Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-03-02
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property by fire last year.
The water i'm Grand river is unusually
high, and much damage is feared will re-
suit.
Sojourner Truth, now over 90 years of
age, is lecturiDg in this state little this
winter.
A Kalamazoo woman has been arrest
ed for stealing lumber. Rather queer
business for woman,
The Muskegon lumbermen have Or
eaniZrd a lnmnerfnan's asSoriaiisn. OBJ
ject: to fight Canadian reciprocity.
A Negannee gentleman Suggests thata
photograph of this winter lie framed and
sent to the Paris exposition as an Ameri-
IAN curiosity.
Mrs. Lilly, formerly Miss Mary
Wheeler, OF Ann Arbor. died i'm China a
few weeks ago. She married a mission.
AIRY about year ago.
The rain storm Friday of last week ex-
| tended over the nnrthern part OF the state,
from Lansing 10 Alpena. and the men i'm
the lumber camps were literally swamped.
| Romance in real life. Last summer
| Geo fl. Leonard. of Bedding, saved Miss
| Libbie Rossmal from drowning i'm Bald
win lake. Last week they were mar
ried.
| The Saginaw salt makers argue that
the proposed tariff tinkering will keep
| their business and that of Syracuse and
the kanahwa valley 'deadernadoor-
nail"
Mr.. Griswold. of Alamo. has got out
and shipped to New YORK stick of oak
| h..r T,x-
T, square at the middle. Lit is to be used for
ship timber.
Y. III. Daniels, formerly OF Detroit, bus
now resident of Montana territory. who
a short time ago WAS reported TO have
been killed by the Indians, is now visit
ing in Detroit.
News has been received at Detroit of
the death OF Major Lewis Cass at Paris
last Sunday. Deceased was the only son
of the late General Cass, and had resided
abroad for many years.
News has been received from Isle Roy
al that the Saginaw Copper Mining COM
pany have str lex rich vein at their
mine. Ii is reported by old miners 10 be
rhe richest in the Lake Superior cOuli-
try.
The Saginaw Courier figures up the
total cut of lumber in Michigan for 1877
ut 2.oS7 .3S5,325 feet, being an excess of
l30.00O,000 over the previous year. butt
o'iv about 6c,000,0O0 feet over the cut Of
1876.
Frank Lee. a minor. living at Manistee,
has been sent TO prison for three months
for smashing the windows of the liquor
dealer who sold him his whisky. and
Blenke. The dealer, has been fined $50 for
selling it 10 him.
At the railroad meeting held ut Port
| Austin on last Saturday night further
| pledges of work. money and right OF way
were made for the benefit of The pro-
posed Port Huron & Saginaw Bay Iiar-
row gauge route.
Thomas w. Cleghorn, pastor of the
Methodist church at Ca>noyia, KenC
county. was stricken with paralysis while
conducting service in his church last
Sunday light. He fell to the hoor, and
died in less than two hours.
John Bunker lives near COloma. lie
has lost an eye by cancer, is crippled by
| rheumatism, one knee pan is gone, the
other leg has no calf TO it-aiId the other
day an old sow got at John and nearly
ate up what was left of him.
1t is officially announced that the 1S;h
convention of the Michigan Sunday
School association willie held in Flint
during the second week in June nexr.
The Rev. DIR. Nindc, of Detroit, is ex-
pected to deliver the opening address.
The proprietor of Glasgow, Scotland
hotel. recently visited Grand Rapids, and
while there was struck with tile excel
lencc and cheapness of the furniture
made in that city, and purchased enough
10 fit up l50 rooiDs in his Scottish hUs-
telry.
An old lady who was passenger on
the "Jackson Branch" few days ago.
refused 10 pay tile fare of "A girl who was
with her, and whipped the conductor and
Il brakeman who attempted 10 put the
child of. One OF the train men says
She fit wnss nor tOin-cat, - she did.
Three carloads of galvenized iron have
arrived at Lansing for tile new capitol. Ii
is To be used principally ia finishing the
inside of the dome. G.. f. BrOwnsOn he's
secured the contract for putting up the
hand railing for the stairways. lt is 10
be cherry, aud the extreme length Is
over 1000 feet.
i Augustus Phelps, treasurer of Angus
Sunday night he Was roDLed of S347 of
the townships money. He says that two
men entered his house. chOke,l him, ahd
took the money. There are those in the
) county who are skeptical enough to say
the story is 100 thin
The VI chigan ship canal. over whicl,
Battle Greek. Allegan and Kalamazoo
have been so enthusiastic, has been taken
| f,f,na mi
Commerce. on which IIabbeil; of this
stale. sits. and given To the COMMITTEES
on Railways and Canals, on which Mich
figan has 10 representation. This, prob
ably. will be tile last heard of it for this
session.
The salt production OF the state for the
months OF December and January. rs
. SHOWN by the Salt Inspectors book, WAS
iS7, 1913 barrels, against lS3, 800 barrels tor
tie corresponding months last year. The
, shipments for January, which were very
, large. included % 96i barrels shipped in
bulk To Chicago, st. Louis and Mlwau-
kee. This Md about $40 cars. OF this
quantity 1896 barrels were from Bav
county. and 1851 from Saginaw county.
The proposed Port Huron s. North
western iar-ow-gs.uge railroad is To run
! from Port Huron TO Lexington thence
northeast. through Washington, Bridge
hampton, Marion and the east town line
/. OF Minded townships, touching Carson
y vile and Deckcrvil!e, entering Huron
county near the town line between Paris
and Sherman townships; thence running
direct To. Sand Beach. and continuing up
the shore to Port Austin. This leaves
; the shore towns between Sand Beach
t:snG Lexington out in lie wet.