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


work in Grand Rapids.
Over 500 Grand Rapidans have joined
the red ribbon brigade.
Saloon men i'm the Saginaw valley have
got over thinking it so very cunning to
wear the red ribbon in derision.
Hon. SiIas Ireland of Miles, has recent
ly lost several valuable horses by dis
ease which appears TO be apoplexy.
An Ionia firm offers $50 silk dress pat
tern to the young lady who shall make
the best biscuit at the next Ionia county
fair.
John Keefe, supervisor, Lake county,
was frozen to death on the plains few
miles from his home. John was not q
red ribbon man.
Eaton Rapids has Philorhelorean So
ciety. s.PhiIOrhelorean" is the short for
a society that buys books for public
llibrary-that's all.
Money is being raised along the Mus
kegon river for the purpose of establish
ing hospital at Big Rapids for sick and
disabled lumbermen.
The liquor-dealers of Bay City are cir
culaiing paper, the slgners OF which
pledge themselves to have no dealings
with red ribbon men.
The citizens of Grand Haven are fully
pursuaded that they saw mirage on
Sunday morning and beheld the shores Of
Wisconsin depicted therein.
| The Adrian high school boys feel call
ed upon to carry revolvers. just the same
as they did of yore. in Adrian's unregen-
crate days, before the revvals began.
The Eureka Ircn company, of Wyan-
dotte. is at present shipping large quanti-
ties of pig iron to Indiana, Ohio, New
York. Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Citizens of Berrien county have organ
| lied Northwestern Berrien County Ag-
ricultural society, andit is designed to To-
cate fair ground near Benton Harbor.
The Grand Rapids s. Indiana railroad
company has paid its taxes on its land
grant I'm the northern counties. The
company disburscd $4,000 for this pur-
pose.
There are only ten miles of iron rail re-
manning on the Michigan Central railroad
between Detroit and Chicago. and that
will be replaced by steel the coming
spring.
| The fruit buds are all right and the
wheat not winter killed, and now the
farmers can find nothing to crOak about
except drought that may come next
summer
The fifth Internal revenue district OF
this state has been consolidated with the
| first, and the business of the enlarged dis
trict will be attended to by Gen. i. s.
Trowbridge.
| Over 1000 red ribbonites in Lansing
now. However, as the Legislatures still
i'm session, there is as yet no great ffnan-
cial distress among the fashionable sa-
loon keepers.
| j. W. Castle. of the University senior
law class. has been chosen master or GER
emOnies for commencement week.
Hon. VIM. p. Wells, of Detroit, will de-
liver the last lecture.
| People who trespass upon state and
railroad lands for the purpose OF tapping
| the naples "bleed" the trees to death,
and such trespassers are hereafter to be
punished as the law directs.
Mike Sullivan, fireman of the night ex-
press on the Central, tell from his engine
near Francisco Sunday night. No bones
were broken, but he was terribly injured.
The train was at full speed at the time.
railroads have pooled their passenger bus
number of trains on each rcul has been
reduced. and the tickets of one road are
| accepted OH the Othpr.
Charlotte's ''m oderate drinkers" and
| 'inebrates" hive been caught by the
| undertOw OF the great reform wave and
carried ons to deep Geld water, far be-
yOnd the line of the breakers that so late
| threatened their destruction.
Lost Saturday afternoon the Japannlng
| oven i'm the Whip Socket company's fac
tory. at Ypsilanti. exploded, setting fire
to the building, which was totally de-
stroyed. Loss. $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
| All the completed stock is destroyed, and
the workmvn barely escaped with their
lives.
| A ,lispatch from Adrian to Detroit
says that at the revival meetings at the
6oera house Monday night the crush was
terrible. several women tainted, and one
had shoulder dislocated. Three
churches were then thrown open, and
vet the crowd could not all be accommo-
dated.
Joseph Miller. colored sleeping car
conductor OH the Michigan Central rail-
road. has been arrested in Chicago on q
charge of stealing passenger tickets. The
road has been missing tickets tor some
time past, and has good reasons to be-
| lieve that Joe has something to do with
the matter.
Edward Beal of Dover, has found a
walnut log imbeddcd in the EARTH over
whcll an elm tree had grown which had
l37 rings. The WALNUT, although it had
probably been lying some time longer
than the elm had been growing, was per-
factlv sound and will make about $75
worth of lumber.
| A German of Niles became converted
at the revival meetings of the cOlOred
Baptist society ut that place, and insists
IN joining the church that saved him.
His coiored brethern have cogitated upon
| the matter. and decided that notwith-
standing it establishes BAH precedent
they will take him in.
| Since the Jackson state prison was
ssopencd to the public" in 1885 the whole
number of prisoners received has been o.
77O. of whom 3.SSS have been discharged,
626 par(oned. l47 escaped, 229 died. and
40 have had reversal of sentence. The
| average length of sentence. exclusive OF
| life conv:cts, has been about three and a
half years.
| Leonard Bidwell. n young man only %
years of age. was found dead in the woods
near Millington few days ago. He had
a pistol i'm his hand and a ball hole
through his head. 1t is said that be had
ouarreled with his father. and then went
off and shot himself One ofhis brothers