The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-01-21
SHORT STATE ITEMS.
Taken from our Exchanges
From all over Michigan.
News of the past week
In short paragraphs.

saginaw pOiiCC oiC ihNSotiSosihe
what is thought to be case of infan-
ticide.
slne fine new Sault Ste. Marie
international hotel was burned, caus
ing loss estimated at $250,000.
]. T. Witt, so, of near Saginaw, was
killed by a Pere Marquette train at
the Wadsworth street crossing.
The government has purchased land
at the corner Of Sheldon and Portage
streets as site for Houghton's new
postoffice.
By order of the city schools at Nc.
Balm were closed and public meetings
prohibited because of diphtheria and
scarlet fever.
Lucy, twelve-year-old daughter Of
Frank Brunais, was killed in a coast.
ing accident, near her home, two miles
north of Chief.
Saginaw health figures for 1915
show startling death rate for pneu.
monia in Saginaw. 1t was nearly 100
per cent mortality.
o. p. Chatfield Of Escanaba has
refused a war order contract from the
Russian government which would have
amounted to $4,000
By the judicature act Muskegon
county circuit court will abandon
1900 cases for various reasons, some
dating back to 1859.
c. A. Bailey, Port Huron politician,
pleaded not guilty to a charge Of
breaking and entering a home with
intent to commit a serious offense.
Teddy, 4, son Of j. A. Atchanowski.
Of Grand Rapids, who was frightfully
burned several days ago by falling in
to bucket of boiling water is dead.
Jesse Martin, keeper Of an al
legged resort, will serve ninety days in
the county Jail. Judge Frederick re-
fused to accept fine in lieu Of the jail
sentence.
Police seek Pearl Kellogg, seven.
teen, of Grand Rapids, and Clair May.
nard, of Three Rivers. The girls par
ents fear she had eloped and married
Maynard.
Many Canadians are turned back by
the immigration officials at Port
Huron on the ground that they were
endeavoring to avoid military service
in Canada.
All rural ministers are invited to
attend a country life conference at
the Michigan Agricultural college,
February 20 and March 1, in connec-
ton with Farmers week.
l.. e. Burroughs, a Hillsdale boy,
who set out to walk 1000 miles from
Lansing to Savannah, Ca, on reach
ing Knoxville, Tenn, had made an
average of % miles a day.
Sixteen sisters of the Carmelite order
have come from Mexico to Grand
Rapids. They will probably be furnish
ed a site by Bishop Richter on which to
build a permanent home.
Fred f. Royce, son of c. c. Royce,
Els anaba tauner, and assistant cashier
in his fathers bank in that city, was
married to Miss Mona Burch Of Petos
key The bride is fond of athletics.
Cary Foclker, 50, employed TO rthe
last fifteen years on the Buldabuck
dairy farm, near Saginaw, was tramp.
led to death by mad bull while at
tempting to put the animal in stall
Mrs. Thomas Chettrick Of Escanaba,
was burned to death, while her hus.
band received severe burns about the
face and arms in an Intellectual at
tempt to rescue her as the Chettrick
home was destroyed by fire.
While standing beside the grave
into which the body of Mrs. Henry
Vorencamp, a life long friend, was be-
ing lowered, Charles A. Coburn, of
Pavilion township, near Kalamazoo,
fell unconscious and died at his home.
George H. Ferry, sixty-three, Oldest
locomotive engineer in western Michi-
gan, died after a shor. illness at Grand
Rapids. Starting forty-two years ago,
when wood was used in the engines,
ne served continuously on the G. R.
&
Loud laughter of several dozen
pedestrians in the Cadillac business
district was silenced when John Swan
son, sixty years old, who fell on a
slippery walk failed to rise. When a
doctor rushed to his aid he found him
head.
Physicians who have attended her
state Mrs. William Swank, wife Of a
wealthy farmer, near Grand Rapids,
who set fire to the farm buildings Sat-
urday afternoon and came near los.
ing her life before being dragged out,
will probably recover.
An investigation at Battle Creek
in connection with the death Of Ed
mund B. Rosemann, son Of Frank r.
Rosemann Of st. Louis, Mo-, who was
killed by train Saturday night, re-
suited in a report that he was killed
while "dazed and incompetent"
Warrants were issued at Big Rapids
after a sensational raid on the Weling
rooming house. The raid resulted In