Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-12-29
STATE NEWS.

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| Almeda boasts of nine-year girl who
is "a telegraph operator.
! There are 250 pupils i'm attendance at
the institute for The Ieaf, dumb and the
blind at Flint.
| On Lake Superior navigation is still
open. and boat was plying between
L'Anse and Portage Lake last week.
The st. Louis Herald reports the death
of young man near Lake View from
hemorrhage after having tooth drawn.
Ms Charles Hari is, of Detroit, has do
mated $500 each to the Protestant orphan
asylum and the industrial school at De-
| trOt.
Ex-Governor Bagley has sent the boys
in the Reform School 40 pounds each of
candy, nuts and raisins as a Christmas
present.
| A Lenawee county man who was ac-
cused of watering milk was tried tor
| that rare crime. hut six men could not
decide whether he did it or not.
On Friday of last week, Mrs. Isaac
Brown. of Linden, cut her throat with
a razor. She leaves husband and several
children. Alleged cause. family lars.
The other night some one committed
burglary on the cornerstone of the Epis-
Copal. church at Three Rivers. and stole
| the COILS anu other articles deposited
| therein.
| The diphtheria prevails extensively i'll
Clinton county, and the Republican notes
| ii as a curious fact that the disease is coll
fined to localities where the soil is sandy.
Major VIM. Jenney, of Mt. Clemens,
State Senator tor the 2lst district, has
| been commissioned colonel OF state
militia and.appointed aid-de-camp to the
Governor.
The warden Of the IoHia house Of cor
reciiOn makes an elaborate explanation
of how Billy Burns escaped from that
prison. Burns tells one stOryssand War
den Grafton another.
Jerry Burlson, OF Ridgeway, was jailed
at Adrian on Thursday OH a charge of
steaiing $500 from his father. He had
| Just returned from Il short wedding tour
leaving his young wife in Detroit.
Frank Payne, of Niles, beforeEretiring
to bed in KalamazoO hotel the other
night, thOughtfully blew out the gas, and
came near forgetting TO wake up next
morning. Vigorous medical efforts saved
| his life.
Il. e. Pray, an attorney at Marshall.
sued w. u. Fox. of Albion, for $1,000
fees alleged to be due. The jury decided
that the lawyer had alreaay been over
paid. aud returned verdict against him
|! Tor SIC 80.
The panpers at the Washtenaw county
house will be made TO chop wood this
winter, the Superintendents having pur-
chased a piece of land upon which there
is standing about 1000 cords of wood,
besides rail and stake timber.
Monday. December 18th. the fires were
| lighted under the boilers in the new cap
| itol building at Lansing. The building
will be kept heated all winter for the
purpose OF drying the plastering and
keeping the workmen employed comfort
able.
Messrs. J. A. Bailey and B. F. Orton
| left Bay City last week for their future
home. near Austin, Texas. They go in
box car fitted up for the journey. with
IL pig sty aud dog kennel underneath.
hen coop on top, kitchen, parlor, DeC-
room, sheep-pen. etc., within.
John Howell, of Grand Rapids. who
was arrested for stripping the corpse OF
Frank Davis of its grave clothes becuase
they had not cenpaidior. has been hell
for trial i'm the sum OF SOU ball on
charge of misdemealor. the justice hold
iug his action to be an otfense against de-
cency and good morals.
Mark Darlington, the Huron shore
weather prophet, publishes the follow
ing predictions for January and Febru-
ary: January, look tor snow on the 3d;
9Th, snow; mild from 1lth to 18th, and
from 18th to 18th moderately cool quite
cold from the 25th to 3lst. February
comes i'm cod; the I'd, snow and high
winds; 10th. snow; 18th, rain or snow;
25th, look for snow.
o. ID. Minar, Goshen, Ind, man, has
obtained an order OF court for the sale or
the entire city of Ludngton. Michigan,
place of considerable importance. i'll Ma
son county, under Judgment against
Geo. w. Ford. ct. a. The suit upon
which the Judgment was obtained was
founded o" the representations OF an o4d
man who claimed that he had been de-
frauded out OF the lands on which tue
city is situated. but had no money to pay
the expenses of a contest. Minal Is am
ex-detective, and, becoming satisfied oil
the iustness of the old mans claim, he
interested himself i'm the ease. and, at the
end of two years, has the entire city UNI
der the sheriff's hammer. Minar and his
protege will make about $4,000 out OF
the transaction.