The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-02-23

Leo ValdaS, 20, or NeWaygOs lock
ed himself in his granary and blew
out his brains with shotgun.
Calumet was chosen as the place for
the Superior conference of the Angus
tana synod at it's closing session.
Mrs. N. C. Emerson, an old resident,
is dead at Standish. She was born
in 1843. Her husband and two chill
dren survive her.
H! Rogers, Saline, 80, stock buyer,
for Sheriff II. G. Underestimate, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the heart.
1t is generally anticipated at Calu-
met there will be a much earlier rush
than usual at the opening of naviga-
tion of coal laden ships.
OF dozen blind pig" cases In the
Iron county court but one was &C
quilted. The cases are disposed Of at
the rate of two each day.
The body of C. M. Graves, Jackson,
was found on the floor of his home by
peighbors./ Indication are that he had
died from coal gas asphyxiatiop.
Temporarily insane, Bert Coffin, for
ty-five years old, prosperous farmer.
committed suicide by shooting him
self in the mouth with a shotgun.
Members of the board Of educa-
ton at Battle Creek have ordered
free MONDAY luncheon for poor
children attending open air schools.
The committee in charge of the Goth
anniversary reunion of the Michigan
Colleges of Mines alumni. selected
August $40 as the dates for the re-
union.
A. Bosker, Kalamazoo, was convict
ed Of dismissing Lambert Deiterman, a
member of the state militia, because
he attended the encampment last
summer.
Della Taylor, a mflliner, and w. l..
Baker, president of the Peoples say.
ings bank, were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed a block of bust
ness buildings at Midland.
Charles Fuller. we'll known citizen
county agent of corrections and char
tiles, dropped dead in front of the
courthouse at Bad Axe at l O'Clock
in the morning.
There are rumors to the effect
that Oneco, Ojibway Seneca, Gratoit
Cliff, Tremont-Devon and many Others
Of the old copper prospects will re
sumo development work.
Eight trade union men of AlbioI
representing every trade union in the
city have voted to boycott all person!
in the city using other than organized
labor in building operations.
What is said to be the largest rea
estate deal ever closed in Oakland
county went through when Detroi
reality men purchased the C. l.. Rock
we'll farm of 2SO acres for $4,000.
Albert McCaskey's 3-year-old son
living south Of Morenci, was fatal.
burned and the other members of tn,
family narrowly escaped death wher
their farm home was destroyed b.
fire.
With a few potatoes saved from tn,
summer all that was standing be
tween them and starvation, Charles
Peterson and his family of eight mem
bers were discovered by authorities
in Laird township.
A. Johnson, Of Norway, on his wa!
home form Iron Mountain, tried tC
board a North Western freight trair
at Quinnesec, but lost control Of his
hold and was thrown under the
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Funerals of three pioneers OF Eaton
Rapids took place within three days
Jacob Bahney, ninety-eight; William
A. Hall, eighty-four, and Stanley A
Freeman, seventy-one, had all resided
in Eaton Rapids more than fifty years
II. Wigginton, Sault Ste Marie. who
pleaded guilty to murder in the second
degree in the shooting of Edna Ben
nett and John Plaunt, was sentenced
to from fifteen to thirty years in Jack
son prison by Circuit Judge Louis H
Fead
The court has dismissed the charge
against Ira B. Gage, one of the Of
ficers of the City bank, of Dowagiac,
Tic ClOSlHS Ol WHICH, CduSeu Hud,Il-
cial crisis in southwestern Michigan
eight years old. The action followed
ruling of the supreme court.
At recent basketball game
held at Baldwin two school boys
were so intoxicated that one had to
be dismissed from the hall AS re-
suit, Louis Berticci, local Italian, was
bound over to circuit court on a
charge of furnishing liquor to minors.
Marian McNeal, teacher in one of the
districts about Crystal Falls, was at
tackled while passing along, a lonely
road from her school to her boarding
place. The assailant came upon her
from behind and struck her q blow
on the head with club that rendered
her unconscious.
That he had posed in the nude
with Byron Wagner, eighteen years
old, on "the spur Of the moment" and
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