The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-04-28
MICHIGAN news
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mitted suicide by drinking carbolic
acid.
f. Twiss, former resident of Hills
dale, for many years in Lansing, is
| dead.
A huge tract Of virgin timber, it
is reported, is to be opened up
in Otsego and Montmorency counties
this spring.
A. w. Reed, aged 81, for twenty
five years merchant at Worthwhile,
died of illness brought on by his al
vanced age.
Andrew Bratnie who had been
a resident of Saginaw county since
1852, is dead after brief illness. He
came to Saginaw sixty-four years ago.
The March vital statistics will
break all records for Michigan births.
According to Chief Statistician Will
liam f. Petrie, births for the month
exceed 1000.
Michael Mccarthy, fifty years OF
age, of Battle Creek, committed sui
eide He was found on the floor Of his
kitchen with all the burners Of a gas
stove turned on.
Pere Marquette car ferry IS held
quarantine after fumigation for a case
of black diphtheria developed by a
deckhand named Smith.
William Egberts, Kalamazoo young
man, is dead as a result Of being un-
able to stop nose hemorrhage for
thirty-six hours. The young mans
mother died in the same way.
The body Of Fred Clark, the Yp-
silanti man who was struck at the
first bridge west of Ypsilanti by
Michigan Central train and hurled in
to the Huron river, has been recover
ed.
Colonel J. p. Petermann, an ac-
tive citizen of Calumet, has been
named president of the newly-organ-
lied Federated Commercial clubs, of
northern Michigan and northern Wis
consin.
Another large timber tract to be OPP
Grated this spring is located in the
south end of Cheboygan county and
will be reached by a twO-mile extern
sion Of the Michigan Central Hask-
wood branch.
Leo Letter, who has been the
manager of L. Barber company's
creamery at Howard City, was found
at Reed City. He disappeared from
Howard City and it was feared that
he had been murdered
Word was received by Battle
Creeks friends of the death OF
Dr. Alice |. Beebee at Pass Christian,
Miss, where she had gone to be with
the children of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
S. Butterfield. OF Battle Creek.
The owners Of peach orchards in
the locality of Eaton Rapids, Mich.
say that the buds did not suffer
through the winter nor up to the pres
ent time this spring and that the pros
poets are good for a heavy peach crop
here this year.
Scarcity Of laborers in the Lake
Superior copper mines, despite the
fact that the wages are the highest
in the history Of the industry, is be-
coming a factor threatening TO pre-.
vent increases in the copper product of
the lake district.
Through friendly suit, settled at
Ishpeming, 5000 miners, former EN-.
ployes of Captain Thomas Walters
when he owned the Lake Angelina
mine there, will receive back their re-
! spective portions in a 100000 mutual
benefit fund.
Twelve young men near Muskegon
( enlisted in the aeronautical corps
OF the United States army They will
! be employed at the Continental Mo-
! tors plant at Muskegon under on ar.
rangement between the company and
the war department.
Rev. ]. K. McCreery and his two
daughters residents at Hastings had a
narrow escape from death when their
home took fire. The father is a para
lytic, and in rescuing him, the girls
were obliged 10 rush through the
flames on stairway.
The absent voter act passed at
the last session of the legisla-
| ture in obedience to an amendment
to the constitution, had its first def
mite tryout at the primaries April g.
From all indications election officers
! are not very well pleased with it.
Three Of Vassar's best known
pioneer citizens died within twenty.
four hours. They are: Mrs. L. NJ.
Jones, seventy-one years of age, res.
ident there sixty years; Henry Owen,
sixty-seven, and Mrs Julia Miller,
eighty-seven years old, for many years
a school teacher
Crowley Brothers, a firm OF De-
troit, and the Herold-Bertsch Shoe
company, of Grand Rapids, and 9TH
ers, have brought proceedings in the
United States court to have the Fair
corporation, which operates a large
department store at Grand Rapids,
adjudged bankrupt.
On condition OF furnishing suitable
armory for the storing of equipment
and that battalion consisting OF four
batteries of 1873 men each be recruited