Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-01-01
STATE NEWS.


Pewamo, with q population of less than
400. has four churches.
Fifteen thousand barrels of salt are left
over in the Saginaw valley. ssis
Citizens of Berrfem talk Of changing
the county seat. Niles wants t.
DIR. Davenport, of Boston, Mass, has
leased the St. Louis magnetic springs.
Barry County has an organized gang of
thieves, with headquarters in Hastings.
Cooper, the Charlotte dry goods mer.
chant who recently failed, has abscohded.
Three Rivers has its long-talked-of
street lamps md inebriate. supporters at
last. '''''
Died-In kalamazo last week. Sam,
the Oldest horse in tine county. aged thir-
ty-two years. s'.rts s2.ss aa
A Marshall butcher supplied his Gus
TONERS with holiday beef from a crittef
weighing lssoO pounds - r. Aafi
Grand Rapids has built 800 buildings
during the past year. They cost 81. lOO,-
OO.. Good enough Z. isel
The kindergarten at Charlotte closed
Saturday for the winter. Scholars too
small. Mud too deep. 2 sia assfi@
"a daily line of boats will be run be-
tween Frankfort and Milwaukee next
summer by Mr.. Goodrich.
Muffied drllmmers-Six thousand par
tridges were recently. shipped to the
eastern markets from Ovid.
| Four candidates for the influential of
flee of street lamp-lighter are having a
mighty contest at Hillsdale. .,ps!ily
Michael Foley has been arrested at OF
sego Lake, charged with burning
Wright's Hotel at West Branch. 9roi
n The measles, scarlet fever, whooping
cough and pure cussedness are raging
among the children at Hastings. -
Instead of the time-honored Christmas
trees, the Metlnodists Of Mendon had
pyramid, and the EpiscopaIian's Jacobs
ladder. Hiei - Rif
I The whip socket factory Of Worden
Bros, at Ypsilanti, which was burned a
few weeks ago. will soon be in operation
again.
| The Oldest genuine Michigander heard
from up to date is Alexander Odrian, of
California, Branch County, who was born
i'm Detroit 1871. - fs.g.ss
Robert Moor, a workman in the Cop
per Falls mine, near Hancock, fell down
shaft 2iO feet deep afew days ago, and
was instantly killed. II - -
Charlotte wants gas. A committee of
citizens went to Chicago Thursday to as
certain the probable expenditure neces--
sary to supply the city. So
A prisoner OF the Lapeer County fall.
named James j ,hnson, who escaped last
June, was arrested in Flint last week by
officer Parkhurst of that city. ess
Kalamazoo is ahead on wood thieves.
| one having stolen four cords recently
and now she comes to the front with
fellow who has stolen eaves-troughs.
Four new. silver mines have beer
opened near Ontonagan, and new dis
coveries of silver and copper are being
made in the Lake. Superior country.
A son of Gov. Hayes, of Ohio, is stu
dent ut the Lansing Agricultural College.
But the fact that he is Hayeses son does
not prevent the boys from hazing him.
More univels sity students have gone
home to spend the holidays than ever be-
fore. The Michigan Central Railroat
Company sold them geo excursion tickets.
Comstock & Paige's boot and shoe
store at Paw Paw burned and moistened
$4,000 worth Sunday night. Loss on
building $3.50. The rest was on the
! stock. .,e - ss...s ~.
Just now the thermometer and the
school children are having good many
up and downs, and schools throughout
the state were, never SO thinly attended
as at present. isns,i 4 a8a ssas
John +, Albro, of Oscoda, one of the
state lumber inspectors, committed sui
eide December 23d by shooting himself
with pistol He was suffering from an
attack of monomania. g. l.asbe sne
Bay City claims to do the largest tele-
graph business of any city in the state.
The Western Union Office alone sentIdur-
ling tho eleven months ending November
80 s2,952 messages. ss,l.s .esa
The convicts at the state prison worked
only half of the day on Christmas. They
had a grand dinner and a pleasant adj
dress from Mrs. Elizabeth Comstock, !,
quaker lady from Adrain. f
Extravaganza among the lay-ity-P.
s. Frantz,s of Fayette, Hillsdale County,
has notorious hen whose last lay meas
ures three and one-quarter inches long,
lsix and one-half inches around the waist
and eight and one-half inches over the
gables. sfS 81 ziasaa cilis sross
Joseph Rabideau, one Of the state
prison convicts received a valuable
Christmas present, AT the conclusion of
the splendid dinner which was given the
coavicts. the warden called him forward
and read his pardon to him. He was sem
fenced from Wayne County for murder
lin ls5l ter life. a