Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-01-26
STATE NEWS.

90 NE VS.
A street car line from st. joseph tc
Benton Harbor is being talked OF.
A one cent daily paper, the organ o
the Workiugmcn's party, is talked of in
Detroit.
| Now the talk is Of narrow -yaugs
railway from Bay City to Midland and
Mt. Pleasant.
Two months ago. John Greenwood, oi
Grand Rapids. mysteriously disappeared
His body was found in Grand river OIL
tSatur,lay.
The Grand Rapids doctors are puzzled
lover the case OF a little mulatto girl in
that city who has been suddenly smitteil
with dumbness.
The largest porkcr yet reported was
one sold toJ. w. MCGOWAN. of Grand
RAJ ids. on Tuesday. 1t weighed, when
dressed, S2S pounds.
The Michigan farmers. who boarded
their wheat last fall rather than take 81
30 for ii, are now convinced that they
fooled themselves.
| A Grand Blanc belle lost ho~ hat u I
Sunday while on her way to church, and
did NOT note its absence until she arrived
at the house Of worship
Ionia county business failures are at
tributed to the grangers. who buy their
groceries at wholesale; rather than allow
their home dealers profit.
Mr.. John L. Agens. a well-known gen.
eral merchandise and pressed-hay dealer,
of st. Clair, made an assignment on Sat-
urday to r. III. jerks and d. Sheldon.
It is reported that Mr.. Crawford, of
Caseville, has offered Mr.. JOY. of the
Michigan Central, $4,000 to extend the
the Cairo railroad to that place, and
that Mr.. JOY has accepted.
| During the year 1877 Manistee mills
cut 157, ,1S4.204 feet of lumber. 225.23l $50
shingles. and 26. 500 600 lath. This bust.
ness employed 1.075 men, at an average
rate of wages of $26 per month.
According to the report of a recent
meeting at Kalamazoo, as published I'm
the Gazette. it is now safe TO set Presi-
dent Humphrey down as opposed 10 De-
troit having the state fair this year.
The Alpena ice boat is now rugged up
with more canvas than ever, and as soon
rs the ice is favorable something extra
ordinary i'm the way of speed is prOmisef.
Last year it made more than a milea
minute.
John Donaldson, the Midland man WHO
murdered his wife last fall and buried
her body in hole i'm the garden, was
convicted of murder in the second degree.
and has been sentenced to Jackson state
prison for Is years.
The records now show that certain
guardian i'm Eato OH county has bought for
his ward in the last year % gallons of
whiskey at 81 10 per gallon. and 81
pounds of tob ,cc0 at 40 cents per pound.
The said ward is an old man.
Frank Hunter, a Lansing lawyer. whio
handling revolver, accidentally shot
himself through the left arm. He had
lust returned from his wedding tour. His
physicians think he will hereafter have
but one arm to hug his bride with-poor
thing.
The Ogemaw county board Of snper-
visors have brought suit I'm the circuit
court against ex-COnnty Treasurer E.
Washington and his bOndsmen to recover
some $4,000 which they allege Mr.Wash-
ington illegally retained of the county's
funds.
A woman died at Tuscola the other day
of heart disease. WHO weighed over 300
pounds. and. according to a CORES
pondent, he::corpse had to be brought
out of doors before being placed la a
coffin. The coffin could not be taken
the door.
The people up i'm one part of the city
of Port Huron are little uneasy about
n recent decision of the supreme court
that they fear renders them liable to
ejectment at any moment. The decision
establishes the validity of an old claim to
that portion of the city north Of Back
river and east of Huron avenue.
Clean your cisterns. Mr.. and Mrs. z.
White. living near FentOn. dill not clean
the cistern frOm which they took water
for culinary uses. They were consequent
viii for several months. When the cis-
tern was cleaned out, several pounds Of
fungi and worms were found in it. The
parties are still so emaciated that they
are both utterly helpless.
Two Sweedes. named Ledelscoff and
Jensen. hatters at St. Joseph. have be-
come insane, by reason of religious ex-
citement. Jensen insists that he is the
Messiah. Their insanity was first made
apparent to to their neighbors by their
throwing their goods into the streets, de-
declaring that they would see them no
more.
Four years ago the husband Of Mrs. II.
F. Lane, of Bellevue. deserted her. Since
then the farmers OF 1.-THE Hart neighbor-
hood" have annually Griven into town
with years supply of wood for her,
which the youths of Bellevue have an
nually split and piled for her. This an-
nual joke was played upon her again Oh
last.
Charles Palmerston, of Muskegon, a
son, got offended at his father
and brother, and in their absence vented
his spite by taking an AK and slaughter
ing ten cows:of their herd and afterward
setting fire to the house. which was, how
ever. promptly extingu she'd by the city
lire department. he william has fed to
the woods. 1t is rept It I'd that he is i'm
sane, and large parties of men are now
for him.