Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-08-11
STATE NEWS.

Jackson city taxes are 20 per cent.
| io"er CnlS year tnan last. i-,.s
Miss Jameson, of Flowerficld, NOR
pinned herself few days ago.
Henry Hall, of Jackson, has run rail-
road engines In this state for over 35
years. =
A COidwater farmer lost his wife re-
Gently, and figures that he is just 500 per
annum out of pocket. 4
Mr.. Haid. of Bainbridges will feel dis
appointed If he does not raise 5000 bas-
kefs OF peaches this year.
Lapeer drunks and disordcrlies are
hereafter TO work out their fines on the
streets at the rate of 81 per day. =
Maggie Hogan. domestic empioyed
by IL. ii. Noble. Manistee, got lost i'm the
woods, and lived for eleven days on ber-
ries.
Frank Baum, a lightning rod agent, is
under arrest i'm jackson. county charged
with raising SO order for rod points to
$11O.
A liberal injection of tobacco smoke in
duced small pinching bug to come out
OF Battle Creek, boys ear the other
night. =
Mrs. VIM. TreadkeIl. of Niles, by the
death of relative at Miskawka, Ind, be-
comes one of three heirs to an estate OF
$4,000.
A newspal er has been established at
st. Charles. ID. G. Ashtm is editor aud
proprietor and the title of the new VEN
ture is 1.-The St. Charles Times"
Horace Christian. of Eckford. Calhoun
county. was found dead i'm "A field on Sun
day last. He had been kicked to death
by horse he was trying to catch.
If you meet Jackson man and notice
that his shirt is dirty don't condemn him
hastily. but rather pity him. The Jack
son laundry girls have all struck
United States Deputy Marshal c. p.
Dake took possession. Tuesday last, Of
the goods and effects of E. B. Morey, an
alleged bankrupt, of Battle Creek.
A Young man named VIM. Labelle was
accidentIy shot Sibley's stone quarry
Tuesday night. A full charge of shot en-
tered his head, killing him instantly.
A gang of lightning rod peddlers have
been operating at Portland for the past
few weeks. and have managed to secure
about $500 i'm notes Of wclf-tO-lO farm
erS.
A surveying party is now mapping out
the route from Stanton to Cedar Lake,
and it is proposed 70 have the iron horse
gallOping over the route before Christ
mas.
The number of logs rated out OF the
Tittibawassee river this season thus far is
l $50, ,S99. The number of feet of logs
RATED out Of Thunder Bay river is 49,
100000.
Will Hiatt and VIM. Ives, of Crofton.
and Perry Tuttle, of Niles, were capsized
in Little Traverse bay few days ago,
and were i'm the water nine hours before
help came. q
At Baldwin, Lake county, the boiler Of
TuxwOrth's shingle mill exploded Satur-
day last with terrible force, utterly de-
mOlishing the mill, and killing Henry
TuxwOrth, the engineer.
Mr.. Draper Smith, butcher of Cold
water. was seriously, and, it is feared. fa-
tally, injured last Saturday. He tell to
the ground from his wagon, the wheels
passing over his head and neck.
w. S. Allen, a prominent dry eoods
dealer OF COldwater, made an assign.
ment Tuesday morning to Court Bur
dick. His assets are given as $2,SOO, and
the liabilities foot up TO 5000.
The noted Murdock family, of Battle
Greek, propose TO leave the state for Lii.
nOis If they can get money enough. and
the authorities think it would be a good
speculation 20 furnish the means.
A young woman named Challis, of
Adrian, drove to camp meeting so furi.
Ously that she beat the rest of the pro
cessiOn handsomely. and was brought
home with shoulder out of joint.
George Lockaley, of Iron Creek, Wash
tenaw county. swan the full length oc
Wamplers lake and back, distance
OF six miles, with a rest Of seven minutes.
He was i'm the water nearly three hours,
Destructive fires are reported in the
pineries near Bradford lake, north of Sag
inaw. Considerable valuable timber has
been destroyed. Heavy fires are also
burning i'm clare county, and also near
MuskegOn.
July 18th, a tramp lab0rer. i'm the en-
ploy of James Brew. North Irving, Barry
county, outraged the person of his en-
ployer's girl A child of but eight years.
His name is given as Samuel L. Harbold,.
and he claims to hail fiom Pennsylvania,
w. r. Burt, the Saginaw mill-man.
whose splendid establishment was burn.
ed a few days ago. has notified his men
that they shall be paid i'm full up to Au--
gust 10, thus helping them little while
they are looking tor employment. There
are noble streaks running all through
the make up of that man Burt. t :
s. C.. Truedell, recently furniture
dealer at South Bend, Ind. was arrested
d., Of OF
horse. Photographs aud a description
show that he does not resemble the thief
| i'm the least. Engle and Hinckley, who
| made the arrest, released Truedell, and
now he proposes TO make it hot tor them
on charge of false imprisonment.
Mrs. Marble was convicted of murder
i'm the second degree i'm the Ingham coun-
ty court at Mason on Saturday last. The
case was q trial for murder i'm which Mrs.
Marble was charged with beinga princi-
pal i'm the transaction. She was not ac-
cused OF firing the fatal shots, but she
was charged with aiding, directing and
abetting the attack. She was on trial for
the murder OF Ayres. AMI, il acquitted OF
that. would haye been trietl on a similar
charge In the case of MOrely.
Ex-Governor Ashley informs the To-
letlO Bee that the work of ascertaining
the amount of subscriptions which can
be raised along the line Of the Toledo &
Ann Arbor road has already commenced,
and it will be carried forward thorough
ly and energetically until completed.
Within sixty days, therefore, it will be fl
nally determined whether the road is to
be completed under Coy. Ashlcy's prop
OsitiOn or whether the effort will be
abandoned. Ashley takes the stump in
the interest OF the road along the prop0-
l., oil roufo