Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-12-06


A horse 45 years old died a few days
ago near Flint.
Bay City catches tramps and makes
them work on the streets.
The state public school at COldwater
will not receive children over twelve
years of age hereafter.
A Kawkawlin man has patented
Shingle machine that is expected to
make at least 100000 shingles day.
The society gentlemen of Adrian are
going to keep open house New Years day,
1880, and the ladies are already forming
calling parties.
Miss Wilson and Master Rundell, aged
II and 16 respectively, are reported as
having been married at Franklin, Lena
wee county, recently.
c. E. Wheeler, secretary of the freed
mans relief association of Kansas, hav-
ing resigned, Mrs. Laura Haviland, of
Michigan, has been elected to fill the va
cancy.
A bottle of chlOrOfOrm was left lying
around loose in Tecumseh household
bit of careleSSneSs which came near
killing little child who drank some of
the drug.
The cigar factories at Coldwater are
being run night and day, the pay rolls
now aggregate 1000 per week, and new
hands are being added as fast as they
can be secured. A.,
Rev. DIR. Luther Lee, of Flint, cele-
brated his 80th birthday by preaching a
sermon i'm one of the churches of that
city. He has been in the Methodist min
istry over so years.
A Port Huron man, whom the P. H. pa
pers are too modest to name, will give a
block of land in that city to the state if
the proposed school for the blind or girls
refOrmatOrY be placed thereon.
The last thing some of the second dis
trict folks did for Congressman Willis
before he left for Washington, last week,
was to rob him of his money and tickets
just as he was getting aboard the train.
Charles StOlz, who recently shot a
rough at Leadville, Col, and was taken
out and hanged by mob, was formerly
a train boy on the Detroit g. Bay City
railroad and well known along that line.
His mother lives at Rochester, Oakland
county.
Reed City authorities calmly allow two
noted three-card monte men to live and
operate in that city. These two chaps
have operated along the line from Grand
Rapids to Traverse City, have been ar
rested once or twice, and always man.
aged to get clear.
Daniel Cook, the man who stole team
of horses from John Oft, of EckfOrd, Cal
hOun county, and was afterward' arrested
in MOntcalm county, has confessed that
he is not only horse thief but a brute.
He says he drove that team of horses 1O3
miles in % hours.
A callow youth of 19 at Grand Ledge
attempted suicide because widow who
was acting as cook at the hotel wouldn't
marry him. And her husband, it seems,
suicide to git rid of living
with her. Queer world.
R. A. Beal has written up "a condens-
ed story" of the ROse-DOuglass universi-
ty controversy as he understands it, cOv-
ering two pages of his paper. This he
has now worked off in supplement form
and is supplying it gratis to all the
country papers in the state that will use
it.
The Hon. d. Ross, who represented
Delta and MenOminee counties in the
lower house of the legislature last win
ter, being compelled to be absent from
the capitol considerable portion of the
session, turned his pay into the state
treasury for that time. That's the kind
of a man it is safe to trust.
The most striking feature of Thanks
giving day at Kalamazoo was a union
service at the synagogue attended by
jews and gentiles, and they all listened
to an able address by Rev. DR.. Rowland,
pastor of the unitarian church. His re-
marks were as rhetOrically eloquent as.
they were theOlOgically liberal.
Four men alleged to have been con-
cerned i'm certain attempts at train
on the Grand Rapids & Indiana
railroad have been arrested. Their names
are John WhitefOrd, Daniel Garrett, Am
bell CarrOtt and Samuel Kennedy. They
were picked up at various places along
the line. Daniel CarrOtt is said to have
confessed the whole business.
The Iron Home says: ''The MenOmi-
nee range is to have new town called
Iron Mountain. They will have more
towns than miners down i'm that cOun-
try if they keep on. This thing of start
inb town at every mining location
is more of detriment to the country than
a benefit. One good live town is worth
more than so small Ones"
A fellow in Union City, feeling that
the old way of splitting wood was too
slow for him, thought he would try
blasting it to pieces with gunpOwder.
and became so interested i'm his brilliant
idea that he forgot to retreat when his
slow match was taking effect. Divers
and sundry bruises now admOnish him
i'm his forced retirement that there is
wisdom in the good old ways.
A Detroit, Lansing & Northern rail-
road brakeman came within an ace of
losing his life at IOnia one day last week.
He had just run in on a siding" with a
woman not his wife, and was seated by
her side i'm the depot, when his lawful
wife drew up at the station" and -four
ished a revolver about in manner which
indicated that she wanted to have blood.
The matter was finally compromised
short of shooting.
Quite an excitement was created in
Trenton November 20, by one of the high
toned young gents Of that town, without
cause or prOvOcatiOn. and in cool blood,
deliberately shooting defenseles negro,
who is both deaf and dumb. The ball
enSered the right shoulder and probably
lodged under the shoulder blade, as prob
ing failed to extract the ball. The affair
has been quietly smothered and settled.
A similar outrage was perpetrated on
the town line between EcOrse and Wyan-
dOtte about the same time, whereby a
gang of young roughs assaulted a de-
fensleSs negro and burned his feet and
legs SO badly that he is likely to be
obliged to go to the poOrhouse, where the
taxpayers of Wayne county will pay for