Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-09-25
STATE NEWS.


James Barnard of Ionia hung himself
Sept. 13. g s. - =
Port Huron has twenty-three practic-
ing lawyers.
Therewere II herds of blooded cattle at
the state fair.
Calhoun county has thirteen newspa-
pers and periodicals.
FarweIl is to have new $4,000 Con-
gregational Church.
The Adrian Times has been presented
with a pumpkin weighing II lbs.
The Presbyterian Synod of the state
will meet at Marshall October IA.
Mr.. Ackley, Of Kalamazoo, has raised
from three acres 249 bushels Of oats.
Sixty farmers from Allegan county
have gone to Texas to found colony.
The Hastings Horse Breeders Associa-
ton lost $500 by their recent meeting.
An anti-Masonic convention will be
held at .Ypsilanti October ~, % and 20.
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The recently completed. census of
Greenville shows population of 1922.
The Leslie Herald says: ~. 8. Wilson
gets 4iS bushels of oats from four acres. {"
Miss Lena Wescott, Michigan lady,
is said to be successful real estate agent
in Chicago. 0a El.ra
Orion lake has an island that comes to
the surface occasionally, and then disap-
pears for time. agH
Alfred Bixby, of Lansing, raised po-
tatoe this year which weighed three and
one-quarter pounds.
Township authorities have no power to
give saloon keepers leave to sell liquors
on Sunday. So says Attorney General
Smith.
The city of Niles was selected for the
next meeting of the Michigan Confer
ence by vote of 72, to Il for Grand
Rapids. .f.. g.+
The Alden fruit-drying factory at Le-
nawee Junction is in operation again.
About 1000 bushels of apples per week
are dried there. sga
The ladies' temperance union of Lans-
ing is taking steps to hold series of so
ciils, the proceeds to be devoted to fit
ting up reading-room. ao
a little daughter of William Foster,
at Kalamazoo, aged two years, was bit
ten by rattlesnake one day last week
while playing in the wood shed. -
w. Holmes of the Hastings Journrl is
to exhibit his system of printing several
colors at one impression from'a single
plate" at the Philadelphia exhibition.
Burkhardt, the boy murderer, has
pleaded guilty to the charge of murder
in the circuit court at Ann Arbor. He
seems entirely Indifferent to his crime.
George III jerome, state superinten-
dent of fisheries, has been awarded gold
medal by the Acclimation Society of
France, for his labors in promoting fish
culture.
Three New York detectives are in
Monroe County looking for Charley
Ross. They say they have been CORE
spo lding with parties there who profess
to know his whereabouts. . l.....
Warren Lewis of Ann Arbor, son of w.
III. Lewis, proprietor of the Leonard
house, had his right hanl blown off Sept.
IL by the explosion of a gun with which
he was shooting at a mark.
A Mrs. Stark of Birch Run, Saginaw
County, attempted to get on train at
the fair grounds in East Saginaw after it
had started, September IL, when she fell
between the cars and was instantly
killed. e
A Detroit man dropped a package of
money containing $500 on Saturday,
and boy driving the express wagon saw
it and restored it to him. Half an hour
afteward the gentleman presented the
boy with horse costing $175. fa
Willard Stickney of Spring Lake has
been arrested for stealing 100 pine trees
from some land owned by Charles How
ard of New York. 1t is tract of 1000
acres near Grand Haven, which Mr.. How
ard has kept p years for the timber.
Henry Warsaw, of Caro-, when he went
to milk his COW one morning last week
took his gun along to. shoot hawk
While he was milking the cow kicked
the gun, it discharged, and the ball en-
tered Marsaw's head just below the eye
| The Saginaw Courier announces that
Mrs. Joe. A. Hollon, wife of the genial
representative who died suddenly at the
close of the last session, has just been
paid $1,000 insurance money on his life
and another $1,000, for the benefit OF mi.
children, will come in about thirty days
Moses w. Field of Detroit has present
ed 40 acres of valuable land to that city
situated in Hamtramck, on the northeast
said to be worth 100000 at least, on con
dition that only $4,000 per annum be ex.
pended to improve and beautity it. Tn,
common council has thankfully accepted
the gift, provided it can expend none,
to improve land outside the city limits.
The manufacture of salt at Port Hop,
amounts to an average of 100 barrels ,
day. The company have recently com
lpleted the construction of nearly 90
feet of sheds in connection with thei
works, which affords storage for salt an,
barrels, keeping them secure from tn
effects of the weather. The steame