Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-06-11
STATE NEWS.

Seventy-six bushels of wintergreens
have been exported from Sherman
Allegan county, this spring.
Manistee does the largest shingle
manufacturing business in the world
The estimated product of this year is
40O,OOO,O0O.
The new shingle mill of NJ. L. Danaker
at LudingtOn, has capacity for cutting
$4,000 shingles in twelve hours. Forty
men employed.
Major w. c. Ransom of Port Huron
| for several years connected with the
Chicago q Grand Trunk road, has been
appointed deputy railroad commission
er.
Land Commissioner Neasmith has
sheared from his flock of about 200
MerinO sheep an average of 91s lbs. of
beautiful wool. Some of the fleeces
weighed 13 lbs.
Manistee mills are cutting about two
million feet of lumber day. The ship
ments this season, to May 10. had aggre-
gated 20,190,0O0 feet of lumber, 27,150,-
600 shingles, 1,110000 lath.
The discovery of salt at Man istee has
necessitated the creation of a new salt
inspecting district, and alnew deputy
inspector will be appointed with head
quarters at Manistee as soon as there is
anything for him to do there.
DR.. Garrigues, salt chemest, decides
that the salt manufactured by Thomas
WinsOr & Co. of Port Austin is perfectly
pure, and the firm are considering the
prOpriety of introducing machinery for
the purpose of manufacturing dairy
salt.
Frank Smith brakeman on the Chi
cagO and West Michigan railway, fell
between two cars while the train was
at full speed, near White Cloud, cutting
him up so badly that he died two hours
afterwards. He leaves wife and two
children at. MuSkeg0n in destitute cir
cumStances.4
The firm of Murphy s. DOrr. Bay City,
has met with considerable loss from fires.
On Thursday of last week the firm lost
lumber camp buildings to the amount
of $1,000. On Friday about 500 worth
of property on the Chippewa and tract
of valuable pine land in Clare county
containing 100000 feet was burned
over, necesSitating cutting at once to
prevent the ravgeS of the worms.
The Bristol, Eng, Times relates case
of bigamy recently tried at Warwick
assiZeS, in which a former Detroit girl,
Miss Emma Elizabeth Mathews, was
interested. The defendant in the case
was Robert P. Read, who deserted his
wife last summer and came to Detroit
and cOurted Miss Mathews and finally
married her under the assumption that
he was the son of duke and single
man. Along with the hand of his bride
was a gift of 500 from the father. Read
was convicted of bigamy and sentenced
to IS months imprisonment with hard
labor.
A special dispatch from East Saginaw
| to the Post and Tribune gives the par
ticulars of brutal attack by party of
rOughs attached to Hilliard & DeMOtt's
circus upon crOwed of people assem-
bled at dance at Chesaning. A num-
Der of citizens were seriously injured.
Thirteen of the gang of rOwdies were
arrested. Eight have been imprisoned
in Saginaw county Jail, four are in the
lookup at CheSaning, and one was ar
rested near Lansing. The Chesaning
people succeeded in getting possession of
one of the rioters, negro, and he may
be lynched.
Judge M. E. CrofOot, late of Pontiac
who has been an inmate of the insane
asylum there, and was about to be trans
ferred to the asylum at Kalamazoo, is
now at Battle Creek, at the house of,
Walter Clark, and claims that he has
never been insane, but was made delir-
iOus by members of his family, by in
jectiOns of henbane and other poisonous
drugs, for the purpose of getting him
into an asylum and taking possession of
his property. An investigation is in
progress to determine whether Judge
CrOfoOt has really been wrOnged as he
believes.