The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-01-14

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At Fast Lansing the work is al!
ready in progress on the new $4,000
gymnas um at the III. A. c..
VIM. Chaddwi k, deputy collector, an
nounces that the embargo. on potatoes
from Canada has been removed.
e. ]. Carson. representative of the ].
Farrell company, of Chicago, was
found dead in his bed at Post Tavern.
Jackson prison will shortly be-
gin the manufacture Of plug and smok-
ing tobacco. socks and cloth for the
use of inmates of the institution.
Henry Ford, who recently returned
from his European peace mission has
a place on The Republican presidential
primary ballot in Michigan this spring.
The jury in the noted Three Oaks
$4,000 breach of promise suit Of Edith
Clark against Joseph A. ParrenLreturn-
ed a verdict in favor of Miss Clark for
$4,000.
Martin Noohan, aged &c, resident OF
Owosso for thirty years, and i'll for
over twenty years, ended his life by
hanging, taking advantage of his wife's
absence from his room.
Orther, Fenville sheriff, was rob-
bed Of grip containing valuable pa
pers in the Grand Central station.
There was no diamond in his star, and
therefore it was saved.
Returning from the University hos.
pital at Ann Arbor, with an under
taker for a companion, Orlando Alex
ander, Of Cassopolis, committed sui
eide at Battle Creek.
y Leonard l.. king" Cole, New York
American league baseball team and
formerly with the Chicago Cubs, died
at his home at Bay City. He had been
seriously i'll for several weeks.
William, son of Mrs. William Nor
cross, Of Corunna, tried to start a fire
by pouring kerosene oil on the Goals.
There was an explosion and he was
badly burned about the head and ace.
By a newspaper item Mrs. E. r.
Mckay, of Portland, Ore, will soon be
reunited with her mother, Mrs. Eliza
Hindelong, of Ann Arbor, whom she
lost track of a quarter of century
ago.
At Grand Rapids John Hogger-
hyde, charged with shooting his broth
er Joe, following a quarrel was order
ed released by Prosecutor Marnard.
Each brother admitted he did the
shooting.
of the union out of the upper PENN.
sula" of Michigan under the name est
perior," are being urged by Roger
M. Andrews, proprietor of the Menon-
inee Herald-Leader.
Unknown to her parents Nevene
Tower, daughter of Greenvilles Llil-
lionaire manufacturer, Ray j. Tower,
has eloped with Don Despelder, son
of retired farmer, and the two have
been married in Detroit.
r. c. Jackson, south 81 Morenci
city, on arriving home from Illinois,
where he had gone to bury his child,
who died the first of last week, found
his wife dead. She was in fairly good
health when he went away.
Near Lansing the fear Of breaking
school discipline by hardness cost the
lives Of Daisy Hasbrook, aged nine,
and Ernest Kuhn, aged eleven, both Of
Haslett, who were drowned in Pine
lake which they were attempting to
cross on the ice.
Prof Allan Whitney, department
Of education in the University of Mich
igan, and one of the supposedly con-
irmed bachelors Of the faculty, an
nounces his engagement to Miss May
belle Howe, leading social settle
ment worker of New York city.
1t is announced that e. G. Green
man, assistant professor Of machine
design at the Michigan Agricultural
college, has handed in his resignation
to take immediate effect, a petition
asking for his removal being signed
by juniors and seniors Of the engineer
ing department last fall
1t is believed Edwin B. Monroes
"watchful waiting" policy has been
indicated and he is no longer bride
less bridegroom. The bride, who was
kidnapped from his side by her father,
Henry Reason, and her brother, when
the couple returned several weeks ago
on an interurban car from Lansing,
where they had been married a few
hours before has disappeared from the
home of her parents near this city.
At Battle Creek notwithstanding Ro
bert Book, hardware merchant, re-
solved to sell no more revolvers when
he heard that one he had just sold to
Orlando Alexander, of Cassopolis, had
been used for suicidal purposes, re.
volver from his store was used by A.
]. Williams, who saw Alexander do the
deed, within a few hours in the same
way.
Mrs. Sarah Rabinovitch, Of Jackson,