The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-01-14
SHORT STATE lie \
Taken from our Exchanges
From all over Michigan.
News Of the past week
l. short paragraphs.


Nj. Kizier was drowned in Pine lake
at Boyne City while skating.
Carl Woods, 50, farmer, one Of the
earliest residents of Green Oak town.
ship, is dead
Grand Rapids will have a revival
from March to Easter Sunday the
ministerial association has decided.
G. r. Ray, president of the Manistee
Iron works, a resident of Manistee,
died at his home at the aGe of seventy
six years. y
All the public schools in Manistee
failed to open last week, following the
holiday vacation, owing to an epiuem. q
of grip in the city.
II. w. Yarrick, of Armour & Co.,
and previously with the company al
Chicago and Toledo, died at Jackson,
aged forty-two years.
The Calhoun County Agric ultural
society elected City Comm ssiCn'
er Stephen Rathbun president to sue.
coed Robert Herman, resigned.
At Detroit, a week after his mar
riage at Mount Clemens A. A. Caille,
millionaire slot machine inventor and
manufacturer, dropped dead at his
home, Palmer and Second avenues.
A plan to institute in Michigan an ap.
pellate court between the circuit
courts as now Constituted and the ST.
preme court was discussed by the
Michigan Circuit Judges association.
Enough petitions to place the name
Of former President Theodore Roosc
welt as Republican candidate on the
Michigan presidential primary ballots
were filed with the secretary Of state
Four men were scalded at the
new plant Of the American Malleable
company at Owosso while connecting
the heating plant Of the two additions
DeForest Benson was the most seri
ously burned.
At Grand Rapids John and Joseph
Hoaghyde, brothers, are both assUm
ing blame for serious gunshot wound
from which the former is suffering.
The case is proving very puzzling to
the local police.
w. Harves, Of Michigan Center, has
disappeared. AS he was in the habit
of walking across the frozen Michigan
Center pond and was last seen cross
ing the ice on the way to Wordens
resort it is feared he is drowned.
While on his route, the body Of
William Grosnendal, once possessor of
$4,000, which he is said to have lost
specializing in steel stocks, was found
in his hut near Holland by mail car
rier, Grosnendal had been dead two
days.
Two land grants signed by An
drew Jackson, dated 1880, were record
ed in the office of county recorder at
Ann Arbor They were made for land
m the township of York and Augusta
and the patents were written on parch-
ment.
Henry J. Northcut, choir singer,
is alleged to have defrauded many
Kalamazoo people and disappeared
without paying numerous bills. Officers
have found cut that he sold and col
lected for 700 Christmas trees that he
never delivered.
Ed Killain, of BEDFORD paid a man
who said his name was McWhittus
$50 for an automobile. A few days
later Deputy Sheriff Parmenter appear
ed with the owner of the car who
had traced it from Flint, and Killain
had to surrender it.
d. w Brooks, aged 81, who died at
the Masonic home at Alma, was a
"ferty miner" having gone overland to
California over the old Santa Fee trail
and failing to secure riches, later
went to Alaska in search of gold,
where he was again unsuccessful.
Fred Meske, a Jackson man, who
shot and killed his brother-in-law, AL
Harris, at Leslie, when the latter
forced an entrance into the home CT
his wife, from whom he had been sep
arated, was released from custody,
having been absolved by the coroner.
A little son of Geo. Phickey, Ash
ley farmer, was instantly killed and
his parents both so critically injured
thar theiS recovery r p poatfs~ -
doubt, when a team of horses driven
by Phickey ran away and collided with
an electric motor car on the Ann Ar
Dor railroad.
Efforts to settle suits against the
Grand Trunk railroad growing out of
the fire, alleged to have been caused
by locomotive spark, which destroy
ed large portion of the village of Per-
ry in July, 1913, have failed and sew
en- more suits we're begun. The amount
involved is approximately 1926. 900.
In a decision an echo of the
"Mabray gang famous several years
ago for their cononection with fake
races, overlapping exploits, etc, un-
til separated by the federal authori-
tiac turned nm In tho euprapa oonrt