Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-02-24
STATE NEWS.

haying drifted out into the lake.
1t takes 413 buildings to make the VII
lage of st. Louis, Gratiot county.
Leslie's artesian well is failure The
drill is fast, and cannot be extricated.
Big Rapids has two brass bands, now
| luxuriating i'm all the glory of new horns.
: Prof. Moses Colt Tyler is very i'll and
: has had to postpone his lecture engage
ments.
The farmers state that the present
!, freezing and thawing weather is damag-
ing the wheat.
Kalamazoo will next try big Worth
ington pump for use in supplying the vii
lage with water.
The new pail and tub factory at Alma
is now turning out 500 pals per day.
The factory will employ about 80 hands
A fire at Oscoda oil Monday destroyed
John Gannon's boarding house and a
small dwelling owned by Lyman Ewing
ham.
The female "tidy" agent has been at
Big Rapids and there is mourning among
the ladies who invested in tides "by sam
Iple.'
LAUNDERING operations i'm the region be-
tween Big Rapids and Muskegon are
over for this season, it is thought. No
snow.
The meeting of the state Military asso-
citation has been further poisoned to
March l6th-and then they will bury it,
probably.
Perry Russell, Of Manistee, accidentally
shot and killed his brother Willis last
Saturday while shooting at mark with
a revolver.
James Darling, of Albee, Saginaw
county. an old man, has been arrested OH
a charge of attempting to rape his daugh-
| ter-in-law.
DIR. Harley Philips a dentist of Quincy,
took dose of strychnine Thursday night,
last week, from the effects of which he
soon after died.
At Port Huron, rs c. B. Doles' tin shop
was being moved across Black river on
the ice, it broke through, and there it lies
shop, tools. and all.
! The conversions i'm the NJ Z. church re-
vival ut Battle Creek now number about
60. some very interesting and remarkab lie
ones being recorded.
Alonzo Bailey, aged 10, while oiling
the machinery of a saw mill at Weston,
on Saturday, was caught by buzz saw
and terribly mangled.
Collector DeLand, of East Saginaw, il
| the MIN who first sprung the traps of the
law upon the ''pocket distillers" who are
operating in Michigan.
The Minneapolis and Amazon are hav-
ing no difficulty i'm crossing Lake Michi-
gan now, and are making regular trips
and doing an immense business.
Matthias jerks, of Saginaw. who was
found guilty of man slaughter i'm killing
Henry Davis. has been sentenced TO Is
years hard labor in the state prison.
The Governor has appointed Hezekiah
Brown, OF Evart, agent for the care of
Juvenile offenders for OsceOla county,
and the Rev. ID. c. Jacokes for Oak
land.
There are two or three towns along the
line of the Chicago & Lake Huron rail-
road where the shops of the company are
not to be located. Only two or three,
however.
"Old Tfge," or Samson Summons, of
Adrian. the veteran hotel-kceper, is dead.
He died on the 10Th, at the ripe age OF IS.
He had been a hotel-keeper in Adrian for
40 years.
A Duplain man belonged to the Nor
al League" sect i'm life, and requested that
no prayers be made or sermon preached
at his funeral. The friends compromised
OH Il lecture.
Judge Emerson. late of Battle Creek
now in Utah. has the honor of rendering
the decision of the supreme court Of that
territory cOndemnlng john ID. Lee, the
Mountain Meadow murderer.
With scarce an exception, the reform
clubs recently established in this state are
constantly gaining i'm membership. That
at Kalamazoo is now doing great mission-
ary service to the towns round about the
big village.
John Cole, wealthy farmer, with
large family, living near Bedford. became
insane recently, aud threatened TO kill his
wife. He was examined before Commits
sioner Russell and committed 10 the
asylum ar Kalamazoo.
The Wayne county medical society pro-.
pose to memorialize the state Legislature
to frame a law directing the Agricultural
college to furnish the medical practition-
ers for the state with bovine virus for the
purpose of vaccination.
Square timber, in sticks from 40 to 60
feet in length, is being shipped from
points OH the Jackson. lansing q Sagi-
naw railroad, per Blue line and Canada
Southern line to New York, where it is
reshipped for Liverpool.
The small pox is said to be abating in
Huron county. but since the shooting of
Dr. johnson by the Poles at Paris all sam
itary restriction have been removed. and
the people seem to think if the ignorant
denizens of the township auil not be
s wed there is no ase in trying to save
them.
j. L. Perry, agent of the Wolverine
Sceder company of Flint. has been arrest
ed upon charge of swindling farmers i'm
Lapeer county. Their operations have
been extensive, and as they have appoint
ed almost every ether farmer in the
county "sOle" agent for their machines
and taken the farmers notes for samples,
hence the deceit is charged.
Farmer A. Hahn. owner of the extraor-
dinary Cottreville gas well, has utilized
the flow of gas from his well, conducting
ing il instead of fuel. He has not burned
"A quarter of a cord of wood this winter,
nor pound of coal, the burning gas an
swering admirably for warming purposes
even i'm the coolest weather. The gas
burns too blue to be used as light. The
well, besides keeping up sn uninterrupt-
ell flow OF gas also supplies abundant
water Of the best and puIest quality for
all household purposes, save washing,
and supplies GO and 20 head of cattle.
The water is charged with sulphur antl is
extremely wholesomc.-Marinc City Ga