The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-02

Second Baptist charch.
S. Ryan, Bay City, unmarried, who
was struck by an automobile May 16,
died in Mercy hospital.
e. II. Gilbert, SO, of near Dowagiac
the last member of Cass county's old
est pioneer family, died of old age.
Lena, e.eyen-year-old daughter of
Frank Yahn, of Salisbury, was killed
by Michigan Central passenger
train.
M. Dubina storekeeper in Albion's
big foreign settlement, was arraigned
in justice court on a charge of selling
liquor
Albion seniors, 90 strong, celebrated
"sneak day" by cutting all classes and
spending the day at Vandervooks near
Jackson.
Jno. Schipper, iceland furniture fac
tory, received serious internal injuries
when he was caught between a belt
and pulley.
julius j. Wells, "a, pioneer lumber
man and builder Of mills, is dead at
the home of his daughter at Flint Of
pneumonia.
A Benton Harbor pioneer, Sylvester
Warner, aged seventy-one years, for
years leading contractor has sue
cumbed after long illness.
The body of John Hill, employed in
a lumber camp near Cadillac, was
found mangled on the Grand Rapids
& Indiana railway companys tracks.
of age, of Grand Ledge, died at Ian
sing hospital. He was employed by
the Pere Marquette nearly forty years
Burglars at Escanaba Mich, enter
ed the home or Mrs. Kate Aspinwal,
wealthy widow, drugged her and stole
heirlooms and certificates of deposit
valued at nearly $1,000
Benton Harbor graduates OF high
school have ruled against any girl
with the celebration of the fortieth
commencement spending more than
So for her graduation dress.
Jumping from a moving bucket at
Woodbury. shaft at the Newport mine
at Ironwood, Richard Neimi, thirty
five years DID, dropped over 1000 feet,
his body being reduced to a pulp.
Eaton county Cleaners will hold a
big roundup and gala day at Grand
Ledge June Is. The Eaton and Ing
ham county roundup of Cleaners will
be held at Eaton Rapids, August z6.
Mrs. Carl G.. Jones, of Bay City.
the wife. of a designing engineer
at the kuplman Electric company
died of pneumonia. Mrs Jones came
to Bay City a bride six weeks ago
from Pittsfeld, Mass
Odam Twardowski, who has been
on trial at Grand Rapids in the
superior court charged with man
slaughter in connection with the kill |
ing of Anthony B. Borowicz, was
found guilty by jury.
Jessie Mead, daughter of o S. Mead, |
two miles north of Reading, while |
nursing her mother, became despon-
dent and committed suicide by drown |
ing herself in the cistern at the fam
lily residence.
The mystery surrounding a human |
skeleton wrapped in paper In the attic |
of a Breedsville house was solv-
ed when a brother Of Harry McGivern, |
who built the house, explained he |
brought the bones from Mexico, and |
forgot about them.
Two persons said to have figured |
in the sensational midnight ride which
resulted in the death of Miss Iva Ford,
and probable fatal injuries to E. G..
Waltz, of ST. Johns, were found and
are said to be Ann and Fanny Klink-
enburg of iceland.
Chaplain Cyrus Mendenhall has just
celebrated the twenty-scond ami
versy of his coming to the Ionia pris-
on to take charge of the religious de-
partment. Mr. Mendenhall has the
longest record for service among pris-
oners in the United States.
Robert B. Buck, the proprietor OF
the Richmond Review, has installed
new printing press with a capacity
$500 papers an hour. The machine
is called the Anniversary press"
since its installment is co-incideht to
the anniversary of the paper.
Mrs. Alice Hubbard Hissem, Mar
shall BELLE daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. o. l.. Hubbard, of Marshall, was
granted an annulment Of her marriage
to Frank Hissem, Of Detroit, whom
she married two days after she met
him at the Michigan-Cornell football
game last fall.
Calmly slashing his throat after
failing in an attempt to kill his wife
and five-year-old son, swallowing two
bichloride of mercury tablets and fir
ing his father-in-law's house in three
places, Silas b. Balloon, thirty-one
years old, a barber, committed suicide
as the climax to a spectacular family
row.
G.. r. Bromley. Of Rochester, Mich,
a science teacher in the Eaton
Rapids high school, and Ferris Hall,
a high school student, were drowned
at Eaton RAPIDS and Burr Twitchell