Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-08-02
STATE NEWS.

| There is a bed of coal 40 feet below
the state agricultural college at Lans-
ling. iiDl : gnilI35s d 13of1l f',o- N''' ''
There is a solid jam of logs for %
miles in the Muskegon river, and about
81 miles of floating logs above it. r.r,-
| Therelis rumOr at Niles to the effect
that the POkagan, fish-hatching estab-
llshment is to be removed elsewhere.
John. Alderman, an inmate of the Kali
amazOo asylum, cut his throat few
days ago. He had been insane for over
20 years. g'ss-ffo q. f..Ifs.,,~., t...,I
L. NadO of Ludington has purchased
this season 5000 pounds ginseng root.
and expects before the falling of snow
to purchase 10000 isgoIGf
Mr.. William Messing, i9of Sherman.
while "smudging" a sick horse accident
ly fired his barn, entailing a loss of
81 600. No insurance.
The messenger boys at the Jackson
| w. U. telegraph office are accused of till
1 tapping. One boy cOnfesses enough to
\ send him to the reform, school, and his
confession duplicates others. - ,,i,.,,,.
| The banishing,of the. crooks, from
| Chicago has begun to take effect in
western Michigan, which is overrun
with squads of from 25 to SO tramps,
| who are very bold and insolent. NOD
1t is estimated that ], 100000 feet of
pine were blown down by recent tor
nadO in Alpena county. The greatest
destruction was in town 2S, range 3.
| An attempt to rob the Chelsea post
Office was made on the morning of the
29th. Three robbers were engaged i'm
the affair, and in fight with the officers
| it was proven that all were well armed.
No one hurt. l'I37I 5h3 ~ '2it' i-l
Hon. DelOs Filler, of Ludington, died on
Saturday last, aged IS years. He was
one of the most prominent men and
heaviest lumber dealers in Western
Michigan, and leaves a gap that no or
dinary man can fill. '1aI.@3 1907 z
Thomas Nester's saw mill, shingle
factory, sheds and store, situated at
Wells Station, 30 miles north of Saginaw,
were burned last Monday. The loss ON
building, machinery, goods, shingles and
lumber reaches about $4,000. fillot
The Grand Rapids & Indiana and De-
trOit, Lansing & Northern railroads are
doing rushing passenger business just
now. These roads are popular avenues
of travel toward the great, cool north,
and the train management is first-class.
James III. Beattie, Richard Turner and
Edwin BOyce left Ludington May 27 to
go to White Fish point, Lake Superior.
They jOurneyed in a small sail boat, and
were to camp out They have never
been heard from since, and great anxiety
is felt about them. yigg3l on .aIeF
| The Secretary of State has appointed
Hon. d. b. Briggs of Romeo to be his
deputy, the, appointment taking effect
August l. Mr.. Briggs was formerly
superintendent of public instruction,
and is thoroughly competent officer.
i No better appointment could have been
made.
| The Wilmington &, Cooley manufac-
turing company have received an or
der from Birmingham, England
for 10000 a4 dozen forks. Two
Il thirds of the order will be filled by the
Jackson contract and the other one
third by that of Columbus, 0hio,-[ Jack
son Citizen. 1imaaai3 ad ngJ f'H1"9
i A tramp ordered Mrs. VIM. Smith, of
Ogden, Lenawee county, to put down her
babe and follow him. She replied, 81
never have killed any one yet, but if 1
lay down this child shall take my re-
vOlver and make short work of you"
And the brute fed in terror. hIad Je5
Gen. l.. B. Horrigan, formerly of Dex-
ter, has been. appointed judge of the
criminal court of Shelby county, Tenn,
in place of Judge Ray, who recently died
of yellow fever. He was native of Dex-
ter, a graduate of the university, served
in the Union army as private, was pro-
NOTED to adjutant, and after the war he
settled in the south. !G5o Z" yI'+z-f-
4 Mr.. George Martin of Tecumseh has
been amusing himself for the past six
or eight years in the construction of
"full-rigged 100-gun man-Of-war." The
ho~. I. 40 seven and a half feet in length,
fwen prOportiOned and perfect i'm con-
struction. The guns are of brass, about
three and half inches in length, mount
ed ON carriages. This elaborate toy will
soon be completed. 'Aa 'i't 'i.'
Prof. Watson is now domiciled at the
Wisconsin University and makes his
!. home at Governor Washbnrn's house.
With becoming mOdesty and character
istic enterprise, he is to have telegraph
line from the observatory to the rest of
the world, and when he makes discOy-
cry it will be known all over ehristen-
dom few hours later. t,-ffe eFfso
b, The Detroit safe, company last Tues
day shipped to New York, to fill an order
from the Home insurance company, the
heaviest movable save ever constructed
i'm this country. The monster property
protector weighs 10000 and constituted
an entire car load of itself. This mag
nificent specimen of Detroit manufacture
is 80 inches high, 531s inches wide and
40 inches deep, and is constructed after
the latest approved styles of absolute
burglar-prOOf safes.
Mr. George w. Barber, who returned
Monday from visit to Battle Creek.
brought several apples of the Golden
4 Russet variety which were two years old
and fresh as the day they We're picked
from the tree. He obtained them from
the patent fruit preserver located at
that city-the only one we believe i'm
the state. 1t is an immense building
with stone walls four feet thick at the
base, narrowing two feet at the top,
with double roof forminga a large res
eryOir, which is filled with ice. The at
mOsphere beneath is thus kept at a low,
even temperature, in which, fruit can
be kept for any length of time. The
building was constructed two years ago,
and stocked with 1900 barrels Of fruit,
from which has already been realized
J more than enough to cover the entire
cost of MISUNDERSTANDING Demo-
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II Nearly 300 engineers, On a strike at
, Bradford, England, are eprepared toem-
igrate to the United States and Canada,
in accordance with invitations received
J from various branches of the Amalga-