Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-04-29
STATE NEWS.

trade.
| Manistee county supervisors are in.
yestigating county officers.
The prospect for great wheat crop ir
Calhoun county never was better.
n. w. Cl;rk Of Clarkston. the noted
Ipisciculturist, died at lis residence on the
Is h.
The wheat i'm Oakland county never
looked better at this time of year than it
does now.
From Jan. Ito March 81, 6943 cmigrats
came into the United STATES by way Of
Port Huron.
The ear shops at <AlIc ran have been
sold. and the machinery will be moved to,
Grand Rapids.
The supreme court have passe,l resolu-.
tons of respect to the memory of Judge
Wing, deceased.
Albion college opens this spring term
under more favorable auspices Than for
the past seven years.
Adrian is moving i'm the after Of the
4th of July. A meeting Of its patriotic
citizens is Gale for.
N Nllitc SWdn vi Il fDS. WIS SI1ob ~
Austin's lake. near Kalamazoo, April IL,
by MIR. Nathan Francisco.
Mr.. Brazil Martin. of Ovid. was honor
ed with being the first of the Michigan
delegation to tue Black Hills that was
scalped.
I'm Allegan. on the 18th. a young man
by the name of Smith fell from wagon
which ran over his chest, killing him in
stantly.
Alexander La Beau, weather prophet
of Monroe. says that no warm settled;
weather neey be expected until the first
of June.
Henry G. Sparks. of Genesee county.
in prison on Is years sentence. has been
pardoned by Governor Bagley. lie had
served 8 years.
Prof. Watson discovered another plan
ct April l6. Ii was in the consultations
of Virgo, and shines like a star of the
l1th magnitude.
The loss by burning of the Grand
Trunk machine shop at Fort Giafiot was
$4,000. and 80 lnen h we been thrown
out of employment.
1t is reported that a Fort Gratint
young lady is one of the heirs to sir John
Holt. who lately died i'm England, leaving
an estate OF $16,000,0UO.
Fred Schultz. the head man of another
| gang of Saginaw river thieves, has been
arrested and some of his companions are
soon TO be gathered in.
Smith, the champion turkey gobblcr of
Michigan. has gone 10 the Detroit house
Of correction, and for three months the
turkeys of Adrian will have a rest.
DIR. Van Dusen, one of the commission
ers OF the new insane asylum at pontiac,
has resigned. and w. G.. Vinton OF De-
troit, mas been appointed in his stead.
AT North Unio }. Branch county lit
tie girl named Wemple tried to climb I'm
to the schOol-hnIlsc by the window and
the sash fell upon her, breaking her
neck.
One dollar and fifty cents per M for
lumber. Au Sable 10 Chicago, delivered
on the rail- is the latest figure. Whitaker
q Sons made the charter for the Fair
banks.
1t is said that IN iority of the new
board OF supervisors of Benz;e county
favor BcnZOnia as the county seat. the
election being defeat of the Frankfort
parry.
They have had heavy revival at Hills =.
dale college this winter. but they kept it
very still. The worst students i'm the in
stiiutiOn are included in the list of the re-
claimed.
Miss Foster. the young lady OF Wall. ID
Lake who was shot by lover because
she could not love him. has so far recoy-
cred as to be able to DC out OH the streets
occasionally.
A Tuscola county girl has set all Mil
Waukec wild by her exquisite beauty
i'm face and form, ami has fleeced the
best OF EN- at that noble game called
draw poker.
James Snodgrass of Little Traverse,
got tired of Mr.. Nc Gregor,his father-in-
law, and shot him through the body.
They have Snodgrass i'll jail and McGre-
gor in bed.
AT Adrian on Thursday night five
roughs attacked Mr.. Matt Noll, beat him
crllely and threw him over q fence for
dead. Robbery was the objec and an old
jack-knife the gain.
The Attorney General arises to remark
that in his humble opinion the tax or
license system of this state riehtfully
dates its initial of operations from the
first Monday in June.
Fifty-four thousand wild pigeons were
shipped from Shelby, Oceana county on
the 18th, which looks as If somebody hal
disregarded the law about shooting
those birds within five miles OF
"rOOSt."
Donahue & Lefiuer's fishery, on Sagin-
| aw bay. near the mouth OF Saginaw river,
yielded i'm five days last week S4.5OU
pounds of white fish. At two cents per
pound. the p ice paid by the packers. the
total bay catch last week amounted 10
$9,25O.
William Finch, a boy l6 years of age.
son of the widow Catherine Finch of
Ovid while at play with several other
boys with powder, Oh the oath inst. by "a
premature explosion OF their little blast,
had his face shockingly torn and both
eyes put out.
The woods north of Grand Haven are
swarming with pigeons, and some parties
are killing them by wholesale, and ship
ping then TO Boston, New York, and
other cities OH the seaboard, two car
loads of defunc. doves pass through De-
troit daily.
Alpena did honor to the Verona when
she got in there the other day, the ma
tives coming down TO the wharf en-
mdSse to cheer the stauncl craft and her
plucky officers. She has been the first
boat every season, for five years, to get
into Alpena.
Some of the young men(?) of Tecum-
sch Went out Ill the country TO IA district
school exhibition. They got full of beer
and acted as only beery Tecamseh smart
Young mell can. hut .fi or tho caunfrv