Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-07-24
STATE NEWS.

this year than last by 234.
| Jackson claims to have horse that i
now fifty-one years of age.
| There were six weddings in Butler
Branch County, on Sunday, July4
| The Jackson Mutuals are now making
aprofessional tour through Canada.
| The tax on railroad lands in Wexford
County this year amounts to $32,2O7, ,0S
Lieut.. Gov. Ell. H. Holt sailed from New
York for Europe and the Holy Land
Saturday.
In Eaton County during the year 1871
there were 259 marriages, $40 births and
235 deaths.
Mr.. Willard, the man who owns the
largest camp-meeting grounds in Michi
gan, has been struck totally dumb.
That magnificent ruin," Theodore
Tilton, is going to lecture to the Grand
Rapids people the coming season.
Three attempts at burglary were made
at Coldwater recently one night, but a
few dollars in change was all the spoilS.
Eight new students joined the fresh
man class at the agricultural college a
few days since, when the summer term
began.
Four hands have been amputed by
DetrOit surgeons as result of the care
less use of firearms by boys ON the 4th
and 9Th.
Lenawee County is competing with
Oakland on corundum, or diamond pol
ish." A vein has been struck near
Adrain.
The Rev. G. L. Allen, the boss croquet
player of Pontiac, was lately presented
with fine lockwood croquet set by sew
eral Of his friends.
The varDish and storing room of Ber-
ky & Gays furniture establishment at
Grand Rapids was burned on the 18th.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Some Detroit gentlemen are arranging
to construct a building in Philadelphia
to be designated as the headquarters of
Michigan people who visit the centen-
nial.
Midland county bears are becoming
too intimate for the convenience of its
inhabitants. They go to the kitchen
when the cook is out and help them
selves.
A Mrs. Brown, of Detroit, has given
birth to perfectly healthy and well de-
veloped child weighing exactly one
pound. They do up things in nutshell
in some towns.
Jackson has plank-road war. July
10th aparty of forty masked men went
10 the toll-gate and elected the keeper.
They then threw the furniture out and
burned the house to the ground.
Quite an excitement was raised on the
18th on the streets of Ypsilanti, by an
afray between two respectable and well
known women of that city, in which
parasol was used as the weapon of of
fense. Cause unknown.
The State Board of Control have grant,
ed sixteen sections Of State Swamp land
for the Improvement Of Torch River, and
parties have made propositions to do the
dredging for ceItain amount through
any kind of soil, or wooded swamp.
A valuable team of hores owned by
John Ballaniyne,a lumberman near
Sard Beach, was backed off the pier into
the lake Thursday by careless driver,
and being entaD@lcd with the harness
and wagon were instantaneously |
drowned. Loss $400.
A reward of $4OO is offered by the
shcri6s of Ottawa aud Kent counties for |
the arrest Of Peter SchiIlen, the murderer |
of Edward NayIor, at Georgetown, Otta-
wa county, in January last. A number
of men have been se.,rching for him in
the woods north OF Holland.
Adolphus Trombley, an employe at |
McGraw's mill, Bay City, was so severely
injured by flying piece from a saw
which burst on the 18th, that his life is
despaired of. The skull was broken, one |
shoulder was dislocated, and there were
other injuries. Trombley has a wife and |
family.
Hon. j. G. Burrows, of kalamazoo, has
gone 10 California, 10 take part in the
political canvass in that State, by invita-
ton of its Republican State Central Com
mittee. He will remain in California un-
til about the 1st of September, and will |
then proceed to Ohio, and take the
stump for the Republican ticket there.
The st, Johns Republican says that a
of Lawrence Day of Watertown
suicide by taking arsenic,
July 8. She confessed the act, giving as
a season that she had been outraged by a
man named Andrew Sperry the Saturday
previous. Sperry has left for parts un-
known.
The examination of John H. Deuster
aud August Pleiss at Northport for the
killing of Peter Peterson at Suttons Bay
on the 9th instant, resulted in holding
them for trial in the Circuit Court.
Judge Ramsdell fixed the bail of Deuster
at $1,000 and that of Pleiss at $4,000,
which has been furnished.
The Adrain Times says that DR.. v. A. |
Baker Of that city has in his possession a
great curiosity in the shape of an aero
lite which was found on the farm of his |