The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-02
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10 All SlaSses OF READERS.
Arthur Hitler fell dead on the
street at Port Huron.
The Eighth Michigan infantry will
hold its annual reunion in Flint IN
June 16
I. w. Root, who was active in DO.
litical and fraternal life of Lansing
for forty years, is dead at his home.
William sharp, aged SO, Howell, a
veteran Of Michigan's Fighting
Fifth" of civif war fame, was buried
there.
Neil McDougall's skull was fractur.
ed when the automobile in which he
was riding rolled into a ditch near
Frankenmuth.
Tom hurez, an Iron River workman,
was smothered to death in the Tully
mine by a slide Of several tons Of
rock down chute in which he was
working.
April figures in Benton Harbor show
the factory pay roll was upwards of
$4,000 above April of last year. Near.
ly 800 more laborers were given EN-.
ployment.
Wilfred Scott, a Gladstone laborer.
was smothered to death when ashes
covered him in q boiler room. The
body was found by men hauling the
ashes away.
Mrs. Warren Waite, Of Grand
Rapids, mother Of DR.. Arthur War
rem Waite, is seriously i'll at her home
and friends say she is dying of a
broken heart.
Nj. Friedman & Co., a Grand Rap
ids firm, has purchased the Spring
Dry Goods company, and the Freid
man store and the Spring store are
being merged.
Joe Cahayauska, an Indian, enlisted
at Muskegon. Il want to see service
in Mexico he declared when asked
why he Joined.
Alex. Smith, Of Kalamazoo, a former
clerk in the Bushler meat market, was
caught early in the morning, accord
ing to the police, while attempting to
rob the safe in the market.
After a dispute with his wife at
home in Ottawa county, John
Blink, aged thirty-eight years, shot
himself in the temple, while his wife
and three children stood by.
When an unidentified young woman
grew nervous and lost the control
of a Ford automobile she was driving,
just east Of Ypsilanti, It rolled over
in ditch, injuring all the passengers,
three young men and three girls.
With a bullet fired through his
brain and a revolver clutched in
one hand, the body of William Smurr,
Of Portland, was found lying in the
roadside, mile from the city early
in the morning by a former neighbor. |
Dennis Morgan, former slave, said to
have been more than 100 years old, |
died in the Handy A. NJ. E. home.
Morgan had resided in Jackson for
more than 80 years. When the civil |
war broke out he had seven grown
sons.
At social meeting of the !
Theta Beta sorority Of Ionia young
ladies, Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Dol |
son announced the marriage in June
of their daughter, Abbie Louise, to
Victor d. Carlisle, both Ionia high |
graduates.
Human bones of a Detroit mani
who murdered his child and then went
to Jackson county and killed himself |
seventy-five years ago, were unearth-
oil h.. nj for Ill
blowing in a 15-acre field on the An
son Townley farm in Tompkins town.
ship.
Rt Rev. Melchir Faust, for several |
years missionary director Of the
Catholic Indian reservation of Baraga |
county, died suddenly. He was sixty |
eight years old and was the holder |
of the Iron Cross for bravery display
ed while serving with the German
army in the Franco-Pussian war.
Judge Lamb sitting at Cadillac has
filed decree declaring Wexford county |
Socialist party the legal beneficiary
Of the estate Of the late James Well |
wood, Missaukee farmer, whose will |
provided that $500 of his estate should
go to the striking miners Of Colo
RADIO" and the remainder to Wexford |
Socialists.
Anna McCauley, so, an inmate of
Shiawasse county poor house for for
ty-three years, who insisted that she
was the daughter of former supreme
justice of Michigan, is dead. A son,
William Townsend, has been a county
charge for thirty-one years. He went
to the poorhouse when he was twelve
years old.
The rate law will cost Hillsdale |
county about $1,000 a year. So far
1916 County Treasurer Chestnut has
paid orders amounting to $551.63.
After the law went into effect he paid |
$1SS for 1915. This makes $3.50 that
has been paid out in less than nine
months. During the present month,
May, he has paid out S161.40.
Mrs. Eva Steenard, Kalamazoo in