Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-09-21
STATE NEWS.

There is talk of putting steamboat
on the Muskegon river to ply between
Mnskegon and Newaygo.
Three hun 1red dollars was raised i'm
the Holland, Mich, churches Sunday 10
aid The yellow fever suffers.
f. w. Taylor. a lunberinan has been
arrested at Grand Rapids. charged with
getting house and lot by false preien-
The great lawsuit of Harlow as. the
Lake Superior iron Co.. involving about
Si.OO0O0O, has been decided at Marquette
in favor of the defendants.
The Ninth District Nationals have nom.
mated George Parmelee, of Grand IRA
verse, TO run for Congress: He is the
famous Grand Traverse fruit farmer
A young man named Bacon, of Frank
tort. went out on Lake Michigan for a
sail few days ago, and when off pier
ed.
Dyson Porter, an old and well to do
resideut or Schoolcraft, aged SO. died OH
ihe IL! Ii or hay fever. He had been SUBJ
Ject TO 1t for % years. Ii commenced on
August 20 in each year regularly.
A chap named John Whiting. who was
a prisoner in the grand Rapids jail at the
tiihe iC was burned last spring. has con-
Iessed that he and one Frank johnson
hfei the structure. Both have been ar
rested.
At the recent soldiers reunion at Big
Rapids, Charles Scott, colored mani.
was one of The Speakers who responded
to toast. lie had seen the day when
he had brought $l,700 Oh the auction
block.
In the last thirty years the Lake SrI-
p riof copper mines have produced over
i Quarter of Il million net ions. valued az
SllS.30I.9S0. The greatest product
1855 tons-wss rails d in 1867. This
WAS valued mt $7,5566SO.
james Callahan returned from ten
months sojourn in State Prison To Eliza.
Gratlot county, to find his wife married
TO another man. lie was sent for steal
lhgsS and it-Eow transpircs that his
vile Stole The money and he Went rather
than expose her.
Lathrop Bros. general store in Rich
mond village was entered by thieves on
Saturday night. and between 5000 and
$500 stolen. Entrafice was effected by
tearing ont pannel in the back dooa.
The loss was not discovered until Sun
day evening. No trace of the thieves as
yet.
Four members of the family of james
cooper, o; Carmel township. viz. Cooper,
his wife and two small children. were
poisoned by eating cookies in which Il
spoonful OF arsenic had been used by
mistake Instead of cream tartar. IT was
thought they might possibly recover, but
the children were in very precarious
condition.
Mrs. Thaycr. of Concord, had a little
encounter with a tramp recently. After
she had retired she heard some one i'm
another room. anI upon Investigation
she found 1t tc be Mr.. Tramp. The cos
mopolitan idler informed her that he did
not propose to leave until he '.gOt ready,''
but when she let off one barrel IF n dou-
ble-barreled shot gun he .got rcadyn be-
fore the next ore coul,l be fired. Mrs,
Ihayer's grit is excellent, but nnfortu-
nately she IS Il poor s!fot.
A railroad company to be known as
the Toledo, Ann ArbOr s. Northeastern
railroad company. was organized ut Ann
Arhor last Monday with a capital stock
of $5OOOOO. of Which five per cent. was
paid in. The object of the company is
10 buil,l road road from Ann Arbor to
Pontiac (aboIt 40 milcs). connecting at
the latter place with the Grand Trunk
railway. The road ut the Ann Arbor
end Will connect with the Toledo & Ann
Arbor route. the new read completed this
summer. and thus connect with the Lake
Shore, also with the IIillsdaIe road, and
thus acquire Chicago connection.