Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-07-12
STATE NEWS

The new county seat of Clare county
is to be called Harrison.
The work of building the new iron
bridge across White river at Montague
has begun.
Grand Rapids has brand new city
directory, from which it argues popu-
latiOn of 10000.
Edward B. Sibley and John Wilson
have been arrested at Manistee on
charge of illicit distilling.
Ties and rails for the railroad extension
from Big Rapids to Blanchard's are now
being strung along the route.
Governor Croswell is engaged to de-
/ liver the address at the fair of the Allie
1 gan agricultural society next fall.
0scOda and Au Sable had huge old
fashioned celebration on the 4th, and
two men were badly burned while firing
an anvil salute
Il Harvesters are scarce in southwestern
Michigan, and 50 to So so per day is free
i ly offered. The rain has retarded the
harvest several days.
i Hereafter tramps are to be arrested at
u Battle Creek and made to work out their
own redemption with ball and chain Or
namentS upon their legs.
The state prisoners at Jackson cele-
brated July 4th by working half day,
and then eating green peas and listen
. ing to the chaplain talk.
: Geo. III. Jerome of Niles has resigned
as superintendent of state fisheries, and
Rev. J. G. POrtman of Watervliet has
! been appointed to the position.
II Mrs. Emma Schwenk Kraeling, of East
II o. e.. lf
died of sun stroke few days ago. She
was one of the finest young soprano sing
!, erS in the state.
al There are at present some 300 children
: in the state public school at COldwater,
and over 400 of its former inmates are
indentured among the people of various
localities.
Israel Hall of Coldwater owns $4,000
acres of farming, .imbered and cotton
y lands in Arkansas, and 10000 acres of
+ pine land in Mississippi, all bought on
speculation. =
o The Michiganboat clubs that put in
\ their appearance at Saratoga this week
are the Hillsdales of Hillsdale, Wah-wah-
. lslIms of Saginaw. WyandOttes of Wyan-
y dOtte, ShO-wae-cae-mette of Monroe, and
Ii Zephyrs of Detroit.
A state temperance camp meeting is
> to be held at Belle Isle, August 1915. 1t
L is hoped to make it the biggest mass
meeting held in the Northwest this
s, year. Good speakers will be present
- and excursion trains will run into De-
Is tr0it from every direction.
The board Of state auditors have visited
e. Jackson and looked over the grounds near
IN the State Prison which the last iegisla-
We ture authorized them tOpurchase. in their
discretion. They have ordered thorough
ne prospecting on the land for cOal which
n, if found in good quantity, will decide the
nd question of purchase.
The premature discharge of some rock
er cts at Grass Lake on the Fourth, resulted
inl in serious injuries to daughter of Peter
he NJ. Shearer, and Mrs. Lorenzo Fisk. Mis-
.ct Shearer had rocket STRIKE her in the
! cheek, passing through into her mOutf
ro- and inficting CHASTITY wound, and Mrs
-. Fisk was struck i'm the back of the necl
an and temple, and was hurt very badly.
llv The other day party of woOdsmeI
over on Keweenaw Point, near its east
IN ern end, unearthed root house on al
- III abandoned mining location that has no
IT, IT, been inhabited for 20 years, which con
vi tanned a lot of potatoes and turnipS In
state OF good preservation. 1ne TOO
house, when discovered, was covered al
rn- over with earth and underbrush, and wa
my completely air tight -Houghton GaSett
tho tho During a fire at Flint few days ag
',,S Smo word was passed that a child was in on
'p'' of the rooms of the burning building
ing and John CrOnin, brakeman on th
Ion Chicago 81 Port Huron railroad, starte
at to rescue it. The firemen at first wOul
ect. not let him go, believing there was 4
OF child i'm the room, but, aided by some
the other railroad boys, the brave fellO
I'M made dash up ladder anu lnIO u
nee window of the building, and soon afte
feet ward emerged with the child in h
in arms. He had found it under a be
usi- where it had crawled to avoid the smOk
upt- A doctor labored long before the lit
one could be pronounced out of dangt