Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-03-11
STATE NEWS.


Cheii CiA DllSSuClus
Body-snatchers are pcstering the dead
folks at Pentwater.
When they have ball at Battle Creek
they call it a ship canal dance.
A little steamer is being built at Battle
Creek to ply an Goguac lake. p t.,H
A dry goods store i'm Kalamazoo Is
selling 100 yards of calico for ST.. II
The Bay City school bouses are being
photographed for the Centennial :
A Jail delivery occurred at Flint on
Sunday last, four prisoners escaping.
Frank Jurey, of Kalamazoo, has been
sentenced to state prison for two years
for burglary. f h ei-
Miss Minnie Sherwood, the Kalamazoo
vocalist, is winning golden opinions in,
the cities of Central New York. .s.,.
VIM. Minis. of Mason, a young men %
years of age was killed at Mason by the
upsetting of a load of lumber.
Saginaw City thieves have no respect
for either the law or its officers, and have
stolen the sheriff's harness and buffalo
robes
Not more than 65.0O0.0OO feet will be
put i'm the Manistpe booms this year. It
is the smallest tally for Manistee in de-
cade. - $3.50 a
The Common Council of Bay City has
voted to accept the invitation of the
Georgia people to visit that State this
month.
Port Huron has a society. the men,
bers of which are pledged not tc treat
or be treated to liquor or cigars in any
form. ..>,--e ~, -.
New developments in the Flint post,
Office case show that Oakes has been
keeping decidedly queer set of books
for long time past. g st.HsA tAe =
They do say that the city of Battle
Creek is picking up handsomely, and is
entering in the race for the place as the
boss Interior city of the state.
The Common Council of Jackson have
just finished an investigation OF the po-
lice force, and report that they find all
the force guilty of neglect of duties.
The May trial at -Chesaning is still i'm
progress. There seems to be strong
feeling that it was all a put up job OH
the defendant, Rev. L. w. May. feas III
Ida Xilkinsnn--As L-'.r~--'i-sr~e-a
| forty years. has sued wilowerl of that
region for breach of promise. placing the
injury done her youthful affections at
SiO.600. s. '~eia s..s .slaii,'l - =
Arponteny, tile Monroe wife murderer.
has been sentenced by Judge Pratt to
eighteen years at hard labor at the state
prison. He had nothing to say, but took
it coolly.
Andy Wheeler, telegraph operator at
Bridgeman, was accidently shot in the
left arm, last week, while i'm a
friendly scuffie, by pistol i'm the hands
Of his fellow scuf1ler.
Harry Walton. a religious f.natic.' and
barn burner, is holding reyivals in the
Jail at Pontiac, where he is confined. He
sings, dances, and prays. and the other
prisoners join in with him.
| Faith" "HOper and sCha ritv,- are
the names of the three girl babies born
10 Mrs. E. Baker, of Flint, last Saturday.
They aggregated seventeen pounds
weight. All doing we'll. - el3fs 4af
The Methodist Church at Albion has
made its pews free, intr oduced congrega-
tional singing, and can now hardly find
sitting room for the audiences which
gather there every Sunday. F So
The return pigeon killing match be-
tween Crawford, Of Rochester, and Mo-
ran. of Chesterfield. at Mt. Clemens. re-
suited i'm a victory for Crawford by g.
score of twenty-five to twenty-one.
Cedar Springs is excited over law
suit growing out of the infliction Of cor
poral punishment by the principal of the
| Union School, Prof. c. w. Fallass, upon
a lad by the name of Burtie Lincoln.
A Saginaw man, upon whose hands
time hung heavily, has built an engine OF
l 9-15 inch stroke; the diameter of the
piston head is i 0-32 inches; 1,50O to
1000 revolutions per minute is its regular
gait.
The Bay City Tribune is a liberal
paper. Itsings the praises of the new Bay
City lager, and urges the readers to scome
TO the Baptist Church and see what the
revival has accomplished" both i'm the
same local columns.
Frank A. Mason, man employed I'm
lumber camp in Otsego county, started to
visit some trappers ten miles distant last
Saturday, and frOZe to death. His par
ents reside at Saginaw City, where his re-
mains wele brought when found.
The Michigan & Saginaw Salt COM
pames, recently happily welded, represent
764,l6S barrels annual capacity, and 225,-
5l4 barrels remain outside, and the pro-
prietors are being labOred with to bring
them within the ring and higher prices.
An assault is to be made upon the
strongholds of Satan at East Saginaw by
Rev. John ID. POLES, an Ohio evangelist
of some note. lie is invited thither by
the pastors Of the Baptist, Presbyterian,
Congregational and Methodist churches.
Mrs. E. Parry formerly of Grand Rapids,
and Mrs. .Brown.have been holding spir-
| itual searlces at the Forbes house and Facy
house i'm MARSHALL. Tickets of admission
cost Sl.00. Materialized spirits and
others spiritual phenomena were present
| ed q le
Kalamazoo wants TO be represented in
the Black Hills. Two meetings have
been held already, secretly. The pro-
| gramme is not as yet made public.
There will no doubt be not less than 100
men enlist to go as soon as the company is
formed. tA
The United States authorities are look
inc after those homesteatlers who are
cutting too mach pine off their tracts be-
fore they acquire titles. There Is heap
Of crookedness in that business. and .spine
stripping" is too common sin in this
state. '' t ~ ~ eal
What is thought to be the largest tree in
the state has been found i'm Wexford
county. Three feet from the ground it
measures % feet i'm circumference. which
would make it 901 900 feet in diameter,
and the opinion is ventured thatwhen cut
it will be found to bes5 feet i'm diameter
60 feet from the ground. OF course it is.
! TO. be sent to. the Centennial.