Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-01-31
STATE NEWS.

| mlcSco OtItIuu6 duu Delld dOWe, HIS
siOnaries to China, formerly of Lansing,
arrived at Kiu Kiang Nov. 10.
Ex-Audit0r General d. L. Case, of this
state is raising peanuts on his farm in
Virginia and making success of it.
John Hickey of Big Rapids has been
assessed $37 and 10 days i'm Jail for SELL
ing liquor in the same room where
billiards and other games are played.
Six hundred tons of iron for the Port
Huron & Northwestern have arrived at
Philadelphia from England, and will be
used to extend the road from Cars0nville
nOrthward, Immediately. rsgI
Judge Tuttle of Alpena is clearing
about 80 acres and will devote nearly
half of it to hennery. He intends to
establish his flock at 1000 birds, and re-
ceive his income from the eggs.
On the 18th there was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Downer eff Kalamazoo fine
boy weighing eight pounds, but entirely
armless. The child is pefectly formed
in all other respects, and his prospects
OF living are good. 1-
A couple of brutes, one of whom had
the impudence to call himself Prof"
Clarke, of Cleveland, had a prize fight
Mich. The professor" was the winner.
The party came from Toledo. 1tmI
The annual meeting of the state Pho
neer society will be held at Lansing, in
Representative hall, commencing
Wednesday, Feb. 4, at P. NJ, and con-
tinuing through the evening of the 5th.
An interesting programme is announc-
ed. ~., .-tr- T.r t
A village has been plated at Old Mis-
sion, on the upper end of that singular
ly productive strip of land lying between
the east and west arms of Grand Trav-
erse bay. The plating is done near the
steamer dock, and covers a charming
site.
W. c. Conant, proprietor of the Walden
house in Big Rapids, has been arrested
charged with being an accomplice in the
burning of the Mason House, for which
Owen Harrington was arrested a few
days since at East Saginaw as the prin-
cipal.
| c. n. COmst0ck, proprietor of the Com
stock House at Hudson, has been fined,
with costs, nearly $50 and sent to Jail
for 10 days for keeping open his bar on
Christmas day. Mr.. COmstOck is over 20
years old and is said to be worth over
$4,000.
The Detroit papers give the particu-
lars of bloody affray which took place
in that city, Friday evening of last week
in which nephew and uncle confronted
each other with pistols and kept firing
until the latter was shot dead. There is
bare clue to suggest that there was
"a woman in the case" to rrtt
The case of the Citizens bank of Mar
quette VS.. the New York iron mine and
Samuel j. Tilden, which grew out of
some papers given by E. L. WetmOre in
the name of the above mine, on trial at
Marquette for several days, has at last
been decided by verdict for 5000 and
interest, in favor of the bank. Aeia
The Montague Lumberman says con-
siderable portion of the sand-hill at the
mouth of white Lake, on the north side,
sunk on Sunday, carrying with it pOr-
tiOn of the pier, to which the steamer
Shook was tied up. Where there for
merly was a hill is now Is to 18 feet of
water "a subject for scientists.
The Grand Rapids and Indiana expect
to lay about three thousand tons of new
steel rails in its track during the
present year. This will probably COM
plete its track with steels from Fort
Wayne to Rig Rapids, distance Of 1893
miles. Other betterments of road the
and rolling stock are also to be made
during the year. s+ ,t- sr-
]. s. Harrison of Climax, Kalamazoo
county, celebrated his Goth birthday on
the 18th. He enjoys excellent health,
has not IAN ache or pain" and bids fair
to reach the age of his father, the 'bee
hunter" who had attained to 104 years
at the time of his death, few years ago.
Mr.. II. has been a resident of Kalamazoo
county just about half century.
John Bradford, a farmer living IL
miles from Manistee, while working at
the bottom of we'll 80 feet deet, was
buried under 16 feet of sand and debris
by the caving in the well about o'clock
Monday afternoon. Measures for his
not rescued until 8 O'clock Tuesday
morning, when it was found that he had
sustained no serious injury, nOtwith-
standing his burial for 13 hours.
The report of Oil Inspector Luce of
Lansing for the six months ending
December 31st shows that the total num-
of barrels of oil inspected was 59,948, of
which 1928 were rejected. The total ex-
penses of the department were 8,O34,76
receipts in excess of expenses, $6,S38.57.
The report claims that no lives have
been lost by oil explosions in that time,
and that the water-white oil has all the
virtues of the Michigan test under the
law of 1877.
The paper of Stewart & Co. afloat
amounts to about 100000, and the book
accounts will show liabilities to the ex-
tent of not far from $4,000, making the
total liabilities about $150,OOO, or $4,000
less than was at first estimated. The
resources of the firm we are unable to
state. The stock inventories about $685.
600, and the amount due the firm as
shown by the books is estimated accord
ing to report all the way from $4,000 to
$4,000. A statement showing the ex-
act condition of the affairs of the firm
will be made shortly.-East Saginaw
Courier.
Bishop Gillespie, who has recently
visited the Van Buren, county pOOrhOuse
thus speaks of two of its inmates, who
ought to find some compassionate friend
to help them. "The case of two girls
here, s and IL years of age, is peculiar.
The mother lost her palate through scar
let fever. Her speech thus affected, and
the family living in the woods, has be-
come literally the mother tongue of her
children. While these girls understand
each other, their talk is unintelligible
to those about them. Yet they will re-
peat words tOlerably correct. They seem
not deficient in mind. They are not ELI
giblo to the school at COldwater, owing
to their infirmity, but separated and
with persons who would take little