Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-03-17
STATE NEWS.

| The Mason cheese factory will be op-
Grated again this season.
| A Lyons weather prophet predicts "A
storms during the spring months.
Blue glass and we'll developed imsg-
inatioD h I'VE cured a Bay City woman Of
neuralgia.
| Sweet Bros. heavy numbering firm
of Manistee, has failed. They are deep
ly involved.
| The Detroit boat club intend entering
two four-pared crews in the national re-
gatta. next summer.
The Middleville union school house
was damaged by fire TO the extent OF $3.-
900 one day last week.
lol. Thomas S. Sprague. of Detroit has
been elected president OF the Capitol gas
company of Washington. 9
The Saginaw river is frozen up again
and there wont be much said about free
bridges for some time now.
| One Of the inmates OF the Lapeer cnun-
~ poor house is a man named John
Hartman, who Is 107 yearsfOf age
The township of Lyons, Ionia county.
has l0l divorced and widowed women,
and q widOwers and divorced men.
A colony of $50 Swede, passed
through Detroit Sunday OIL their way to
a settlement near Otsego Lake, Mich.
George II. Prentis, of Detroit, is men,
toned as candidate for the democratic
nomination for Justice of the supreme
| court.
A 10 years old girl, named Hagand,
by two dogs on Thursday last week and
horribly mangled.
/ A six-years- old sgirl, named Schung,
whose parents reside at East Saginaw, is
lost strayed or stolen. 1t looks like fe.
male Charley Ross case.
Hitchcock e. Ingraham's mill at Bay
City was burned OH the morning of the
10th. Loss $4,000 Insured for $l2,50O.
The origin of the fire ID unknown.
The University law alumni meets at
Ann ArbOr on the 27th, and efforts are
being made to make it the largest gather
ing of the kind ever held in the state
A petition, signed by the citizens Of
Benton HarbOr. To restore the CUSTOM
house recently abolished at that place,
has been forwarded To the general gov
lernment.
The citizens of Clam Lake are putting
OH airs as they increase above 2.Uv0, and
therefore camOr that the Legislature
shall recognize her village as the City Of
Chadillac.
Insurance Commissioner Row has re-
yoked the authority of the Bangor insur-
ance company. of Bangor, Maine, to do
business I'm that state as it is in III insol-
! vent condition.
1t has become necessary to put clause
in the new Port Huron charter prohibit
ing any person from holding office in the
city unless he can read and write the
English language.
: There are sensible partisaus at GEeen-
Vile, where union meeting WAS held
; for the purpose of mutual congratuls-
} tions OIL the peaceful ami successful
settlement OF the presidential question.
A CERTAIN Muskcgon Iumberman. PRONE
inent for his bibulOus. social and money
making qualities. has Joined the red-rib-
bOn-men. and a well-known saloon-keep-
er says that it is dead loss OF $l.5OO per
year to bis bar till.
1t is reported that during the storm OF
last week two of the adventurous fisher
, men doing business on the ice of Saginaw
bay were drowned. The storm broke u~
D the ice where their shanties We're situated.
!, Names not known.
5 There is a one-armed yOung man
claiming to be soldier .doing" this
stale. and claiming to be an agent for
dress-patterns fora Chicago firm. He
E takes his orders and pay in advance and
f that is the last ever seen of him.
$ Last Saturday morning train on the
Flint and P-re Marquette railroad was
thrown Off the track near Plymouth by
: the breaking of an axle. Five freight
l I.,I III ot,;
SALT were completely wrecked. Tho
: track, however, was cleared up in two
u hours.
A desperate attempt to escape was
: made by the prisoners at the jackson
q county prison on Saturday night last.
Some of the prisoners had arms. and used
> them freely Officer Moe and ex-deputy
sheriff Brown had terrible fight wifls
u the Jail birds and were both shot, but
not seriously wounded.
j Michigan pai d out $2,0a2720, for DIE
! insurance premiums last year. and re-
{ ceived back $l.O23045. i'm losses paid.
: Thus the companies rereived gross
y profit out Of the investment of over 100
!. per cent. In calculating the net profit.
. thowever. expenses for doing business,
taxes. etc., must come out.
On4 Saturuay nlSilI int IcSiNoicSs ,Ni'
= grain house and sheds OF Col. WIN.
h Fonda. of Pennfield Calhoun county,
7. were burned to the gra,lsl. The house
s was os brick. and the other buildings all
" very good ones. The loss is not far
e from sl5 1000, thus being perhaps the
Is heaviest farm loss ever recorded in Cal
/ hOun. aa
Il There is a retired Baptist minister,
: named Scott, living in kalmO township,
!, Eaton. county. who was a prominent
- membe~ of the first anti-slavery Oigani
;, zation i'm northern New York and one of
the FIRST in this conntrv' tn advocate the
>, abolition of slavery publicly. He barely
: Escaped being mObbed on several occ
= siolls and is now so years of age.
The Chicago & Lake Huron. railroad,
recently opened by the completion of the
z line from lansing 10 Flint. Is going to be
t one OF the most important thrOughfares
l. I'm the stare. thousand freight cars
have recently been built for use on this
,fl road Though the companies are pnttiIg
+ forth all their energies to meet tile rusi
IS of business vet they are unable "a relieve
the pressnre-upon them. 49,
S, A certain Eaton Rapids man desires the
81 office of marshaltappointive in that plare;.
d and his petition reads thus: ~Among
r IS many virtues ans characteristics
which undeniably qualify him for thi 9
L. high honor may be mentioned sobriety.
u chastity. astulencss. bulld"Zing. love tor
l. his neighbor's (wife) his unique and dig