Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-03-27
STATE NEWS.

Harry A. COnant, of Monroe, for United
States consul at Naples.
When Judge Cooley closed the session
of the Lenawee circuit court themembers
of the bar handsomely caned him.
The Bay City Evening Press has been
a second time enlarged and promises i'm
pOrtant improvements in the near fu-
ture.
The Regents of the University say that
President Angel, of that institution can
go on the special mission to China if he
wants to.
Splendid whitefsh are being found in
various inland lakes in Michigan, sup
posed to belong to the crop planted by
the state fish commissioners 4r rreI
The shingle makers of the north part
of the state are trying to make pool
agreement to hold all of their cut for 81
and SO per thousand for the two best
qualities, q rfal
Charles B. Pratt, prominent lawyer
and city attorney at Greenville, has left
| for parts unknown, with 81, 600 in funds
that did not belong to him. He was
Democrat. i
The Democrat says it is estimated that
not much less than half million dol
lars have been sunk by Grand Rapids
citizens during the winter in margins"
speculatiOns.
The Mt. Clemens Monitor has pur-
chased new Campbell power press. 1t
| is the first power press ever brought into
Mt. Clemens, and the second into Ma
comb county.
Here is cheek for you: ex-Regent
Grant asks Rice A. Beal to request the
newspapers that have issued said Beals
history of the university steal, to also
issue said Grants review of the same.
An attempt to rob the Grand Rapids
pOstOffice was made on Saturday morn
ing. The burglars were inside the build
ing when a clerk was awakened and
gave an alarm which frightened them
off.
Capt. Robert Cotton, U. S. A., recently
detailed as assistant superintendent OF
the Michigan military academy, has
gone east after his family. and will soon
take up his permanent residence at Or
chard Lake.
There ought to be show In Adrian
for some surplus lawyers. During the
present term one has been heaved over
board for embeZzlemeut and another
taken to the county house, thus causing
J two vacancies.
Several members of the East Saginaw
rifles will be mustered out OF the state
!, service On the 18th of April, having
. served their full terms. They will be
T banqueted by the rest of the command
on that occasion.
Rev. Charles r. Monroe and wife OF
E Burr Oak, st. Joseph county, celebrated
! their golden wedding March IL. Mrs.
D Monroe wore the skirt in which she was
: married so years ago, and it was In the
height of fashion now.
: A Watertown, TuscOla county, family
e lived on chicken pie all winter, but the
arrest of three of the young men of said
: family for stealing poultry has led to
Q suspicion that the pie timber came from
the neighbOring hen rOOsts.
At Detroit, on Saturday, i'm the q. S.
/, district court, Col. O.. +. LOckhead was
found guilty of making false entries in
e the books of the Citizens National bank
q at Flint. He was sentenced to five years
Imprisonment i'm the EDetrOit House OF
Correction.
, Tuesday of last week Mrs. A. Ketchum,
of JOnesville, was surprised by a visit
3 from five of her juvenile companions to
4 celebrate the 69th anniversary of her
only amounted to 429 years, or an aver
q age of 711a.
4 Two tramps aroused Officer BOttOmly,
+ of Port Huron, one night recently, and
4 after calling him to his door demanded
lodging, in default of which they threat
ened to burn his house down. The sud-
!. den;play of his big right fist prevented
. the cOnflagratiOn and made one very
: sOre-headed tramp.
e The books at the state treasurer's Office
show that the amOunt'received for specif-
9 ic taxes from fire and life insurance
e companies doing business in this state
|, for the years 1878 and 1879 was as fol-
|, = lows: For 1878. fire, $50.4l5 83; life,
- S19,77O So; total $70,822 60. For 1879.
4 fire, $51,927 03; life, $l9O68 "a; total,
$70,995 81.
% At about a. IN. on Sunday two freight
: . trains on the Grand Rapids s. Indiana
q railroad cOllided at a point about four
+ miles south of Vicksburg. One engine
% was thrown from the track, and the ten
N der and one car loaded with valuable
freight were completely destroyed by
FIRE. The loss is considered very bad for
~ an accident of that class.
: A saw mill, the joint property Of
10 Staight & Son and Herdman & Harris,
n situated at Hemingway lake, near STAN
N ton, burned Sunday morning. The loss
If is estimated at about $4,000, with in
- surance at $4,000. The mill will prOba-
bly, be rebuilt at once. The fire is said
', IT, have caught from the sawdust in :tlle
10 elevator fiues.
,o n Mr.. Henshaw and family, of Kalama-
n zoo. retired to rest last Saturday night.
II and when they were pulled out of their
= house full of coal gas in the morning
they did not look as though they had
slept we'll, three of the family being i'm
y an insensible condition. and the fourth
y not much better off. The coal stove cOy-
II er had been left open.
- Mrs. Barber, of East Saginaw, put
II 5000 under her pillow for safe keeping.
If In the morning she hung the Sheets 0us
doors to air-alsO the $500. A small
darkey named Hammond and small
e, white boy named Van Norman found the
he wealth, and now comes the arrest of the
v mother OF the white boy, who has only
E. turned over $50, saying that is all the
to money the boys brought her. "a f
u The Blissfield cOrOner's jury, for sew
PS eral weeks trying tefind out what killed
Mrs. LathrOp, of Three Rivers, who die,l
g. when at BliSSfield, to be cured of the
as opium habit, have returned verdict to
ne the effect that death ensued from iniiim-
go nation of the stomach arising from
n canses to them unknown. DIR. p. B. Rose.
of of the University, who had examined the
Id stomach OF the dead woman, testified to