Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-08-31
STATE NEWS.

There was slight frost in Detroit last
Sunday night.
A normal department. is to be attached
20 Adrian college. .
The Lawton- furnace will be put il
blast again in the spring.
Wolves are becoming very troublesome
TO the farmers in Lake county.
The hog marKet i'm Michigan 10 optn-
+fug up at about So 90 per 100 poulids;
''live weight"
Huge fires are again in the marshes
about Battle Cfrek, greatly cndangerillg
farm property.
Dean E. Grisw old, of Worthwhile, has
100 swarms of bees. and expects to resi-
Ize over 2.60O pounds of hoEey.
One of the prizes offered at the Neway-
60 fair is for best plowing by lady, A
Croton girl has decided to contend for it.
The losses on the burned Sears s. Hol-
land saw mill have all been adjusted, and
model mill will be erected on the old
site.
Bogardns gave shooting exhibition
at the Ohio State Fair, Tuesdiy. break
ing 347 glass balls IN twenty -one min
| uteS.
The Jackson county Nationals are out
| with a call for another county convep-
tOn The first ticket nominated did not
suit everybody.
A Tornado occurred i'm Grundy county,
| ILL.,. Saturday, which destroyed several
| building, killing one man and seriously
injuring another.
A Grand Rapids druggist started for
Yu<llra a1h lint nlf III fl-ha al
train ana never discovered his mistake
until he reached Toledo.
( Aside from the supply of the lumber
camps, AlcOna county harvests enough
wheat this season to SUPPLY home corr
sumption, for the first lime.
| At the rate of time il has taken to build
the st. Marvs ship canal it will take H.
600 years to build the proposed ship Ca
nal asross southern Michigan:
The prisoners who recently cut their,
way out Of the new Grand Rapids jail
we're only five hours in doing the job.
That must haye been well built Jail.
AT Florence, st. Jos ,ph county, young
man named Chai les Gieefisid. bad betII
eyes burned out from poufing Intlred
Babbett metal into a journal box in which
there was oil OF water.
A party of stock thieves rallied. j. nj.
Woods mule train. eight miles from,
Cheyenne. Saturday night, running off
10 mules They were pursued and COM
PEELED to abandon the mules.
A strike of glass-blowers of the Gen.
trail Glass company i'm Wheeling w. VA,
throws 800 men out of employment.
} They wanted an oil emp.oye discharged
f because lac had with drawn from the
union. -.
Col. Bradley NJ. Thompson, Democrat
ic candidate for Congress in this district,
and II. Fl. Hoyt. the Greenback nominee
! for the sumo Office. are 10 have public
discussion Oh the financial questions Of
the hour.
Norman Stevel. a farmer living near
Port Huron, went to Sarnia in pursuit
of horse thief. He found his man and
tried to catch, bnt Sarnia officers think
ling Steyel WAS the thief caught. him and
held him until the thief escaped,
: In view Of fhe continued iam in the
receipts and handling OF wheat at De-
troit, and the utter inadeqilary of the
elevators the Michigan Central authori-
ties telegraphed to Buffalo for a. floating
E elevator to be sent there. This will lie
at the dock and transfer wheat directly
from the cars to the vessels.
Napoleon Lamountain, who has been
serving seven years sentence in State
Prison for burglary, WAS discharged OH
e Monday. found ain officer at the door
! from Joliet, ILL.,. to take Tim to the Illi-
nois prison i'm that town. 1t seems that
he was sentenced there for eight years
for burglary and escaped from The officer
while OIL his way.
: Mr.. Norman Phillips, in paper read
] before the South Haven PomolOgical So
cieiy, reported figures from lift"en fruit
D growers i'm that section, a majority rails
r ing peaches. showing an average net
profit per acre in their crops of $251.57.
which he contended was better than Or
= binary farming, The highest receipts
}, per acre were from apples.
w. R. Burt & Co. have disposed OF
S rth cir mill site. three salt wells, anu all
@ their interest in the property at Willow
: Island. below East Saginaw. This prop
1 erty is where theif large mill stood which
. was destroyed by fire year ago. The
a purchasers are Whitney Il Batcheltlore,
!, who wifi at once build larger and mocr
complete mill than the one destroyed.
: The Adrian Times publishes fac
simile of letter dated March 25, 1878
e that must be nice reading tor the second
e district greenbackers. 1t Is from l.. IL.
: Thomas to Hon. Edwin Willis asking
> tor advice about how to combat the
e growing greenback sentiment i'm Hills
y dale county, and predicting possibility
e of its getting "summer killed." MIR
:, Thomas in less than six months after tho
- date Of that letter was himself a green
e back candidate for Congress.