Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-07-21
STATE NEWS.

$4,000. n
lockwood has a postmistress
Ester NJ. Luce.
Thieves are doing a fair business at
Concord and PARMA.
Judge Baldwin, of the Lapeer circuit,
will resign in October.
Henry Benson, of Dover, aged y, has
been arrested for bastardy.
James 5. Reynolds, of Ann Arbor. ac-
cused Of incendiary work, got $4,000
bail.
lost $1,000 worth OF property by fire OH
the 14th.
Otto Leuschner, the East Saginaw en-
bezzler. is shipping clerk in the house
of correction.
Henderson's shingle mill at Tawas City
was burned OH Sunday. Loss $3,000,and
no insurance.
A prison her at Port Huron had three
Bibles and Sunday school book with
him when captured.
Gladwin county's three-story brick
$4,000 court house is looming up
through the woods.
A $1,000 fire took place at Trufants
Tuesday afternoon, among the shingles
and lumber. Forest fires did it.
Capac gave $25 to the Port Huron fire
men, and they have returned it. They
say hat duty calls them, not pay.
Joseph Akin, of Saginaw City, hung
himself near theffarm of Thomas Nester
Sunday. Insanity, caused by tremens.
1t cost the clerk of the Hibbard House,
at jackson, four dollars to horsewhip
young rowdy who was insulting guests
of the house.
The Pinckney red ribbon men will
pitch a tent large enough to hold 800
people. 1t is cheaper and better than a
hall, they think.
Five prisoners attempted to break iail
at Adrian Tuesday. The sheriff's wife
detected them and they were driven
back and secured.
The son of one Van Antwerp, an Otse-
go preacher. attempted suicide rather
than 90 back TO work Tor man his father
had hired him out to.
Mr.. Close, late manager of the Howe
Sewing Machine company's interests ut
Grand Rapids, is accused Of crOokedness
to the extent of $4,000 or thereabouts.
A full-blooded Indian, dressed in his
war costume. passed through Detroit
Sunday on his way to Paris, where he in
tends to exhibit himself at the great ex-
position.
John Lindsey. OF Elk Rapids, sold
whiskey to the Indians, but did not save
enough to pay $500 fine for so doing,
and has gone to the Detroit .hOuse OF
correction.
Prof. Davis, of the University, saws the
two iron bridges recently constructed at
Adrian are faulty structures. The bridges
will not be accepted by the city, and
there is fun brewing.
| Chris Wedel, of Niles, was kicked by a
horse on the thigh Saturday morning
and badly injured. The flesh was torn
off, laying the bone bare for several inch
es. DR. Binnie thinks be can save the leg.
Sanilac, Huron and Tuscola county
people will meet ut Minden, Sanilac
county, August 24th, for the purpose of
organizing a mercantile mutual fire in
snrance company under the new state
law.
A fire OH the night of the 10Th de-
storyed Geo. Campbell & Co.'s new mill
at Pinconning, which was built to re-
place the one burned two years ago.
The loss is $4,000 and the insurance
$25000.
The Clare county court house, situated
at Farwell, was burned to the ground on
Wednesday night. Loss $4,000. and no
insurance. The clerks records were not
all sayed, and many other valuable papers
were destroyed.
, Saturday Messrs. Burrow & Jones, OF
Montague, shipped twenty-four bushels
, Of cultivated wintergreen. berries. The
greater part of them would average a cir
cumference Of two inches many measur-
ing as much as three inches.
A North Branch man keeps his chill.
dren out of the public schools i'm order
that they may devote all their spare time
TO the study of the bible, and last Sunday
two Of those blessed youngsters fought
each other like two young tigers.
The assignee has sold the Jackson roll.
ing mill property. The grounds and
building were purchased by Charles
Rldgeley, Of Springfield, Ills, for 81 800
! the machinery by D. r. Hibbard, of Jack.
son. Hibbard will carry on the business
The dwelling of widow Clark, Of La
peer, burned on Saturday morning las
at two o'clock. She and her son barely
8 escaped with their lives. She had no in
\ surance. Her house burned on the sam,
ground two years ago. The cause of either
fire is unknown.
Mrs Margret E. Lowry, the ex-actress
at present licensed minister OF the gos
t pei in the Methodist church. conducted
D a tolerably, successful temperance meet
= ing in Young Mems hall, Detroit Mon
: day evening. Several of her audienc
: signed the pledge.
! A young, pure and pretty Kent count,
girl pulled her aunt's hair because sh,
damned the course of true love, and wa
i arrested and locked up in the Grand RAJ
ids Jail alone with and adulteress. Michi
;, gan jails are fine correctional institutions
u as many OF them.are now arranged an,
managed.
William Hildebrand, young farme
Just north OF Niles, met with terribl
+ accident Wednesday OF last week, which
IL resulted in his death. The unfortunat
man was driving spirited horse before
( hay rake in the harvest field, and got oi
"a his seat to change horses While stand
ing in front of the rake the horse starte
# on run and the tines caught young Hi
n debrand in the abdomen, tearing u
v through the stomach.
EARLY Sunday morning Thomas Gaines
)f dwelling house at Niles was broken int
e. and his purse and other valuable effect
of were stolen. This was done withou
S awaking any of the family. After leavin
the house the robber went TO Mr.. G's bee
e. room window, cut hole in the mosquit
l. bar. and reached in, fired a pistol, til