Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-10-06
STATE NEWS.

cars to Salt Lake City, Utah.
DIR. Reynolds Is to "tackle" the whisky
fiend in the An Sable region.
About $4,000 insurance will be col
lected on the Osco,Ia mill loss.
B. Schlpssenger. Muskegon ciga-
manuiaciurer. has made an assignment.
Liabilities 81 800; assets, $500.
Rather than walk out of Lenawee
comfy a tramp hung himself in the barn
where he was "bunking."
Up TO this woek the Tlttabawassee
boom company. of Saginaw. had paid out
$4,000 to employees this year.
A daughter OF Joseph Hanau, of Jack.
son. was married Or the Sd inst. and
Joseph has eleven more marriageable
daughters on hand.
The Battle Greek sanitarium is in a
very healthy state financially. and during
the past year it triel its restful system
OF healing on 493 patients.
An East Saginaw school-marm is too
nice to speak of Spotted Tail. tile Indian
chief" She calls him "Freckled Finale,
the Aboriginal chieftain."
A Grand Rapids crockery dealer has
given away 81 china tea sets during the
past five years. rs premiums for the best
bread made by Kent county girls.
A st. Joe cranberry farmer has raised
450 bushels of that small fruit from
measured acre of marsh. They are worth
about $40 per barrel. on an average.
The young man who would take the
most girls 10 the Grand Rapids fair was
to be awarded a suit of clothes. Edward
Cox took 65 girls, and won the suit.
Hadley gossips charged Methodist
minister with buying and drinking beer,
but the saloonist Of whom they said he
bought. the beer refuted the charge most
emphatically.
Bauman. heavy dry goods dealer at
Saginaw City. has bought 5000 street car
| tickets to present to East Saginaw ladies;
and thus coax them to his side of the
| river and his store counters.
A sixyear old girl. daughter of Mr.
| Harris. of Oakfield, Kent county, acci-
dentally hung herself while playing in
woodshed. Her bonnet strings caught on
a nail. and she was strangled.
A chambermaid at the Chaffee house,
Allegan threw a bottle ont of the window
and 1T struck Henry Ralmyer OH the
head and inflicted IA serious wound-ons
from which he may not recover.
| J.: FL. Douglas. a Muskegon insurance
agent. supposed to be doing flourishing
business there. has absconded 1t is not
known as yet what the different compa-
nies will lose.
Anewly:married couple got drunk at
k.exington few hours after their we'd
ding. and the groom struck his. moth er
i m f.,f hn in Ian LII IL
tthe..yOung mans head with an axe helye.
Mr.. S. 8. Vaughn. of Jackson. officiated
as ''starting judgr" at the Toledo tri-state
fair races last week, and he did his ap-
pointed work so well that the directors
presented him with gold-headed cane.
Jackson is to have Greenhack paper.
1t will be born into this world of sorrow
about the last Of next week, probably.
Price l5O cents per annum. payable in
lgreenbacks or gold or pOtatoes-or any
other medium of exchange.
Mrs. Hannah Davis. of Allegan. sister,
in-law of Col. Fisk, died few DAYS ago.
She was wealthy. and leaves most of her
earthly possessions TO the Baptist society
of Allegan. The gift includes a $4,000
parsonage ready furnished.
The Frankfort Land company'j saw
mill. at Frankfort, burned on Monday
night Loss. $4,000; insurance. $4,000.
The company lost mill on the same
site year ago. aud this mill was only
completed i'll July. Incendiarism is sus-
pected.
A Kalamaz, 10 bull terrier took possess
sion of gentleman's carriage and kep+
the owner away. Finally it was dete. {.
mined that tho dog was mad. and the car
riage was hauled-away and the dog shot
off the seat. the only way they could get
him to give up.
DIR. d. w. Loree and daughter. of
Ridgeway. while driving into Tecumseh
one night last week were thrown down
an embankment and both Were severely
injured. Miss LOree was supposed to be
dead when taken from under the carriage
Both are doing well.
: A ten year old boy has recently made
the trip from YanktoI, Dakota territory.
to Howard City, Mich. He was placed
i'm the care of the various conductors on
the route, and on letter he carried those
officials each receipted for him. as an ex-
press messenger receipts for goods.
'Rev. n. Novingard." the Bulgarian
E Monk" who has been tramping through
this state for some time. was at Lapeer
last week. where his effects were inven.
toried as follows: San old satchel, five
stale fish. a piece of dried bread, tin teal
$ pot. pipe and tobacco. dirty suit and an
o assortment of very bad SMELLS"
, Mrs. S, G. Bennett, of Fairfield, Lena
wee county. could not "enjoy religion
u and live with Bennett at the same time, "
e and so she left him. Bennett straight.
8 way won another wOman's love, but fail
;, ed to report i'm person on the wedding
u day. and now the other wOmrn. whose
name is Emma Jones. sues for breach ol
: promise. Damage $4,000.
Considerable talk is being occasiened
at Blissfield by the disappearance of Rev
u A. b. Wood, of Riga under circnnstgnc,
', that even the capacious cloak of charit,
l. will not conceal. There is now living ia
q the bank OF Gilmore g. Go. note of fifty
dollars, with the name of Winters CaI.
penter forged upon it. When the rev.
It erned gentleman was desired to rise and
n explain his accustomed place was fOand
empty.-Adrian Times.
The An Sable & Oscoda News relates
e the following thrilling incident which
; occurred at Oseoda: "In sinking O torpe
$. do into the salt well at the timber mil,
o the rope used i'm lowering it got entangle,
i'm the machinery when the missile wa
o sunk TO depth of few hundred fl ct
1t Here wis startling situation:- The rop,
4. winding around shaft or wheel Wa
,s rapidly pulling the torpedo to the surfac
md unless something was done to sto,
3 it the whole mill would be blown to Hal
r lax in a jitfy. One man tried 10 cut tn