Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-06-17
STATE NEWS.

The AIuskegon dry dock has been idle
but a single day this season. =
The Ypsilanii'Light Guards will 60 to
Adrian to spend the 4th of July.
Ionia has new fire department which
is said to be a credit to Replace.
William Edward, of Grand Rapids, was
drowned last Saturday, while bathing. g
They are going to have perhaps fully
300 state troops in line at Adrian ON
the 4th.
Goderich and Syracuse salt is sold in
the stores of Saginaw. Trade has some
queer vagaries.
There is an aged artist hermit at Bron-
son who passes his years i'm painting
scenes i'm the life of Christ.
The burglars have been visiting Adrian
and have had a very profitable season.
They played for ore night only.
Interference with the Worthwhile post
office cost Allen Thompson $40 fine and
$l30 costs in the United States court.
Miss Annie Sweet, OF Adrian, is mis-
sionary in Assam, and is writing interest
ing letters to the folks at her old home.
The jury in the Steine murder case, at
Hillsdale, after being out Is hours, re-
turned a verdict Thursday OF Inanslaught-
| er. . ,.. sft-.-
Emory Chase. of Crystal, who shot an
old man named Pinkston for raping bis
wife has been found guilty of man.
slaughter. E,FfF A8fr
There are 277 newspapers and periodi-
Gals published in this state. or this
number only twoare published exclusive
ly as dailies. r a W sfs
Detroit is making grand preparations
for the celebration of the Fourth, and eX-
poets to have a street pageant more than
tour miles long.
Corney Lamhen. an incestuous old
scamp, who ruined his own daughter,
has been sent from Branch county to the
state prison 10: seven years.
| The brave Adrian hunters have plenty
Of pigeons cooped up and propose TO at
tack them next Friday. About 20 of the
intrepid huntsmen will attack 600 wild,
unframed pigeons. is s.f -
Gus Smith, alias Bigler, was arrested
for stealing raiment from Lansing hos
telry Sunday, gave bail, went out and
stole horse, and was again garncred lato
the criminal fold. r. f-3s ar
| Last year the Flint G. Pere Marquette
railroad company sold 7,430 acres OF land
at an average of $11 80 per. acre. or an
aggregate of $S4,63S. 1t has 100000
acres still i'm the market. i.H1.
| A grand workingmen's picnic excur-
sion takes place at Adrian OH the 24th.
They will go by rail to Detroit, thence
by boat UP to Lake st. Clair, and back to
Crosse Isle and return. - - gs
Nicholas Pickard of Iceland fell dead
in the street My u while talking with a
friend He came to the Manitou Isles in
1889, and was the first man to engage in
the wood trade i'm northern Michigan. I
Last week at Adrian, little lad named
jimmie McBain, while playing in the Oat
bin at the Lake Shore depot, was sucked
in as oats were being run out and was
suffocated before he could be rescued.
Another boy had avery narrow escape.
What is known as the sSTrue Dutch Re
| formed church." of Holland. is so much
prejudiccd against secret societies that in
case of the death of member who is Il
Mason or Odd Fellow.he has to 90 to some
other church for funeral Such was
theexperience this week of an Odd Fellow
member.
| Justice never sleeps. julius West
| brook has been arrested at or near Jsck-
son. charged with having committed
murder five years ago. a man Kennedy
had died, and his death was attributed to
a falling limb of tree, but now comes
man who swears that he saw Westbrook
kill Kennedy. Ia a haf
The Berrien Springs grange means
business. evidently, when it says: '.I7e-
solred, That we hereby agree as q
grange TO pay the expenses incurred by
any of our members when prosecuted by
| the gate swindlers now perambulating
Berrien county," Why lightning-rod
men We're not Included is not mentioned.
Ransom Gardner, whose death was re-
] corded last week. was born in Port Ann.
Y. Y. and was over 90 years of age. He
came to Michigan i'm 1887. Tie had of late
wears been devOting himself to the build
ing of railroad from White Pigeon to
Anderson, Ind, which enterprise was on
ly recently completed. he leaves wife
and three daughters.
Tom Scott has been throwing cold
wafer on the Coldwater Marshal s. Mack
inac railroad project, by writing to DIR.
S. s. Cutler that if the company used the
Michigan Central & Lake Shore railroad
company's road-bed they would have to
do so subject to the mortgage of $4,000
milo which he and George Cass held as
trustees, which is now i'm court, for the
purpose of foreclosure. 1t is feared this
letter is Il serious blow to the road.
| Herbert l.. Slocum. the student of the
Detroit Medical college, who stole the
body of mulatto ut Grand Rapids last
winter, and attempted to ship it to Dc
troit. for the use of his fellow students.
has pleaded guilty of the crime of grave
robbing. and Judge Hoyt, of the Kent
circuit. has his sentence reserved. This
| is the first case of the kind i'll Kent cOur-
ty. Slocum claims that he was poor, and
stole the cadaver to help pay his way
through the college. t
Henry Monroe, of Sandstone, has been
arrested, charged with an attempt to
poison the family of George Snow. He
Quarreled with his wife about four weeks
since, and she went to live with Mrs.
Snow, who is her sister. and Monroe
threatened tn '.clean them all out" Some
| time ago poison WAS found in the tea
kettle, and strychnine was afterwards
found in the water jug used in the field.
When arrested, a paper of strychnine
was foand OH his persoll. ssff
Col. j. Holmes Grover. a well-known
actor and authors and formerly colonel
of the llth New jersey and u. S. consul
ut Aneona, Italy, has been teaching
French in Adrian for the past four months
under tllename of Mark Dow He is
now in Tecumseh working on a new
French grammer, which he intends TO
publish. a commission house in PhiIa