Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-10-26
STATE NE Tvs.

Evidently Mislland will soon be in the
salt business. Brine has been found al :,
ldepth OF $40 feet aud will be utilized at
once.
Judge Brown opened the first session
OF the United States court at Port Huron
last Tuesday in the new custom house
building.
Students preparing for the university
Latin and scientific courses can now sub
siifute German insts AL OF French in their
preparatory course,
rhe Marquette Journal says the pros
pects are that the present work
lug force of the iron mines will not be
materially reduced during tho coming
winter
three years old daughter of VIM.
Maidan, OF the township of M0ltkc.
Presque lslr county, was burned TO death
last week. during the absence from the
house of both father aad mother.
Mr.. Webster Gi,lett. of Arm Arbor, has
invented a '-Shunt' by the use OF which
conversation by means of the telephone
may be, carried oil oyer the same line that
Is being used for ordinary telegraphy,
neither Instrument Interfering with the
other.
Hiram Billings. the liy,,thnusc-keeper
nt LII lIngton. While attempting to let
down the ferry cable Il ,urs,lay evening
OF liS. week. by IN ans Of ii windlass. let
the winila>s. drop from his han Is. which
struck him upon the heal killing him
Instantly lie lelves wife anil fimily.
Jo!eph Srhefnecker. the prominent
Saginaw Germrn rx-depiuy sheriff. ETC,
who elopesl with Mrs. Daniels. few
moi,tlis a:-0. went to Iowa and set up
in the gr eery business. Mrs. Daniels
wrote to her h ,Sl,and. lac weiIt TO sec
about it. alnl th' Courier says the guilty
pair have been arrested. Scief.icrker
left highly respectable family behind
him when lie I'D. .aoIcs
Alpena is 10 have water-works. Ir
pays IS 500 per year for 80 years Tor. the
| IN nIinienancc of so double hy,lrants and
| 0a miles of pipe. The water ia brought
from the lake a mile or more above the
! ely. A company with capit1l of $35 :
0G0 has been organized TO build the
works, and Geo. p Smith. of Bay City. q
large s'OckhoI'ler, has the contract tor
putting in the works.
The Allen factory, at Palmyra, is run
ming day and night i'm drying alpleS.
| there being so large a crop Tint il is i'm
possible to dry only a sm II siiare of
them without driving anything else.
They dry about / 800 pounds per- day.
They have bought 1900 bushels and
have II 600 bushels OH iiand. with tho
the expectation or drying 10000 bushels
before ts,c season is or r. They receive
from 1000 10 LOO Bushels per day. -
Philip rhurber. an oil resident of De-
| troit. died suddenly on Saturday evening
jim the S3l year of his agr He was born
| in New lialnpsiiirr. ANIL passed his earlirr
wears in Utici and Rochester. N Y. lie
morcd 10 Detroit in 1851. In 1853 fe
| l.Iiscovl red the Eureka iron mine on Like
Superior. and. in connection with the laie
Capt. f. b. Ward. purchased 2.200 acres
OF land of the late Major John BidJle
AMI founded the village of Wyandot'e
and established there the Eu- eka fur
mace.
The Midland Courier of last week sets
forth that the health officers have found
a family in Frcelands who were being
literally wipel out of existence by m.lig-
nans ,liphiheria. The fat! e., whose
name is King. would employ no physi-
cian.and was treating the patients himself
rhe result being three deaths and more
likely to follow. The concealment OF
the existence of the disease has aroused
the most intense excitement. and fierce
threats are made against King.
Miss Hattie Ackerman. who went from
| Detroit TO Chattanooga Tenn. in 1869,
to engage in school teaching. died Of
yellow fever there a few days ago. Size
was assistant teacher of the Chattanooga
high school when the fever broke out,
and WHEN the school board closed the
public schools in consequence of the epi-
demic offered her services as a nurse, in
pei forming the duties of which she cOIi-
trlc,cd the disease. A Chattanooga pa
j per says tie citizens propose 10 erect q
monument to her memory.
A labOrer by the name of Allen who
was working ia the gate of the new lock
at Sault Ste. Marie, was caught by one
of the large ropes used OH the derrick tor
hoisIing stone to the rop of the wall, and
drawn by il TO tile large drum. around
which il coils TO lift the stone. and WAS
crushed almost in two pieces. The rope
was coilel arounl him three times before
tie engine was stopped. His skull was
also split from The effect of striking the
framework of the drum while he was
whirled around ;he drum shaft.
A boy of II. named Ogden Hall. while
boiling lath at OScOda last week, had a
narrow .esc.re from death and exhibited
remarkable nerve. 4 bolt sllivered in the
machine. the splinters flying in every di-
rectioil. 4 urge piece. sharp pointed.
entered the lads neck an inch ;uld "A half
between the windpipe and jugular vein
half an inch variance either siIe w0ull
have produced death. Hall waikctl TO
where another wOrkmtn stoo and asked
him to pull it ont; he then pressed his
hand tightly over the wound and asked
tor his handkerchief. telling him where
it could be found. lie was then taken 10
II physicians sit his wound dressed
Az Sable NeuS.