Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-02-03
STATE NEWS.


A. McCollum's residence, at Alpena,
was burned last week. loss $l,50O.
| 1t takes AZ deputy sheriffs and consta-
hles to take care of the St. Joseph county
people. reff
Smallpox has been imported into Or
den, Lenawte county, from the Detroit
house of correction.
Major Cole. one of the great revivalists
of these latter days is at his home in
Adrian, taking rest from his labors.
DR.. j. III. Vincent. the great Sunday
school nun. is delivering his lecture Oh
That Boy at various Michigan cities.
John RaynOr, of Mason. gave every
widow of the place a cord of wood.
Doubtless his gifts were recorded above.
Frank Osborn. of recumseh. who was
injured at the Ashtabua disaster. has
been carried home and is doing quite
well.
Elizabeth Mickleson. of Manistee. who
recently committed suicide. did it be-
cause she was afraid of burglars and the
smallpox. rsf
Thos. Hodgeson. of Holland, Michigan,
was killed by an avalanche of snow at the
Centennial mine. Wyoming Fer. on the
25th OF January.
The ravages of the scarlet fever at Mon
tague and i'm the region round about have
been terrible. 1t is said that over 30 cases
have proved fata,.
c. E. Wright. of Marquette. is the man
picked out by Senator Breitmg 10 fill the
newly created Office Of commissioner OF
mineral statistics.
Over three hundred Saginaw City men
have renOunced their cups. and hung out
the little red ibbon of DIR. Reynolds, the
temperance reformer.
There are two hundred students in the
Advent College. Battle Creek. L. is
lecture class of fifty and one i'm phono-
graphy. which are successfully taught.
Same ambitions people in Kent county
want 100000 court house. while = de-
cidedly economical party doesn't propose
70 have the county go to any such ex-
pense. .9tp,v
The Bav City common council is devils
irg means TO reduce the expenses of rhc
public schools. and the citizens treinbie
lest the litter be crippled by the action
of the ciry fathers.
A new paper is to be established at
Tonia. TO be called THE lonia Argus
Slocum & Workman are the proprietors.
anG they hope 10 get out the first num-
ber about Feb. 1st.
A Hastings jury failed to convict sever
al weil-known citizens who were arrest
ed i'm house Of prostitution. bnt they
got publicity enough to punish them If
they are ut Ill sensitive.
During the year of 1876 there were one
church two fiouiing mills. one planning
mill and As other buildings erected at
Stanton. and many additions to other
buildings were built.
The winter meeting OF the State Pom
illogical society will be held in Pontiac
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
February 6. and s. Preparations are
making for fine display OF winter fruit.
1t is probable that the latest fire at the
Adrian brass works will prove 10 be fa-
tai blow 10 the business of the Illinois
Manufacturing company. The city of
Adrian can i'll afford TO lose the establish
ment.
The smallpox at Manistee has led TO
the closing OF some of the ward schools.
There are now IL cases. and the couDcii
has been compelled to pass an ordinance
fining any person 500 tor Obstructing
the removal of patient 10 the pest
house.
Some of the prisoners i'm the Pontiac
Jail undertook to get up Il mutiny and
overpower the new sheriff. The ring
leader was desperate fellow. who club
bed the sheriff's head until the latter
showed fight with revolver. and then
the mutiny ingloriously fizzled out.
Ernest Ingersoll. a Monroe boy" is
now assistant editor OF st. Nicholas. He
is the writer of the beautiful article in tie
last Appleton's journal upon. "Our Wiz
ter Birds" He was student of natur;l
history under Agassz. and at one time
one of the night staff of the New York
Tribune.
Henry Compton. the Dover shootist
who killed his son last fall, was convicted
in the circuit court of manslaughtel,
and Wednesday Judge Pratt seuttnceu
him to pay fine OF $500 or be confined
in the state prison for one year--a sem
rri,ce approved by the people of Lena
wee county. sf f
A dispatch from Grand Rapids says
that a few days ago Il. n. Baker. law
yer of Rockford. obtained $1,000 from
Thomas ID. Gilbert. of Grand Rapids city.
giving as security a mortgage upon land
i'm Rockford. Baker mystcriously disar-
peared. Friday he was found in Chicago
and brought back.
A Raisin, Lenawee county. granger
hired "a painter on the economical plan To
paint the inside of his boil-e-hiied him
by the Job. giving him $50 anti his board.
well, what OF il 2" did you say! Oh,
nothing. only that painter has been seven
weeks at the job. and thinks he will be
through when spring opens.
The Ontonagon Miner severely criti-
cises the Governors OF Michigai. outgo-
ing and Incoming. for OmittiIig to call at
tention 10 the resources and the wants of
the vast mineral portion of the state
known as the Upper Peninsula. The
Miner Claims that the production of cop
per there far exceeds in value any of the
other productions of the state.
The True Nor;herner says the band
bows of Paw Paw were to have dance
i'm order tn raise funds but Miss Mains,
the revivallst. cs,me to the rescne by in
vifing them 70 come and hear her preach
one hour OF tie evening OF the dance.
and. as an inducement promised to pay
ten dollars into tn. treasury. fhe boys
went and Miss Mains pail the money.
The Oldest member of the Michigan
state Senate is 62 years. and the young
est %; while the married ones number
20 and the single 3. The ol.lest Repre-
sentative is 66 and the Youngest 26.
There are 81 married members OF the
house. s single and unknown. Praies-
sionally, the members are thus classified:
Al farmers. "a lawyers . physicians. s
merchants, lumbermen. 3 builders 2
ministers BANKERS and 2 editors.