Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-05-20
STATE NEWS.
Horse thieves are giving Cass county
farmers considerable trouble

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Horse thieves are giving Cass county
farmers considerable trouble.
Cutler & Savage. of Spring Lake, have
sent carload of splendid lumber sawed
at their mill, to the Centennial.
The Ypsilanti normal institute has de-
cided by vote of % to % that women
shall not vote That settles it.
Mrs. Mary Lathrop, of Jackson, is
lecturing on " Poetry and PUSH"
The Bay City authorities have caused
933 trees TO be set out in the city. They
cost 2711a cents per tree.
RumOr says Mason is. to have paper
of pure democratic stripe, edited by j. V.
johnson. The more the merrier.
1t is said that the M. s. & L. s. railroad
company will Immediately complete and
equip the Marshall & Coldwater railroad.
Somebody has bIundered. and a portion
of the Michigan Centennial building.
shipped from Detroit, has gone astray
John Lafferty, of Speaker. Sanilac
county, was taken with fit, fell on his
face in puddle Of water and was drown
cd.
A lad named Patrick Rafferty,, aged ii
years. was drowned at Kawkawlin Sat-
urday. His body was recovered and bur-
led Monday.
Frankfort, BenZie county, adviees' say
that the prospects for fine yield of fruit
in the section of the fruit belt, were
never better. 10
Practical philanthropy at Adrian crops
out i'm the ladies reading and lunch
room." under the auspices Of the Ladies
union.
Tawas City sends an S-year-old- boy
s.. Scotch bag g.pipe-player to the. Centennial.
That's right, send all the bag-pips players
and hand-organ men.
The Courier says that the freight busi-
ness on the Flint and Pere Marquette
road is so brisk that the officers expert
ance great difficulty i'm supplying the de-
mand for cars.
Port Huron people are i'm a peck of
trouble about the removal of the Grand
Trunk shops to the Junction, and are
pulling every line that NAV tend to bind
them fast to the sandy soil Of the sandy
City.
The people of East Saginaw steal the
oil from the oil fed street l; m2s which
light up the outlying portions of the city,
and the Taxpayers devOutly return
thanks because they don't steal the lamp
posts.
The Sherman Pioneer says Mr.. Walter
Mesick of that place has caught i'm steel
trap bear weighing 400 pounds. He
has two dozen traps set and expects to
capture large number of bears dnring
the season.
The steam yacht Gtm. owned by Dep
uty U. S. Marshal James Henry. of Kali
amazOO, which has lain at Holland lring
the past winter, is to be sent n an extend
ell fishing and hunting excursion to
Mackinac and vicinity.
Joe Chapman, of Bay City, who was
subject to fits of moral Obliquity which
inclined him to steal cattle, has been ar
rested at New Boston. He was arrested
two years ago. escaped. and has been In
Canada until recently.
One of the features of the Monroe cele-
bration of the Tooth anniversary of
American independence will be the lay
ing of the cornerstone of a monument to
the soldiers of 1912, and the Monroe he
rOes of the war for the union.
Again is the curtain lifted and tale of
woe revaled. Mrs. Jasper Hayden. of
Springport, married but few weeks,
puts a pistol ball through her heart
preferring to fly to the ills she knew not
Of than to endure married infelicity.
Charles Wortley, of Sharon, Washte-
nav county, went out to IOnia county
few months ago and bought farm. pay
ing $3.50 down to bind the bargain. He
lfterward started to go again, taking 500
with him, and has not been heard of since
Hudson firemen will presently learn
now to handle steam fire engine. At
first they thought all that was necessary
% afford protection was to have an engine
n the place, now they have. found that
{ was best to take the machine to the
place where the conflagration is, and by
lnd-by they will get so they know enough
% build fire under the boiler.
The editor Of the Saginawian has a
Cochin China hen which has been sitting
IN by A scantling, and now is neglect
ng his newspaper business, expecting
@ become millionaire from the sale of
he crop of matches and toothpicks which
,e believes will be the result of her pa
# '-the valley" have in the lumber busi-
less. y
The contract tor grading the Coldwater
Z Marshall railroad from Marshall to Elm
Hall, i'm Montealm county, has been let
o company of which j. Condit Smith
S one of the leading men. This, road
will run through Olivet, Portland, ,Ver-
and Muir. The people along
he line are to furnish the means to grade
he roadbed, purchase the ties, and build
he bridges.
Mr.. Ferdinand Masset, of Grand Rapids.
las designed and carved for the Centen-
iial exhibition a clock case, which is des-
ribbed as one of the finest specimens of
hat kind of work ever seen in the West.
t is over six and half feet high, built
# black walnut, burl veneer ana white
Jolly imported from Sonth America. It
) elaborately and beautifully carved, the
abor of several months having been ex-
'anded upon it.
Two skeletons have recently been un-
arthed near Blisstield, and the people
re greatly excited thereat. Two years
go, it seems, two men came there to buy
farm, stayed all night with man
famed Allen, and were never seen again.
\ friend oftheirs in town, on whom they
lad promised to call. asked Allen where
hey were, and be ssitt tsey got up in the
,ieiit and left. 1t is said that the friends
believed at the time that they had been
Gully dealt wita.
A Battle Greek girl got ready to be
married. a few days ago. The guests
we're all assembled. Tut the bridegroom.
anne Dot. As this was the third time
&c had played the game, the mother of
he bride dismissed the company, telling
hem to assemble again in the evening;
nd taking the train went to a neighbOr-
n@ town, and to the store where the
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