Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-10-27

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on building Jail.
Mr.. Mnzhier, Of Bcrrieu Springs, killed
six skunks at one shot last week.
The hog cholera: is cuttiug down'the
supply of pork in Kalamazoo county.
The Niles paper mill now makes and
strips $4,000 pounds of paper per week.
In Calhoun county they have had the
poor with them $2l, 900 worth 3his year.
An insane woman il wandering about
Gratiot county, and they cannot capture
] er.
Twenty thousand baskets of grapes
have been shipped from Monroe this
season.
Lapeer is trying to win the affections
of Fiints pet Baptist minister, Rev. Mr..
Titus.
Lapeer county school marms 90 out to
Minnesota and get $40 per month for
| teaching.
! J.F.CrOss, of Niles, has been appointed
Deputy U. :. Marshal for the western dis
trict OF Michigan.
The Eaton Rapids COngregationalists
will not dedicate their church until every
dollar of debt is paid.
The officers of the IT, s. court at Grand
Rapids are ferreting out timber trespass-
ers and bringing them to justice.
fhe Battle Greek mill-rac indulged i'm
u waslout of quite Serious nature Tues
day night. so
AT Tasting, Oil Saturday night of last
week, fOur-year old child of Henry
Anderson upset lamp and was burned to
death thereby.
Il
The Port Sanilac postoff1ce was robbed
Tuesday morning of $204 in money,
stamps. etc. and IL registered packages,
value not known.
VIM. Peak was arr st id at Milwaukee
on the %. for burning mill at Grand
Haven live years ago. He was taken
there for exami. .,atiOn.
Surveyors are laying out a railroad to
run from White Cloud, NewaygO county,
to Baldwin, Lake county. 1t will be %
miles long, and will tap some extensive
pineries.
Robert Dribbins, of Mecosta county,
who last July was arrested. charged witt,
attempting to outrage little girl, has
Just had his trial, He 60 IS TO stale prison
tor IL years.
Rev. E. III. Ellis. of Hillsdale county, is
Establishing colony at Columbia, Bra
zoria county, Texas. and several Hills
dale families have gone thither, and more
, are to follow.
The building of the Detroit & Milwau-
t kee railroad IRON bridge ut Grand Rapids
has been deferred until tomorrow. 1t
is to e.built between tonight and Mon
: day morning.
DR. Reynol Is; the rcd ribboner, has Wis.
ted the mining iegiOns about Hancock
I and other sections of the upper peniu-
suia' Red ribbons are spreading like
wildflre up there.
II At East Saginaw. Monday night, the
Derby block took fire, ami Mr.. Derby,
wholesale grocer. lost $500 and Z. N.
Hosner. giOve-Inanufacturer, lost $1,000.
{ Both well insured.
IL Two university students have paid
o John GotcZ, of Ann Arbor, $50 to hush
up little college prank of theirs. In
any other than college town the "prank"
i would be called horse stealing.
Mrs. Carreth, wife of Thomas CaIreth,
Of Sarinac, attempted suicide by jump
: ing into the cistern. but was rescued by
+ her husband. Then she worked off her
frenzy by breaking up the dishes, etc.
Hon. Geo. II. Jerome, of Niles, himself
a noted pfsiculturist and now state fish
commissioner, has written touching
q letter relating to the life and labors Of
his co-laborer, the late George Clark, OF
EcOrse.
! Cofdwater has two things to be proud
LOFTS state public school md Hon. Hen
# ry G. Lewis art gallery. This gentleman
has pictures and statuary worth $4,000
or 100000, and on Saturdays he throws
1t his gallery open to the public.
Two men named Palmer and Morris
n were arrested at Saginaw Wednesday.
forenoon on receipt of telegram from
> the sheriff Of Washtenaw county. They
are wanted at Ann Arbor TO answer to q
e charge OF highway robbery and larceny.
= Jas. Humphrey, of Ionia, was shot i'm
the right shoulder, Monday afternoon,
by the accidental discharge of gun in
+ tile hands of man walking on the street
IS behind him. His arm had to be amputa-
ted, and his recovery is considered doubt
ful.
Esther Coffeen has the proud distinc-
tiOn of being the first life prisoner sen
! fenced from Kent county since 1860. On
Saturday her trial for arson was CON-
= pleted, and she was sentenced to Jackson
:" for lite She fired an inhabited house i'm
u the night.
Notwithstanding the fact that the girls
Employed in the Benton UarbOr canning
,f establishment have habit of heaving
rotten tomatoes at male visitors. they
y can can tomatoes like all possessed,
he having put up 300, 900 cans of the lucious
pOmnle o. amour.
d A youngSwOman named Belmont wa:
[e arrested at Grand Haven Tuesday fol
p. horse-stealing. Ii appears that she hired
horse and carriage OF q Grand Rapids
ie livery stable and drove to Gaand Haven
to sell. As she offered the horse toe
cheap, she was suspected.
h. A "seern or s'sibyl'' told Calhoun
!, county man that if he would deposit $500
u for II DAYS where no one but himself and
at the prophet would know of il. her con
q. ltrol over hioden forces would add $4,000
to if. lie mort gagged his farm for the
lie hidden forces, and now mourns the alb
sence of sibyl and money.
RS st. Mary's hospital, of East Saginaw
or has resolved itself into IA sort of lumber
mans insurance society. rs it were. The
We woodmen have heretofore been very
lis liberal i'm their donations to the sisters o
bv charity who manage that institution, ant
b.. this year they guarantee medical attend
"' ance and good nursing in case of sickness
&c or accident to any wo0dman who contri
ill butes 81 to the hospital before January
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