Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-06-03
STATE NEWS.

SchOOl house.
Early Rose potatoes readily bring 10
and II cents per blshel at BIissficld.
John Murray, of Tonia county. a veter-
an of Wcllington's army. died at Disco,
aged 81, last week.
Ed. Dolan, popular conductor on the
Michigan Central ard whose home is at
Marshall, has become insane.
a span of horses valued at $3.50 was
stolen from Henry Dobbins of Watervliet,
st. Joseph county. May 18th.
State oil Inspector Captain A. A. Day.
OF Detroit is bobbing around the state
looking after crooked kcrost
j. w. Christmam's mill and million
shingles were destroyed by fire at llersey,
last week. The loss is about $4,000.
A. S. Dyckmal., of South Haven. the
| great fruitcrer. prophcsies that he is go
Ing TO raise 10000 baskets Of peaches this
year.
A young farmer of Mataln IRA whipped
a young horse until he killed il. There
is place in the state prison for just such
fellows.
The old Fourth Michigan infantry is to
| have its reunion ut Hudson, June Dist.
and that town will do its level best 10 DO
| it honor.
| Rev. John Lexington has included the
oranges in his anti-secret society harall-
CUES, and says they are worse than the
Masonic.
Mrs. Peter Kelly, Of Monroe. shoul be
peisiOned. She has just given biith To
her 10Th child, and her Oldest is only ID
years of age.
4 reward of $500 has been offered for
the wretch who placed Instructions OH
the track of tho D.. J.. & s. railroad uii
the night 4 April 29th.
Henry Palmer, aged So, fell under the
wheels Of the cars ut Standish May 70.
and was SO badly injured that it is
thought he cannot live.
David Brock was found in Iii, room at
COburn's Exchange, Howard City, May
~, with his throat cut from ear To ear.
Supposed to be sue dc.
| What is thought to be valuable bell
of iron ore has recently been discovered
near Holland, OH the line of the Chicago
& Michigan Lake Shore railroad.
The Detroit mechanics society have
made an assignment. Liabilit G; xll7,-
600; assets, $l73,000. They are over
loaded with snowy, unprofitable build
ing.
There is one place in Michigan where
no one wants to be postmaster. and tn:.t /.
Portage Fork, Jackson county, and the
Office there has been discontinued in cDu-
sequence.
/ F. w. Trout, tie postmas'e.. ut Reed
City, has received patent for Il new ar
rangement Tor fastening mail-bags,
which is said tn be a great Improvement
| OH the present method.
Two Cassopolis boys have gone into the
frog business in the lakes i'm the vicinity
of Niles. They ship lileu TO Detroit.
| Chicago, Cincinnati, and ST. Louis, where
they get SLID per dozen.
Mr.. Geo. n. Potter, of PottervilIc, has.
or had. black walnut tree which. il
nude INTO veneeiing. would have been
worth SSOOOO. Far. Ofthe tree was sent
to New York for veneering, and part
goes to the Centennial.
Dewey, Warren & Co. immense slave
mill, at Ottawa Lake, was burned last
Week. and at the same hour that of Dew
ey, Foster & Co., at Riga. five miles from
Ottawa Lake, was burned. The lDss is
ABOUT *4o,OO0, with an Insurance of $l5,-
| OU0.
A student who has passed three yeais
ut the university complains bitterly OK
the treatment students receive at the
hands OF Prof. Watson, ofILe observatory.
lie says a student can never get sight at
WatsOn's stars through the states telc-
scope.
The Stephenson family from Iceland
has arrived in Muskegon. Besides the
father and mother there is an aunt, five
daughters aud one SON. The pamc of
the oldest girl is Holmfrictur Guctrion
karidas Stephenson. They san all read
and write.
Ihomas Munn. machinist of Bay City,
has been arrested for forgery. A former
employee OF his named kniggs brought
suit Tor his wages and recovered juig-
ment. Mum appealed the case, showing
= receipt in full, which Kniggs claims to
be forgery.
The wife of James Farwell of Berlin.
was cleaning windows May ID, and stan,l-
ing on two chairs, one placed upon the
other, to reach the top of tie window.
when they slipped and she fell, breaking
two ribs and injuring herself so that il Is
feared she cannot live.
Two men walking on the railroad track,
May y. between Republic and Hum
bOldt met train. and stepping to Outg
si,le. one of them. Ole Anderson, Swedc.
caught his foot in string attached to n
set gun, and discharged il. the contents
entering his hip and abdomen. The
owners OF the gun have been arrested.
John p. IIOyt. of Tuscola county. las
beeu appointed Secretary of the territory
of Arizona. Mr.. Hoyt is a brilliant and
H. rt ri0fpS Va r,,,o 1av-x-or. xx-,c
ed a representative i'm the Legislature OF
1874. and reelected to that of 1856.
of which he Was chosen speaker, and
filled the chair with ability. Ills MANY
friends in the state will rejoice in his ele-
yatiOn.
One day last week Mrs. John Willis. of
southern North Star, accidently shot her
self i'm this way: She was loading her hus-
bands revolver, aud placing the chamber
in her hand endeav0red to insert the car
tridges from the wrong end. Falling i'm
this. she took hammer to drive it 10 its
place, when the cartridge exploded, the
ball entering her hand lodging between
the bones, where at last advises it remain
ed, the doctor failing to extract it.-Hhaca
Journal.
The Battle Creekitcs are really in car
nest about the Fourth of july cclrbration.
Their subscription already fools up in the
neighborhood of $50. The big gun they
intend having is to be from Detroit. The
Charlotte and Marshall fircmen will be
invited to join with the Battle Creek
boys In a contest for the following pre-
miums: Hand engine. on distance, $50;
hook and ladder, $50. The 0ration for
the OCCASION will be dclivcrd by L. D.
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