Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-04-14

Inere Is new engine In operation at
the Calumet and Hecla mine, that rivals
the big Centennial engine.
The Muskegon boom company will b.,
gin rafting about the 10Th. Some of the
mills are already running.
The proposition to raise $4,000 to build
brick county house i'm Van Buren was
voted down by 1,400 majority.
The public library of Battle Creek
now has l.S00 hooks, and ere long e1,--
600 worth a. Sex beoks will be added 90.
it.
A six-yesr old boy was sent by express
from Kansas TO Bay City. The agents
say he was the hvefiestpackage they ever
handled. f.t 80 ~ ,
The Flint and Pere Marquette railroad
last year carried 95184000 feet of lumber,
Der, 1,643,2O0 staves and 190,20O,00o
shingles.
Muskegon horsemen are making every
effort to have the June meeting on their
course success. The dates are June stu,
9th and 7th. l
VIM. McOmber. o well known citizen OF
Niles, cut himself near the knee-pan two
months ago, and now he will be obliged
to have that leg cut of.
Bennie Wells. who ran away from
Hillsdale some two weeks ago with two
other boys. was, killed, by the cars at
EnglewOOd, ILL.,, on the 9TH. t,.
The Easter gale did. great damage at
Caseville, ripping up the docks, smashing
and twisting off the piling, and scatter
ing quantity of lumber out into The
4 Kalamazoo doctor named SOuthard
has been sued Tor malpractice. He set u
mans broken leg, and rs it. was a poor
job the leg owner wants $4,000 for the
damages. 'f1Hs
Two three-card monte men have been
arrested at Coldwater. They were turn
ing dishonest cards on railway train.
They register as George BlarktOn aLd g.
w. Watson.
There Is we'll defined rumor in Ann
Arbor that Dr. Rose is tn be reinstatel in
the laboratory of the University. The
work of making straight the way is being
done at Lansing.
The combatlve editor of the Ann Ar
Dor Courier has been fined 800 for con-
tempt of court.in that he spublished gar
bled account of the legislative inyestiga
ton into the University muddle.
John McGraw & Co., of portsmouth,
(Bay City,, are making preparations TO
run their mammoth mill day and night
during the coming season. which will fur
nish employment to about 600 men.
( Gen. Matthews, the new u. s. Marshal
| for the eastern district of Michigan. is
49, - r>f
Thrown at him by the state press. Even
the Democratic papers occasionally throw
in good word or two.
A German girl. named Carrie Shaeffer,
gave birth to child at Marcellus recently
and stabbed it with the scissors. She says
the father of the child is one Sullivan
She has not been arrested, as it is proba-
BILE she will die of puerperal fever.
David Steere, one Of the earliest set
tiers of Lenawee county, died on the 6th
aged 9L.. He was grandfather of Prof.
S.eere, the naturalist. Mrs. Deborah 5.
Allen, another Lenawaee county pioneer,
Is also dead. She was over 80 yeirs old.
Geqsge Clifton was horribly mangled
by getting fouled in the machinery Of
tGoOdAle's shingie min, at East Tawas,
lIast week. His left arm was torn Off, one
leg broken, and he was otherwise injured
so severely that his recovery is not looked
for.
A crazy young man of Howell visited
the cemetery the other night, burst open
la vault, smashed marble case wherein
was lady's corpse, and proceeded to
shake hands,wjth her, hoping to resurrect
her. 1t took four men to get him TO
abandon bis resurrection theory.
The Bay City Daily Tribune, which has
completed the fourth year of its existence,
says that the first year it sunk $4,000 over
and above it's receipts. The second year
it ran behind $4,000 The third year it
lost a little, but during the past year it
paid expenses and wiped out $1,000 Of
debt out Of earnings.
T. w. Savage, well known Michigan
lumberman, has contract for, and Will
ship as early as possible after the opening
OF navigation, 1.500, 1000 feet of timber TO
England, direct. 1t is to be'usel for rail-
road sleepers and is 7xl4 inches from -
to 80 feet long, coarse common, free from
rotten knots. shakes and splits.
| The latest returns shows that Jona-
than B. Tuttle, Democrat, of Alpena, was
elected Judge of the twenty-third judicial
circuit OH Monday last ever II. z. Roberts,
Republican. of Alcona. The Democracy
of that section. ever anxious 10 show
their loyalty to pet the idea of ''mOn-
PARTISAN judiciary" are wild with
Joy.
Four boys, charged with being bur
4 t<vlo kox,o hoo fo1 nj 65.in 81
as they were leaving the city, one bound
for New York and the other three for the
west. They have operated at Adrian
Hudson and Blissfield. Their names are
Nicholas Kearn, Fred. Fox, Charles
Humphrey and John Whalen. They are
all less than 1S years old.
The fourth annual meeting of the
WomapS State Christian Temperance
Union will be. held at Jackson IN the
First NJ. X church. beginning on the
morning otMay Sth. and continuing tMce
days Each auxiliary union is. entitled
to three delegates, and all unions not vet
auxiliary ara ssked to send two dele
gates. AL dalegates and Representatives
are requested,t6 SEMI their names, before
the oath of April. 10 Mrs. Jennie (. Win
tiers, who will refer them to committee
OIL entertainment.
/ A terrible tragedy occurred ct Deer
field, Lenawee county. at noon on the 4th
inst. A Mrs. Boyle had been suspected
Of shopIifting by Mr., A. X. Nichols, o
merchant of that place, and he gave the
case into the hands of an officer 10 inVes-
tigate. Boyle got angry at Nichols for
this action, and he took down double
barrelled gun and went out on the war
path, the trail leading to Nichols store.