Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-12-11

Over 100 Swedes have permanently To-
Gated at Bay City this year.
| Two trains day each way run over
the narrow guage railway between Port
Huron and Sand Beach.
The lawyers who are trying to get DOS
session of Bay City, on the claim of an
Indian woman, have begun operations
| again.
The Central Hotel and Whalen's
boarding house at LudingtOn, were burn
ed Monday night. Loss $500; insur-
ance $2,1C0. 1-l-' ai
The Flint & Pere Marquette railroad
earned $48, 1851 20 last m0nth-which was
over SIS, 600 more than it earned in No
yember, 1879.
The vacancy in the commission to l0-.
catelthe school for the blind has been fail
ed by the appointment of James M. Tur-
ner, of Lansing. tIefs
The famous Wah-wah-sum boat club
of Saginaw, has voted to sell all its boats,
Whether they propose to buy others or
shut up shop is not stated. 90
The total salt product of the Michigan
wells this year was 2,678,386 barrels.
The last years product was 2058,O40
barrels. The 1881 was sold at an average
of 20 cents per barrel. % - -
A West Branch girl, IA years of age,
while visiting her uncle's got homesick
and walked to her hOme-25 miles dis
tant-through the woods and snow, max
ing the trip in one day.
A Mt. Clemens writer asserts that six
churches and Is saloons are opened
Sundays in that place. The churches
are opened about two hours morning
and evening, but the saloons are opened
all day. r.arr4 s
George Becker, of Washtenaw county,
voted iu Clinton, Lenawee county, and
two other chaps helped and advised
him in the matter. Consequently all
three are in court. The bogus vote was
for Hancock.
The Jackson Patriot details the story
of the organ having been stolen from
the Sunday school room of the Baptist
church of that city, and says there is
positively no clue leading to the solution
of the mystery.
The whirligig of time brings about
some queer changes. A few years ago
Webb Frazer was tried in the LenaWee
county court for seduction, and se1tehc-
ed to state prison. Last week the
same court admitted him to practice at
its bar.
Matthias SwObOda OfLudingtOn, sued
the owner of the Ward mill of that
place for damages sustained by falling
upon an uncovered cog-wheel, and has
recovered a verdict for $4,000. The
court held that mill owners must arrange
their machinery so as to protect en-
lployes, lives.
A woman, a revolver and piece of
scantling were the moral and physical
agencies which prevented half-a-dOZen
prisoners from escaping from the IOnia
Jail by breaking out Sunday night. The
lscantling barred the door, and the jailOr's
bwife and her revolver drove the me
back. b
| The order of /. 90. F. of Michigan
has elected the following grand officers:
Grand Master, Samuel Adams, Detroit;
Deputy Grand Master, Geo. w. Wester-
man, Adrian; Grand Secretary, 4. H.
Whitney, lansing; Grand Treasurer, Ben
Vernon, Detroit; Grand Warden, Harrison
SOule, Jackson; Grand Representative to
Sovereign Grand Lodge of the United
States for 1881 and 1882, E. G. ID. Hold
en-, Grand Rapids.
|
county, undertook to punish his son, VIM.
H. Shriner, a lad of IA. Charles, an eld-
er son, interfered, when the father turn
ed upon the latter and tried to hit him.
with stick of wood. The mother step
ped between them and the boy, after re-
: treating little, drew pistol and shot
at his father, inflicting wound which
may prove fatal. The boy then surrend-
cred himself to Justice of the peace.
| The annual meeting of the State As
sOciatiOn of Surveyors and Civil Engin-
eers begins its session at Lansing on
Tuesday, January 18th, 1881. Judge
Cooley and other prominent men will
deliver lectures upon some important
questions to come before the meeting.
cordial invitation is extended by the
secretary to all members of the profess
sion. Reduced rates On railroad fare can
be obtained by applying to j. E. Shannon,
secretary of the Lansing road.