Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-09-18
STATE NEWS.


There was snow at Battle Creek last
week.
One hundred and twenty-five girls are
employed in the Adrian canning works.
Gov. Croswell and wife have gone to
California, and will be absent six weeks.
Ispeming is growing so rapidly that
the demand for lumber for building can
hardly be met.
Charles Longwell, of st. Louis, is ac-
cused of altering and uttering United
States paper money.
Hog cn0lera RACES TO a great extent in
Kalamazoo county. So says prominent
shipper OF live hog meat.
There will be professional and anna
teur bicycle races at the Western Michi-
gan fair at Grand Rapids next week.
Grand Rapids takes kindly to the elec-
trio light, and three more machines are
to be ordered, their use having been con-
tracted for.
Manager Peck of the Chicago & Grand
Trunk railroad has been elected one of
the trustees of the Orchard Lake mill
tary academy. r.f-,-r.-- -.l,.
Peck, Woods & Co., mill men and salt
makers of OscOda, will illuminate their
mills, ETC., by the electric light, using
the Brush apparatus.
Edmore, sEe two-years old village in
MOncalm county, has 43 business places
and six hotels, all lively.
EX-sheriff Allied Avery of Midland, who
was shot in the attempt of the prisoner
Spencer to escape some days ago has
since died. 81. 81. ....r.f
The Rev. W. w. Washburne, pastor of
the M. E. Church of Ypsilanti, will be
the presiding elder of the the Detroit
district for the next four years.
Ex-Land Commissioner B. F. Partridge
has been nominated by the Republicans
for representative in the legislature
from the second district of Bay county.
Saginaw is formerly and legally re-
quested to pay Mary Wilson good round
damages for hole in the sidewalk in
which she canght one of her feet and
was badly hurt.
AlOyz Biz, editor of the Spring Lake
Republican, is actually church trustee.
No one who reads the other paper pub
lished up there will find it easy to be-
lieve this, however. f
Samuel Stickney, one of the pioneers
of Big Rapids, was putting up an iron
shaft weighing 400 pounds, Friday, in
BANGOR & Stickney's mill, when the stag
fell under him, and the end of the shaft
fell on bis abdomen, infiicting painful
and possibly fatal injury.
An Antwerp man paid lawyer 81 for
advice as to how to eject his sister-in-
law from the house without laying his
hands on her. He was told to drag her
out while sitting in her chair. That 81
worth of advice cost him a conviction
for assault and battery and snug fine.
The well known trOtting horse Sam
Patch, owned by w. P. Hewett of Muir,
which has several times competed for
prizes on the Central Michigan fair
ground, dropped dead on the track at st.
Johns last week while competing in the
free-fOr-all. This horse was 10 years
old and valued at 5000.
James III. Brown, of Big Rapids, has
commenced suit against the G. r. & L.
company to recover $4,000 damages on
account of injuries received while in the
employ of the company as brakesman, in
that city, in November, 1876. 1t is
claimed that an imperfect engine and
broken rounds on the ladder on the end
of car caused the trouble. sroi.
Charles Upson, one of the ablest law
yerS in Michigan, who has served two
terms in congress, attorney general of
Michigan one term, and q member of
the constitutional commission in 1873,
and circuit Judge for several years,
has been nominated for 1.-THE state senate
by the Republicans of Branch and st.
Joseph counties. They could have made
no better choice. a8i r4leIg
Father VIM. De Bever of the st. Johns
Catholic church, Ypsilanti, arrived home
from his European trip Sept. 9, and was
met at the depot by nearly all his con-
gergation, Is neighbOring priests, and
the Ypsilanti city band. The procession
escorted him to the church, which was
brilliantly illuminated, and banner
stretched across the street bearing the
words, welcome hOme," The inside of
the church was beautifully decorated
with evergreens and flowers. rH
The stone pier and abutments for the
new iron bridge over Grand river at
Lyons, IOnia county, are nearly COM
pleted. This bridge will be 800 feet long,
consisting of two spans each $50 feet
long. 1t is to have double track road
way and foot way, and when done will
be one of the finest highway bridges in
the state, and a credit to the builders
and those who pay the bill. Prof. j. B.
Davis, of Ann Arbor, is the engineer in
charge of the job, and the work is being
done by the Mt. Vernon (O) bridge COM
pany. The pier is built of rectangular
cOurSed boulder work and is cOmmen ded
to the examination of those interested
in such work.
Yesterday morning, at Reading, Edo
RADIO Haskins attacked his neighbOr, E.
P. Purdy, and beat and pounded him
about the head in so shocking manner
that the physician think he cannot live.
The difficulty is one of long standing,
growing out OF things said to have been
told by Purdy concerning Haskin's re-
lige0us BELIEF. Haskins was arrested
and is in Hillsdale Jail. They are both
old men, and Haskins is the father of
quite a large family. Purdy is deacon
in the Captist church.
Reeds Gilt edge Tonic cures ague
fever. 1t
From a Distinguished Physician.