Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-02-19
STATE NEWS.

Hillsdais has business men's prayer
meetings every morning at s:l5. 20
No sleeping cars between Detroit and
the cities of the Saginaw valley now.s
Coldwater's little DeutscLer" boys
have folmeda band,-and good one too.
The Adyentisiso of Battle Greek are put
ting an addition to their printing Office.
Mount Glemens s1z ieershowl ont that
] their wheat crop IS ru;ned. fwas ever
thus.
| Pewamo wants an odd6euow's lodge.
The stately Gangsr will not fill tho
void.
Mrs. Abby O'Rourk Of Ann Arhor died
Feb. sth, lackiug only six days Of being
I1OO years old.
| Bishop Gillespie's wife is in falling
Health, and trip to Minnesota has not
dene her much good.
Four people attended the recent Green
back convention at Adrian. It was
very unanimous meeting.
| Charles Linsey. of Cassopolis, didn't
know better than to wrestle with prin-
1ter; and so got his leg broke. ~
Isabella county is to have new court
E.hcuse at Mt Pleasant: The plan was
made by Dibble, of Saginaw.
Washtenaw county has 2se;7l5 acres OF
improved land which is more than any
other county in the state except OAKLAND.
Twenty-Five million five hun1rei thlu-
sand feet Of lumber are on the docks at
Muskcgon lake, 100000 of which is scld.
Nothing has yet been heard of the crew
of the Harmony, and It Is now almost Ger
tain that she went down in lake Mjehi-
gan with Ill on b6a.G.
The school tsachefS Of BsrVustte t=vs
been forbidden to use either the whip OF
} fsfdie in the sreoaragement Of mennl
lprogfsss and Mo:al rscri.ude.
The National Board ef underwriters
9ives slo0 eeeh to five Grand Rstdds
policemen, who ware engaged I'd ATTEST
Ing Bill kienk'r., the IRE bug.
Some Ann Arsor students stole com
rade's watch for - a jnke." bn' they lad
Ito pay el5 each in "good earnest" II
I WIS awfully funry-that joke was.
The following are tie transactions Of
: the State Treasury for last week: Re
! ceipts, sl19.l9;.79, payments. ss,S71.Oi;
total balance on hand, sl,17s. s.25l.1e.
The Courier says it is estimated that
only. one sixth of the 60Oo0,OOO feet OF
logs calculated to be put i'm OH the Rifle
: river have thus far reached the bank.
The Battle Greek schools propose 10
Have the examination papers Of the high
er grades bound into book form and sen,
to the Centennial as representative Of
their educational facilities.
The annual meeting of stocknol /, r. o.
the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
Company will be held at Grand Rapids,
March lst, 1876, at one o'clock p. M, for
, the election Of thirteen directors.
Contracts have been let for building up
the gaps in the Chicago and Lake Haron
road, and the pr ,spect fo.' a speedy m
pletion of the whole line. from Port flu-
ron to Chicago. is exceedingly bright.
. Land must e c'eap in Gra;iot count v
/ for the Journal gravely informs its reas.-
ers III farm in Fulton township being
} sold for $24.50, together with batch at
farming tools. Sold the tools and threw
in the farm as boot" perhaps.
A Grand Rapids lady recently garc
\ birth TO pair OF healthy twins, amt the
doctors are little excited about it be-
cause the little strangers had been full,-
a expected four months before they did ar
rivee Ais well that ends we'll, however.
Horace A. Burnett of Ransom, Hills
, dale county, was shot and Instantly
killed by Jacob Stevic, Feb. 9th. They
had been having some trouble abn.,t land.
and short time before, some boys had
,, given Stevic horning and he laid it to
Burnett.
|, "A strange story comes from Franken-
:. lust, German settlement near East Sag
inaw. A woman heard some one trying
to get in her house in the night She let
her dog out to interview the raller, anil
the honest animal choked the life out of
her dishonest neighbor, @
A Or md Rapids teacher sent a note to
f the chief of police asking him to come and
4 see one of the scholars who had been
{ cruelty beaten by-her stepmother. He
complied with the request, and found
chat the girl in question hal b Ell beaten
s uRtil she was bruised from head to foot.
. The woman, Mrs. Huntly, was arrested.
+ Some, time ago Dexter A. Root, of Bay
! City. iextetously footed out of his i'm
8 ner consciousness an invention known
s as Roots patent combination paddock.
and now he has formed com mnany for
r the manufacture of the locks, and tho
i firm of Root & Co. is going into tho busi-
G ness of making then on all exte ,sise SC ,,s
$ and sixty men are to be employed
As the morning train on the Jackson.
Lansing and Saginaw railroad passc |
Henderson's station, Feb. 7th. a man
jumped from bebidl pile of wood ami
threw himself across the track, and before
4 the train could ha stopnad be WAS killed