Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-05-15
STATE NEWS.

The State Homeopathic society will
hold its annual meeting at Jackson on
May 20. a Il s5
Work on new salt block at Port
Austin began on Monday, and it is to be
ready for business in 40 days.
An order from the headquarters of the
Michigan department of the Grand Army
OF the Republic designates Monday, the
3lst. day of May, as Decoration day.
An eel 18 inches long was caught the
other day in the mill-pOnd at Marshall.
Some OF the fry was planted there few
years ago by the fish commissioners.
The big village of Kalamazoo will
probably soon have the free maiIdeliyery
system m operation, having attained the
population which entities it to the priyi-
lege. ms Hus 8dr ia eie.fefatlIf
The internal revenue collections i'm
Detroit district from liquor, tobacco and
other special taxes, from May 1st to 11th,
are double those of last year for the
same time. I4.I-3l .viul09 aft go
3 A Grand Rapids doctor notified an un-
dertaker that certain patient was as
good as dead, and the man of cOfins
L
corpse" was getting better and object
ed. - 1--sg ions ar "a TI1'r-
Mrs. j. Steele left Jackson for Chicago
a few days ago. She was the last of the
injured by the great Jackson junction
railway disaster and it is announced
that her injuries cost the nj. G.. r. r,
company $4,000. i.s ss--rr
Rev. VIM. P. Russell. who for over 30
years has been pastor of the congrega-
tl0nal church at Memphis, was stricken
with ap0plexy on the night of the 18th
inst, and at last accounts was still in a
critical condition. la ..7y I -
The Traverse Bay Daily Eagle saws
that lady was buried at Howard CITY
on the 8th who was 104 years old. She
had never been obliged to wear glasses
and enjoyed good health until four days
previous to her death. .r.,.-4
A tornado on Saturday night wrecked
st. Barnabas chapel, and the sheds at
the fair grounds at Kalamazoo. Orchards.
fences, barns and shade trees were de-
strOyed in the southeast part of the
town. A terrible thunder and rain storm
visited that village Sunday night.
According to the Detroit Free Press.
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Marquette, is now. i'm Manistee, and is
looking up the propriety of complying
with the wishes of the citizens for a
branch road to connect their city with
the main line of the Flint g. Pere Mar
quette. -
James Farrier, bully, picked a quar-
rel with peaceable man name George
wood, at Wllder's camp, near Farwell
on Sunday, and tried to strike him with
a pevy, whereupOn wood threw a piece
of iron at him. hitting him on the head
and killing him instantly. Wood is un-
der arrest. -, .-
The jackson Citizen says Mayor Mabley
of that city, straight Democrat, nomi-
mated two cOlOred men for officers of The
city, namely: Charles C. Page, to be
member of the Board of Health, and
Isaac Garrett to be Fire Warden. The
nominations were confirmed unanimous
ly by the Council ea9f
The Congregational church of East
Saginaw had debtOf $4,000. Wednes-
day of last week, they started an effort
to raise the amount and succeeded i'm
three days in getting $15.2S6 subscribed.
The Herald says: 1T is the most graft
flying and encouraging piece of "debt-
raising" that has been recorded, and it
has been accomplished entirely within
the society.
i The case of George Westinghausen, at
East Saginaw, charged with selling
i liquor without license, came before
Justice Huckins Friday afternoon of last
week. Westinghausen was found guilty
and fined $50 and sentenced to 10 DAYS
in Jail. This case is brought by the
liquor dealers in order to test the con-
stitutiOnalitY of the state liquor law,
and will be carried from court to court
until a decision is reached in the Su-
preme court.
i The county superintendents of the
poor have received a circular from
officers of the insane asylums, stating
that those institutions are OyercrOwded
with patients, and recommending that
hereafter new cases be given preference
over old cases of insanity. Ofnew cases
three recover on an average in two years
to one of chronic nature. Before send
} ing patients county officers are requested
to correspond with the institutions. The
asylum at Kalamazoo, with quarters for
$50 patients, now contains $50; the one
at Pontiac, built to accommodate 32O,
now furnishes quarters to 430 patients.
l-Kalamasoo Telegraph. rgrf
The recent heavy rains have swollen
the Kalamazoo River at Marshal, result
ing in a break in the Perm dam on
Tuesday morning, when about thirty
: feet of the embankment was carried
away lowering the water in the dam
about two feet in one hour and raising
the water in the river below about five
: feet, OverfOwing the banks ON either
: side, destroying spring crops on low
lands. kilograms were sent to CerescO
and Battle Creek to warn them of ap-
preaching danger. The break will cause
cessation at the Rock River Paper
Company's mill at that point until re-
pairs in the embankment are effected.