Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-08-05
STATE NEWS.


Dundee TO Detroit, and other markets. .
In grading a street at st. Clair. five hui
man skeletons were unearthed the other
day
Jackson is manufacturing paper for
commercial uses of pine slabs from Sagi-
nav.
Five generations of one family live at
Gand Ledge. Campbell is the family
name.
Three hundred cords of wood were
accidcntly conflagrated at Elk Lake last
week.
The Blissfield broomhandle factory was
burned last week. Loss $1,000; insurance,
$1,000.
The Allegan young ladies are getting
pin money this year by driving COWS to
the pound
The Coldwater folks paid half of the
license in order to get Forepaugh's show
to visit their city.
Ninty cents and 81 per bushel is the
ruling price of new wheat in portions Of
the state just now.
A two year-old child named Kemp was
beheaded by railroad engine at Ann
ArbOr on Sunday. 49,.
Plant thieves, the meanest sneaks i'm
the world, are robbing Trenton danes of
their vegetable pets.
A blue racer 91a feet long and rattle
snake with go rattles were recently killed
in Convis, near Marshall.
j. f. Earle of Grand Rapids estimated
the distance of the late beautiful meteor
to be 100 miles from the earth.
The Michigan Central has taken con-
tract of shipping 5000 cars of ship timber
from Muskegon to Europe.
Mrs. Lois Cambeli. mother of Judge
James V. CAMPBELL of the supreme court,
died in Detroit July 10, aged 80 years.
G.. III. Whittemore, a Tawas City lnm-
herman, has failed. $4,000 of his paper
Is held at East Saginaw and $4,000 at Bay
City.
The water i'm most the small lakes of
Michigan is reported to be higher this
season than it has been for 4 number of
years.
The Republicans of Saginaw City dedi-
Gated their wigwam. which has seating
capacity of 1000 people, last Tuesday
evening.
| A Saginaw lawyer who thinks he is
about the shrewdest:.man OH the face of
the earth. had his pockets picked ut the
Centennial.
Two hundred and thirty-four saloons
less i'm this state than there were last year,
and the prohibitionists are probably say
ing. 1--WE did it,
The machinery has been taken out of
the Farwell hemlock extract factory, and
the business declared a failure as far as
that is concerned.
Lexington burst up Freemasonry
again ut COldwater last week. OF course
those terrible r;ls.slls will never dare to
show their heals again.
SOjourner Truth is not deal as has
been reported. but lives, anu expects To
| visit the Centennial when the weather
becomes cooler.
VIM. Moyle was killed and Hector Nc
Donald disfgured for life by dynamite
explosion at Mine Native, Thunder Bay
l.. s., a few days ago.
The Lansing House has reopcned for
business, and PC. Ayers has taken the
contract to put itin as good shape as it was
before the fire, for $4,000.
MIR. William Jones, of Grayling. has
slaughtered Ia full-grOwn bears within a.
few weeks, and is referred to as the cham
piOn bear hunter OF Michigan.
The Port Huron liquor dealers are do
ing just as they choose about furnishing
bonds as there is no officer there with
backbone enough TO enforce the law.
1t is claimed that the samples of woods
exhibited at the Centennial by the farm;
ers of st. Joseph county, excel those of all
the rest of the Michigan wool exhibits.
Mrs. Chas. Grieb, of CT. t.elsea, locked her
fOur-year old boy i'm ti,e hOslse and went
Offto pick berries. When she returned
the house and boy were both burned up.
The negro thief who escaped from Con-
stable Baggs, of Battle Creek, has been.
recaptured, after IA desperate fight. He
was shot twice before he would surren-
der.
Some of the Bay City eX-soldicrs OBJ
ject 10 a Custer monument at Monroe.
They want it to be erected ut Washing
ton. and will let Monroe folks build their
own.
The Grand Trunk authorities have
caused the arrest of three children for OBJ
structing the railroad track near Port
Huron. They are all three less than ten
years of age.
Two Canandaigua, Lenawee county,
gentlemen, named Allen and Flayer,,
were run away with by Il fractions team
and seriously injured. Both were over
~ years Of age.
The Saginaw Courier is informed that.
the Rev. +. w. May is raising fund by
subscription i'm CheSaning TO be usetl in
fine prOsecilfjOn of the Parkers who were
witnesses against him i'm the scandal case
] lst winter.
A bright thought struck B ntor
HarhOr fOur-year-old the other day, and
he ran and told his mother that God had
played trick on us He explained
that the storm which had been approach
ing had passed away, and the sun was
shining again.
Miss Julia Brown. the lady who for
eleven years has lie n keeper of the Bay
City light house. ha, kept her light SO 4
displayed that Mr.. George N. Way. OF =.
Wenona, has been attracted over that
way, anti has marrietl her. Puns about
new Ways are now i'm order.
An old man named Carpenter. residing
at Bedford. near Battle Creek. while ly-
ino HELPLESS i'm bed suffering from the o.
fects of being run over by n train, knock =
ed oyer kerosene lamp sitting near his
coucb. and set his bed Il fire. He was sllf-
focated before his deaf wife found out
thai he WAS III danger.
An exchange says: ''Bishop Gillespie,
Of western Michigan. entcrtains the plan
of sec rny land somewhere in the Grand
Traverse region anil making il summer re-
sort for fle ..leroy and lis diocese. and