Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-09-09
STATE NEWS.

The Ithaca artesian well has been bored
59I feet.
A gang of petty thieves has been
broken up at Big Rapids.
The schooner Samuel j. Tilden floats
Hayes and Wheeler flag.
Eight hundred and fifteen men and
women in the state prison now.
james G. Little one of the most active
business men in Monroe, is dead.
The .Iona Light Guard and friends will
make trip TO the Centennial, Oct. B.
A Bay City officer has been arrested
fo- eniLezzling and bound over for trial.
A Saginaw mill man has contract to
makea million broom hand es for an Ohio
man. st f,1aes
That Norvell base ball club went to
Adrian and beat the players of that city
8 too.
East Saginaw boasts of 5,l55 school
children this year, and promis OF more
next year.
The EAnse News represents that the
slate quarries in that vicinity as doing a
lively business.
The Chicago s. Lake Huron r. r.
from Flint to Port Huron is TO be treated
to suit of steel rails.
w. C. Palmer the singing evangelist.
is to mold series of meetings with the
Baptists of Three Rivers soon.
Miss Fannie Vincent. a Cnidwater
school marin, goes out 10 Denver 10 teach
at salary of S75 per month.
A fruit drying establishment. capable
OF making l,750 pounds ofdried iruit per
day. has been started at Dundee
| At Clear Lake, Van Buren, county, the
! fish are dying, and the farmers are using
the corpse for manuring corn.
Two thousand five hundred bushels of
wheat were sold on the streets OF Yer
montville Thursday of last week.
Four Grand Rapids gentlemen have
engaged Pullman car to take them and
their families to Philadelphia aud re-
turn.
Il massassauga snake was killed in
front of ali East Saginaw saloon the other
day. East Saginaw whisky breeds those
fellows.
The Lutheran church at Sturgis was
struck by lightning on the Both, the spire
demolished and the cdifice otherwise
damaged.
An unknown Englishman. aged about
50 years. was run over by an engine at
Grand Rapids on last Saturday and in
stantly killed.
| Linn s. Craig. of Gibralter, Wayne
county. have been awarded the contract
for building the ST. Mary's canal lock
gates. They do it for $5.750.
! Some enterprisihg reforlner cut the
halyards Of the Republican pole at Kaw--
kawlin, and rs it is 125 ieet high, they
are in a quandary how to replace them
Mrs. Tuttle. of Charlotte. has eight
married children, and proudly boasts of
; five Centennial grandchildren. all born
: since last March, and not a twin in the
lot.
One dollar bushe seems 70 be a
pretty fair aver,geof prices paid farmers
for wheat in this state at present. all
, market reports to the contrary notwith-
standing.
i The bars across the windows of the
state reform school have been removed.
Thus the last vestige of its prison style
:. has gone. No bars, locks or high fences
about the place.
A Lansing firm offer cook stove to the
Il
stand mt the central Michigan fair, aud
they have been notified that the cand-
dates are ready. m
The Flint g. Pere Marquette railroad
: officials (Webber'S road) have ordered all
e political flags to- be taken off the engines.
+ Hayes and Wheeler flags were cropping
ont pretty thickly.
james White OF Sand Lake. has been ar
rested on charge OF rape upon Ada r..
v Perry a nine-years-Old child, committed
in january. The child claims that Whites
threats prcycntd her telling OF the out
rage sooner.
: Up to September 1st there has been de-
: liyered from Rifle river. 50.O0O.0O0 feet of
II logs, and there is 100000 TO be deliv-
cred. On the Al Ores 4IO00.000 feet
have been delivered. and there is about
D. 6.000.0O0 feet left in the boom.
o McNeal & Fisher, wholesale grocers of
Chicago. have opened a store for few
DAYS. i'm Marshall. for the delivery of
some $4,000 worth of groceries. which
n had been previously sold by agents TO
# the grangers and farmers OF calhoun
. county.
: Thcsslipments from the Saginaw river
! to Sept. 1st aggregate 21935S. 900 feet OF
l. lumber, lOD.U0UUUJ lain. I-,cJl,VOO
n shingles, 55S.556 barrels of salt. and l.
i 10000 slaves. The lumber is 2,OOO00O
: feet i'm excess of last year. and 4!.000UO
5 feet of 1874.
l. The official record of the survey OF
II Gratiot county has been missing Tor a
, long time. and of course its absence has
matlea great deal of trouble. A sister OF
u the surveyor. thinking it WAS one of her
Is brothers private iooks. has had it locke
G. up in her trunk all this time.
20 Mr.. Chas. e. Bush. late division super
:, intentlent of the Grand River Valley and
:" Saginaw division Of Michigan Centennial
lie railroad. relnquishrs charge of the
" Grand River Valley division and assumes
m charge of the Detroit & Bay City and
. Mackinaw divisions-and retains the Sag
inaw. ~
!. The state salt inspector. DR.. S I'M Gar
's rigues. of East Saginaw. shows that the
10 salt product for the month of August was
as lS3.S99 barrels, the largest amount manu-
of iactured IN one month in the history O.
the state. The total product of the seal
son 70 September was 8 0a2 barrels. al
increase over tlle product nf lust seaso.
to the same time of 229,4l9 barrels.
!, ROYAL Oaks gas bonanza is III big thing
Messers. Smith and Pomeroy. who have
SIS been engaged working upon the ;lrtesial
lei we'll write as follows: "WhiIle engages
v i'm boring n well for Horace fiall abOu
ne three miles west OF Royal Oak. we strucl
X o3S and it hOistel los feet OF rods :nS