Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-11-17
STATE NEWS.

A night school is about to be opened
at Kalamazoo for the benefit of working
people.
Hon. Geo. H. Jerome has just planted
100000 lake trout eggs In the state hatch
cry ut Miles.
Two Manistee boys furnish the first
case of the season OF boys being drowned
while skating.
Mrs. Mary MeAflister. Pontiac triga-
mist. goes to prison for three years. That
is one year tor each husband.
The East Saginaw public library now
contains 5000 volumes, 800 of which are
new books just added TO the collection.
There are now $50 students in the law
department of the University, the largest
number since the department was iOund-
ed.
Two townships in Osceola county have
sold $500 worth of ginseng for shipment
TO China, where the root is highly priced
us medicine.
The village board of Portland has pur-
chased $1,000 worth of Babcock fire ex-
tinguishers, trucks, fire-buckets, etc;
Portland is fixed for winter.
| Miss Inez A.Sexton, the Grand Rapids
takes fares benefit i'm that city sCon.
She is about TO leave for Europe, where
she will study for few years.
Mr., ID. p. Clay has bought the Ncway-
go water privilege. paying therefore $780,
OO0. 1t is expected that many factories
will be establ shed at that point soon.
Horace B.Gardner, late one of the
4 ,,a tuarc tho InnaSrills. n-oola,, mill
has been arrested for an alleged fraudu-
lent purchase of wool. He was bailed.
What Bay City seems to be most In
need of just now is school teacher who
can strike from the shoulder and hit hard
and is hot afraid to do it in school hours.
On Saturday night burglars visited
the residence OF MI .J, NJ. LeckIer. of Jack
son, and carried off about $1,000 worth Of
household goods-clotiing and silver
ware, etc.
There is so much lawlessness i'm some
parts OF Clinton county that the honest
citizens have formed vigilance CON-
mittees. and propose to secure order at
whatever cost.
Some years ago the Neptune boat club
of East Saginaw, bought a $3.50 six cared
shell boat. 1t was never used, and a lew
days ago it was sold 10 pay storage bill,
and brought $6 80.
The West Bay City (Wenona) first ward
school house was burned Meuday morn
ing. The loss is estimated at $4,000, on
which there is $l2,OOO insurance i'm the
Hartford and Queens companies.
Wellington r. Burt & Co.. the parties
whose extensive salt and lumber works
at Melbourne. on the Saginaw river. were
burned a few months ago, will build am
other monster salt "block" in the valley
SOOn
The sheriff of Bay county has attached
the property of Campbell & Co., at Glen
cOe and Pinconning, consisting of mills,
lumber, etc. There are nine writs out,
the heaviest being that OF the Merchants
Bank OF Canada Tor SS9,OOO.
Cooley, the Adrian man who pushed
his old mOther-l-law down stairs and
| nearly killed her, is 10 be tried this week,
and every mOther-ill-law and every sOL-
| in-law in Lenawee county will end. d.avOr
| to be present and learn what their rights
are I'm such cases.
The news from Ohio is that j. Woods
Merrill, of East Saginaw, known elsewhere
brokerage swindIing business in this
state, has been arrested. tried and COLI
vicled OF the same practices at Cincinnati
| and is now i'm prison.
Aaron Thompson, the man who hired
two notorious loafers 10 burn The Advent
church, at Ashland, Newaygo county,
| last tall, has been convicted and sent 10
Jackson tor five years and six months.
al
that result several months ago.
Orie p. ormsby. of Perry, Shiawassee
county, left his home on the 18th of Oc-
tober, since which time his friends have
not seen or heard from hem. They offer
a reward OF 800 for information leading
! to his recovery il alive, or his body if
dead. He was 26 years of age
Geo w. Rider. village constable, and
one of the gang of robbers who did such
an extensive business i'm thievery at
Reed City, has been tried i'm the Osceolo
circuit court, convicted and sentenced I'd
state prison for seven years. Ii took the
| jury just three minutes to convict him.
S. P. Bray. granger living near Ypsi-
lanti has had his experience with the
sharpers. He was appointed ''agent" for
the sale of corn shelters by WatertOwn,
n. Y. firm, and signed the usual ''con-
tract" Although he has received no ma
chimes, he has an invitation to step up
and settle.
Put not your trust i'm patent fire-kin-
dlers to the utter exclusion of common
sense. Mr.Abe StOwell, of COldwater,
lie hted his fire with one, put II in the
cellar-way and went back to bed. When
the fire-engines LETT his premises soon af-
ter he was minus a home worth about
So 900. on which he had only $1,000 in-
surance.
Carver and White, the Lcnawee coun-
ty chaps who were charged with swiil-
ding farmers with the white-wire clothes
line contracts. have been convicted. IL
was the same old dodge that has been
played upon the yeOmanry for years by
lightening-rod vendors, cloth petldleis
and patent gate agents, but this Is One OF
the first convictions OIL record.
A Leslie youth whose young heart had
been fired to the pitch of doing desperate
deeds by reading dime novels, went TO a
neighbOr's house and tried to rob the lady
OF the house of sum of money she had
concealed about the premises. He used
pistol as u coercive measure. In order
to keep him out OF prison his father is
now engaged in settling the matter with
the neighbor.
Five Lansing saloon-keepers We're ar
raigned i'm Justices court last week for
selling liquor without having filed the
necessary bonds with the EQUITY treas
urer. Some or all of them have presented