Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-02-22
STATE NEWS.

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The state anti-secret society association
meets at Adrian on the 26th.
Rev. Milton Bradley has been paster
OF kicland flock for "a years. & : -
u Battle Creek will give the land for TN.
proposed girls industrial school if located
there.
/ About two hundred of the men and
ooys OF Grand Ledge have recently put
on the red ribbon. i s,s-3 - -
George p. Blanchard prominent
ium oerman, vas arrested at Cadillac Feb
~, on a charge of perjury. ~ ,far
Hon. c. T. Gorham. of Marshall, will
De presented by his friends as candi-
Gate Tor regent OF the university.
A new firm, for the manufacture of
cu!tivators and other farm implements,
is Ia conception at Battle Creek.
| A. NJ. Elwood. of Brant Saginaw
comfy. died instantly while esting his
breakfast OH the 11th. Heart disease.
Henry Malliott, of Manistee, convicted
OF raping his daughter, gets 10 years in
state prison. He is now b3 years old.
A report comes from East Saginaw
to the effect that two children, named
Holzheiner We're kidnapped last week.
| DIR. Reeves, of Niles, probably has the
most complete library of masonic litera-
ture in the state, if not in the United
States. +...f
A Maple Rapids lady was recently in
vited to wedding at Midnapore,. India.
She sent her regrets. Hillsdale folks
were also invited. s
just because man took off his clothes
and ran bowling and nude through the
streets of Benton Hai Dor, they declared
him crazy and shut him up.
A. L. Millard, of Lenawee county, is
one whom the people of Michigan mag
be called upon to vote for as candidate
for judge OF the supreme court. Ts
i VIM. Crosbv has been reappointetl
deputy secretary of state. an office which
, he has filled with marked ability and
faithfulness for more than four years
past. els r7 .iaaw 80
Twelve citizens of Watson township,
Allegan county, are under arrest on a
charge of tarring, feathering end railing
M. G. F. Simrkins. Warrcnts are out
for four more.
The Big Rapids Current, of which Mr..
Bruce, an officer of the stat Legislature,
is editor, opposed Bagley's claims to the
Senate because John j. is tobacco
/, manufacturer.
Adrian pastors will no longer aiver-
S tise their church services. 1t is of course
: presumable that their churches are over
crowded, and that salvation seekers at
y Adrian need no urging. s
John r, Webster, teacher at Big
Rapids, was locked out OF the school
;, house while the authorities were having
= conflict of opinion. He sued for wages
, due, and recovered $947.
VIII James, the gigantic Port Huron
: man recently appointed mail agent, has
resigned. He did not think it right to
make locomotive draw him to Detroit
e and back every day for the small salary
: he received.
Rev. Mr. Swift, of Adrian, has taken
e pains to publicly refer to "lhc low re-
e eIligious tone of the press of Adrian" and
from the way the Times goes for him it
e is apparent that he has walked up the
,t wrong passenger.
The next fair OF the Macomb county
= agricultural society will be conducted
is upon the principle that horse-racing,
It gambling and lager beer vending are
not agricultural products, and therefore
10 will not be allowed.
e Chas. F. Baxter. Grand Ledge jus.
IT. tice of the peace, has been arrested on q
n charge of forgery. and taken to Charlotte
The prosecution claim to haye num-
~ Der of charges against him, and if one
&c fails he will be taken OH another.
Ill A young man died in Il lumber camp
10 near Alcona, and his brother came out
from Canada to see about him. On
,f learning that lie had devised his proper
~ ty to others not of his own family, the
II brother turned back and let strangers
m bury him. -
David Ward, of Pontiac has bought a
7, railroad. 1t is the Dunkirk, Catauqua
- - Lake & Cory railroad, 30 miles long.
'. 1t originally cost nearly $3.0O0,000, but
Y Mr.. Ward got it for $4,000. He can
I'll sell ont at handsome advance, if he
, chooses. rr-t
II, The oven in the restoring room of the
an chemical works at jackson, exploded on
IN the 18th, entirely demolishing the build.
ar ing and scalding seriously, if not fatally,
" Henry Kreger. the furns ceman. The
shock was like that of an earthquake
w and was felt tor a quarter of a mile.
~ A man named VIM Riceter was ar
20 20 rested at Bay City on tire 18th for an at
n tempt to kill his wife. Proving unfaith
" ful to her, she had left him, and meeting
her on the train he made murderou:
ed assault upon her ahd would have killed
Oh her but for the interference OF others.
er- r. Lan,kin, a farmer ofCliarlotte, Kali
AZ amazoo county, got into a controversy
ne with his wife over IA missing pair OF shear
which resulted in turning her and foul
ia. small children out of doors. They tool
ne refuge in her fathers house. and suit ha
yh b''en begun against the foolish husband
es- Rev. Noah NJ. Wells, residing at Wien
fe. ia, Geuessee county, Mich. is SAID 10 be
the oidess Presbyterian IN mister in :h'
United Stares. lie is now in his 97tf
,,ii year. having beeil borll i'll 1881; was il
:: ga the ministry AMI samewh hat prominen
-. -, i'm the year 1872 His ministerial life Wal
q. largely spent in western New York, ar,
~ later in Michigan.
~ A Grand Rapids lawyer took oecasios
TO use lawyers prcrogativc, viz
ST. .'cour: usage" and browbeat witness
il calling him liar. by inference at least
us, Next day the witness appeared in ccur
ity and asked permission to make few re
)m marks. Having gained the courts con-
ar, sent, he delivered scathing rebuke II
'ur the attorney OH the practice of abusin;
zee witnesses i'm court. Apologies followed
freely.
,is. The largest shoplifting case that ba
I'VE been unearthed lately was developed il
q East Saginaw last week. Mrs. s.iLiken.
in young woman of hitherto unblemishe
dd. reputation, and saleswonan in store
,us there for some years, was arrested, tn
90, premises occupied by her searched, an
in several hundred dollars worth of stole
der goods. taken from different stores. r.
la covered. The woman was on the eve
ntO going South to start store, and hadS at
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