Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-07-20
STATE NEWS.

Grand Rapidans are again getting up
an excursion to Mackinac.
Swimming matches are the popular
entertainment at Battle Creek.
Sixty-four million feet of logs have
floated to Grand d.IIaven This season.
Grand Rapids buyers have purchased
over 100000 pounds OF WOO. this season.
Painfieid had high toned we'd ling
under grape arbor. "What win the
harvest be 2" Ul
The Jackson schools l,ave been in ses-
sion during the whole OF this last S, ason
OF warm weather.
z. B. Bartlett. of Saginaw city, has just
made sale of lumber to be sawed and
shipped in 1879. r =
Mrs. G. Parker, of Grand Haven.
weighs 500 pounds How she must reyel
in this hot weather.
If you know where John Francs, late
treasurer of Fairgrove. Tuscola county. is
you can get 5000 by telling of it.
The Cour.e; thinks that the Saginaw
valley mills will be idle one-thirCl of tho
time during the rest of the season
Over 100000 bushels of wheat were
harvested in Ionia county last year and
much more will be harvested this year.
The Cooley block of business houses
at Union City, which cost $4,000 a few
years ago, has just been sold for $4,000.
Cass county farmers report good
Weld of wheat with a plump fine grain
Taken all in all, the crJp exceeds their
expectations. I'.S
The Grand Rapids Democrat and Kali
amazoo Telegraph brand the .'MissisSip-
plans as company of black, psalm sing
ing dead beats.
The Od,lfellows' Institute at lansing i,
for sale. The Republican suggests that
it be bought by the state and converted
into reform school for bad girls.
Ery Browns plauing mill and furni-
ture mandatory at Lexington was
burned on Monday AFTERNOON. Loss So,
600. the fire caught from the engine
room. -l..4.f ..ssff
Hannah, Lay & Co.. the well known
merchants of Traverse City. are about TO
establish a private bank there. the first
institution of the kind in town. and great
ly needed.
While Jonesville christians sang"What
will the harvest be :" and "Where are
the reapcrs now 2" last Sunday, said
wicked reapers were putting in their
best lichs within hearing OF the church
trying 10 save the crops.
A rattlesnake bit Mr. Sam Lomason, of
Orion. lie nearly killed horse riding
for doctor, and they had harl work to
save Samuel, but free use of whiskey
helped him back to life and health.
Moral: Save your whiskey tor snake
bites.
Two things called men, are under ar
rest in Mac,mb county for binding and
gagging a young French girl and then
brutaly outrsging her. Their names are
Pearsall aud Harrington and hail from
Disco. near where the crime was COM
mitted. ~
On the farm of Mr.. Nathan Atwate.,of
Hopkins, Allegan county. glands an oak
Which measures 26 feet Inches i'm Cir
cumfereice feet from the ground and
Is 90 feet to the fist limb, the body be-
ing almost as large 60 feet up as at the
place measured.
AyOnng gentleman who s'subbel'' for
w. w. Williams, ticket agent for the L.
5. q NJ. S. railway ut Wyandotte. while
thar gentleman was on a weeks jnnkef-
lug tour, found the proceeds of the of
flee Very convenient to use i'm the noble
game Of poker. The office is. $l4 short
by his exploits.
A barn owned by Jacob Thorn, at
Riverside, north of the city limits ofJack-
sOn, was destroyed by fire at five o'clock
last Sunday afternoon and Albert Thorn,
a boy four years OF age. Was burned to
death. He was playing with matches in
the barn and set 1t on fire. and was suffo-
Gated before he could get out or raise an
alarm.
March Z, 1877; little Emma Schung, of
East Saginaw. aged 6 Years, mysteriCusly
disappeared, and it was fully believed
she had been abducted. The city was
searched. detectives employed all over
the country. and heavy rewards offerel.
but not until Monday was any clue TO
her fate ever obtained. Then her body
was found in the woods three miles from
the city. as
Mrs, John Klickner and her three chill
dren were driving along the shore On
Three Mile lake, near Paw Paw, on last
Saturday evening and ventured too go
out into the wafer. when the buggy was
overturned and IA boy five years old was
drowned, as was also n valuable hors :.
The other children and the mother were
rescued. The boys body was not recov-
cred until Sunday morning.
A hitherto respectable young girl
named Willard ran away from her home
in Kalamazoo on Thursday night, and
joined one of the men at Battle Creek
in the employ of Van Amburg's circus.
She remained with him over hight az
one of the hotels and followed him to
Jackson, where. by telegr,phic request
from her father, she was arrested and
brought home Friday.
In the summer OF 1877 COLONY of in
dustrious Poles who had been settled in
DOR. Allegan county, We're induced by a
Priest. who visited them from Arkansas,
to 20 TO that state and settle. They went
| in Il body, but became disgusted with
their new home, and, the Kalamazoo
Telegraph says, are nearly all back
again OH :heir old farms. The expert
ment cost them a good deal. and is rot
not likely to be repeated very soon
A pretended minister of the gospel,
l.. Trowbriige, OF gNewaygo county.
claiming to be able to heal the sick, cast
| out devils. cause the dumb to speak and
the blind to see, and had the power of
| God to such an extent that he could
| knock people down like beef cattle. has
been parading the streets OF West Olive,
Ottawa county. Latterly he had maGe
| family believe thas the spirit directed
him to their daughter for wife, a little
girl of II. As he is some 30 years oil.
| and W dover with three children, this
last demonstration aroused The ire Of the
they called upon him in force. He took
the hint and Shovyp1 a. clean and mid