Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-04-20
STATE NEWS.

Five citizens of Coldwater have an ag-
gregate weight of 1885 pounds.
VIM. A. Howard, of Michigan, was in.
stalled as governor of Dakota last week
at Yankton.
A wonderful hay fork is the bait now.
usetl by swindlers with which to gull in
nocent farmers.
For the first time in 20 years the town
OF Pennfield, Calhoun county. has co.,
stable who has qualified tor duty.
Rev. A. B. Allen. Tor the past eight
has resigned, to take effect i'm June. -.
The Ann Arbor postoffice war is still
raging. The ''ins' and "outs" have their
fuglemen at Washington hard at work.
Benton Harbor has grange store. and
soon expects 10 have a railroad. a blast
furnace, a WOODEN mill and new hotel.
Two boys at East Saginaw were DROWN
ed and one had leg broken, and has.
since died, by clingiug to rope hanging
from the propeller Benton.
Prof f. d. Shaver, of Michigan Uni,
versity. has been appointed to the chair,
recently filled by the late Prof. j. r.
Stone, Of Leland University, New Or
leans.
.aCoals of fire falling upon prisoner at
the lpsilanti Jail awoke him 10 the fact
that the Jail was OH fire. The flames were
extinguIshed.
w. d. Regan, of Sarnia. is in trouble.
at Port Huron. He brought over some
valuable stock and entered it duty free
under the emigrant law, and then sold
it.
Rowers & Walkers burial case factory,
at Grand Rapids,> burned Monday morn
ing. Loss OH building, stock. machinery,
etc., $4,000; insurance. $4,000. The fire
caught in the boiler room.
Alof F. Lindal, school assessor of the
village of Michigamme. Marquette sonn-
ty. who abscondcd with about 81 900 of
the school money two months ago. has
been captured in Nebraska and brought
back.
The steam tug Greyling. owned by S.
FL. Davis q Co., of Detroit, caught last
week on Monday, $500 pounds, Oh Thurs:
day 2,2OO. pounds, anl ON, Friday 300.
pounds of fish, the bulk Of which were
whitefish.
Mr.. j. V. Sherman, wife Of an old resi~
dent OF CassapOlis, died last Sunday nigh6
from an overdose OF chlOrofOlm N. She haG
been in the habit of taking It, and it il
supposed she took too large a quantity
unintentionally.
Judge Green has rendered decision as
to the free bridge across Saginaw river,
granting an Injunction rest, aiming the
altU nf act ni, h..
Bridge company from doing any further
work OH the same.
The wheat and fruit prospect never
looked better in the vicinity Of Dowagiac. ).
B. F. Engle, the largest fruit raiser liz
that section, says there is prospect of,
the largest crop OF small fruit and peach
es ever known there.
TThe Michigan Central railway las.
bought 1000 tons of steel rails, and will.
| relay the Grand River Valley division,
and five miles of the Air Line, making
the Latter all steel; also, new track from
Three Oaks TO Galien, completing dou-
bic track from Niles to Chicago-and,
indeed, from jackson to Chicago, if the
Air Line is taken into consideration,
Michigan hes daughter whose names
IL W oC NiiItCu up vi Tic SClOil VI
fame besides those of Grace Darling and
Ida Lewis. Sne is Miss Edith Morgan,
the daughter of the keeper OF the life-sav-
ing station at Grand Point An Sable. She.
volunteered to bear a hand i'm the life
saving crew when they were aman short
and rendered good service. The treasury.
department will formally recognize her
services.
Ernest Crawford. the young Dowagiac
incendiary who burned Mr.. Green's house
is the sou of a wealthy widow of that
city. He had proposed 10 fire several
houses, and confided his plans to TWO
friends, Bob Jennings and 0. Sherman.
who betrayed him. Officers were OH the
watch for him, and proposed to extins..
guish the fire and catch him, but he had
used So much oil that they could not,
stay the flames. He has been bound over
for trial. with bail fixed at $4,000.
Some time ago John Allen, treasurer
of Calvin township, Cass comfy. claimed
to have been robbed Of some OF the Town.
ship funds. Soon after he set up "A claim.
of having been murdered. or of having
killed himself-having lett his hat by u
pond Of water. and in rOw-boat a rope
and blOod-stained razor. 1t would have,
been first-class sensation had it not
been for the fact that the blood" OH the
razor was discovered to be red paint. and
that Johns official accounts are about
81 200 short.