Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-08-07
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Michigan has 2ee newspapers and pc
riodicals.
Lenawee talks of a county croquet
tournament.
Luther Beecher OF Detroit pays $1,000
city taxes this year. x
Allegan has population of 1000, and
has Is lawyers and 20 doctors. W
Two Port Huron boys have stolen the
yacht Minnehaha and gone on tour.
Muskegon is building race track, and
is to have it completed in time for the
races in September.
Mears' saw mill, at Mears, near Lud-
ington, was burned on the 26th. Loss,
| $4,000; no insurance. = 49,.
DR.. A. B. Palmer has been elected dean
of the medical faculty of the university
in place of DR.. Sager, resigned.
The annual conference of the NJ. e.
Church for Western Michigan will be
held at Battle Creek, September 8.
Duane Doty has received an invitation
to address the British National Science
Association on educational topics. Il
Six prisoners escaped from the Jail at
Grand Rapids Tuesday night. Thesher-
| iff offers 800 for their apprehension.
The army worm has appeared in the
neighborhood of Adrian, and has done
considerable damage to oats and corn.
The Eastern Michigan Agricultural
Society will hold its next fair on their
grounds at Ypsilanti, Sept. %, %, 30 and
October 1.
| Sojourner Truth has in press aBook
of Life" to be issued in September. The
book is written by Mrs. Frances Titus of
Battle Creek.
Frank Knill, formerly conductor on
the Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan
Railroad, has purchased the Commercial
Hotel at Owosso. =
The "First of August was celebrated, {
on Monday by the colored folks In seve-
raj places in Michigan with considerable
enthusiasm. ~ s5
The Adventists have postponed their
camp meeting at Battle Creek from the
4th of August until the 10th. It will
4 continue seven days.
Mr.. FL. A. Gardner, chief engineer Of
the Michigan Central Railroad, died at
Chicago on Wednesday, of Bright's dis
ease of the kidneys.
Edward Magee, member of the Catho-
lie Church of Marshall, has brought q
$4,000 SANDER suit against Father Gael
lart, the acting priest.
The saw mill of S. L. Gunders0n g
Co., at Portage Lake, was burned on the
morning of the 9th. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, about $4,000.
The Michigan Conference of the NJ.
E. Church will be held in Battle Greek,
commencing September z. Bishop Scott
will preside over the conference.
The Treasurer of Eaton County has
received written opinion from the At
tOrney General that brewers must pay
for a dealers as well as manufacturer's
license before they can sell their beer. 1oi
/ Malcolm Campbell of Ludington, re-
Gently killed in the lumber woods, left
his property, about $4,000, to his moth
er-in-law. The will is to be contested.
Detroit has 2S public schools and 35
breweries, for which one might infer that
the demand for beer in the City Of the
Straits exceeded the demand for brains.
Walsh & Eagles carriage factory at
Union City burned at IL o'clock Monday
night. 1t throws 20 men out of employ
ment. Loss, $4,000; insured Tor $500.
Coplands saw-mill at Lapeer, was
wholly destroyed by fire on the 3lst, and
| 100000 feet of lumber was DESTROYED.
The loss is upward of $4,000, with but
little insurance. iurs M a5,#
Over 5O,000,0OO feet of logs will proba-
bly, be "hung up" on the Muskegon River
this season. Lumber is so low that it
will make less difference than it other
wise to owners. f sb
| The prison agent advertises for pro-
posals for the labor of 100 convicts, in
gangs of not less than %, and for period
of from three to ten years. Bids will be
received until September Sth.
The lumber shipments from East Sagi-
nav for July by water are 81, 1000, 900 feet,
large excess over the corresponding
month last year. But the total shipments
for the season to date are 100000 feet
short of this time last year.
The number of convicts in the state
prison July "a was 76O, the largest num-
Der ever reached. Only 460 of these are
employed, there being no work for the
remaining 800.
Manistee had an $4,000 fire on Sunday
morning. 1t caught from stove-pipe
passing through the roof of Mrs. Sulli- ;.
vans clearinghouse Five other build
ings were destroyed. Insurance $1,000.
The livery stable of Devine & Allaire
has been moved little to the north and