Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-04-01
STATE NEWS.

a One thousand eight hundred and thirty
four youngsters attend the Adrian public
schools flwoi 1'85i roa srrifas'5
The city council of AIpena have ordered
lights for the streets of the sawdust SUM
mer resort.
Six hundred and eighteen lodges of
Patrons" in this state, and $4,000 gran
gers man them. ure -9s.S & .lst
Horace Eldred, Of Grass Lake, has been
arrested for drugging his employer and
robbiIg him of $i53. rfr = -,..i.-c.i
Hopkins Bros. e. Wisk's planning mill ut
Bear Lake. above Manistee, was burned
on the 20th. Loss $3,40O. otlai .I p
Bishop Gilbert Haven, i'm a letter in
lions Herald. advocates the removal of
Albion college to Detroit. fa e4g . E;
The Berkly & Gay furniture companv,
of Grand Rapids, will Sc nj some magnifi-
cent furniture to the Centennial.
| DIR. Van Raalte, the founder of Holland
colony, and leader of the company of first
settlers there. is in rapidly declining
| health. 4t :
Delinquent lqu)r tax paye-s should
come up and toe the mark at once. The
Attorney General orders their Immediate
| prosecution. lal l3 Zs8 9ll. ~
The Hon. Chas. Upson, of Coldwater.
has a"slab' of the old hut in which
Abraham Lincoln was born, way down
in Kentucky.
During the month of ebruary six m n
were killed on Michigan railroads and
four injured. Only about So worth Of
damages was done. sr1 ilr8J III
Seven bears have been killed in the
town OF Buell., Sanilac county, this winter.
and Sanilac has never been counted a
real good county for bears either. ~
Coldwater is getting to be quite horse
town. Some fine roadstei's, with a claim
| to $50 records, are stabbed there, includ-
ing. number,,shipped f,om the east.
Two Saginaw c. apps, who did not know
better than to steal the Saginaw sheriff-s
horse clothing, harness. etc, have been
sent to state prison for TWO years each.
There is lady NOW ping at the ST.
Louis springs who is bus thrty-one years
OF age and has nine chil,lren, the Oldest
OF whom is but seven years of age. Next.
A committee of doctors have sounded
the brain of Welton. the pious Pontiac
barn burner, declared him insane. and he
| is to be sent to the Kalamazoo insane asy :
lum.
Mel Payne, of Clio, who has been sc r7-
ing the state on charge of stealing cat
tie, is home again. 1t took the authorities
two years TO find out that Mr.. Payne dill
| Dowagiac brags, and with good reason,
about the b. ckwith manufacturing
works in that place. Beckwith has done
a good thing for Michigan, Dowagiec,
and for Beckwith by his inventions -
The truth has at last leaked out about
| the aspects OF the wheat crop. and al
/ though the wary granger has til I'll bar
to grumble. the fact is that thus far the
crop never looked better than it does this
spring. go-a
Mr.. Allen Ingraham. of .ha bay lumber
| firm of Hitchcock q Ingraham, was kill
ed yesterday near Pine River. He was
| assisting the teamsters to unload logs
when the top log rolled over from the
sleigh, anu c.ush I'd him. bf
A m. named Patten, living in p: esque
lie county, kept the wolf from the door
by doing clopping. exc, but finally was
compelled to stay at home and care for his
family, all being sick, and before aid came
on of his b1ys starved TO death. os ed
1t is fact that does not seem to be
generally known, that women nj eve
the benefits Of The cou s, of study ut the
Michigan Agricultural co lsge. The day
is gone past when woman can be yoked
to the plow beside steer. She can now
go to the college and learn to hold and
drive.
r ebert Sutton, prominent citizen of
Hill.dale. aged S5 Years. and reputed to
! be worth 100000, die, March lS. He
owned Sutton's opera house in thai
village, and was also the owner of large
tracts of pine lands in Northern Michi-
gan and Wisconsin. ets l3aF
1t has been feared the mouth of Hol-
land barbOr was badly Obstructed by
bar, an examination by the u. 5. foreman.
in charge of harbOr improvements there,
shows the obstruction to be only tempo
rary, caused by wash through the piers
inside the entrance. 1t will be removed
rs soon as the weather permits.
Prof. Cunning, of Boston, aided by
some other scien ific body -snatchers, have
| opened mound at Spoonville, on Grand
river, and taken tEerefrom five SKULLS, and
skeletons TO match, copper hatchets and
needles. and some very fine specimens of
pottery. Two moGnds were opened, each
thirty feet long and eight feet high. The
relics found were the finest yet exhumed
from Michigan mounds. a u-
A man surrendered him y III to tie Hast
| ings officers and said that he was guilty
of an assault with intelt TO kill. After
the officers had gone TO great deal of
trouble to find out about the c;se, it was
| found that the lScence-stricken pris-
ontr ~ w.ss suffering from the Jim lam ).
1 and had only done the assaul.ing n his
| mind. .F
a very important case is now on trial
| in the Ann Arbor circuit court. William
III. Phil pi was accused of attempting to
outrage the infant daughter of Aaron p.
Bucklin in the summer of 1868. The
matter was compromised by Phillips by
conveying to Bucklin property worth
some $4,000, which he now seeks to re
cover. charging that it was obtained
| through duress. Thc defence propose to
establish the truth of the original charge.
which Phillips in part now denies. Half
dozen or more lawyers are in the case.
AT the session of Marshall grange OH
SATURDAY., the matter OF the necessity of
economy i'm administering the public af-
fdrs of the county being under consider
alton, resolution was adopted request
| ing every granger to attend the primary
n olitical meetings that occur in few
d lys and use his bes: en- Lex. vo-s to nomi-
lie m IN who will pledge themselves TO
; a policy t strict econf M i'm the affairs of
the COT II Y. TIE secret ry was re1 lest
e TO notfy every srngc IN ,llc c.'' MS
| II this uo.ict.
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