Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-09-15
STATE NEWS.
Prof. Swing will lecture the Battle
Creek folks in October.

Prof. Swing will lecture the Rattle
Creek folks in October.
Some impiOus wretch has robbed the
poor box i'll st. Mary's church at Mon
roe.
The Michigan wheat market is active
in the interior, buyers giving from 81 %
to 81 80.
| Another Michigan Central feeder is
talked OF. 1t is TO run from Standish to
Alpena.
The Marshallites Are warmly discuss
ing the question of abolishing their high
school.
Thestate fair entries are i'm excess of
those OF any former year, and a highly
successful exhibition is assured.
An evening daily to be called "The
News" is to he published at Saginaw
City. 1t is a small sheet, but sharp and
spicy. H W
Alfales Young, one of Brigham Youne.s
sons. is now pr;tcticing law at Pinckney,
in this state. He is graduate of The
university.
A''wa;Tant is out for the arrest of a
Polish Catholic priest at Ba, city, on q
charge of assault and battery preferred
by a woman.
A ledge of marble has been discovered
at Lake Hamburg, miles from Escana-
Da, hear the Breitting mine, OH the Me-
nominee range.
Up at Menomineeia heavy business is
done by fisherman who catch suckers,
salt them and ship them south where
they are sold as sBay-fsh."
Michael Carney, a switchman for the
Chicago q Michigan Lake Shore railroad
at Muskegon, accidently caught his foot
III frog. and was run over and killed.
The Jackson coal miners resumed work
last week at the old rates, 27 cents a car,
with the promise OF raise to 30 cents as
soon as the price of coal shall warrant it.
Chicken thieves are consiAerate at Bat
lie Creek. They lift four of George Rich
ardson's flock, numbering IS, SO that he
might be ready for operations next year.
One hundred and fifty patients are now
under treatment at the sanitarillm. Battle
Gre elk, among whom is George w. White,
one Of the officials of the agricultural col
lege at Lansing.
The Adventist college. at Battle Creek,
opened with 22l pupils, and 12l of them
nave formed a cooperative club, which
reduces their expenses, individually, to
81 10per week. The bill OF fare is not
given.
| Capt. Walker. "the man with the
branded hand," immortalized by the poet
Whittier.lives in Il shanty on the shore of
Black lake. Mnskegon county. What
there is left OF him is mortal. and suffer-
ing Tor the necessaries OF life.
Donaldson. the Midland man who
killed his wife. don't propose to make Il
wholesale confession. Therefore he Only
admits killing her by choking and putt
ting her body i'm a hole i'm the garden.
He wont admit covering up the re-
mains.
A daughter of Michael Finnegan, of
Jackson, aged eleven years. was taken
. into the woods mile from the city Oh
Sunday. bound. gagged. and cruelty out
ragged. She was found later in the day by
two men. Her assailant has not yet been
captured.
lf Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will speak
ut the following points i'm Michigan: Jack
son, Sept. 10Th and 10th; Flint, Sept. 2lst;
Port Huron, Sept. 22d; Bay City, Sept.
, 24th East Saginaw, Sept. 25th Kalama-
: zoo. Sept. 26th; Grand Rapids, Sept. 9th;
4 Charlotte. Sept. 2Sth !; also Detroit il %
a date can be secured at either of the opera
| houses.
w. R. Burt & Co.. of East Saginaw,
have purchased the New York salt anil
lumber works. recently leased by that
firm and now operated by them. The
t premises embrace solar works and steam
, block, sawmill. ETC.. and some 700 acres
! of land, representing All original invest
j ment of $500, 900. The consideration was
: $3l 900.
= AT Reed City one Greener, a railroad
= employe, anil the city marshal and con-
. stable have been arrested on charge of
. stealing large amount of property from
: the business men and railways tthe Grand
;, Rapids & Indiana and the Flint & Pere
Marquette) at that point. 1t is reported
;, that 81 800 worth of property taken by
: them was found secreted near the city.
!, 1t is supposed that these are only few of
v the members of a large gang or thieves
= and interesting Developments are ex-
= lpected.
:. The boys of the old "fighting 9Th Mich.
Ii igan" had brilliant reunion at ROches-
e ter last week. They were banqueted
le dined, serenadcd, toasted, tnd in all re.
spects welcomed right royalty. Among
those present to talk over old times and
'shake" with the boys. WAS gallant, brays
/, and kind hearted "Genile Annie Ether.
idge HOkes. who came from Washington
D. to see her old comrades. This lady was
'i with the 9th during the most famous ol
its battles and campaigns. and was the
y truest friend and best nurse the boys ev-
Is Ell had. The whole army 0f the Potomac
T. knew and respected her as well as tlid
the 9TH.
Y w. M. Cooley, of Adrian. nearly mui.
i. ,lercd his mother-in-law. Mrs. Page. OF
lie Friday last. lie was living in her house
i'm fact. the good woman had mortgaget
70 the place to help Cooley to means. No
1, satisfied with all this. he wanted In,
of whole property, and sole possession. we
~ suppose. Mrs. Page talked of selling tht
place and going by herself. 10 prevem
this move, Cooley. during the temror;ir,
absence of his wife, threw the old lad,
ie into the cellar and afiectionally churne,
~ !" her head. on the cellar bottom and agains
% a sharp-cdged block until he thought lif'
WAS nearly eXtinct,as indeed il was. Mrs
IS Page is not expected to recover, and un
~ godly Cooley languishes in jail.
~ On the Stn of January last one Owei
y. Feeney was put off Flint u Pere Mar
quette railroad train near Farwell, for be
ing drunk and disOrderly. He had, whil'
~ on the train several hundred dollars il
es his possession which he freely exhibited
u Since then nothing WAS hoard OF him un
sl iii last week. when his body was foun,
W i'm small lake near the place where h
was elected from the train. Examination
mt showed that his throat was cut and hi
RI pockets rifled. The ver,lict of the cor
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