Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-08-21
STATE NEWS.

The State Pioneer Society meets at
Marshall next Wednesday.
The lumber men of Tonawanda are go
ing to organize an association.
There have been three attempts at III
cendiarism at jackson within week.
Detroit was visited by six large excur-
sion parties within three days last week.
Two buildings were burned in Monroe
August llth. Loss, $4,000; insurance.
ST. 900.
An eight feet vein of coal, 126 feet
from the ground, was struck at Standish
Friday.
The clear yield of silver at the Onton-
agon mill from the Scranton mine is $45
per ton.
Ten thousand people were present at
the Sunday school celebration at Orion,
August 11th.
Two prisoners escaped from the Branch
county Jail, at Coldwater, on the evening
OF August IL.
The address at the Oakland county fair
this fall will be delivered by Congress
man Hubbell.
The American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science closed six days
session at Detroit on the 18th.
A large camp meeting Of the Seventh
Day Adveftists has been in session at
Battle Creek during the week. :. ~
The Jackson flremen have raised the
81 300 which insures the state tourna-
ment being held here in September
The nipple trees in Washtenaw county
are infested by worm that makes them
look as though fire had passed through
them.
The fifth annual meeting of the State
Sunday School Association is to beld at
Grand Rapids August 81 and September
L and 2.
The resolutions allowing saloons to
keep open on Sunday was passed by the
Detroit Common Council, over the May
or's veto.
Noel S. Rice, a clerk in the postoffice
at Battle Creek, was arrested on the 10Th
charged with purloining money from let
ters. He confessed his guilt.
The New River salt wcr.1s, at, Port
Austin, are now turning out a
average of l,040 barrels of salt per week,
the chief bulk Of which finds its market
in Toledo, Ohio.
Tile saw mill of Thomas Taylor s. Co..
at Carrollton, YVES totally destroyed by
fire on the 10th, involving loss of about
$35 900, on which there was an insurance
OF $25,0OO, divided among twelve compa-
nies.
John A. Rose, who resided near Big
Rapids, was killed by tree striking him
on the head on August 18th, while en-
gagged in telling trees. He was one of the
first settlers of the township, and was
fifty years old.
The body of w. s. Grimwood, who
went up in Barnum's balloon with Don
aldson from Chicago, was found on the
lake shore on the 18th, near Whitehall.
Papers with notes of the trip were found
on his person.
< A fiightfill accident occurred on the
Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad,
, about one mile north of Flint, at
o'clock Monday morning, which resulted
in the death of one man and the injury
of five others, one of whom will proba-
bly, die.
The farmers are busy threshing their
grain in Calhoun county. The yield of
wheat seems entirely beyond the antici-
pations of the most sanguine. The yield
of oats is tremendous, and there will be
an immense yield of cstn. Potatoes
will be drug at any price.
A man name Dick Lewis, near Ne
waygo, and his son, aged 81, had fight
over a rifle, and during the struggle
young Lewis was shot through the right
} lung, the ball lodging near the backbone.
His physician thinks he canIiot live. His
: ther has given himself up to the au-
$ thorities. ~
Sunday afternoon the residence Of T. j.
Howes, near Adrain, was damaged by
lightning, Which entered the chimney
passing through both stories, ripping the
: sitting-room floor and passing out
, through the foundation. Mrs. Howes
t was thrown down unconscious, but re-
covered There have been frequent
{ storms here the last two weeks.
f Louis c. Miller, German farmer il
. the town of Scio, Washtenaw county
l was murdered on the night of Augus
10 by an adopted son named Lyman
Burkhardt, aged fifteen years. He wa.
! accused of the deed, and finally con
r fessed, saying that DE placed the muzzl,
: of gun near Miler's shoulder and fred
) He gives no reason except that he wa
/, mad because of whipping which h,
e had received. He is in the county Jail.
Mr.. C. Van wyck, of Albion, who
accused of attempting to seduce littl
ten-year-old daughter of Mr.. Price
: was taken from his bed between tn
o hours of IL and IL p. M, on August 15tl
n and tarred and feathered, and thel
; warned to leave the town in three day
or the process would be repeated. MI
: Van Wyck is about fifty years old. and
e man of family. The mob numbers
about $50, and most were disguised.