Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-05-06
STATE NEWS.

Horace Washington, of Ann Arbor. has
loped with Mrs. Boyer.
Mrs. Fillmore, of jackson, aged .101
years, died last. Friday.
Deputy Sheriff Smoke, of Eaton county,
sets himself up as wrestler.
Tie state convention of the sunday
schools will meet at OwosO this fall.
The salt crop of Huron county is good.
Last week 10000 barells were shipped.
A hurricane galloped through Niles
the other day doing considerable dam
age.
The manufacturing interests of Read
ing Mich. are taking lively start this
|spring. i.r33
Knot Maui is naughty neighborhool
in Montcalm county. 1t was named after
bump OH Il log.
Peach trees are in full bloom at School
craft. and now lying abont the denage to
the crop is i'm order.
A pair of dead beats Mt Middleyille- -are
playing the>boguss note-indorsing conf
dencc ''sell" with good success.
Mr.. Jewett E. Howes. of Pittsford. fell
face downward in a puddle of water the
other day and was drowned.
Dr.Delanos Love, pastor of the Con-
gregational church of East Sagi-
nav. has been requested to resign.
Horace B. Andrews, of Flint, is the
young man whom Mr.. Durand will ap-
point as cadet from the 9th district.
Bay City will squander $500 i'm beauti-
flying its parks, and will extend
the efficiency of its fire department .
The little steamer Shiawassee went
over the dam ut Owosso with her ell
gineer aboard. No great damage doEe.
The citizens of Adrian have banded
themselves into an association called the
l.. III. b. Ii. left handed bcel hoisters.)
Chas. Emery OF Wenona was fatally
Injured at a Rifle river rollway by a log
rolling over him, crushing him terri
bly,.
The Vibrator Threshing Machine Com
pany have ordered a switch engine, to he
used about their yarGs, at cost of $5,-
600.
The New England S at works, of East
Saginaw owned by John Gamble. burned
early Sunday morning. Loss, 1000; i'll
surance, $1,000.
Mr.. j. S. Leland, of Ann Arbor who
was bitten on The hant. by Il rat some
days ago, died from the effects of the
poisonous bite.
Col. Stockbridge.w whom the republicans
of western Michigan wanted to put up
tor the next candidate for Cover lor, saws
he is not candidate.
A three year old lad named Olmstead.
D whose parents reside at Bay City. fell i'm
| a hnl i'm, cs-
water, and was drowned.
II Mrs. Nancy A. Post, of Rose. Oakland
county. made 44S pounds of butter and
20 pounds of cheese last year. and she is
t only 81 years of age. Next, girls.
u Alpena reports that the log ",lrive''
thus far is the most successful it has been
Tor many years, and it is thought that
every log willcome down all right.
The landlord of the burned Burroughs
house, at Grand Rapids, has been arrest
ed, i'm order that he may fell what hc
knows about the origin of said fire.
Charles M. Howard, of Detroit. has
been nominated by President Grant tor
the position of receiver of public moneys
for the beaver land district of Utah.
Mrs. X itherford, nf Owosso, went off
visiting the other day and when she re-
tnrned found that almost everything
movable had been stolen from her
house
John Larkin. the Midland defaulter.
settled with his creditors for Is cents on
a dollar, but he could not make the game
work with the county, to Which he owes
$4,000.
"A man came all the way from Chicago
to Holland, Mich, with "A stolen morse.
and buggy, only 10 be arrested at ouce.
His sliding scale Of prices,on the property
led to the arrest.
Charles i. Waddilc. a printer by trade,
was sent to the work-honsc for so DAYS.
from Albion, Monday, My lst, fer be-
ing drunk and dlsorderly. lie has
''phat take" at last.
i A man named Hirsh was torn to pieces
i'm sawmill at Maxwell TOW II Thursday
of last week. A board caught on top of
Il saw, and was hurled against him, tear
ing his side out.
This Centennial year is provocative of
the art of sublime lying, we know: but
they do say Mrs. Wolyerton, Of White
Oak, i,as a "tea kittle" 25O years of age,
and small for its years.
The state board of control will prob
ably award the contract of building the
Marquette q Mackinac railroad TO what
is called the Wetmore party. There is
no opposition apparent.
/ Portland is excited over the finding OF
body in hollow log mt Sunfield.
There was a haunted house ana story
Of sudden disappearance of traveller 10
match the body, but that is all.
The champion newspaper subscriber of
this state. so far us heard from. takes the
Jackson Patriot, and has taken ir for 20
years and paid for it squarely in advance.
He will have cushioned seat in heav-
i en-.
AT East Saginaw, April ~, colored
man named Thompson, who lives in
Bridgeport, shot young man named
Louis littlejohn, who was expected to
die. The afiray was the result of an old
quarrel. Thompson is in Jail at this
city.
). Catherine Rierdon.. gandmother of
John and Michael O'Brien, of East Sag
inaw died last Monday morning at the
age Of l04 years 3 months and 10 DAYS.
She came to America from Ireland ia
1925.
The great Western Railway Company-
has issued a chart of routes of Ccntenni-
al excursions tickets. This shows some
80 different routes. the prices ranging
from $23 40 TO $25 40 for the round trip
= from Detroit. The choice of lines thus
ahOrded is unsurpassed.
The expenses of the Detroit postofficc
J IN 1875 were less in proportion To its re-
ceipts than those Of any other large Office
in fry L..