Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-08-21
STATE NEWS.

Gen. Garfield will visit Detroit in the
near future as the guest of Senator Bald
win.
The military reservation at Fort Gra-
tiOt will be sold to the Chicago & Grand
Trunk railroad for $28,C-0.
The Michigan Central railroad ran 1872
coaches, all loaded with passengers, into
Chicago on MOnday-nearly 10000 people.
Jackson miners are getting uneasy
and say that unless the coal mine owners
make certain concessions they will quit
work.
| The revenue collections in the sixth
district of this state for the last month
were $15, 669.47, an increase of over 1,5Co
over July, 1879.
Rodney is the name of a new station
and prospective town on the Big Rapids
branch of the ID. L. & N. R. R., eight
miles south of Big Rapids.
The champion Hillsdale four having
disbanded, they now send out junior
four who will take the same name, and
it is hoped, will maintain the same
reputation.
The new census will place Michigan
at least two and perhaps four places
higher in the list of states than she Oc-
cupied at the last census. She will pro-
badly be found among the first ten.
1t is suggested that the next state bri
gade encampment be held somewhere in
the north woods, or near some of the
many lakes in the lower peninsula, at
least i've miles from town or saloon.
A Democratic pole 1l2 feet long was
roio In of< nnv in
club room at Niles, Saturday evening,
when it broke 60 feet from the ground.
They will try again with another hickory.
Mrs. Richard Sharpe, of near Grand
Ledge, died terrible death a few days
ago. As she was working about her
house her clothes caught fire, and she
was burned from her knees to her breast.
The Democratic pole at Ludingt0n,
which stood up 140 feet in the air, was
struck by lightning OIL Saturday last,
and broke off 80 feet from the ground.
The top crashed through livery stable.
and the stump was shivered.
William II. Steward, who ran for gov
ernor of Michigan several years ago on
the wOrkingmen's ticket, died at Grand
Rapids, Sunday. He was member OF
the convention that nominated David
Davis for President in 1872.
On Monday night 3OOC feet of lum-
ber belonging to Hackley & Gordon, of
MuskegOn, was burned on their dock
with part of the tramway. Loss $2,5 !,
fully insured in the Liverpool and Lon
don and Globe companies. The fire was
incideniary.
Down to the 1st of August the ship
ments of Lake Superior ore were 862, 2,645
tons, which is 5511 per cent. greater
than the shipments for the same period
of 1877, notwithstanding the fact that
the shipments of 1879 were the largest
ever made. More of the good effects
that result from the stability following
resumptiOnl
At the Brahch county fair, to be held
at COldwater on the 21st, 22d, 23d and
oath of September, a novel feature will
be political speeches on each day of the
fair except the first, by able representa-
tiyes of each of the different parties, at
2:3O M. The Greenbackers will hold
forth on the 22d, the Democrats on the
23d, and the Republicans on the 24th.
The local steamboat inspectors, as a
result of their investigation into the re-
cent collision of the steamboat Garland
with the steam yacht Mamie have revOk-
ed the licenses of both the captains. on
the ground that it was entirely within
their power to have prevented the terri
BILE accident in the exercise of any sort
of prudence in the management of their
respective boats.