has authority, as
above stated, and all such proceedings
are TO be kept absolutely secret and
severe penalty is provided for giving
them publicity.
Mr.. A. C.. Glidden informs us that the
members of the several farmers clubs
of this vicinity and their invited friends
will 90 on an excursion to South Haven
on Wednesday, Aug. IL, on the regular
morning train, at a fare of 20 cents for
the round trip from the following sta
tions: Lawton, Paw Paw, Lake Cora
and Lawrence. The president or Sec
retary, or both of these officers of each
club, are requested to meet commit
tee from the Antwerp and Paw Paw
int, tl,a tko,
office on Saturday of the present week,
at p. m, to decide upon the program.
Paw Paw grange will hold its next
session Aug. 6, at the residence of Hon.
j j. Woodman. 1t will be an open
session for members and invited friends
of the order. The program will be un-
der the direction of the committee on
woman's work. 1t will consist of
specialties, musical and literary exer-
cises. Light refreshments will be
served. Each person will be asked to
give quotation, and ten persons will
be asked the question, What ought
to do for the grange" to be answered
in not more than ten words. The ten
persons will be selected from those
present.
An interesting adjunct of the Logan
demonstration was the exhibition for
the first time on the walls of the First
Regiment armory of life size oil paint
ing of the late Colonel Knox. The paint
ing was formally approved at the studio
of the artist, F. l.. Van Ness, No. 1921,
Masonic Temple, by the committee Of
three appointed TO pass upon it. The
artist, born in Paw Paw, Mich, thirty
five years ago, and for some time sue
cessful correspondent and illustrator,
for the past six years has devoted his
entire time to oils, and his latest work +,
soldly framed as BELTS soldiers SOU
venlr, merits the high praise bestowed
by all who have so far beheld the pic
ture.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
"An eclipse of the sun, the last one
for this year, is scheduled TO occur
July 30. 1t is an annual eclipse and
will be visible in the United States. 1t
begins at $50 in the morning and ends
at 1000 in the evening. Local Exch
An annual" eclipse must be one that
occurs annually (y) and an eclipse that
begins in the morning and lasts all day
| and until hours after sunset is certainly
a new astronomical phenomenon. There
will be solar eclipse tomorrow begi-
ming at 7:30 in the morning, standard
time, and lasting little over two hours.
In this part of the world it will be neither
annual" nor annular-only partial.
When at its maximum, five digits-tive-
twelfths of the suns surface-will be OBJ
scured. Get your smoked glasses ready
to observe it.
The gentlemen who constitute the
Bangor common council are entitled to
the champion belt for having evolved
from their inner consciousness the big
gest fool bicycle regulation yet devised.
Ordinance % of that enterprising burg
requires every cyclist, regardless of age,
sex or previous condition of servitude,
at all hours, day or night, weekday or
Sunday, rain or shine, hit or miss, to
ring his or her bell at every street cross
ing. The ordinance does not specify
what kind of bell shall be rung and,
presumably, it might be cycle bell, din
ner bell, sleigh bell, COW bell, church
bell, or even the village belle, if she
would consent. Under the provisions
of this delectable law, Editor Russell,
together with several other prominent
Bangoreans, has had to submit to the
indignity of an arrest at the hands of the
minions of the law, as represented in
| the persOns of Justice Ruthruff and