Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-04-30
STATE NEWS.

John Gastensledger at Sand Beach is
trying to raise peanuts.
Cadillac is to have new public hall.
The Odd Fellows will build it.
| Peter Murray was killed on rollway
near White Cloud on Friday of last week.
Upright. the wife-murderer, has been
sentenced by the M0ntcalm circuit court
to state prison for life.
Zela Steele of Lincoln, Midland county,
aged seven years, caught large wild
cat in trap last week.
1t is said that the lumberman i'm using
dynamite to clear the streams of ice are
destroying the fish by wholesale.
THE Detroit board of trade has delegat-
ed seven of its members to Lansing to
work for the railroad union depot bill.
The customs officials at Port Huron an
nOunce the arrival of over 9,000emigrants
during the first % days of the present
month. N5 H
Grand Traverse county has about 5000
inhabitants, and it is said there has not
been a criminal trial in the county in
four and half years.
William Manson, of Forestville fell
Asia at Sarnia, Saturday evening, and
received injuries which resulted in his
death. lh
The amount of logs put into Thunder
Bay river and tributaries during the
past winter for different parties is esti-
mated by the Alpena Argus at 200,500,-
600 feet. m h
Washington dispatch says Edward
Israel, a graduate of Michigan Univer-
sity this year, will be the astronomer of
the expedition soon to sail in search of
the steamer Jeanette.
Wild geese are reported SO plenty up
on the Portage lakes that they alight in
the wheat fields and orchards and are
remarkably tame. Hunters are bagging
numbers of them.
Over $4,000 names to petitions asking
for the submission of a prOhibitOry con-
stitutiOnal amendment in 1882 have
been presented in the house, and several
thousand on petitions in the senate.
Farmers predict that wheat in st.
Joseph county will be next to failure,
and in Berrien county about One-half or
twO-thirds of a crop. Some farmers
about FentOn will plow up their wheat
fields and SOW other crops ~
People near Ithaca are catching pike
and pickerel on hay-fOrks and other
farming implements, in the bitches,
four miles from any stream. 1t is sup
posed that the fish were driven out of
Pine river by the putting in of a large
crop of logs.
The wife of Jerry O'Niel, a resident of
that part of the Pewabic location COM
monty known as "Hell town." gave birth,
on. Saturday last, to babv boy that tip
ped the scales at Is pounds. The child
is yeritable curiosity, and, in honor of
DR.. /. nj. Rhodes. who Oficiated on the
occasion and did the weighing with his
own hands. might well be called the
COLOSSUS of Rhodes" ."-Hancock Journal.
Petoskey Record: James Miller of
Springvale, while preparing sugar
wood on the 18th inst, cut his ankle Sc
verely. He called Justify for help and
finally succeeded in bringing Mr.. Spen-
Ger to the spot, who lives near him.
While dressing the wound small piece
of bone was found projecting from the
cut, which Miller was very desir0us that
Spencer should cut off. Spencer not
wishing to be responsible for any NAL
practice that might arise from the ab-
brevlatiOn of an ankle bone declined,
whereupOn Miller himself proceeded to
play the surgeon, and with the aid of
pocket knife soon succeeded in detach-
ing it. Miller was doing well at last ac-
count.