Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-05-19
STATE NEWS.

| Kalamazoo woman has been fined $40
for selling liquor on Sunday.
A $4,000 fire took place at Ferrysburgh
Monday. The loss falls on w. Batch
| eldor.
Most of the Muskegon saw-mill owners
have reduced wages from l21f to 25 cents
per day.
The state library at Lansing" contain
$4,000 volumes, besides pamphlets and
manuscript.
Many millions of feet of logs will re-
main hung up on the Tittabawasse, Pine
and Chippewa rivers.
| Some graceless scamp stole poor
widows cows at East Saginaw. They
were her sole means of of support.
A Muskegon wholesale liquor house
! has closed, and 10 saloons have gone out
of commission. Too much red ribbon.
Stanton village will probably soon be
i'm possession of a Babcock chemical fire
engine. Stanton shows sensible streaks
sometimes.
Sanborn, Barringer 81 Co.'s salt well
| ''drill house" burned at four o'clock Mon
day morning. at East Saginaw. Loss 3d.
600; insured for $4,000.
A lad named Fouriner was drowned at
East Saginaw Monday night. He was
engaged in tile usual favorite OF Saginaw
boys, playing on the logs in boom.
The peach buds in the fruit region
about Holland are developing and ready
| to bloom, which settles beyond doubt
the fear that they were injured by the
| frost.
| The stables and some other buildings
belonging to the Grand Haven Trotting
Park association were burned Monday.
There are heavy fires raging in the woods
thereabouts
Mr. Henning. of Ann Arbor, lost $4,000
worth of apple barrels and other proper
ty, and the Ann Arbor agricultural COM
pany lost $500 in plows, churns, etc, by
fire Monday.
A Benton Harbor drug clerk attempted
to commit an outrage OH small girl who
had been sent to the store to make pur-
chase. and has found it TO his interest to
leave the town.
The Lansing Republican man stands
| up and shakes his CORY locks at the great
| prOhibtionist saying: Three mOnt::z oi
| DR.. Reynolds have reformed more drunk
| ards than ten years of John Russell"
| The red ribbon club at Holland has
| leased three large rooms in KenyOn's
| block to be used for reading room, rs.
taurant and bowling alley. Citizens - e,
contributing and the cause fiourishin'
Here is dog story the truth of y -Ich
can be vOuched for: MIR. Louis s.rger,
| of Sebewaing. owns a aNewfounr I'd dog
that weighs 22S pounds, all, Jne six
/ t,rt. Il nf 70 c.
weighing l35 pounds. They are beauti-
ful animals.
A nephew OF the late Ross Winans. the
millionaire, is now i'm the Michigan state
prison, under sentence for murder. He
! is the best wood carver i'm the state, per-
haps. The worst of it is that the man
whom he was convicted of killing is now
supposed to be alive.
Senator Christiancy and the Hon. Mark
! S. Brewer have been retained rs counsel
| for the great chancery suit to recover
moneys alleged to be due from the man-
ager of the University laboratory. The
announcement that Hoyt Post had been
retained was premature, the Republican
says.
A Gratriot county lady considered her
self slandered by doctor, and sued him
for $4,000 damages. The jury saver
aged' a verdict, giving her $5,5S3. AS
her character is thus vindicated, she will
give the doctor receipt in full for all
over and above her costs, if he will pay
| them.
The State Woman's Christian Teu per-
ance Union has chosen the following Offi-
| GERS: President, Mrs. B. b. Hudson, of
Detroit; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
l.. Allen. of Hillsdale; recording secre-
tary, Mrs. X. c. DeVere. of Lansing;
treasurer, Mrs. j. ii. Mckee. of Grand
Rapids; and host OF Vice Presidents.
A terrible accident occurred i'm the
saw mill of Pearson. Wight & Co., at
Saginaw City. OH the 10th. The engineer,
Mr.. Edwin 5. Fellows, fell against the
| fiy-wheel Of the engine. and was hurled
across the mill and torn into shapeless
mass, of course being killed instantly.
MIR. Fellows WIS "a single man. about 81
years old, and Il person who was highly
esteemed by hisassocates.
| Eugene NJ. Morgan, of Battle Creek,
has never studied the words OF Solomon,
who bade the young mali 70 beware OF
1.-THE strange woman," and has learned
by dark experience that ''her house i'm
| clineth unto death, and her paths unto
the dead. None that 60 unto her return
again, neither take they hold on the
paths of life" This unfortunate man
committed suicide ut a house OF ill-famed
Sunday morning.
| The probate court of Eaton county has
been called upon to wrestle with ques-
ton. whicll,it is believed, was never sub
mitted to any probate court in the state.
| Under the advice OF her attorney. Hon.
LII. A. Shaw. Mrs. Rebecca Merrill re-
Gently filed a petition asking for the as
signment of dover from the estate of her
husband, who is still living. The petit
ton alleges that in June, 1875, she OBJ
tained a decree of divorce from her hus-
band OH charge of adultry, and that no
application for almony or any other al
lowance has been made by her. The
case has already attracted considerable
interest on the party OF the legal frater-
nifty OF the county as we'll as among
those who are directly interested. There
are number OF heirs aud it is expected
that it will be sharply contested.
/ They are talking of fitting up the
steamship Great Eastern. the largest YES
sci in the. world ms Il refrigerator. for the