Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-10-23

| STATE NEWS
| Blissfield will soon have hand fire en-
gine.
The Ward will case is still on trial i'm
Detroit.
Niles talks of glass factory with $4O,.
600 capital.
A street railway is to be built between
Bay City and Wenona.
Deer are said to be unfstfally plentiful
in the northern part Of the state.
The Grand Rapids chair company is
making about 1000 chairs daily:
There is an old lady in Frankfort who
has read the bible through p times.
The sixth Michigan Cavalry held
reunion at Grand Rapids on the Doth.
The prosecuting attorney of Kent
County is charged with the crime of
adultry.
The Bay City Chronicle is going to
stop its daily, and the Tribune its
weekly.
They use tamarack logs for gas mains
in Greenville, and call them better than
iron pipes.
i, A man named Charbineau, living near
Escanaba, accidently shot his son a few :
days since.
A deed forty years old was brought to
the registers office at Marshall for rec
ord few days ago,
The trial of Fuller for the murder Of
Wilson Pound, commenced at Grand
Haven on the Goth.
A stock company is being organized
in Flint, with view to manufacturing
furniture on mammoth scale.
They have human monstrosity at
Manistee-a child with a cats head,
snakes body and the legs of chicken.
Detroit liquor dealers pay the poor-tax
and more. 1t costs $4,000 to support
the poor, while the liquor tax is 100000.
A fool-hardy youth of Grand Rapids
last Tuesday stood on tho top of st.
Andrews church spire, 200 feet from the
ground.
Ira Mckinney, of Bay City, has invent
cd combination bolting and stave mill,
which with six hands will turn out IL, 900
slaves daily.
Michael Clone, of Albion, who was ar
rested on charge of causing his wife's
death, has been discharged for the want
of evidence.
Owen McEntee, of Lyndon. is the old
est resident of Washtenaw county, being
10S years old. He is Irish, and cannot
read or write.
1t is said that logging ON the Muske-
gon for the ensuing year will be fully
equal to last. Two thousand men have
already left for camp.
Daniel Harrington, who was accused Of
killing his wife last spring, has lately
been found drowned i.l the well in his
own cellar, at Red Jacket.
1t is estimated, says the st. Joseph
Herald, that between $4,000 and 10000
baskets of grapes were lost by the severe
frost and freeze OF last Tuesday,"
James Anthony, life convict at the
prison from the upper peninsular, was
killed October IA by door falling on his
head and driving hook into it.
Hillsdale boasts of sheriff who can
hold burglar with one hand and shoot
another in the head 40 feet distant at
the same time, and i'm almost total dark
ness.
A young lady at the Hurd house i'm
Jackson blew out the gas Thursday night,
and in the morning was found nearly
dead from suffocation. She revived after
time.
At the Calhoun county fair the peach
crop was represented by single plate
containing three peaches, emitting the
exhibitor to the first prize, So. Easily
taken.
A correspondent of the Detroit Post
says that the new Jail and sheriff's house
at Coldwater have been accepted, and
the old ones sold at auction. The old
Jail brought 10 cents and the sheriff7s
house 1876. -
A girl working at the Barton Honse,
Ypsilanti. has died from poison taken
few days ago, The cause is reported as
being the result of modification at being
charged by the proprietor's wife with
improper intimacy with the proprietor.
Horace Seely, who lives near Niles, was
shot in the breast by some person con-
cealed on the roadside last Tuesday morn
ing. Fortunately he was not seriously
injured. Though diligent search was
made, the would be murderer was not
fOudd
Port Huron Justices of the Peace find
ing their income much cut short by a
falling off of matrimonially inclined
couples from Canada, have announced
that they will give to Canadian lovers
who will visit them an elegant certificate
Of marriage and return tickets on any of
the ferries. all for the low price of 81.
The new court house at Bad Axe pre-
sents a very fine appearance, and when
completed will reflect credit on the peo-
pie of Huron county. Workmen are en-
gagged in plasterihg, which will be fin
ished in about two weeks. The court