The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-06-14
BITS OF NEWS.
I'm 10 rma ton Of General Inherent
Gathered from Many Localt-
ties In the state.

The u. of NJ. commencement takes
place June Is 10 June %.
A big paper plant, TO cost 100000,
will soon be erected at Muskegon.
Harry Smith. of Douglas, aged IS,
was drowned while bathing in the Kali
amazoo river.
Warren Wright, Harbor Beach
farmer, has lost his large barns by fire.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, sl,250.
st. Louis city council has made a
contract for 1000 carloads of gravel
with which to improve the streets.
The senate committee of the whole
passed the soldiers home appropria-
ton bill at S2s5, 900, cut of $500.
The continued rains and extremely
hot weather is damaging all kinds of
crops i'm Kalamazoo county, especially
celery and beets.
Former Gov. Luce denies that he had
narrow escape from drowning at
Spring lake. He says he has not been
near the water recently.
The trustees of the Industrial school
for boys at Lansing say that $4,000
will be required to rebuild the shops
burned the other evening.
Wayne county farmers in the vicinity
of Willow are in despair over the back
ward season for grain crops. Fruit
promises abundant crops.
The body of Hugh Freal, a miner who
has been missing for three weeks, was
found Thursday in an Clubhouse at
Wenona Beach, near Bay City.
George Belgrove, brakeman on the
Manistee d. Luther railroad, was killed
by falling from cars near Manistee.
The body was terribly mangled.
Joseph b. Wyckoff, one of Kalama-
zoos oldest and most prominent citi-
zens, is dead, aged n years. He was
one of the most wealthy citizens.
Robert Tawse, Jr., aged 16, son of
Master Mechanic Tawse, of the Ann Ar
Dor railway, was drowned in the Shi-
awassee river at Owosso while bathing.
The house accepted the senate amend
ment TO the garnishee bill which eX-
empts $3.50 a week. This is an impor-
tant change in the present law, in which
the exemption is S25.
Oscar johnson and John Hill, of
Grand Marais, were drowned by the
overturning of a sailboat about poe
yards from shore in Lake Superior.
They were caught by squall.
The senate has confirmed the nom
nations of George w. Dunphy, OF
Branch county, for state veterinarian,
and of c. y. Tyler, of Ottawa county
as member of the state livestock com
mission.
The Saginaw Valley Coal company
has transferred ten leases of land in
Frankenlust township to the Valley
Coal Mining company, which is prepaT-
ing 20 sink a shaft one mile west of
Brooks station.
David Mills Nanzile, aged 81 years. ia
ther of Judge Philip T. Vanzile, of De-
trot died at Pottersville of the ills at
tendant upon old age. He was born
in New Jersey in the Holland Dutch set
tlement. He came TO Michigan in 1865.
locating at Charlotte and afterward at
pottersville.
The order issued by President Nc
f<inley removing from the civil serv-
ice about 1000 offices has probably af-
fected Sault Ste. Marie more largely
than any other city of its size in the
country. Practically every employe
connected with the big canal there was
included in the order.
Martin A. Ryerson, of Chicago, has no.
tilted Grand Rapids that he will donate
n square of land in the First ward to be
used as city park, provided it be
named Antoine Campau park, and that
suitable monument be erected TO
Campau. The square is in the midst of
n thickiy settled section.