Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-03-18
STATE NEWS.

dred dollars left.
The Port Huron folks will build two
new school houses this year.
A Jackson state prison bird has made a
steam engine out of tin.
Over $4,000 of Detroit taxes have
been returned As uncOllected.
Sheridan, Montcalm county, is going
to have new $4,000 school house.
A lodge of the Knights of Pythias was
organized in Tecumseh Monday night.
Bellevue is another Michigan borough
whose finances are in healthy condition.
Charles Surine, well-known Grand
Rapids lawyer, has been convicted of per-
jury.
David Wicgel, of Sears has gone with
out food 20 days. He intends to fast 40
days.
The East Saginaw rooster and pup
two pups.
There is farmer in Eaton county who
is under arrest, charged with d b1uching
a family of three daughters.
Cornelius Hoffman, who committed
| theft at Williamson some months ago,
has been caught in Indiana.
Miss Aldrch, of Big Rapids, tied stone
i'm her apron and walked into mill race.
Verdict, temporary insanity.
| VIM. o. German. of Talmadge. Ottawa
county, is hale old veteran of LOG years
of age, and came to Michigan in '33.
Noah Burley, of Baldwin, charged with
rape upon the person OF a l3-year-old girl,
has been sent TO Jackson for five years.
Tilton is making good thing out of the
Michiganders. He gets $3.50 per night,
aud manages to get in five nights per
week.
A brakeman named Brady, on the
/ night freight, was caught between the
bumpers and killed while coupling cars
at Ionia, March o.
Mrs. Jane Turnbull. of Muskegon, died,
and now an inquisitiye court wants 10
know you know, what DR.. John Tatlnan
knows about abortion practice.
John r. Moor, a Grand Rapids street
car conductor, has had a streak of luck.
He has received check for $4,000, Il
prize drawn in the Topeka lottery.
The Lansing Light Guard will te ac-
cepted by the Governor as another cohort
Il
muster 20 stalwart, eager warriors.
A young man Of Marine City notifies
the saloon keepers that if they sell him
liquor they shall be prosecuted for viola
ton OF section /, act 231, laws of 1875.
i A few years ago the st1te of Michigan
paid $500 per copy for the Mexican An
tiquities." Bay City fas recently been
buying the same book; for Sly per copy.
1t was an Adrian Sunday school teacher
{ who last Sabbath gave scholar four
spot of spades by mistake for a reward
card. She should not carry bot b packs in
one pocket.
| Frank Yates, of Grand Haven, and
? Courtney of Union Springs, n. Y. who
, are entered for the Centennial boat race
are having bo ut built 81 feet long By IA
inches wide.
Deputy US. Marshal, Horace Becker, of
Bay City, is now on the judicial rack,
charged with having eStorted money
from prisoner OH the plea that it was
wanted for attorney fees. etc.
Thursday was smashing day for the
Adrian people. Three people had leg
arm or collar bone broken III that town
|, that day, and there had been no tornado
fooling around there either.
; Last week 120 person joined the various
! churches at Coldwater. Twenty joined
e the Baptist by letter and experience 90
d the Methodist Oh probation. and likewise
: 40 the Presbyterian. The Baptists baptize
more next Sunday night.
John Rich, well known and respected
e citizen of Greenvillc. shot himself
5 through the head with a revolver Sunday.
i He leaves wife and three children in
fair circumstances. 1t is supposed he was
. insane. He is the fourth one of the
family to commit suicide.
Two boys and two girls, tried ut Jack
son for disturbing religious meeting.
have been acquitted. The service alleged
| to have been disturbed was that of the
Free Methodists, who were themselves
: proven to be so noisy that they kept
I neighhors awake nights, and prevented Il
house near their place of worship from
i being rented.
I The question OF Planting Centennial
trees, as suggested by Gov. Bagley's
: proclamation, is creating considerable in
q terest at Holland. The common council
have set apart fiYe acres OF ground for
I that purpose, to be hereafter known rs
t "Centennial park, and appropriated S400
D for its Improvement and the erection ola
q pOlC CCiltSI.
0 Miss Hannah White, maiden aunt of
Senator Ferry, celebrated her 10th birth
day March 4, by an old fashioned party
and supper. The guests assembled at z
P. NJ. and went home at 10 p. NJ. One of
b the tables was set with antique china. and
, everything arranged as nearly as possible
" after the fashion of 1900. Senator Ferry
e sent her a beautiful bouquet from Wash
:. ington.
O. 1t was Hi.lsdale county grange that
n PLAYED sharp this time. They would not
: be imposed upon by middlc-men, and so
{ sent to Chicago for large quantity Of
e sheeting which cost them Il cents per
e yard and freight charges. When op, ned it
+ was found to be Jonesville shecting, man
!, ufactured in their own county, and
y which can be bought in their own mar
d ket town for 10 cents.
d The Muskegon News and Reporter,
n usually pretty good authority on such
q things, thus remarketh upon the lumber
= prospects: THE open winter and scarcity
u of snow i'm this state, rs we'll rs other lum-
,t bering sections of the country, has caused
considerable anxiety within the past two
months among mill owners, manufac-
turers and dealers generally in regard to
the supply of logs for this year, but the
excellent sleighing we have had in the
N lumber woods in Northern Michigan for
ls the past three weeks, are more assuring.
On Muskegon and White rivers upward of
!, SO per cent of the logs cut. have already
been banked. Snow. we are assured, is
is abundant in the pineries, and the present
, indications are that the number Of logs
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