The true northerner., 1899-05-17
INTERESTING GOSSIP.
from Many Localities i'm the
PeninsuIar state.

Enroch Jessup, an old pioneer of
Dowagiac, is dead.
CharlevoiX is to have a new life saving
station this summer
Preparations for mastering out the
Thirty-frst Michigan are being pushed
at Savannah.
George Holmes, an elderly Detroiter,
dropped dead from apopleNy while hur-
rying to catch a train.
The Buchanan and Bertrand town
ships Sunday school convention will be
held at Buchanan May 20 and 21.
First Lieut. Guy NJ. Rowley, Of com
pany X, Thirty-fifth Michigan, is or
ganizing an independent company at
Charlotte.
Prof Marshall, bacteriologist of the
state experimental station, has been
granted a vacation to make researches
in Denmark.
The trial of the two men who were
convicted of robbing the Richland bank
of $4,000 has cost the county of Kala-
maZoo $4,000.
Farmers around Reading anticipate
a good crop of cherries and apples.
Pears and plums will be scarce and
peaches a failure.
w. c. Sanford, of Battle Creek,
started Monday for a trip around the
world on his bicycle. He expects to be
gone three years.
Carpenters in the copper country are
naming their own wages these days.
Ruilding is so extensive that ii is
case of supply and demand.
Commodore Phillips, now in COM
mand of the Brooklyn navy yard, will
attend the international Y. NJ. c. \.
convention in Grand Rapids May 25-2s.
4 tramp found a box containing the
dismembered and partially decomposed
remains of man in a heap of refuse
at an old fertilizing works near Sag
inaw.
The Detroit college of medicine
Thursday conferred 46 degrees of doe
tors of medicine and nine of bachelor of
pharmacy upon members of its grad
uating class.
The 500" railroad is running an eX-
tension of its line to Spalding, Me
nominee county, which will form a
connection with its main line. The eN-
tension will be eight miles in length.
\ small black fly of the mosquito fam
ly is said TO seriously threaten the
great raspberry crop of Berrien county.
1t is suggested that the pest was i'm
ported with German sugar beet seed.
Among those appointed by Gov. PIN
gree to be delegates to the national
meeting of state boards of corrections
and charities are w. c. f. Wright, Oh
ivet; c. ID. Randall and Milo Campbell,
Coldwater.
The colored people of Niles and vicin-
ity have already begun making ar
rangements for a monster Emancipa-
ton day celebration here August /.
1t is proposed to make it the largest
celebration of the kind ever held in
southwestern Michigan.
The total earnings of all Michigan
roads for the first quarter of 1899, ac-
cording 10 a report issued by Com
missioner Osborn, were $7,667, ,970.S1,
against $7,O45. .s65.S2 for the correspond
ing period of 1S9S. The per cent. in in
crease is nearly nine.
The coroner's jury in the drowning
case of the 14-year-old bride of James
Marks, of Port Huron, Thursday rem
dered a verdict Of murder ~ the hands
of her 4O-year-old husband. The mar
riage had been a forced one to avoid
criminal prosecution.
Reports from different parts of Isa-
bella county are to the effect that fruit
trees are loaded with buds and bios
SONS, but that a little worm has made
its appearance and is doing great dam
age to the trees. Myriads of them settle
on the leaves, and when they finish
their work of destruction the tree looks
as if it had been through a fire.
TOILERS IN DEMAND.