Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-02-10
STATE NEWS.


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The day fixed for the demise of the
Adrian Daily Press has come. and the pa
per is no more
The amount of dressed pork shipped
T from Adrian during the season. aggre-
gates 1,042, 500 pounds.
That deep well test at Bay City Is
down 800 feet. and no brine yet, but
they keep punching away at 1T.
Perkins, the Sergeant-at-Arms OF the
| state Senate. will resign. 10 accept more
permanent position on the G.. X. & L. X.
!. Charles RedfieId formerly postmaster
of Adrian, has been appointed receiver
OF public moneys for Washington terri
tory.
Judge MarstOn, of the supreme court.
was thrown from his carriage at Bay City
on the 3lst ult and quite seriously in
Ijured.
Mrs. Louise Woodward, of Charlotte. is
the mother of three boys, all just little
over year old. and all worth raising, she
thinks.
Judge Van Zile, of the Calhoun circuit.
has granted new trial TO Austin Smith.
hoW III sCdtc pIiSOH uu ltiC SChtChSS Aoi
child murder.
The Grand Master oftbe Michigan Free
MasOns has an idea that liquor-selling un-
fits man for the position of Worshipful
Master of lodge of Masons.
There were l,Ol6 patients under the
care of the state at the Kalamazoo asylum
for the insane last year. At the close of
the year there were 6lS remaining under
treatment.
The mayor of Adrian offers $500 re-
ward for the arrest Of the party or parties
who fired the brass works i'm that city.
and United States Marshal Bennett adds
personal offer of $1c0.
Henry Clark. the man who shot Min
ME Clark at YOungman's camp Mont
calm county. has since died i'm Jail from
the effects of the wound he inflicted upon
himself at the same time.
Shooting is now the popular amuse-
ment at Kalamazoo. The latest aiiinat-
ed target was Mrs George Watson, who
was shot at by Mrs. Ryan. The Wat
son dog had laid bold upon the Ryan Off
spring.
| The Auditor Generals report shows
that there are 1900 persons in this state
who pay taxes for liquor selling. The
whole amount paid during the year wasGn-
Guiding INTEREST,", $43S. .36l, and there re-
manned uncollected $49,767.
They haven't building in Adrian
| large enough to accommodate the crowd
that seek admission to the revival meet
| in9s now being held there under the
leadership of Major Cole, and so the
churches are thrown open tor overflow
Meetings."
An old farmer went to Lyons the other
day with $500 in his pocket. and after inn
bibing pretty freely of ''tangle-foot,"
missed his money. Finally having en-
duret anguish enough to partially sober
him. he found it in The lining OF one OF
his pant-legs.
Mrs. Maher, of Port Sanilac, died last
week in 10 minutes after having been
taken with pam i'm her arm. An old
lady 81 years old went to look at her and
was stricken down and lay i'm an uncon-
ciOus state for several days. ut the end OF
which time she also died.
ROdcrick Calkins. a ship-carpenter of
East Saginaw, while working OH the
Flint 81 Pere Marquette railroad bridge
on Il scaffOlding 30 feet above the river.
slipped and fell, striking his head and
shoulders on the ice. .killing.him instantly.
He was SO years of age and leaves wife
and four children.
Charles Devoe, late of Battle Greek. but
now i'm the state prison, proposes to COM
promise his term. which expires in 1882.
by making it 1879, and asks GallOress d
HOilister from whom he burglarizel a
watch. to assist him i'm securing executive
clemency to that end. on the ground that
the watch was afterwards restored to its
owners.
During the past year Collector De-
Land. Of the sixth revenue collection dis
trict, gathered tithes TO the amount of
$25OOOO. The aggregate expense 10 the
government in the district WAS about S.
000; the number of miles travelled by Of
ficcrs was nearly four thousand, and the
arrests for violation of law was nearly
one hundred. all OF the arrested men hav-
ing been convicted. SO says the Repub.
lican.
The Oshtemo man who recently shot
John Mcbride, Kalamazoo merchant.
perhaps did wrong yet many will sympa-
thiZe with him. Mcbride had seduced
the old mans daughter, Julia Dougherty,
and afterward married her under COM
pulsion. lie would not live with her,
however. nor support her or her child.
The family called on Mcbride. and he
cursed them rOundly. until finally the eX-
old man shot him. He is still
living.
Elisha Cline, Of Green township, Me-
costa county. has a six-year old daughter
who has shown symptoms of being
crazeJ. and this is the way that Cline
adopted TO cure her. as related by the
,,.l,
until he was afraid TO whip her more lest
he should Kill her; that some of these
ha,l been made with knot
ted whip, which had cut her up some,
that she had been stripped naked ami
then taken out and rolled i'm the snow.
by holding her up by the heels
and letting her fall To the floor. keeping
her tied day and night for fear she would
get hOll OF some dangerous weapOn and
murder the whole lainiiy mailing her up
i'm a barrel. and when found was nailed
i'm box with Stats i'm front OF il. as you
would nail up beast. with nothing but
the clothes She had on and an old pill
low to keep her warm, which condition
she had been tor two or three days.
She was released from the cage and
taken TO the county poor hon-e Cline ac-
know le,lges that she exhibited no such
traits of character as above described, un-
Ill he commenced his acts Of brutality.
And he seems tn be but n tool i'm the
hands of his second wife, by which the
children may in some way De got rid of,
Is she seems To have bitter dislike to
the children Of her husband. 1t is sim
ply impossible for child of only six
years to plot and carry out the mischief
,f which this little one is accused" As
,et there have been no arrests Soma