Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-11-24
STATE NEWS.

Mason. Ingham county, is shipping
squashes to Boston.
r. j. Kelly has teen confirmed as post
moster at Aipena, Mich.
The Oscado Salt and Lumber company
nowsmakes 200 barrels of salt per day.
An Illicit match fabtory has been dis
covered at FlowerfieId.St.Joseph county.
Wenona will pay 5000 to find out who
set fire TO the first ward school htAlse of
that city.
a distressingly malignant type of diph.
liberia is making havoc ut Flint. chiefly
among childreD.
Hon. s. NJ. Cntcheon, of Ypsilanti. has
been confirmed as u. S. district attorney
tor the eastern district of Michigau.
Two lite sentences to the state prison
this week. viz Cooley. from Lenawee
county. and Watson, from Barry county.
On. Saturday night farmer named
Jcssop. living near Diamondale. Eaton
county, WAS gored TO death by a ferocioas,
bull.
jackson will pay $50 each for live bur-
glars. The fellows who have re. e lily
bee operating whereabouts are esl &C al
ly desired.
Midland is excited. Something has
been found there that looks like gold.
The traditional .'old California minerr
says it is gold.
| A Calhoun county farmer who sells
| his wheat at Marshall has been detected
in mixing sand with it in order TO jn-
| crease its weight.
The Flint Globe says that Benson. the
| Otter Lake mill owner. has mannfaci uretl
| l3.OG0,OOO feet of lumber, and l,600,000
shingles. this year.
| 1t is said that the seeds of the diph-
theria now prevailing at Flint were
brought from Toledo, where the same
disease RACES fiercely.
The Common Council of East Saginaw
is now fighting the GrOwler and Roses
Nose. ami has Instructed the Marshal to
arrest all venders OF either paper.
Governor Croswell did not accompany
the state board OF auditors and building
committee who went on that tour of pub,
lie building inspection to Chicago,
Springfield, and elsewhere.
| n Rochester man named Poor lett
lOadel revolver wlieie his little eight
year old daughter could get it. The ball
entered her right side and passed down
into her abdomen. She will probably
die.
| The new Germania Institute building.
rec .ntly erected by the Germania :. C ely,
a wealthy social and musical club OF East
Saginaw. is to be dedicated OIL Thanks
giving day. Ii is an elegant and costly
edifice.
| Henry KraDtz, OF Kent county, goes TO
state prison tor mighty mean crime.
He stole a cow from poor widow. HIS
fondness for milk got him into trouble.
but he will be weaned by the time he
leaves Jackson.
| A case of alleged elopement from that
institution creates some sensation at the
State Normal school at Ypslanti. The
loving couple left town Friday night of
last week aud were i'm Detroit the next
morning. The cards read j. Backus and
Carrie Newton.
Since the Cody sentence the numer-
Gus Adrian son-in-law is the meekest of
men. Moses is nowhere. And mothers
ill-law in that city beam benignantly on
al mankind. as they proudly wend their
way through the streets.
Pamer. the man who has sued Scarritt,
OF the Hudson Post. wants $4,000. The
| Post stated that white man of that viii
tage twas caught in lfagrdnte delicto with
a cOlOred woman" No names were
| given, but it seems Palmer tLiks he was
the man pointed at.
A Missaukee county youth was Tilted
| by his girl. and went to drug store to
bny poison with which TO end this dis
cOuraged existence. Twenty-Five cents
worth of Turkish rhubarb at one fell
swoon was what that wag of druggist
got down the ninny's gully.
Thomas p. Gray, a lawyer. of Marshal,
has sued VIM. l.. Fox. OF Albion. for IL
bel. He alleges that Fox published Ii
belous statement about him i'm the Albion
Recorder. Pray thinks thar article
was worth about $5 600 to him. The
Fox says: Pray, sir, you emit get il.
The Saginaw girl, Jennie Burdick, who
| recently made such Il sensation at San
Francisco by eloping with the first lieu
tenant of a Russian corvette. is now in
Japan, living in cover" us it were. Her
friends feared she was going to the tevil,
but it seems she knew her own business
| best.
A travelling salesman named Barnum,
doing business for jewelry firm of Chi
cago, lett that city for Grand Rapids re-
Gently. but on arriving at Grand Rapids
discovered that his sample trunks. COLI
tanning about $1,000 worth OF gold. silver
and precious stones, had been lost or
stolen.
Judge Van Zile declines to take that
/ $500 extra pay voted him by the Calhoun
county supervisors. He don't think it
would be unconstitutional for him to ac-
cept the money, but thinks it unwisc FOR
bin. as judge of that district. 10 be 4
party to quarrel such as an acceptanec
would bring about.