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

ty-five were tried for Halloween devil
ments.
That lourteen-year-old boy at Hartford
beats Rarey at training ard subduing an
imals. ~ H
| A cargo of railroad iron has been ship
ped to Marquette by the Wyandotte
Rolling mills.
Chas. Otto, laborer on the Detroit &
Southwestern railroad at Ypsilanti, was
run over and killed OH the 81.
A black eagle measuring seven feet five
inches from tip to tip of its wings, was
killed near White Pigeon recently.
Walter Bartholomew, a tweIve-year-old
Owosso boy, fell under moving freight
car on the I'd inst. and had one leg cutoff.
1t is just forty years ago that the Adr:-'
an people celebrated the completion Of
their Erie and Kalamazoo railroad to
that point.
A team of fine horses, recently stolen at
Eaton Rapids, has been found away down
i'm that paradise of reformers and horse
thieves-IndiaIa.
A drunken and abusive tramp was
fined SIS. at Coldwater, paid the fine and
walked out of court as independent as
DlOated bOnd-hOlder.
Two Salem men put up at the CONNER
cial hotel i'm Grand Rapids a few nights
since, blew out the gas, and were barely
saved alive in the morning.
Jerome, the great father of fishes, has
arranged for 12,OO0000 young white fish
(if they hatch) for Detroit's hatchery, and
5000, 900 for that of POkagon.
Don Henderson doesen't scare bit. but
right in the face of that $4,000 libel suit,
goes OH abusing Mr.. Peck. Don only
calls it an attempt to gag the press.
Rev. L. B. Potter, of Lansing, has ac-
cepted call to the pastorate of the Free
Will Baptist church in that city. He re-
signed the same position eight years ago.
On Wednesday of last week, the infant
daughter Of Mr.. Schnell, Of Dundee. clam
bered up OIL hot stove and was so Sc
verely burned that she will be a cripple
for life.
In the ordinary run of state papers
during last week, the amount OF paper
devoted TO printing local news upon. has
not been enough to wad a shot gun with.
Politics had the floor.
Nothing has yet been heard of the,
whereabouts of Henry cunningham, Of
Wenona, who mysteriously disappeared
a week or two ago. The theory is that
he was murdered and his body thrown
into the river.
One of the most.novel election wager
is that recorded at Niles, where, if Tilden
is elected, VIM. T. Marston. Republican
candidate for register of deeds, is to drive
| S. Nj. Finley to Washington and back
and pay all expenses.
A Blissfield farmer started home the
other night while partially intoxicated,
and was drowned i'm ditch. We have
the word of an Adrian local editor that
Blissfield whisky generally kills without
ditch-wa er being added TO it.
The Tecumseh base ballers are going
crazy. Two of them had collision while
chasing ball. ami ole was injured so
that for Il time he was maniac. and the
other had to go to bed. At last retribu-
ton is Oyertaking devotces of the national
game.
A young man named Camp, living a
few miles from Chesaning, Saginaw conn
ty. but two weeks married. has already
blown his brains out-what few he had.
He did it because he got angry at 'iis un-
Gle. 1t never occurred to him to shoot
the uncle.
Surely crime is increasing. At the end
of October there were SCI convicts i'm the
state prison at Jackson. There were 46
received during the month, lSdischarged,
released for new trial and died. leaving
86l, an increase over the Goth of Septem-
Der of 2S
The office-holders are hard on the re-
formers. There is the postmaster OF East
Saginaw for instance. who has just caused
the reform speaker. Capt Meiser, to come
up and take a seat on the anxious bench,
there to answer to a charge of washing
and refusing postage stamps.
The rooms.in the Tribune block, Bat
tie Creek, recently donated to the Y. NJ.
c. A. by Hon.6J. s. Upton. are be-
ing appropriately fitted up, and will
soon be opened each evening in the week
as public reading resort. Upton's gen
erosity is appreciated in that city.
On the 2nd. young man named VIII
son, Republican, while engaged i'm po-
litical discussion with refOrmer at Mil
let's station, hear Lansing, was felled To
the ground by his opponent, who struck
him OH his head with a club, smashing
his skull He will die. No arrest had
been made.
The Stanton Journal man is cast down
and almost discouraged. OF course it is
hard work to make an honest living out
of a weekly country paper nowadays.
and so Fairchild has been trying to exc
out "a living by raising potatoes. which
some degenerate sOn-of-a-glln has dug
and stolen.
Augustus kuhue, a German, while out
hunting near LivOna, was killed by the
accidental discharge of his gun. No one
knows where his friends reside. although
he had said he once worked in Saginaw
boiler shop. anu once owned shop there.
1t is thought that he has brother and
two sisters near Cincinnati.
There is no slack work i'm the Isabella
county court. The two river drivers who
ravished Il sqllaw, got each eight years
i'm JACKSON. and Jack Morgan, late editor
of Morgan's Watchtower. was convicted
of libel, and the judge granted him until
the 10th inst. to move for new trial.
There are also two civil suits pending
agaii s. him forjdamage., $1,000 claimed i'm
one and $4,000 in the other.
At the headquarters of the St. Joseph
gamblers there was lively time Oh Sum
lay afternoon. While 1.-The leading men
Of the place" were bravely fighting the
tiger. the wife of one Of the PLAYERS en-
tered and cleared the deck, snatched the
stakes. SMASHED the windows, and made
herself the central figure i'm town gossip,
Ill i'm alb )ut two and halt minutes.
DIR. s. S. Garrigues, state salt inspector.
has made It's report which shows that
Turing October there was inspected 191.-
.l6 barrels of salt. making total product
or the yearto November l. l.309.S07 bar
;els. an increase of 302, 1872 barrels over