Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-11-03
STATE NEWS.

The Ludington red ribbon men have
built $l.7OO temperance hall.
Part of the skeleton IF mastadon has
been found near 'Vassar.
The Detroit, Lansing & Northern depot
at Portland was destroyed by fire on
Friday Of list week
1t is said that at Flint several girls are
learning the ..coOper's trade.
Tie tramps at Niles steal potatoes In
S0-bushel lots and cabbage by the 100
heads.
Roe Stevens the bankrupt music dealer
of Detroit, will pay twenty cents on the
dollar.
About per Mt. Of the number Of
students ut the Michigan University this
year are young women.
The Kalamazoo paper mill turns out
four tons of paper per ,liem, and gives
employment 10 20 hands.
The Kent county supervisors want the
governor 20 lave tue Texas cattle plague
investigated and stamped out.
Frank B.Stely,a prominent lumder and
shingle dealer at Sand Lake, Kent county,
has been declared bankrupt.
The Leslie people talk of building a
grisl-mill. theap0wer to be obtained from
an artesan we'll one foot in diameter.
Perhaps the finest farmhouse i'm Michi-
gan is that Of Da iel Sullivan, of Alma,
Gratiot county. 1t will cost, when ready
for occupancy, fully $4,000
Gen. w. T. Withers, Fsrlawn Stock
Farm, lexington. KY, has sold 10 j, Z,
Faxon of Lexington, Mich..the Two year.
old colt Slashem for $1,000.
Tie Christian church at Jackson is
| about to haze Il new pastor. He comes
from the east and is heralded as con-
verted drunkard and gambler.
Geo. Weller, a wealthy citizen of Cold
Water. has bt Ell arrested and tried for
comm on drunkenness and ound::yuilty,
and ID under $500 onds. He iIas APP
ealcd.
A farmer wing near Charlotte 'astS.'.
urday sold sow and litter of seveli
pigs, their aggregate weight being 1887
pounds. the weight of the sow was $50
pounds.
Germain GIiswol of Berlin, Ionia,
sent up for five years, has been set at
liberty, having gained whole year by
good conduct.
John Starr. of South Saginaw, Is
charged with trying to externinate his
wife an some of ber female relations, and
that Starr has now Set IN the impenetra-
BILE gloom OF the prison house. :
The Michigan man who bought the
Hambletol.ian colt Egbert, at Worcester,
the other day, paying So, for him, is
roPorteu TO bave sold him at an advance
OF l.00O before the horse had left Worces-
ter.
! A Three Rivers man. who had So 0C0
OF old debts standing against the farmers
OF the neighbO rhoOu, advertised to pay 10
and 20 cents above the market price for
wheat to apply on account. lie got just
eight bushels that way.
The huge McGraw mill at Bay City has
shut down for the season, and the owner,
Miss McGraw. daughter and heiress of
, the builder, has ordered that, instead of
cutting folty or fifty millions of lumber
in the woods this year, but about seven
m llions shall be cut.
VIM. Seymoor, a travelling agent for
Cornwells. Price & Co., of Detroit, was
overhaul, d by two colOred foot pads at
Ypsilanti LAST Saturday night. and re-
quested to give up Ills money or his life.
Having no more of either than ne wanted
he ungraciOusly refused, and opened up
OH them with revolver.
Thomas Eld.r and Mary WanJall, of
Grand Rapids, had terrible fight OIL Sat
urday last. Whiskcy was in and wit was
out, and Mary carved Elder 10 the bone,
lstabbing him no less hun ten times, He
lin turn attemp: ed to spill her hearts blood,
They were taken TO police headquarters.
where at latest accounts both were in a
dying condition. So frenzied were they
that they tore the bandages off their
wounds.
Second Lieut. Frank S Rice, of the
First u. S. artillery, has been detailed as
professor of military science and tactics
at the Orchard Lake military academy.
Lieut.. Rice is an Ohio man, graduate of
the West Point military academy and Of
the artillery school at Fortress Monroe.
This is a formal recognition of the acad-
emy's wOrth-the government only de-
failing professors to 80 schools and col
leges i'm the Union.
i There is a prospe ct that dark mystery
OF two years standing Is about to be
cleared up. Two years ago W.. Fuller,
of the township of Lake, Huron county,
suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.
Suspicion point. d its accusing finger at
one w. j. Baker, but there were no valid
grounds for arresting him, as it was no5
known TINT Fuller was really dead, but
the recent finding of skeleton and
Fuller's cap and part of his coat, with a
deadly looking bludgcon near it, has led
to Bakers arrest, charged with the mur-
der.
A dispatch from Keokuk, Iowa, says
that under the leadership of j. G. Bonte-
cou, of jackson. Micll., a most remarka-
; BILE tempe rance lefOrm has been institu-
ted. The attendance upcn the meetings
is so large that no hall i'm the city will
hoM the audiences. and it is found neces-
sary to divide the meetings. Up to the
: night Of The 26th ult. over 1000 converts
had been made, and they are now coming
. forward by hundreds. La the ranks are
now to be found several of the former
saloon keepers, who have closed their
shops, quit the trade. gone into other
business, and engaged in reforming 9th.
ers.
A magnificent job of bridge building
has just been completed at Grand Rapids.
On Saturday afternoon last, after the
: westward bound mail had crossed the
DelroitxS Milwaukee bridge over thu
Grand river at that point. all traffic ceas-
ed, and the work Of tearing down the cid
. structure and replacing it with an iron
# bridge began. and at Monday noon il was
, practically completed. Practically the
:. job has delayed the working Of the road