Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-05-04
STATE NEWS.

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and wont pass.
The honest fishermen of Lake Mich
igan make smoked halibut of the big
lake sturgeon.
S. Fairchild, of Charlotte, Iis 63 years
of age and can turu hand springs AS a
circus acrobat.
The burned Genesee paper mill, at
Flint, will be set in operation again as
soon rs possible.
There are now more than 700 insane
persons i'll the kalamazoo asylum for the
insane at present.
George Hoab, of Flint, died Friday last
week of the look-jaw superinduced by his
boot rubbing his foot.
The Ann Arbor town ball is to have
a 81 Geo clock in It's tower. 1t is one of
the Seth Thomas make.
The Free and Accepted Masons of
Michigan have declared the saloon busi-
ness incompatible with Masonry.
East Saginaw voted on free bridge
loan Monday. The vote was in the
affirmative by ever 1.300 majority.
Bay City business men propose to
pave the way to Unionvlle, % miles the
pavement to be eight feet wide.
Adsm Oliver. of Kalam ZOO, a we'll
known lanscape gardener. will have the
job of beautifying the Capitol grounds
at Lansing.
At the last election Hancock man
voted an order for one dollars worth of
pork, and presented Democratic ticket
TO the pork dealer.
i Congressman Willis telegraphs to post
} master Clark. of Ann ArbOr, that he will
be confirmed by the Senate as postmaster
for another term.
The Olivet ghost was a scare-crow
made by the railroal men i'm order that
. Battle Creek penny-a-liners could make
a stake" last week.
:, News from the Muskegon River an
nounced that great damage has been
: done by the late rains in washing away
. bidges, dams. etc.
Miss Viola Rand. of maple grove, put a
cartridge Oh a hot stove to see what it
would Go. She found out, and has an
extra hole in her face now.
The Saginawian issued a supplement
,, this week that was just three inches
! square. Lewis says matter that is ''up"
must go in. If it breaks him.
The Carrollton, Saginaw county, oar
: factory employs from 40 to go men, and
t during the past year has turned out over
t l,GO000O feet of finished oars.
Col. John Atkinson, of Detroit, is writ
r ing Il series of sketches Of Port Huron,
q soldiers which are being published In.
the Port Huron Commercial.
The Union school-house at Cassopolis
was burned last Monday night by an
incendjary; loss $4,000; insurance in the
= Continental, New York, $4,000.
The examination OF r. III. Morrison,
+ OF Sturgis, the alleged Oldfellow deiaul-
ter, was begin at Lansing Tuesday. 1t
i promises 20 bea slow investigation.
e Delta. Eaton county contains ii year
e old lad 6 feet and / inch high; weighs
e 200 pounds. and is well built and prOpOr-
/ toned. His father is A. j. Hamilton.
The editor of the Cedar Springs Clip
per offers to let bis delinquent subscri-
: : bers pay him in work, at the rate of 81
4 4 per day-on the eight hours system at
l that.
Jesse Varney an eX -allerm IN of Big
a Rapids dropped dead while blowing
: near his residence hast Tuesday morning.
A OpleXy was the supposed cause of his
! death.
e a Michigan man. supposed to be Ste
o phen Mulder, OF Holland, is in New
5 York and is asleep. In fact he was
:. asleep when first found by the police,
# and had slept sOundly for several days.
Prof. Cook, of the Agricultural COL
S lege, recommends pasturing the wheat
: in order to help on the destruction of
e the Hessian fly, as the eggs deposited Oh
the leaves would then be eaten and the
!: crop benefited.
A Three Rivers trackmaster has
e three-wheeled railway velocipede for
: which speed of 25 to 35 miles in an
6 hour is claimed. Two large wheels run
y y on one track. ard the other wheel serves
u u TO steady the machine by running on the
: other track.
: Last week the Tittabawassee river was
n on what the lumbermen call a "wet
:: j,mboree." A big log jam above Mid
!. land damned the water back for twenty
/. miles, Overfiowing the lowlards, des-
], troying fences, crops etc. and doing
: great damage.
The Peninsular paper company of
7, Ypsilanti, is talking Of introducing
Y electric lights into its mills. The system
under consideration is that of a Cleve-
'r and day, cheapness with safety aud good
light is the great desideratum.
n For over 20 years Port Austin. Huron
county, has each season manufactured
aud sent abroad several million feet of
D. lumber, but this trade is now ended, the
o. last load having been shipped last week..
The country haying been stripped of its
l., pine, thrifty farmers are taking the place
of of lumbermens camps.
The connection track at Monroe is be-
" ing completed between the Canada
of Southern and Flint and Pere Marquette
railways, crossing the lake shore and
Michigan Southern track about one mile
I; north Of MourOe. This will give the
Flint and Pere Marquette two connec-
tions at Toledo.
. There will be a sale on the 10 of June
l. of the Michigan Lake Shore railroad,
extending from Allegan to Muskegon
with all the property of the roal. under
~ y. decree of the United States circuit
a. a. courts. 1t is understood this sale will
90 lead to the completion OF the road from
Allegan to Battle Creek this season.
O. The Ionia standard says: 1T is cur
se rently reported that Nj; j. j. Shearer
cur the assallant OF Congressman Ellsworth
made the threat that he would sooner
n or later take the life of Mr. w. w
RS Mitchell. of the well known firm o
he Mitchell g. Pratt of this city," Thai
Y. fellow appears to have an ambition tt
ut dwell in granite halls.
he
iii 1t is said that out of the three hundred
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