Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-04-27
STATE NEWS.

| child with five fingers on each hand and
| six toes OH one loot.
Eddy Avery g. Co, of Bay City, are al
ready rebuilding their burned lumber
docks. Qa s afs i.as- 8
Over $2,0O0,OOO worth OF ihgot copper
lies on the wharYes OF HOughIoii, await
ing shipment.
VIM. Hayden. of Tecumsel. has re-
celved an order for l.OOO barrels OF Hour
from SigO, ireland. -. -
Joseph Spicer, of Midland, has been
convicted of nltering forged documents,
we'll Knowing they were fOrgeries.
o. c. Ferguson, of Manton, was burisd
by the caving In of we'll last Saturday
morling, AMI was taken out dead.
The Gale manufacturing company, or
Albion, payed off over 100 employees IA
gold Oh saturday. They cannot be grecl,-
backers. 5eE q
The electrical storm on Fri}sy night
last week kicked up an unusual amount
OF trouble, and killed at least Elk persons
| in this State. f. =. -.~
During the Storm of Sunday ripbt.
Francis..Allie, Of Amber, Mason county.
was killed by lightning aid his house,
Was torn TO pieces.
When Mt. Clemens girl asks the price
OF onions. she says: "HOw much rpnll-
lera ton do you demand for dozen of
those sweet harbingers Of spring z"
The business OF the late term of the
Otseg0 county coiIl WAS the trial OF one
divorce case, aud OF one man charged
with stealing sn old woOlen mitten.
Judge Ramsdell, of Manistee, was i'm
Ann ArbOr posting himself up In Uni
versity matters In order 10 fill his lew
| position OF counsel to the Board of Re-
gents.
The striking workmen of the Detroit
Iron and Brass manufacturing company,
have agreed TO submit the differences be-
tween themselves and their employers to
arbitration.
| The lightning struck the bouse of AL.
eXander Ashby, of Elk. Baldwin county.
Sunday night. His daughter persisted
In the fumes, and it is feared his mother
in-law met the same fate.
The Smith Middlings Purifier com pany
mas been organized at jackson. Capital
stock paid in $3O0.OC0. The stockholders
are all Jackson men, and tho machines
Will be made at that city.
| O"ooso ooies nave strtick Ded OF gyp-
sum lO6 ieet below ;he surface. It's coal
oed, OF which much has been written, is
about GO feet below the surface. and but
about lO inches Ihich were tapped.
A story is afloat that two Branch coun-
y a oi'iesFs; sIsoSp %he caught thief and ae-
cigars were drugged. the officers took
nap, and the thief left their society.
The editor of the Hudson Gazette has
his money I'LL Oh deposit with his delin-
quent subscribers. and therefore, when
burglars visited him last week, he was
obliged to turn them away penniless.
james Brown, "well fixed" School
craft farmer. was accused of stealing
lady's pocket book OH the cars. He plead.
ed that he was going to return it-tOok
it for fun, etc., although he had it hid in
his boot.
A ghost:has been invented at Olivet.
1t is a tough spOGk. and bullets. dogs,
clubs, nor none OF the known appliances
of modern offensive attack will phase IL.
| When surrounded, it mounts its broom
| stick and vanshes. g9sa
The Saginaw Courier explicitly charges
Hon. A. B. Turner, OF the Grand Rapids
Eagle, and himself member of the Kent
4
the most fragrant law breakers engaged
In killing nesting pigeons. - 'f
Bishop McCoskry. i'm addition to: max
ing an unqualified denial of all the
charges brought against him, is reported
TO have demanded Il court of inquiry,
which will be composed of the bi.hopS
of the surrounding dioceses,
A tremendous hail storm visited Al
bion ami vicinity oil Friday OF last week,
about p. NJ. Hail stones one inch in
diameter tell. and smashed i'm all the pho
tograph gallery skylights and lighthouses
and broke an innumerable number of
dwelling and church windows.
The land department. of the Grand
Rapids Il Indiana railroad company re-
ports that il has sold more farming lands
to actual settlers so far this year than
ever before in the same length Of time.
The purchasers are most OF them men of
some means, who will rapidly clear off
their farms. 1...
Joseph Sieboit, the Catholic priest of
1 Dorr, Allegan county, who drove u
couple OF parishiOners out of the Catho-
lie cemetery will, pistol and horsewhip'a
few days since, after a trial lasting &c
hours. was convicted of assault ami bat
terry and assessed $2l 55, fine and costs
He appealed to the Circuit q af.
i Several of the most deserving families
i'm Tekonsha are about TO be deprived OF
homes which had been bought on forged
abstract titles from Campbell G. Waldo.
now convict in the Jackson state prison.
who had previously mortgaged the saue Q
over and over again OH such representa-
tions. He sparec neither widow nor Or
phan, rich or poor, friend or foe.
Mr.. John French. of Grand Rapids,
, one of the owners of the Michigan mine,
! i'm the Centennial district, 80 miles west
of cheyenne, was killed on the 18th.
, They had been blasting in the mine, and
. piece of rock weighing five tons fell
from the top of the mine, cutting his
head from his body and crushing him 10
Jelly. lie was 65 years of age. and leayes
wife::and seveli children.
The steam barge Henry Howard passed
| Detroit Tuesday, bOund for Harrisville.
, She had OH board handsome little mar
row gauge railroad engine. the second
that has been taken to Harrisville to do
: duty on Alger & Co.'S lunbrr railroad.
: This engine was named the NJ. S.lSmith,
= I'm compliment to Mr.. Nj. 5. Smith, Ut De
troit. who is member OF the firm.
The Emmett County Democrat says
!, that two members of 1.-THE ciuo IN De-
troit. for the protection OF tie wiid game
! of Michigan have been compelled ITO
! donate 10 TO the county of Emmett"
for breach of the game laws. '.lhey re-
: nuested that their names should not be
: given 10 the public. as they did not want
th"ir club toSknow they had violated the
law