The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-07-28
One hundred city employees at Bat

ne flTSt NdllOHdl DdHk OF AlpHd
was robbed of $4,000 by two masked
robbers.
Arthur Larson Iron Mountain, was
killed when a motorcycle he was rid
ing collided with farm wagon.
Chas. Dibble, the two-year-old son oi
G. ii. Dibble, is suffering from fright
full carbolic acid burns received when
the babe found a bottle filled with the
poison at Kalamazoo.
Robert Stiller Is, son Of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Henry Stiller, was almost in,
stantly killed when the prongs of
hay tedder, which he had been driv.
ing, penetrated his skull as the horses
ran away near Ann Arbor.
Reports state that over 1000
Western Michigan Reformed church
members attended the second annual
Fruitport festival of the denomination,
the total Of those present being near
ly double that of year ago.
A man has been going about the
city OF Florence, Mich, acting so
strangely that he frightened people
When picked up by farmer, he had
rope about his neck, and at Center
vile tried to hang himself
While seated in his favorite chair
in his den, at Grand Rapids, William
II. Boynes, fifty-eight years old, prom
inent state politician and past exalted
ruler Of the Grand Rapids Elks, com.
mitted suicide by shooting
DR.. Frank C. Arnold, aged 40 years.
Of Grand Rapids, died after an i'll.
ness Of but five days from hemor.
rhage of the stomach. He was widely
known in this vicinity as a dentist
and held high rank in Masonry.
Two year old Grace Baumwort,
Saginaw child. who was taken from
the custody Of her aunt and grand.
mother was returned to the grand.
mother, but no action has been taken
against the mother who participated
in the affair.
eKnt county experienced its first
political scandal, when Undersherif
John w. Bailey resigned his office,
charging Sheriff Charles Berry with
resembling an order to put gambling
devices out Of business, which the
sheriff gave him to enforce.
While at Menominee Richard L
Drake, secretary Of Michigan Fedora,
ton Of Labor, who was charged with
striking Captain Oscar Falk Com.
pany L, Thirty-third regiment, who
was home on furlough, was found not
guilty of assault by non-union jury.
A mania for jumping trains which
seems to have possessed him for
years, proved fatal to Hubert Nc.
Wherter, aged nineteen, son Of d. A.
McWherter, a wealthy manufacturer
of Dresden, Tenn, who was fatally in.
jurod Tipping a Pere Marquette train
at Lansing.
Private Phillips, of Company M,
organist IN the leading Catholic
church of Grand Rapids, who was
taken to the base hospital with pneu.
monia at FL Paso, Tex is in a SER
ious condition. He was visited by
Father DUNCAN, chaplain of the Thir.
ty-second
John Woodward and Hirshal Lynn,
two youtng lads fifteen and sixteen
years old, respectively, residing on
farms near Croswell, Sanilac county,
appropriated two horses from rela-
tives, and rode away to see the world.
They will be tried before the Sanilac
county probate Judge.
The waters of Mona Lake, near Mus
kegon, claimed two victims within
few hours, the first being Joe Bezy-
erek, aged thirty-fve, a Muskegon
Heights Hungarian, while the second
was Clarence Gaines, aged twenty-five,
a Chicago youth, the first being a boat
rocking victim, and the second drown
ing while learning to swim.
The Owosso and Holland report
their first heat fatalities. The Owosso
victim was Mrs. Bertha Speigel, TWEEN
ty-nine, who was overcome while iron
ing and died before help could be pro.
cured, while Holland reports the
death Wednesday of Gilbert Jardine,
seventy-six years old, found dead in
a hammock at his home in Castle
Park.
AS Mrs. Charles and Miss Maum-
wart, grandmother and aunt respec.
lively of two-year-old Grace Baum.
wart, who had been placed in their
custody by the probate court, were
held fast by two men, it is alleged
that Mrs. John Baumwart, mother Of
the child, snatched the baby and the
trio made their escape with the aid
Of horse and buggy.
A visit of her brother, Pete Faucher,
Of Muskegon, proved fatal to Mrs.
Ernest Maroouiller, of Oconto Falls,
Wis, according to word just received
in Muskegon, the shock Of the relative
suddenly appearing at the Maroouiller
home, and his great change in the few
! years, since she had last seen him.
bringing on an attack of heart trouble
that resulted in her death.
In requesting Detroit and FORT HUI
ron to watch carefully incoming trains