Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-09-18
STATE NEWS.

at jackson OH the 18th.
ID. p. Wilder's saw and shingle mill,
near Midland, was burned on the 18th.
No insurance. a
A railroad route has been surveyed
from Elkhart, Ind, through Cass county
to Lake Michigan.
Ella Jackson, cook on the tug Ontario,
fell over board at Port Huron on the 9th,
and was drowned.
j. C. Orvis, of Pontiac, was placed in
Jail at Kalamazoo on the 18th charged
with false pretenses.
Not for many years have there been so
many buildings in process of erection as
there are now in Port Huron.
Judge Marston was to have started
from Ireland on the 18th instant and eX-
poets to reach Michigan by October 1st.
There was bankrupt sale of the
road-bed of the Toledo, Ann ArbOr and
Northern railroad at Ann Arbor Sept.
18th. Eer
Andrew Knight, popular conductor
OH the Lake Shore road, died on the train
between Adrian and Jackson ON the 9th
inst.
The body of sailor named John Hart
ney was washed ashore at Forestville on
the 18th, drowned from the scow Dol
phin.
There is to be a baby show at the St.
Clair county fair, babies under Is months
old to compete for premiums of $15, $40,
and So.
At horse race in Adrian Sept. an
unruly horse ran into crowd of men,
knocking down five or six and fatally in
juring one.
1t now seems probable that narrow
guage railroad between Marquette and
the iron mines at Ishpeming will be built
Immediately.
Jerry Seabring was drowned in Reeds
Lake, near Grand Rapids, on the 18th.
His copmanions rocked the boat until
it was capsized.
Joseph Brown, who was injured in a
brawl at Rogers saloon. near the Lansing
depot, died of his injuries OH the eth. He
leaves family.
The Adrian Times says: "Ald. Clark
brings us potatoe to-day weighing two
pounds and IN ounce, and bearing de-
cided resemblance to fat hog. Nextr
Mr.. Bernard Speero, an old citizen OF
Sagin Nv, was arrested on the 18th upon
a charge of seduction. The matter will
probably be settled and Mr.. Speero leave
the place.
Peter Diermyer, of Palmyra, farmer,
was convicted of assault and battery
upon his daughter. aged fourteen, with a
neckyoke. on the 9th, and was fined $31,
which he paid.
David Decker, of Reading, Hillsdale
County, raised this season eighty-five
bushels of potatoes upon piece of
groukd one hundred and fifty feet in
length by fifty-seven in width.
The boys of East Saginaw say that
''there isn't a homely girl in the high
school this term" The Saginaw Repub-
lican says the boys found that out before
school had been running twenty min
utes.
Wolves still inhabit the forests around
Ontonagon. A farmer there week be-
fore last lost three calves by their depre-
dations. He set some poisoned bait, and
a day or two after found two dead
wolves.
Frank Lafountanie, son of a prominent
banker in Monroe, very mysteriously dis
appeared few days since, aud the most
diligent search has failed to discover any
trace of him. 1t is feared that he has
committed suicide.
The son of g prominent business man
of Adrian has been expelled from the
high school because his father refused to
let him study Greek and Latin, those
studies being in the regular course. The
boy is about fourteen years Of age, and
his father wished him to give his atten-
ton to the common English branches.
The contractors on the new State Cap
itol are pushing the work forward rapid
ly. The walls of the wings i'm which are
situated the Senate chamber ane Repre-
sentative hall are up, and they are now
preparing tile stone for the cornice, the
changes of which from iron to stone ha
delayed them some considerable time
they being unable to get the stone as
promptly as was desired,
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