Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-08-14

Muskegon is the seventh city in tt
state In population sfl .fsasf u
W. s. George & Co. wil DO the stats
printing for the ensuing year. Q ''''
Tecumseh, said to be one Of the hand
soonest places in the state, is out Of DEBT
and has money in the tiessurys
The Peoples Bank at Tecumseh got
10000 new cents the other day With
which to resume specie payment - s.E
There arc said to be $1,000 members of
the Patrons of Husbandry in this statA
and $50 oranges in working condition. (
SBrick' Pomeroy viii deliver the an
nual address before the Eaton county
agricultural society at Charlotte, Sept .
l23. eF .sss.az.es.f 4, sssil ss'sf szlst.l.
Bay City has had 50 fires during the Z
past year, which have cost sos, los; S34- =
600 Of this was returned by the insurance
companies. ''s''.' E,
Mr.. A. s. Dyckman, of South Haven, ex-
poets 10 have 1000 BASKETS of peaches,
notwithstanding the damage done to trees.
by the extreme cold of last winter. -.
Samuel Ferguson, of Dryden, Livinxs-
ton County. has well on his farm 40
feet deep, stoned from top to bottom. The
water is raised to the surface by wind
mill.
Two gentlemen from Wisconsin have
bought 2,2O0 acres Of land, mostly mazsh,
In Capac, st. Clair County, which they
propose to devote to the iaisiag of cram
berries. &.
Muskegon was burned one year ago.
In that time q new stores have been
completed and several more are in pro-
cess of erection. besides a great many
private dwellings. -
George freeman, farmer living near
Plymouth, Mich, directed his daughter
to stop playing croqnet, and on her refus-
ing: beat her SO numerically that she has :
since died. BE is under arrest.
The total expenses Of recovering, en-
balming. boxing, transporting &C., of !,
remains of Miss Anna Eisner, Of Niles,
who was lost on. the Schiller, until they
reached New York, amounted to $soo40L
| The Spiritualisis of Kalamazoo are to-
hold meeting In the groyes,of Elysean
Island, Kalamazoo River, on August 81
continuing two days. Among the speak
ers announced is Giles B. Stebbins, ee'
Detroit. - ~ ssfiseaf szsss
Clayton. Lenawee county. has q citizen
who hes been Mason. ffsy-siq years.
HIS name is Gardner Robb. He is eighty,
years old, aud was in the war Of 1914
He still walks without cane and reads
without glasses. as'is' 80 ,s1sl5I rs
Fritz Kochler, German living near
East Saginaw, who possesses wife and
six children, was arrested in that CITY
Monday on the charge Of having con-
mittcd rape on the person of MIS-. EmmS
AlIrecht. He gave bail in the sum q
81. 900 for appearance at his examination.
A brakeman named VIM. Wickham
was run over and killed in the Detroit,
Lansing and Lake Michigan Railway
yards at Ionia on the 7th.. His foot
caught in the track and the locomotive q
backed over him, cutting the body In y.
two. He leaves wife and child. = s.s,f
The family of Frank Thompson Of
L:tchfeld, were poisoned Sunday morn-I
ing, by eating supposed mushrooms,
which proved to be toad-s1ools. Mrs. 4. q
died at s o'clock Monday evening, and
Mr.. Z. at half past nine thenext mornin2i
No hopes are entertained of the recovery
of q little girl who passook with them Of Z
the poisonous food. r. 81 85 kliyn
Willis Owen attempted to shoot DR..
N. D, Lee on the 9Th at Saginaw city.
The affair makes o big excitement. Tho
doctor had been fitting truss on Owens
vile at Ovens request, and since then
he has been accused of improper con-
nucS bv Owens q On fbe dsu -zao.aAssz
armed and choked by the doctor and is .
row under arresr. e.7i.ss1s' -
The residence of VIM. w. Larmour, I'm +.
Battle Greek, which stands by itself on
the Goguac road, was left alone . few
days since by the departure of the family
on visit to the east. Monday night it
was discovered that thieves had entered
the house, and aiier taking what they
wanted, had smashed the furniture, which
was very valuable. 1t is supposed that
the theft was committed Friday night, AZ
a light was seen in the house at that
time. Nj. Lssmour was notified of his
misioltuneby telegraph Monday even
ing. Some of the tramps now infeetinx:
the city are supposed to have committed
| the deed. rs
The Dowagiac band started for Wil-
Evansville Aug. 5 to attend the ceIebrs-
ton of the abolition of slavery in the
West Indies. AS they drove upon the
bridge at Williamsville, the bridge broke,
and the II members of the band, the
driver, four horses, and the band wagon
were dropped down 30 feet. The driver
had bis leg broken in three places, anoth-
er had his ear torn of, and one mans
back was so badly injured he may not
recover. All were more or less hurt
The band Instruments, costing $3.50 were
all ruined except the alto horn, but
strange to say, the horses, wagon, AMI
harness woy-o r,nsvs,,~o1 - -