Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-01-20
STATE NEWS.

most influential citizens, Is dead.
An Alpena firm will have 30 900 cedar
fence posts ready for shipment in the
spring. assiisa .r+...t
The boat clubs of Detroit are moving
in the matter of becoming incorporated
!. bodies. t3t
The lack of little hose. say three or
four sections, cost Pontiac many, thous-
and dollars. eser -...rsse.r.
During the year of 1876 there were 40
fires I'm Flint, with an aggregate loss OF
about $4,000. - ls.s
An Oakland county horse dropped dead
in Pontiac the other day at his first sight
of locomotive. fs g oe4
Farmers bring the best beech and maple
stove wood Is miles to Battle Creek, and
sell it Tor 81 so.
The Methodist ladies of Oscoda held q
fair, and at the close poured f6Ol III the
treasury OF their church.
/ The Colon rifle team Is anxious to try
conclusions with any team III the state.
Can't it be accommodated.
A servant girl at the house of Waldo
Avery, of East Saginaw, intinidated some
burglars and thrust them out. -
Oliver Stewart, Of Flint, is to be tried
on charge of burning his house for the
Sake of getting the Insurance.
They h0l church socials at the Jail In
ST. Johns, but don't let the other fellows
in the little rooms join the fun.
A Nirvana cow climbed flight of stairs
into hay-loft, and her owner had a heap
of engineering to get her down again.
The annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons will
be held in Grand Rapids on the 23d inst.
Alpcna people are again agitating the
Question Of getting out OF the woods by
railroad. They are moro sanguine than
ever. ao-- sf.f lf,rf .r.-..l.,sac
| 1t is said that the ssreEorm club" move
ment at Jackson has reduced the aggre-
gate receipts of the saloon men $225 per
diem. H fslt WI
1t is claimed that $500 pounds of pep
permnt oil was shipped from Mendon
last fall, and 1000 pounds remain still on
hand.
The losses by the late Pontiac fire now
foot up 10 about $4,000, aud there il u
little more Insurance than at first sup
posed. oa og bsil3 Fi-
The Iona Light Guard has about 81 800
in its treasury, and they think of increas
ing their fund and Using it TO build fine
Iarnory.
Jacob II. Martin, of Ypsilanti, has chal-
lenged the champion, VIM. Owens, OF
Vermont. collar-alld-elbow contest for
$500 a side.
Representative Hoyt, OF Saginaw, Is
trying to push through bill for the es-
tablishment of a house of correction in
che valley. a
A. W. Wright. Of Saginaw City, has
niled 1900 cords of lodgings" i'm an open
lot, and told the poor OF the city to 60 in
and take il. So
The financial reports of the officers of
the State Agricultural college show the
institution 10 be In sound and flourish
ing condition.
| The mayor of Hastings gives fair notice
that all drinking, gaming. drunkenness.
quarrcling and fighting OF Sunday must
stop in that city. ~
| Upon the word Of one who has sheen
there" the Saginaw Courier advises those
who have desire TO go to Texas 10 live,
to stay where they are.
Niles is 10 have water works mt last.
A stock. company is To be organized In
dependent of the city. and water will be
brought from Barron lake-fOur miles.
The State Board of Health appears to
think that scarIatina is us had as small
poX. being Contagious aud very insidiOus
in its approach, and dangerous withal.
Rev. j. III. Burnham, of Saginaw City.
was one of OF the persons who We're on
the ill-fated train that went into the Ash
tabula gorge. He did not get Il scratch.
1t used TO cost the township of Tcccum-
sch, Lenawee county. abont $3.50 per
year for medical care of the INDECENT sick.
Now the attendance is farmed out by
contract for $24.
The Chicago & Northwestern railroad
has already received offers 0t more
freight business than it canattend to with
ITS present facilities. and appears to be
destined to become a prosperous
| line.
| John COe. of MOoreville. took out
policy of life insurance for $1,000, payable
TO his wife, and then i'm a few days died.
The circumstance looked awkward. and
Johns stomach has been sent TO Ann Ar
Dor. i'm order to have the chemists find
what he had been dieting upon.
The checklist thieves Yet heard from
have been operating near Ipsilarti.
They drove boldly up to the yard OF Mr..
| w. B. Hewitt's farm, tied some % sheep,
threw them into the sleigh and drove
rapidly away. A hired man discovered
them as they left, but WAS not aLlc To
oyertake and stop them.
The boring of the brine we'll ut Me-
Lean 81 sons salt works at Bay City has
reached depth of LOO feet,and they will
put it down 800 feet more ii they don't
| find better brine. The experiment is
being made for the purpose of finding
lower brine deposit than that new pump
| ed from.
| Last week Governor Croswell par
doned John Sullivan. whO went tn pris-
| OH on five-year sentence ffs,in Detroit.
two years ago, for burglary. Sullivan
went out Monday morning aad died be-
fore noon. ut the house of his aunt OH
Milwaukee street. of consumption. This
| is the man whose liberation sent the
Adrian Press into spasms sofdcnnnciation
of Coy Croswell for setting desperate
men at i;ber y m
On Friday night. last week. burglars
raided The dwelling of Capt Laird. ot
Manstee, taking a quantity of jewelry.
They then went to the house of MIR. n.
o. Wheeler. and compelled the servant
girls TO show them through the house.
While engaged in packing np yal,iables
| Wht eief came home, saw what WAS going
on. went out and borrowed 4 revolver /,
and went ia 10 thin ont the gang He
! shot WELL anil wounded Charles smith
and Henry Tompkinson. who were ar
l.