Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-07-14
STATE NEWS.


dealer, has failed.
Montague shipped about 200 bushels of
strawberries 'his year.
Lenawee county boasts the best crop.
OF wheat for many years. 9 on
The Genesee county wheat crop is 3
magnificent one this year. Eas s
Bay City reports IL fatal cases of small )
pox anu three cises now existing.
St.-.Joe gives the Benton IIarbor fire.
men $l0e for helping save the city.
There were S91 prisoners at the Jack
son state prison the first Of this month.
Two hundred and sixty-five thousand
pounds of wool was harvested at Lapccr.
Several Muskegon mills have Temporal
rily shut down OH account of scarcity of
logs. 80
Four of the southwestern Michigan
gang of cOunterfeitcrS ire in Jail ut Rer-
rien Springs.
The Smith Bros, firm OF Hil.stla1c
horse dealers, shipped car load of cOaclt
horses to England recently. ~ e
Nichols planning mill, of Grand Rapids,
burned on the 9th. loss OH building, and
machinery, $1,000 insurance, $4,000.
Chas A. Butler, of Cedar Springs, is
under arrest, charged with burning Bar
bcr's mill ut Ashton last spring. -
Now the "Barrens" of Lake county are
shown to be as fine tracts for strawberry
raising as can be found in the state.
Samuel Lindsey, farmer whose home
| was between Charlotte and Potterville.
/ was thrown from q reaper last week, and
killed. d iH a
Some of the Oakland county farmers
think that their hoppers are nothing but
dreadfully hungry devils darnnS
needless"
An East Saginaw man has been i'm the
habit of sleeping OIL the roof lately. He
fell out of bed the other night and broke
two ribs.
Mr.. Bert III. Durham, SON OF Mr.. Fl. T..
Dunham, formerly Of Marshall, died aC
Colorado Springs, COL, July 1st, of con-
sumption. r
Hiram Smith, OF Flint, better known
as Hardwood Smith. is now filling an or
der for 100000 feet of oak flooring for
Paris France. ri - iNaeA
| l.. G. Ritlson, for many years q promi-
nent hardware merchant of Ann Arbor,
has made an assignment for the benefit
of his creditors.
/ Mrs. Merritt Sheppard and DIR. DelanO,
of Assyria, arc making sensation i'm that
, neighbOrhOOd. Both have been arrested
on charge of adultery.
An Adrian adage: '.rhe lazier a man
is the better he can play croquet." The
Adrian editors are considered the cham
pion players of the state.
Mrs Isaac Story, Of Sherwood, took a
dose OF Paris green few days ago,
hoping to end her life The dose was too
small. however: and she still lives.
4 Last Saturday Il party of ladies' went i'm
bathing near New Trey, and two young
misses, daughters of Mrs. c.. j. Smith,
were drowned. Mrs. Smith narrowly es-
capped the same fate.
i The pecIllatiOns of Goldie, the default
ing teller OF the First national bank of
East Saginaw, had been going OH for two.
years, and aggregated $3.50 that could
be traced directly 10 him. tis 1'
The arrest of r. G. Hart, the Lapccr
banker. on the charge of adultery. was
made OH complaint of Mrs. Hart. The
WON IN i'm the case was a Mrs. Wells, Of
; Detroit, who had rooms over Harts
bank. s tt j
More horse stealing i'm Lenawce cOun-
ty. and one of these fine mornings the
sleepy officials will wake up in strange.
place and offer a reward for some per>o n
to pilot them back from whence they
were stolen.
u Ketcham 81 Co., and Swift & Lockwood,
of, Saginaw, both prominent building
. firms, have been fighting each other for
six years in the courts on violation of
contract matter Swift g. Lockwood
pay $4,000 and costs. ~
The Marshall German cornct band
have recently passed several temperance
resolutions, one of which is TO the effecr
that no other than a temperance man
will be employed asia leader, and a,lver--
tised for one OH that basis. l.9
Prosecuting Attorney Gnleme n. Will,
sou, of Bay county, cuthis Throat from
ear to ear at the Campbell house Monday
morning during a fit of temporary aber-
alton of mind, caused by sickness over
work and mental depression.
i An old f;lrlner named Stokes living a
few miles from East Saginaw. has been
insane for some time,alld now that he has
chopped bis wife and himself horribly
with an AK. the people are thinking it is
safer to put crazy men under guard
Both will probably die of their injuries.
A big bug, That appears to be the
, sworn enemy of the potato bug. has been
. introduced into this state, He kills the
potato bug whenever and wherever he
finds him, and rs he has no bad habits he
is commended to the friendship Of the
yIsingers. sfe-i go 81 i rs -
: Mrs. John LUTON, living near NASH
vile, is a crazy woman, and had what iio
crazy woman should be allowed TO keep,
viz, a fine baby. The other day her hus-
band went out, leaving her nursing the
: chill. Soon after he returned. and
found that she had killed it anu was pre-
} pairing it for burial.
The next meeting of the general ticket
and passenger agents association OF
; Michigan will be held at Petoskey,
/ OH the 22l inst. Invitations have
ben extended TO the members of the as
. sociati0n by the officials of the Grand
, Rapids & Indiana railroad 10 make a trip
\ through the Grand Traverse region. and
an opportunity will be given to ''cast a
: fly" or troll spoon iir,the waters of the
: Michigan north woods. -. >,
ii a sou of Allen Crawfoul. of Eaton
Rapids, II or l3 years of ace ss.us making
\ hay with buggy rake Monday morn
ing, when tlses1i0rse, becoming fright
ened, ran away, throwing the boy to the
+ ground in front of the rake, which
o caught aud dragged him several rods.
nl After getting clear Of the first boz thp'
It horse made the circuit of the fell ~
e i'm some unexplained mannet<s sslcey yfaed
h inraking up y sydtDngcr broth2E Hvi.o
dt was in the field af the time. l,s:.yetl
- him tar so,ne disf,,l6e Both. V0ys :flt.