Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-04-09
STATE NEWS.

A cat in Rivers township, Jackson
county, has adopted and is bringing up
an orphan young otter.
The next state fair will be held at Jack
son. beginning September 19 and con-
tinuing six days.
Pixies pier at Benton HarbOr was near
ly destroyed last week by the heavy sea
and ice. and a large amount of ties were
washed away.
Ex-Sheriff Demont, of Berrien, has
been appointed deputy warden of the
state house of correction at Ionia; salary,
$1,000 year.
The Carter Bros. have struck a valu-
able coal deposit on the DeyO farm at
Jackson. Their shaft is but few feet
from the M. C. R. R. tracks.
Mrs. Daniel Ide died at C0ldwater on
| the 1st, aged 81 years. Her husband.
who is 92 years old, survives her. They
had lived together 68 years.
CIV Bennett has been ordained to the
Baptist ministry in 0gemaw county. He
is the only preacher of that denomina-
tiOn in that county, and has six charges.
Muskegon wants police station; and
then she wants her chief of police in it,
so that people will not have to hunt
through the saw-mills and other places
to find him.
A man named Jeffers, in East Saginaw,
Thursday, of last week while whiting
toward his breast, let his knife slip and
stabbed himself within an eighth of an
inch of his heart.
Frederick Ernst of the PakagOn fish
hatchery will plant 5000 brook trout at
Standish, 5000, at Deep river, 5000 at
Greenwood, 10000 at West Branch, and
and 1000 at Ogemaw.
Blackburn & Co., of Alpena, have
bought a set of mitten and glove making
machinery, and will put the same i'm
operation at Alpena, where deer skins
are cheap and plenty the year round.
The Detroit base ball club played the
first game of the season, Saturday. de-
feating the Princeton college nine at
Princeton, N. j., z to 2, with only errors.
Wood and Brown each made a run,
Bradley and Knight 3. Bradley pitch
ed.
Ex-speaker ]. j. WOodman and wife of
Paw Paw celebrated their silver wedding
on the evening of March 80. As Mr..
WOOdman is master of the state grange,
many prominent members of the order
from all parts of the state were pres
ent.
Mrs. Upright, the woman who was
shot by her husband at Stanton March
10Th, died on Sunday, having lived al
most 10 days with bullet in her head.
Upright shot her in three places, but. the
fatal bullet entered her head above and
back of her ear.
There is no chart of the situation of
tha-step- -pelree- ond- f1y aront1- tho
Jackson water supply system, and only
one man i'm the city knows where they
are, and he has made up his mind to re-
sign and go to railroading, carrying
with him his precious information.
Frank Wellington, of Fairfield tswn-
ship. Shiawassee county, traded yoke
of oxen for horse. The horse had the
glanders, which was communicated to
two other horses, and he then shot the
three horses and sued the man of whom
he got the diseased beast. He asked for
81 1000 damages.
James Foley, trammer employed at
the Hancock mine, careleSsly walked in
to the shaft opening i'm the fifty-fath ON
level last week and fell to point
half way between the sixty and seventy
fathOm levels about 120 feet. His in
juries, while serious, are probably not
fatal, and his recovery is hoped for.
The editor of the Cnrunna American is
liable to have several libel suits from al
most every county in the state. because
he scatters so awfully in making the
following shot: "a man, to discharge
the duties of justice should have some
idea what law is, some defined notion of
justice and of the rules of evidence
Henry G. Chaplin, editor and proprietor
of the TuscOla county, Advertiser, of
Caro-, was found dead near the Detroit
Saginaw & Bay City railroad depot in
Lapeer Or the I'd. He is supposed to
have been on spree, as whisky bottle
was found near him. His remains were
in charge by the Knights of Honor and
taken home. He was about 45 years Of
age.
Vim. Spires of West KalamO fell upon
saw in his mill last week Thursday.
The saw cut off his right arm above the
elbow all but strip of skin. Mr.. Spiers
asked one of the men to cut it clear off
with his knife, and then cord his arm to
stop the flow of blood, after which he
walked 30 rods to the nearest house. A
surgeon was called, who reamputated the
arm, and Mr.. Spires is doing well, though
he is 65 years old.
Monday morning Ed. Stevens, recently
of the firm of VOORHEES, & Stevens, butch
ers, started from Pontiac on business
and pleasure trip to England. Mr.. Stey-
ems is commissioned by Mrs. Ann New
ton, a well-knOwn sheep raiser i'm Oak
land county, to purchase and bring home
with him several of the best and purest
blOOded animals for stock raising that
money can buy. Mr.. Stevens is credited
with ability and experience i'm his bus
mess, and will select from Shropshire,
Hampshire and OxfOrdshire Downs stock,
whose progeny it is hoped will excel in
all points any heretofore raised in Mich
igan.
About year ago DR.. Hause, of Tecum-
sch, was waylaid one night, knocked stiff,
robbed, and thrown upon the railway
track. An express train bunted him of,
but cut off part of his right hand in doing
it. Hause recovered and went to the
Knights Templar conclave at Chicago
last summer, and on his way home fell
or was thrown from the train and had
one of his shoulders dislOcated. His
next trouble was at Hillsdale. a few weeks
later, when he fell against railway
train and was bruised and banged in
shocking manner. His latest adventure
was desperate struggle with fate and
big, bold, bad burglar who entered the
doctors house last week, and in the strug-
glewhich ensued the burglar twice plung
ed the knife into the crippled but plucky
doctor, one cut being in the abdomen and
the other in his back.