Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-11-30
STATE NEWS.

FIfteen thousand barrels Of apples have
been shipped from Bronson this fall.
Rollie Church, of Lansing, aged IL
years. was accidentally killed while hunt
ing, Monday afternoon.
A large number OF keavy coal cars for
the Pennsylvania railroad are being built
in Detroit by the Michigan cur works.
Three hundred aud fifty men are now
at work building the Port Huron e.
northwestern narrow-gauge railroad.
Another prisoner has escaped from the
Ionia house of correction. His name was
Fletcher, from Detroit, and he was in for
five years.
A mormon and civilized being are to
nave joint debate. at Grand Rapids. on
the question whether morrnonism Is right
or wrong.
A lumberman who does business up i'm
the Escanaba region hauls his logs with
Steam road wagon, which is driven on
a tramway.
a project is on foot ut st, Joseph to
establish blast-furnace at that place.
The sum of $1,000, contributed by the
citizens, will put lhe enterprise i'm opera
ton.
A 0-years-old boy, whose home Is at
Eaton Rapids, las been sentenced to
thee days In The county Jail for steal
ing 81. lie seemed to rather enjoy the
experience.
Kalamazoo naturali.ts report that birds
have recently been seen thereabOuts, of
species that comes from as tar MOI Tn as
Labrador. hard winteris argued from
this orllitholOgical basis.
| When certain Lenawee. county
preacher was taken sick, few days ago,
his wife bucklcd OIL her arinor, tied on
her best bonnet, and went o,,t to fill his
appointments in ueighboriug town.
An attorney named Cary, ut Reese.
bay county, has been arrested, charg ed
with getting Warranty deed from 4
farmer to whom he had loaned money,
Oh the pretense that i; was a mortgage.
The Union school building ati BelIvue
was entirely destroyed by fire at 3 o.
clock Wednesday morning. Loss not
less than $4,000, with 10 insurance. 1t
is believed 20 be the work OF an incendi-
ary.
Edward Peck, foreman i'm the lumber
camp OF &. ID Hale. near Tawas City,
while riding OIL hand car, put out his
foot to stop il, and the wrench it gave
him broke his back. He died soon alter.
ward.
The I4enawee county hoarl of SUPER
visers have resolved not TO pay for any
more tobacco for prisoners. AMI hereaf-
ter they can chew pine ktots and smoke
soap bubbles, or put that resolution in
their pipes and smoke H..
The maid-oeall-work i'm a St. Louis,
Gratiot county family, got mad because
her mistress read her lOve-letters, and
accordingly thraslIed the Off.ud;ny cm-
ployer rOundly. Mail communications
is now prompt and regular in that house.
hold. M
Advices from Alpena state that Ito
proposed log crop Of that district will
undoubtedly reach 100, ,000, 900 feet, or %
per cent. more than the ordinary supply
i'm good times. About 20,OOlOO0 feet 0f
old logs are now OIL skids, lett oyer from
last year.
Hon. w. J.. Webber. land commissions
er of the Flint s. h-re Marquette railway,
reports that the land sales Of the road are
much better than last Year. at this time.
while the total sales for :he first nine
no lths of 1873 exceed those OF the entire
ye,r of 1877.
/ A Lerawcc county man owned tame
bear, which recently mangleJ little
girl So that her life was in danger. They
chained the bear up, but Il few days aga
BrIun got loose and attacked Il hog. and
that sealed his doom. Girls are plent y,
but live pork is worth 81 80 per cwt.
Several weeks ago Truman Nichol,s,
of Grant Ledge. was kicked in the chest
bya horse. and seriously, hut it was
thought not dangerously injured. lie
soon apparently recovered. but his voice
gradually failed. until he could not
speak word. He has now gone to Ann
ArbOr to consult the siyanis.
Officer Ostrander, of East Saginaw.
got OH the trail OF what he supposed
were two noted horse thieves, and. alter
Il chase of about 30 miles, he found hc
had been pursuing ii. ii. Hoyt. late
; Greenback nominee for Congress, and Il
: business cOmrade of that gentleman.
, Phancy the the phelnks OF all concerl,-
|, ed.
1t is said that citizens of Big Rapids
and Others resident in the vicinity are
proposing the extension of the jackson,
Lansing and Northern road from the
Stanton branch to Big R,pi'ls. The dis
lance is only about lS miles, and il the
tprOpOSed communication could be es-
tablished, the effect would be most
cShShSa"i, iOe >hlt1 w pi3 sl'AttS, odI W
Muskegon.
w. b. Thompson. who has been ap-
10 nted superinl enent of the United
States mail service, Uice Gen Vail, resign-
etl, is a Michigan man, hailing from Hud-
son I4enawce county. lie has been SUI
perintenlent OF the railway service be-
tween New York and the west some
time, and had especial oversight Of nat.
tiers in Michigan and Ohio, with head.
Equartcrs at Cleveland.
a remarkable divorce case Is about to
come before the Calhoun county au.
lhoritics. The report il that one of the
members of prominent firm of busi-
ness men of Battle Creek visited Paris
last summer. and while there, became 81
infatuated with LADY whom he met Sin
that beautiful; city that he has since his
return refused to live with or support
his wife who is beautiful alpl talented
lady. Hence she asks for separation.
the allegations are freely made III that
city. and have as yet met with no ooutra,
diction. $50