Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-01-05
STATE NEWS.

Albert Todd, of Owassn, is shipping
slaves direct TO Antwerp, Belgium.
Edwin Smith. of FAIRFIELD, Hillsdale
county. has beard seven feet long.
Theodore Iilton will lecture the East
SaginawianS this winter but they cannot
get Bob Ingersoll.
Beal is now vigorously canvassing the
state in the interest OF DIR. Roses side of
the University muddle.
The Adrian waterworks have begun
business. The i"wOrks" consist of tank
holding $500 gallons of water.
DIR. Ayres writes from the inside of the
Antrim county. Jail advising the boys nos
10 neglect putting on the red ribbon. He
neglected il.
4. A. Wakeley. a Greenville livery
stable keeper, while driving from Carson
20 Greenville was thrown from his bug
gy and killed.
Caleb Baker, of Adrian, aged 4S, COM
miiied suicide by taking morphine, last
week. Domestic troubles and poverty
were the causes.
Howells. the Grand Rapids LAWYER
who went to England for li> Inherited
wealth, fluids that the land of which ir
consists is in India.
There are two young bows i'm the Kali
amdzOO county Jail awaiting trial for
Knocking down another boy and robbing
him OF 20 or 80 cents.
The adyeniists of Buchanan are hold
ing secret investigation of the charges
against prominent elder Some serious
financial discre. .'ahcies are alleged.
Col. Norris, the Yellowstone park SUI
perintendent. is giving his lecture OH
wonderland" to delighted rural audi.
ences in Wayne and Washtenaw counties.
Mrs. Elsie Rogers, of Elton Rapids.
gives the Methodist society of that place
seven acres of valuable land. and the so.
ciety now begins 10 See It's way out OF
debt.
The Monroe Commercial says i'm remov-
ing the Remains OF T.. b Meade TO ih.
new cemetary. in Petersburyh, il was dis
covered that his body was petrifieI. He
died ia April, 1874.
The proprietor of the Sherman house.
at Grand Kapitis, is contemplating the
erection Of a new hotel i'm that city of
mammoth. h.prOpOrtiOns. viz: 200 feet by
100, and tour stories high.
At the trial OF Thomas Dunn, Of Niles,
charged with assaultiiig the city marshal
and other officers. the defense In trying
to prove that the officers were ..bliDd
drunk" while Dunn anu his comrades
were very sober.
MI. John X. Clark. temperance lee
turer, wiio comes backed up bv first
class encomiums from Francis Murphy
and others, and By the press of New
York state. will spend month iu tenn
peralice work in this state.
A gentleman who is styled the Texas
Ranger and Terror OF the Plains, got
drunk at Ypsilanii the other day. and
swOoped down OH Terror, who was put
through the legal mill just as ignomihi-
Ously as If he Was mere nobody.
A s1w-mill in Hamilton. Grat or county,
has ghost dressed i'm black that comes
around every night. His ghostship
walks on the air about three 1eet above
the ground. inspects everything about
the mill, and then retires in good order.
Six dogs were poisoned i'm kalamazoo
one night last week, and the local chrOD-
tCltT tlluS ttllS tllc ldiC LuCIctid DOI
gia, or some wierG wild follower, 81 rode
terribly through the pail of midnight and
placed the poisoned challace TO their
lips.
The central committe OF the Michigan
ship canal agitaiOrs held meeting at
Allegan last week. They will interview
Senator Ferry during the holiday recess,
and if deemed advisable. 40 to Washing
ton to lobby for the survey apprOpria-
tlOn.
A saloon-keeper named Armstrong. i'm
Ottawa county. died few
days ago very suddenly. and it is be-
lieved that he Was poisoned. He Is said
to be the only person who saw the AK
thrown which killed Mr.. Durham, OF
that place, recently, the MAN who threw
it being in the Ottawa county jail await
ing trial.
In the Sulllvan-ROss murder trial, ut
Flint, the testimony showed that Ross
gotta drink of wnlskey at Sullivan's sa-
loon and did not pay for it, nor would he
Leave nis coat or vest for security. There
tore Sullivan knocked him down, the
blow and the fall killing him. Ross life
was the price paid for oae drink of Flint
whiskey that time.
There is great excitement at Pent-
water about the mysterious disappear
ance OF Miss JENNIE Mills, who is sup
posed to have drowned herself. Efforts
TO raise her body from the water by FIR
ing cannon resulted in the bursting of
The gun. Fortunately no one was hurt.
1t is supposed by some, however, that sha
is secreting herself for reasons best
known to herself.
Trinity Episcopal church, OF Hudson,
has already invested $4,000 in the church
building and the lot OH which it stands,
and it owes $1,000 more, which must be
paid veiy soon or the whole property
sacrificed. The congregation are only
abe TO raise $1,000 OF this amount, and
appeal earnestly to Eplscopaliins
throughout the state to Assist them I'd
save their beautiful church.
1t is getting so that If one speaks of ST =
Louis, Mo-, with the least disparagement,
he must be sure and put in the Mo-
for if he does not there will surely come
howl from ST. Louis, Mich. A reference
in the Evening News 10 the great rail-
road bridge at St. Louis. Mo-, has brought
out pitlful howl from GraLfot county
man, who thought "A ilrw wagon bridge
cross creek at st. Louis, Mich. WAS al
ludasJ IN