The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-04-14


known resident of Manistee for forty
years, is dead.
Pontiac will return to the central
standard time after having eastern
time for a year.
/. X. Ellison, Eaton Rapids engineer
has accepted the position of city man
ager at Grand Haven.
A $4,000 fire destroyed an en-.
tire business block at North Branch.
Election returns were burned.
Frank Wiersma was arrested by
Kalamazoo police upon a charge of
conducting blind pig in his home.
Fred Gunter. 5, son of II. A. Gunter
farmer, near Manton, was instantly
Kill ed when struck by falling tree.
Muskegon has arranged with the
Michigan Central whereby a through
sleeper will be run each night from
Detroit to Muskegon.
Richard Clancy was fatally shot in
head by Frank Marley near Mondon,
following quarrel over a wagon they
owned in partnership
Seventy-fve section hands working
at Holland on the Pere Marquette rail
road have struck for higher wages.
They ask for $1,75 a day.
e. l.. Berry, of Port Huron, man.
ager Of the local exchange OF the
Michigan State Telephone company
died at hisahom after a lingering i'll.
ness.
Richard Pooke, tried at Ypsilanti,
was acquitted in Justice Stadtmillers
court of a charge of embezzlement,
preferred by the Ypsilanti Coal COM
pany.
The splendid st. AIMS Roman
Catholic church and parsonage, in Lin
City, were destroyed by fire, involving
a loss of $4,000.
Despondent, John Johnson, aged 54,
resident of Muskegon for many years,
ended his life Several years ago while
a resident Of Ballard, Wash, Johnson
was elected mayor.
Three hours after w. f. Day, Lud.
ington farmer, learned he had been
elected justice of the peace, he was
informed his farm residence at Amber
station was burned
James w. Murphy, lumberman,
was found lying in the snow near the
Ohio mine west of Michigamme with
a long cash in his throat, thought to
be self-inflicted.
Harvey j. Davis, a Pontiac church
man, who was convicted of keeping
resort and sentenced to serve from
one to five years at Jackson prison,
has been taken there.
Three Kalamazoo Pioneer resi-
dents died suddenly. Martin Milham,
eighty-one years old, William II. Shep-
herd, eighty, and Walter Hook, sew
enty-nine, all died after brief illnesses.
Services for the late Justice Nc
Away were held in the supreme court
at the opening of the April term An
oil painting of the Judge was present
ed to the court by members of his
family.
Rumors are afloat in Cheboygan pol
itics that steps will be taken to GUST
Raymond d. Taborn, Kalamazoo ne
gro who took over the customs house
Office under an appointment received
through the civil service commission.
The Michigan historical commits
sion has planned for the publ
cation of a series of volumes on the
letters, papers and messages Of the
governors Of the state beginning with
Governor Stevens T. Mason.
Because his wife tainted In the cir.
cult court room at Kalamazoo just as
he was to be sentenced, won for Jo-
sept Saint Peter his freedom on pro-
baton. Saint Peter was recently ar
rested upon a charge Of wife deser-
tion.
Frank A. Cause. who was
former superintendent of schools in
the Panama canal zone and for two
years superintendent of Bay City
schools, has accepted an offer at
South Bend as superintendent of
schools in that city.
Buffeted by water which gained
added force by fall over the dam
of the Alpena Power company the
NlnLn street DTluSe at Alpeuu dCIOSS
the Thunder Bay river crashed into
the water 1t is estimated that a new
bridge will, cost $4,000.
That H. A. Hard, formerly of Sag
inaw, did not kidnap his daughter
when he took her forcibly from her
nurse in February, 1915, was the de-
cision of the United States court of
appeals of District of Columbia in the
appeal action on writ of habeas cor
pus.
Adam Hunsicker, fifty-three years
old for many years a resident Of Ca
dillac scrubbed suicide words in note
book about three months ago, walked
to the woods near Gilbert and cut his
throat His body has just been found
by a farmer and was identified by
note book and letters.
Cashmir Beck has $50 in the local
postoffice waiting for, the identified
ton of its owner. Beck went to the
postoffice and signed two postal saw