Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-15
SIRROM.
STATE NEWS.

An illicit still has been seized in ALLIE
gan county.
The whole number of students enrolled
in the different departments of the Uni
versity is 1.5i5,
The amount of Michigan salt inspect
ed in December was 14S,130 barrels, be-
ing 23,7S7 less than in December, 1879.
The growing wheat in TuscOla county
is reported to be seriously injured in
consequence of there having been no
snow to cover it.
A stock company is being formed for
the purpose of laying a wooden pipe be-
tween East Tawas and OscOda, for trans
ferring brine between the two places.
Detroit Senator makers might have
found consolation in religion during the
week of prayer" is what a good old
mother in Israel says in letter from
Port Huron.
Congressman COnger, the coming Sen
atOr, left Port Huron for Washington
last Saturday night, accompanied by his
daughter Florence, who will spend the
winter at the capital.
At the Reed City land Office during the
month of December there were entered
1,640 acres under the homestead act;
bought for cash, 9O2 acres; and final
proof made of 3,444 acres.
A petition signed by nearly all the
members of the Bay county bar, was
sent to Washington Tuesday night, ask
ing for the appointment of Hon. T. M.
Cooley to the Supreme bench.
An addition of two stories is being
made to the Pontiac knitting works, and
in the spring the capacity of the factory
will be doubled. Machinery is to be put
i'm to run siXty-fOur machines by steam,
and it is expected that seven or eight
hundred hands will be employed this
year.
While labOring under temporary aber-
ration of the mind, Mrs. Alice Williams,
of Alpine township, Kent county, cut
her tongue nearly out with razor.
Mrs. Williams is devoted Catholic and
felt it to be her duty to make some sac
rifice for the Lord. Her condition is
critical.
Norris & Uhl, of Grand Rapids,
agents of the estate of the late Geo B.
Warren, of Troy, N. Y, completed the
sale, last week, of about fourteen mil
lion feet of very choice pine in Clare
county, to Kelley, RathbOne q Co., of
Chicago. The price received is said to
be between $4,000 and 100000.
The boiler in the Union Touring mills,
Detroit, exploded last Wednesday morn
ing, killing three men and making a
complete wreck of the immense Struc-
ture which was 60 feet wide, 124 feet
deep and five stories high, built of stone
and brick and contained 1S run OF stones
having capacity of 500 baraels per day.
A frightful explosion of powder took
place i'm store at Climax, near Battle
Greek, last Monday night. A clerk was
weighing out powder for farmer when
it ignited and the whole mass of 125
pounds exploded with terrific force de-
mOlishing the building, and ten persons
were severely injured, three it is thought
fatally. Three young men of the village
were blown out of the building and ter
ribly mutilated by flying glass and tim
ber.
Last week we mentioned that a meet
ing had been held at OscOda i'm the inter-
ests of railroad from Bay City to AL
pena. The meeting was largely attend
ed and nearly all the speakers favored
narrow guage railroad between those
points, with stations at Alabaster, Tawas,
Au Sable, 0scOda, Harrisville, Black
River and AlcOna. Stock was taken to
the amount of $4,000. 1t is proposed to
raise $l25,OOO, being $1,000 for each
mile. Committees were appointed to
solicit subscriptions to stock.
Erwin F. Smith, of Ionia, assisted by
Charles f. Wheeler. is preparing a COM
plete list of the plants of Michigan for
publication in the next pOmOlOgical re-
port, with notes and observations on fire.
quency. distribution, &c. Eighty pages
have been assigned by Secretary Gar
field for this part of the report, and the
is nearly ready for the print
er. This report will be ready about the
first of March, and as it is the 10th year
it will be more than usually valuable.
Mr.. Smith during the past summer fur
nished notes on the forest trees of Mich
igan for theytenth census, Prof. Sar-
geant, of Harvard University, has that
work in charge and his report, a very
vOlumni0us one on Forest Work of
Michigan" will be published by the gen.
eral government.