The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-16

apoplexy at his home
David Foster, eighty years OF age,
of Ypsilanti, was instantly killed by
a Michigan Central freight train.
H. L. Haag, Rockford, was elected
president of the Students Christian
association. for the next academic
year.
M. F. Richmond, who was a resi-
dent of st. Johns about sixty-five
years, was found dead at his work
bench.
The condition OF wheat Is 81 as
compared to 81 year ago, whis rye
is four per cent poorer in outlook
and oats the same.
Sheriff Hartway, of Macomb county
has recovered the body of Harry
Ross in Lake st. Clair. He had been
missing for week.
Because of illness, c. Spencer,
at the Hotel Henschel, claiming resi-
dence at Grand Rapids, shot and kill.
ed himself in his room.
Stevenson MacGordon, aviator, was
fatally burned in an explosion on his
, aeroplane at Newport News, Va. He
was buried in Menominee.
William Hawley, of Escanaba, Mich,
was drowned when knocked out OF a
rowboat. Two skiffs colided in mid
stream Of White Fish river.
Mrs. Anna Peoples, sixty years old,
a Kalamazoo pioneer, was fatally
injured when struck by a Michigan
Central passenger train at crossing.
While the younger brother went
to their home at Escanaba for a fish
hook, George Gustafson, aged ten,
drowned in the slough at Kipling
Doctors will examine Mrs. Eva
Steenard, Kalamazoo woman, for her
sanity before placing her on trial this
week for the murder of a newborn
babe.
The Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph
Press is now being sold for one
cent. This gives to Kalamazoo the
first penny newspaper the city has
ever had.
Captain Johh Oles, keeper Of Thun-
der Bay island coast guard station has
been transferred to Hammond Bay
station, succeeding Captain Joseph
Valentine, retired.
A Jury in the Kalamazoo cir
cult court returned a verdict of not
guilty in the case Of Harry Irvine, for
mer clerk of the Municipal court
charged with enlightenment.
Ross Granger, Ia years city clerk
Of Ann Arbor, and a resident of the
city during the past fifty-seven years,
will resign and leave July to take
up his residence in California.
Petitions were filed at Jackson urg-
ing an ordinance to require closing of
all pool rooms and motion picture
houses on Sunday and also to prohibit
the playing of ball games on the Sab
bath.
]. Schmidt 60, Bay City machinist,
instantly killed his wife at his home
then turned the gun on himself and
died Immediately. A daughter, Flo
renee, nineteen years old, saw the ira
gedy
Kirk f. Wicks, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, referee in bankruptcy for the
United States district court for the
past ten years, resigned, and Attorney
Ben Corwin was appointed referee by
Judge Sessions.
Orville Brown of Watson, ILL.,, en-
ployed at Belleville on a county
drain, was arrested on a serious
charge preferred by a fifteen-year-old
girl who was employed as a domestic
at Browns rooming house.
A weeks outing OF enjoyment for
the senior class Of the Shelby high
school was changed into a tragedy by
the drowning in Lake Michigan OF
two members Of the class, Walter
Churchill and Dewey Debolt.
J. H. Whitney, formerly a res
ident of Merrill, died in st. Louis of
heart trouble. He represented his dis
trict in the house Of representatives
in 1S95-96 and served in the state SEN
ate two terms, 1906 and 1908.
At the meeting Of the Monroe COM
mission the Detroit Trust company
was awarded the $4,000 bridge bond
issue by the city. The company bid
on a 1-2 per cent bond at par, plus
accrued interest and premium OF $50.
There were five bidders.
Four were hurt when an automobile
In which they were riding turned tur.
tie in the ditch east Of Saginaw. The
injured are: Ida Green. leg and arm
broken Nellie Green, skull fractured,
Frank Pohlman. leg and arm broken;
John Roesler, head crushed
Miss Jessie b. Rittenhouse, Che
boygan's gifted poet, and secretary
OF the Poetry Association Of America,
took first prize in a national poetry
contest with sonnet entitled,
Debts" It scored six points ahead
OF all others in 900 submitted
The wife of James Hastings, an
insurance man at Port Huron,
was preparing breakfast when she
heard him fall in an adjoining room.