Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-11-27
STATE NEWS.

Next year is Adrian's semi-centenniai.
Michigan has 1s men over 100 years
old, and 165 over so. s.c'5glT li5f's nos
The Irwin house at Wenona was burn q
ed on the 23rd. Loss $4,000. insurance
$1,000. .9-fe4h
Horace Eaton of Tecumseh raised 28
tons Of squashes on an acre of ground
this year. 81 j>H t5@pG-:- = oisf-
The Adrian people ought to have plen-f
ty of brains. They eat 200 gallons of
oysters per day. ~ ia er,..,s<eo
The taxpayers of kalamazoo have
voted against issuing $4,000 bolds for a
new school-hOuse. 'i .Sn
Wright's hotel at West branch. 80 miles
north of Bay City, was burned November b
IL. Loss $1,000. f.l ot g 8soe ~ ts
Reynolds & Emiaw's saw-mili, Grand
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A prisoner in the Detroit Jail charged
with murder is said to have gained 16 lbs
of flesh since his Imprisonment. inoaIil
VIM. Waybur, printer, fell from the
second story of the Kalamazoo Gazette
office November 20, and was severely in,
jured. :
The Lake Superior mining company
are using peat for fuel in their engine
house. 1t is said to be much cheaper
than coal ne ..f..,l- -.'-.s,. ,tf -n,I
Mrs. George Davenport of East Macon
Lenawee county, murdered her infant
child while in fit of temporary insanity
November Is. - -. 'shaf g
A district telegraph company has BEEN
organized i'm Detroit for the accommoda-;I
tiOn of the business men of that city In =,
communication with each other.
Henry Waldron, a farmer near Pontiac
unearthed a den of 26 rattlesnakes while
hauling gravel last week. 'rhey were
nearly torpid and easily killed. Iniiiiot
1t is reported that the wife and daugh-I'
ter of Detroit custOm-house officer were
caught smuggling silks anil laces from
Windsor last Saturday, and fined
The Port Huron Daily Times of Thurs
day says that Christmas rose blOssomed
in Edgar Whites garden that morning ri
temperature IL degrees below freezing =.
Two barns belonging to c. ,Comins, so
miles up the Au Sable river, were burned
November II, with six horses, four cows,
besides hay, grain. and farming utensils. 9.
John III. Roberts of Grand Rapids went
deer-hunting a few days ago, and it is boz
lieved that he is either lost i'm the woods
or has met with an accident, as he has
not returned. - yf7h
The number Of conricts i'm the state
prison on Monday was 500. The broom
manufa cturing contract is to be commence
ed this week. A basket factory to en-
plOy 40 hands is talked of.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph says that
Samuel White of Charleston township
hac
next April, and now weighs 335 lbs. but ;
that she is very active and Industrious.
The schooner Chenango ran on a reef
| on Wood island, near Marquette, during
a severe gale November 20. No one has
been able to get near her yet, but it is
supposed that her crew of five persons
have all perished. ;
Captain Henry Stark of the schooner
M. Dali, from Chicago, was drowned No
vember lS while attempting to make the
port of Luddington in a storm. While
standing on the cabin giving orders he
was knocked overheard. .,, a. -,
Samuel FarwelI, vice president of and
largest shareholder i'm the Flint & Pere
Marquette railroad, died at the residence
of his son-in-law, DIR. HeC c. Potter, East
Saginaw, November IL, in his. .Slst year.
He has been contractor Of public works
upwards Of 30 years. His first work was
| on the Erie canal. -" 49, rsiis
An attempt to break the county jail at
| Grand Rapids was discovered November
20. The prisoners had with a file and
four or i've knives cut the bars around
the corridor and removed the sheeting
under the window. Their plan was to
kill the turnkey when he came to lock up
at night, and then make their escape. hre
The Hollanders Of Ottawa county. inn.
ported the old country market day" to
their homes in the new land. On the
appointed day the well-to-do farmers
with their families come into town IN
wagons, followed bysueh animals as fhay,
wish 70 sell. The old people spend the
|day buying and selling, the yonneet ca.
ljoying life. November aIfh was fIle daS'
observed at Holland City, ard q cof1e
pendent says. Oar streets were thronged,
with reti.cheeked maitlens and goxgeqgs
Country swainss sds asnlv 10 .srri1.o
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