Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-10-25
STATE NEWS.

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.Oyer-SO county and local fairs have
been held in Michigan this fall. -.
A. ]. Lovejoy, of Litchfeld, has raised
5000 bushels of onions this year.
: I. +. Dodge. of Lawton, has invented a
new patent ballOt-bOXo with register
showing the number of ballots, etc. gsm
A silver eel % inches l0ngtwas caught
in Big lake, near Dayisburg, a few days
7gSs. fgS; 1t was one Of the crop planted =
There are now strong evidences that
Wise's balloon, the pathfinder" passed
over Michigan or was destroyed sOme-
where in this state.
A full-gr0wn panther was seen in Vic
| tory, Mason county, last week. The man
who saw him ran one way and the PAN
ther the other, and neither was hurt. u9u
o;Orrin Babeeck Of Emmett cOutny has
sold the standing cedaro Of 40 acres e OF
| land to, Reed City parties, who intend 10,
use it for ties, posts and telegraph poles.
Two men named Copeland and Parker
were hunting in Venice township, Shia1
wasse county, Sunday, and Parker's gun
was accidentally discharged killing
Copeland instantly. .a dsus tc,-f I'D
According to,the recollection of old
settlers in Kalamazoo county the au-
tufhn of 184I was very similar to thepfeS
ent fall, and 39 years ago, the 18th, snow
fell to the depth of three feetst ss4l 9l'iii
Last Sundayjthe Detroit, Grand Haven
g. Milwaukee railroad, company put 2
new iron bridge across the ThOrnapple
river at Ada. There are three spans, two
of 60 feet and one of 110 feet in length.
A Grand Rapids official went out hunt
| ing the other day armed with seven dogs,
a. shot gun and a rifle. He returned, with
one coon, which now. proves to have been
tame one, and for which he has had to
pay the owner good round price. u o773
up. and including October, the sea.
SON srere shipments from Marquette bad
been Ass, 1856 tons; from EscanaDa, 5lz,-
| 25Q tons; from L'Anse, 336,5S4 tons; total,
100 1880 tonsAor an Increase OF hF745l46
tons over the shipments Ofthe correspond.
ing season last year.2a shi ,in;og 3GilJ ia
La dispatch received, at Port Huron
/ from Paris announces the death. Of
Charles Edison, son of W. p. Edison OF
Port Huron and nephew OF Edison,
| the fafmOtfs inventor. He was in Paris
OH business connected with EdisOn's
electrical Einyentionsi is1 ssa ysnom Git
The induestOveF the body of Herbert
G.. Ives, the murdered assistant surveyor
of Saginaw county, has resulted in a YER
| dict charging Aleck Barinan with the
crime. A reward of $500 has been offer
ed for the rest; of, the gun, used in the
brutal killing. The officers have about,
IL inches Of the stock y" -''' 'si'',
Hammon, lrl ION Standish &, Co.; of Detroit
own 25O refrigerator cars. TRey average
50 carloads of beef a day consigned tor
New York City, ,a1arge quantityOft the pro-.
visions going to Europe. The firm Is,
said to be worth over $5,0OO,O00, the ac-
c1mulatiOns of few years OF success
ftfli pushing operations in a. buSlnesSi
startedewith little eise than tact and en-,
ergy. ss9|5 %. 2niw0 .Ee2lsgy9 sss4T,
!, Rollim A. HOrr, twin brother of, Con-,
gressmani Roswell G. HOrr, of this dis.
trct,. has been elected to the Ohio state
senate on the Republican ticket. His
opponents secured the Saginaw valley
for all the bad things they could hear,
about Roswell and, after reyamping
them. over to suit the other fellow, scat
tered THEM broadcast land mighty little
good it did them. 3G.iili2a 9ilt .99fy5ss -
Qrhe recent yagariesI of the weather
clerk make the Genesee county farmers
wonder little.l They are moving their,
excessive crop of oYergrown winter
wheat, Beets are growing in the luxur-
fance OF mid d-summer, strawberry vines
IN blossom. pOtatoe:xines six and eight;
inches high, a new crop of young onions
sprouting and lettuce is as fresh and
crisp as in early spring. zli'i'Di1 ! 'o'sq
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