Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-01-22
STATE NEWS

was thrown open to the public Monday.
A man in Porter. Van Buren, cOi.nty.
killed a msssasauga aad a humble bee
Dee. 18th. -
The Grand Rapids and Indiana depot
ut Reel City, with all its contents, was
buine Monday AHi 2iii hereTNs
transportation line are still making reg
ular trips between M,rkegon and Man
istee.
Fred Irish of Adrian. has 4 looking
glass 200 years old. 1t was given to his
mother OH her wedding-lay by her grand
mother. i3Uds'tS,ss adf raf-7'o
Two married women Have Opened a
hardware ore i'm Monroe: Theyl emple v
tinsmith. q boy clerk. aud do q heap Of
business and talking.
Twenty-Five converts was the result of
the labors OF Palmer the singing evangel-.
lst. at HiIls,lale. He is now conducting A
series Of meetings at Jonesville.scite[
A short time since Mrs. Samuel Eyring
Of Bellevill", had a surgical operation
performed upon her throat, from the re-
suit of which she has | ,st the use of her
tongue. -E atsg Off esga1s
Saturday, Merrell Clark. proprietor OF
| one-third of Tie Grand RaDi,ls Democrat,
sold his share TO james DAVIS. his part
ner, who thus becomes sole editor and
proprietor. EhI
Louis Wilson of Battle Greek. aged
twenty-five years. shot himself through
the heart Jan. IL. Dependency from
failure to procure work was supposed to
be the cause.
The iron doors have been removed from
the boys sleeping rooms at the reform
school. Thus gradually does the institu-
ton begin TO look less and less like
dreary prison. aodi ldi
The bid for receiving the city finds of
Port Huron has been awarded to John
Johnston & Co.. bankers of that city.
They will pay seven and three-tenths per
cent interest.
A number of lumber camps on the Pere
Marquette river have discharged their
choppers and sawyers, while the rest of
the men hang around, swear at the wealth
er and pray for snow. .ai5iar nI5
WOnderly & Co.. the Grand Rapids lum-
ber firm who recently maize an assign
ment, will pay fifty telits OH tlle dollar.
| The creditors are determined to file
bill in bankruptcy with view to effect
ing coinpromise under the law. Mi
| Cook s. Cos saw mill, and q. Dunn's
| hemlOck factory, at Fruitport. burned laSs
Saturday. Loss. $4,000; no insurance.
Cause. incendiarism. The bridge of the
Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore rail
road was partially burned. but not 80 as
to impede travel
Send down the missionaries to Algonac.
Mr.. David Smith of that place, member
of the Chicago Bible sOciety. recently
distributed a quantity of bibles among
the townspeople. They were returned
with the universal excuse that the bind
ing WAS not good enough.
On complaint of Mrs. Leo, of Niles,
Sylvester Ward and loot Davis were ar
rested, Monday, for an assault with intent
to commit rape upon her, and taken be-
fore Recorder Gilbert. The examination
was set for Thursday, and the prisoners
gave bail for their appearance. aF
The Plymouth Sunday school of Adri-
an. has adopted a new and sensible course
OF study. Thursday evening of last week
the scholars passed written examina-
ton of twenty-seven questions on the
last six months study. the gospel of John.
"A fine teachers bible WAS awarded as a
prize to the one passing the best examina-
| ton.
The fat men OF Marshall are arranging
for a dance to be held at the Witt house.
to which none are to be admitted who
weigh less than 200 pouads. This CITY
boasts OF more than seventy. men who
weigh over 200 pounds. some turning the
scale at 260. Marshall desireth Some
other town to step forward and beat this
if she can. al'i I.sIasis v5failii.r
At Allen, Hillsdale e,untv, Saturday
night, James Campbeli's barn with all its
contents was burned. 1t containe three
| horses, one of which was valuable stall
lion worth $4,000, three COWS, large
amount of wheat and hay and some valll-
able agricultural implements. There was
$4,000 Insurance in the Hillsdale county
Farmers Mutual. ~, 7f Ft
Two fishermen were drowned in Sag
nav bay Jan. IL. Fifteen or twenty fish
| ing shanties had been built on the ice
during the late cold snap, but on the 18th
all the hshermen came on shore except
one old man and his son. During the
night the wind broke up the ice. and i'm
the morning the shanties and the two
men had disappeared.
A couple of men from Chicago have
been giving drawing lessons i'm Paw
Paw, and one of them named Mckinney
slandered one of his pupils, a young girl
named Florence Jones. The reports
coming to her ears. she got black whip
and waited upon him at the Dyckman
house and mauled him fearfully, greatly
to the satisfaction of the crowd.
| j. Il. Davidson. of Alma, Gratiot coun-
ty, has an old book bearing the date of
1917. and containing the accounts of the
Michilimackinac station of the North.
western Fur company, of which John
jacob AstOr WAS president. It shows
that the company sold paper for $3.50
per ream, pepper for two dollars per
pound. and whiskey in the same propor-
ton. Is it any wonder that John Jacob
| became rich: eJl ~
| The resignation of Rev. j. s. Hoyt,
pastor OF the Congregational Church at
Port Huron. has been accepted, aud a
committee appointed to look mp a sue
cessor to him. Hoyt is powerful speak,
er and sound theo!0gian, and an excel
lent farmer, but he think she can be more
useful elsewhere and that the church can
do better under another pastor. He has
done great deal for Port Huron both as
a citizen and as pastor.
Typhoid fever has been raging In Port
Saniiac for the past few weeks, and med
iclness sseemed to have no effect. At length
the water was examined and found to
contain poison of some kind 1t was fur
ther discovered that drain passing with
in few feet of well from which several
families used water was stopped up. and
the poison was oozing from it into the
well. As soon as this was rectffied the
patients began to recover Previous To
this several deaths bad occurred.