Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-03-09
STATE NEWS.

uC f-iouiiu ilcS uiuuJ Know mucn
about Michigan weather. Did he?
Lowell has six secret societies, and
enough secrecy left to make six more
The Michigan Bee Keepers association
meets at East Saginaw April 10 and IL.
Navigation on Lake Michigan is as
open and unobstructed as it was last
July.
Returning Michiganders report Kansas
as being mighty good state TO emigrate
from.
The voters of Alpena county are to be
asked 1t they will build and pay for .
S2O,OOO court house.
The motto. 'Home, Sweet Home,n
hangs over the entrance of the prisoners
quarters in the Adrian Jail.
Adrian people are organizing stock
company tor the purpose of holding agri-
cultural AMI mechanical fairs.
The Michigan Central railroad COM
pany is putting down double track se-
tween Gallen and Three Oaks.
| The copper product of Michigan for
| 1871 footS up to 10000 tons, or little in
excess of that of the year before.
A Port Huron Justices court has de-
clared i; no crime tor tax collector 10
choke taxpayer into laying up.
A bigamist, who WAS shut up in the
Little Traverse Jail, kicked the roof eff
md went forth TO marry some more.
The salt shipments from Bay City for
February foot up 36.l66 barrels, nearly
one-half OF which was shipped, in bulk.
The schooner Blue Bird arrived in
Manistee, Tuesday. from Manitowoc with
4 cargo of grain and nay. Had an easy
voyage.
The ice has all broken mp in Saginaw
Bay and the fishermen broke mp their
settlement at the mouth of the river OH
Saturday.
1t is charged that the genuine Kansas
graSshopper-yea, millions of them
have hatched out at Dundee and other
places there;sbouts.
Grand Haven fishermen lifted 14,000
pounds of trout and whitefish one day
last week, and Chicago dealers took the
whole lit at 6 cents per Id.
Port Huron is hard up, and talks OF
economiziEg on gas. The taxpayers also
have taken Il hand in city politics, and are
canOring about the ears of the board of
estimates Tor lower taxation.
A man named Fielity is preaching to
the MuskegoniIes and proving from the
S sriptures that the end of the world is at
hand, but they don't much believe il.
They have too many logs skidded wait
ing for snow.
The Pentwater Lumber company find
it necessary'tO build a railroad i0ur miles
long from The Pentw;,ier riyei TO their
lumber camp TO set the logs cut during
the past wi,ter. The road will be ready
for use May i.
Charles r. Ford, of Petoskey. was ar
rested tor defraudipg the government in
the matter of making cigaEs. He Iur-
nisled worthless security aud fled. lie
has recently been recaptured, and must
stand trial at Grand Rapids.
Chas Wakefield. of Iaingsburg. was
litteraIly sawed into halves last Saturday.
He WAS at work i'm Victor TO SnslIip help
ing run portable saving machine. ami
fell upon the saw, which cut his body i'm
two lcngthwise. Deceased WAS yong
lad.
1t is very probable that The next regat-.
Ia OF the Northwestern Amateur Rowing
ledo is begging tor il. and Detroit APP
pears to be willing she shall have it. and
The oarsmen are willing 10 so there to
pull.
a new swindle is being successfully
prdcticed iii the rural towns of Michigan.
Professional-lookingc chaps 80 about say
ing they are government physicians.
When they tin1 Il patient they give him
IL,
as 'the government pays all expenses
However, they will sell (perfecily
worthlessl prescription tor so cents, or
more. When government physician
calls OH YOU. set your dog OH him.
Two men were fishing through Tie ice
OH Smiths bayou, near Grand Haven,
Friday afternoon last week. One OF
them broke through the ice; the other.
named Ernest Wilkie, iurcmleav0ring TO
rescue his comrade, fell in also. They
We're both gotten out. alter being in the
water about half an hour. Wilkes cOm-
rade recovered, but Wiikic died fifteen
minutes after he was taken out, 1t Is sup
posed, from exhaustion and cold. lie
leaves wife and two small children.
The Lake City Journal says the Grand
Rapids g. Indiana Railroad company has
taken 5 80 900 stock in the proposed rail-
road from Cadillac TO Lake City. and that
work will soon begin on the lew line.
The Journal adds: ut is probable that
when this extension is finally determined
upon the new line will be, TO all intenls
slit. purposes, an Independent line from
nOrtheast TO southwest, 4. e.. Manistee
& Aipena railroad, passing through
Manislee, Wexford, Missaukee, Roscon-
mon, Crawford Alcona and Alpena
counties 10 Alpena.'
About so girls, in Niles, were in ter
rible conmotion on Monday by reason
of the closing of |. j. Bois' knitting es-
tablishrnent. leaving them without pay
10 the extent oil from one 10 seven dol
lars each. Frank KIttell, the manager,
has turned over to lawyer Beaver such
effects as he could control. and, BY care
iul administration Mr.. Beaver paid to
each one about 80 per cent, with Il
promise OF as much more. il possible
The Niles girls begin TO think that fac-s
tory work don't pay. when fires aud,
shutting down" are taken into consider
alton.
The cool facts upon which the Owosso
coal exci- ernent is founded are rs fol-
lows: Messrs. A. and j. Pointer are the
ouly persons directly interested in the
prospecting. The city. thinking the
prospects good, voted them $500. No
digging has been done as yet; simply
prospecting. They drilled through
vein OF coal on the Rocklr farm, mile
north of the city, and that maae the ex-
ctement. They intend 10 drill IN several
places yet. TO find where the vein is the
thickest. Mr. Pointer says he can tell