The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-03-31
INTERESTING FACTS.
Hts of Information from Many Lo-
calfties I'm MICHIGAN.


calities I'm Michigan.
Family troubles caused Mrs. John +.
Otto,a young married woman, of Grand
Rapids, to take dose of carbolic acid,
and death resulted.
Wood choppers near Flint discovered
the dead body of man leaning up
against a tree. 1t is supposed to be the
remains of August Boss.
Hartford citizens have organized an
improvement association, the principal
object of which is to secure the location
there of desirable manufacturing insti-
tutions.
The cheese factory at Alillington has
been purchased by stock company or
gained by the business men and farm
ers of the vicinity, who will operate it
hereafter.
At the conclusion of his examination
Chester w. Comstock, manager of the
broken bank at Big Rapids, was held for
trial on the charge of violating the state
banking laws.
A Chicago manufacturer Of canning
machinery is making preparations for
starting n canning factory at Niles. He
expects to have the factory running full
blast next fall.
Mrs. III. II. Sherman, who had lived on
her farm in Ross township kalamazoo
county, for over 60 years, died recently.
aged 90 years. Her second husband,
aged 81, survives her.
Michael Morris, a convict sentenced
to life Imprisonment for murder from
Huron county, died at the Jackson
prison a few days ago. He was 36 years
old and had been in prison since 1856.
1t is reported that large amount Of
counterfeit silver coin is in circulation
at Wayland, Allegan county, and the
local officers are inclined to think the
bogus money is of home production.
The name of Pine Plains township, in
Allegan county, will be changed To
Valley, bill to that effect having been
passed by the legislature ut the request
Of the residents of the township.
Correspondents of the Detroit Free
Press state that throughout the middle
and southern part of Michigan the
roads are in such condition as TO make
them practically useless. Nothing but
mud.
The Lima, Northern & Detroit rail-
road will strike Tecumseh, the commit
tee representing the road having ac-
cepted the bonus of $4,000, and agreed
to have trains running into Tecumseh
before the first of September.
Orman Sullenbarger, aged six years,
was kicked in the head by a horse
which he was driving TO pasture on his
grandfather's farm in Orange town.
ship, Ionia county. Congestion of the
brain set in, and death resulted.
Three years ago several Berrien coun-
ty farmers near Baroda engaged in liti-
CATION over a drain. The case has been
in the courts ever since at an expense of
over $1,000 to the contestants, and il is
now likely that it will be taken to the
supreme court.
A recent census of the school popula-
ton of Calumet shows that out of 2,725
school children, but POI are Americans.
The nationalitIes which are represented
in the other twelve-thirteenths of the
total are English, Finnish, German,
Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, Scotch,
Austrian, Irish, Polish and French.
Some of the largest growers in the
lake shore fruit belt assert that in many
places the freezing of the peach buds
during the cold weather was positive
benefit to orchards, as the number of
buds killed was about the proportion
which would have to be thinncd out by
hand when half grown in order that the
remainder might mature.