The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-02-18

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of the town.
The West Side public library of
Saginaw caught fire and was
completely destroyed, entailing loss
of about $25 1000
H. Brittel, of original carrier force
in Marquette, and In continuous serv-
ice for twenty-seven years, has hand
ed in his resignation.
Ashes Of F. Allen, vaudevillan and
writer of dramatic sketches were
buried in the family lot in Riverside
cemetery at Hastings.
"Aunt Abbie" Jones, of Adrian, died
aged ninety-one, after long illness.
Her father was Isaac Dean, who built
the first hotel in Lenawee county.
It is claimed the deepest min
ing shaft in the world, the North
Tamarack, approximately $3.50 feet in
depth, is located in Calumet.
Regents of University of Michigan
adopted resolution to introduce mill
tary training in the university, but it
will not be made compulsory.
]. p Wallace, aged so, resident OF
Marquette for more than forty years,
and we'll known throughout this Sec
ton of the upper peninsula, is dead.
Anna Johnson and G. Weidman, OF
Shiawasee county, were married at
Owosso. The groom's brother, Edward
Weidman, is the brides stepfather.
Passenger train on the Copper range
crashed into the rear Of freight at
Trimountain, ten miles south OF
Houghton, and Engineer Louis Tru-
deau was killed.
In a woodshed Mrs. Eva MINER, of
Saugatuck aged forty-seven years,
committed suicide by lighting match
to her clothing which had been sat
urated with gasoline.
Prof. Henry Adams, head Of the
economics department of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, has returned to Ann
Arbor after an absence of several
months in China.
w. J. Smith, exalted ruler of Muske-
gon Elks and director Of the Cham
Der of Commerce, was named Demo
cratic nominee for mayor. He will OPP
pose Mayor Amt Ellison.
The township of Republic in Mar
quette county may have to pay $685.
to the Cleveland Cliffs Iron company
as a refund on excess tax collections,
a jury in circuit court decided.
Mrs. Michael Rooney pioneer resi-
dent Of Brighton, died of heart dis
ease at the age of eighty-six years.
Neighbors of Brighton township dis
covered her dead at her home.
Hert w. ST. Johns, now a resident
Of Flint, former manager Of a casket
company at Columbus, O., was taken
into custody charged with embezzle-
ment of between $4,000 and 100000
Levi Micheaud, aged q years, Of
Manistique, was revived only after re-
suscitation work lasting several hours
after being overcome by gas in a ma
chine shop in whcih he was en-
pIoyed.
John Gregoritis was returned to
prison from Grand Rapids. He had but
month to remain under parole, when
he stole some chickens and was
brought back to complete sentence
for forgery.
That S. Riehm. principal Of the
Sherman school, Of near Cadillac, posed
in the nude for kodak pictures and
that he appears with other persons in
obscene photographs Is charged by
the school board of Sherman.
1t will take Henry Houltz, Roches-
ter man, thirty-four years old and
married two weeks, a long time to get
over the effects of injuries received in
a gasoline explosion when he mistook
that fluid for kerosene, and poured it
on some brush.
Mrs. Bessie Grennay, IS, Of Durand,
says, in her bill for divorce, that the
limit of marital endurance was reach
ed when her husband, Verne Grennay,
forced her to take off her only suit OF
underwear on a cold day that he
might wear 1t.
The sugar beet crop bought by the
Menominee River Sugar company last
season from farmers in northern Wis
consin and upper Michigan was worth
s4S5, 700, according to President G.. w.
Mccormick of the company. This
amount was paid to 1000 farmers.
On writs issued by Circuit Judge
Nelson Sharp Prosecuting Attorney
Albert w. Black and Supervisors Rob-
inson, Scarf and Belknap were fresd
from Jail where they were sent By
Judge Albert Widdis for refusal TO
pay s94.50 bill for law hooks for the
court house and for thp prosecutor
backing them up in Ineir stand.
The Navarro club in Flint, stamping
ground for politicians for the last few
months, is alleged to be a gambling
place, according to information re-
ceived by the police, which resulted in
the arrest of Henry Mcfarland, for
mer Fourth ward alderman, proprietor.