Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-06-23
STATE NEWS.

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A fatal disease prevails among the
horses OF Grand Blanc and vicinity.
Croquet has subsidized at Adrian, and
frog races are now the popular sport.
A young lad tried to swim the st. Joe.
near Niles, Saturday, and was drowned.
The insert is doing considerable
damage to the crops in the vicinity of
Bronson.
The last government homestead i'm Ea-
ton county has been taken up by a widow
and her sons.
The flsh-loving dwellers on the st.
Joseph want the Niles dam cut so that
the fish can come up.
Seventeen descendants of Ham were
"bapIized into the church, at Battle
Greek, Sunday morning.
A Coldwater theft stole money and
notes amounting to $207 from Ryder's
news room "a few nights ago.
The Adrian school board is economic
ing. or course the salaries of the school
teachers were cut down, the first thing.
A two-year-old child. belonging to a
family named White, was drowned in a
cistern, at Ypsilanti, Sunday afternoon.
The creditors of Alvord Il Barnes, the
bankrupt tliquor dealer of Flint, have
accepted an offer of 55 cents on the dol
lar.
A new block. to be called Masonic hall
block, is to be erected in Jackson. 1t
will be the handsomest in the city, it is
said.
,1r Dr.
ried man, of Ypsilanti. has been arrested
and taken to Rochester, where his first
wife languisheth.
A span of the new county bridge over
Oil Greek fell on the IA inst, killing
Joseph Simmon and fatally wounding
Alexander Hecker.
Reports from Port Huron show that
the banking firm of John Johnston & Co.
will be thrown into bankruptcy. No
compromise can be agree upon.
While Eugene Spencer. aged ten years,
was swimming under water on the 10th
he got so far from shore that he could
not get back and was drowned.
w. Ell. Bush, of Kalamazoo, tried the
experiment of pushing belt off pulley
with his foot. If he has good luck he
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months.
A large quantity of wool was bought at
Marshall on Saturday last. Forty cents
was paid for some fine lots. The price
seems TO have an upward tendency all
over the state.
Capacers say that the Port Huron and
INLAY City firemen saved Capac, and the
village votes $25 to each department.
Well, $50 is enough for saving a town i'm
these hard times.
Arthur Gilman and Joseph Legard. Of
Kent county, stole a cow, and i'm less than
IL hours Grand Rapids judge had them
OH their way to state prison for two
years terms each.
One Of the largest furniture manufac-
turing concerns i'm the world is putting up
an establishment at East Saginaw for re-
saving, cutting up and planning pine
lumber for use in the furniture business.
Emnet Payne. of St Johns. was made
to act as catspaw for forger in Cliuton
county few years ago, was sent To state
prison, parlOned out, and now wanders
about Clinton county hopeless lunatic.
Cornelius Guerin, of Ludington, got
drunk, Ond, during his spree. attempted
to outrage a little girl. He has just been
sent to prison for three-years tenn. A
costly and disgraceful spree tor Cor
neliuS.
At the Germania fair, recently I'm pro-
gress at East Saginaw, good order was
maintained by Il force of girls, who did
duty as police officers. Offenders were
arrested and gravcly tried within the lim-
its OF the fair.
VIM. Hodson. of Lansing, who
was arrested tor burglary es-
capped from the city jail Sat-
urday night, by saving through the
CRATE. A knife had been passed in by "a
comrade, and of this he made filc
Otto Leuschner, the young bank teller,
returned, married, and was
bailed recently attempted to sever all
the bonds that held him to East Saginaw,
but detective overhauled him at Reese
station, and he is now in the Saginaw
county Jail.
A Sturgis man named Flick has been
arrested Tor a certain crooked transaction
in beef. The story is told thus: Flick
took from the yard of Louis Zent,
butcher, a fine COW. took her to Zent's
and killed her, came back
and sold the carcass to Zent, getting
Zent's own team to deliver her with.
Albeat G. Fisher, OF ST. Johns, shot his
wife and Henry Fitch, Monday night.
Fitch is rapidly sinking and cannot live,
and Mrs. Fisher, who is shot i'm the hip,
is Lot dangerously wounded. The shoot
er has been arrested, and the people are ,
trying to get Judge Lyr ch to Try him.
Fisher was not drunk, only ugly and
devlish. The affair grew out OF family
quarrel.
The Detroit & Milwaukee agents
rooms: in the Ovid depot, were entered
Tuesday night through window.
dollars and several notes
were taken. Sa urday night the railroad
pork was taken from his
cellar, and the same night burglars en-
tered George Whites farm house and
took his wife's pin money but missed the
amount of cash received sstof
wool, then in the house.
On the corner of German and Park
streets there lives sturdy old German
Abraham Lehman, 81 Years of aye.
a SO dier of Butchers army, who was i'm
the battle of Waterloo. and lost three
sous in the army of the union during the
late rebellion. Ten years ago the old
gentleman, through Col. Flanders. made
application tor pension. Col. Flanders
received on Monday last communica-
ton from the pension department at
stating his pension had
been allowed at $S per month to. date
back to January 10, 1867. The back peti-
sion due to date will amount to $1,000,
and with the $S per month regularly
will materially aid the old gen.
tleman and his good wife in their journey
down to the tomb b-SdginaU Courier