Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-04-16

VIM. H. Edgar, prominent wholesale
dealer of Detroit, died last Sunday
evening.
OF the 25 new circuit judges it is
claimed that Is are Republicans and Z
Democrats.
The Allegan Journal wants 5000
monument to Zach Chandler erected in
front of the state capitol.
The Republicans of Hunter township.
Eaton county, elected Mrs. M. F. Knight
superintendent of schools. 4
Thirty-seyen states and territories and
II foreign countries were represented i'm
Michigan university the past year.
The Michigan Car company have the
contract for building 600 box cars and
500 fat cars for the Kansas City road.
Kalamazoo is sending windmills to
Sydney, Melbourne, and other points in
Australia, and to Auckland, New Zea-
land.
Manistique justices of the peace, did
not have a single civil suit dOcketed by
them all last year and only seven GRIM
inal cases.
Kalamazoo has traded off the Holly
water works rotary pumps for $1,000
worth of water pipes and thinks it drove
good bargain.
The Jackson Patriot says that Ebenezer
Taylor, an old citizen of Waterloo, aged
about 20, few days ago married Miss
Ida Decker, aged "a.
The Buhl Iron works, of Detroit are
now at work on probably the largest en-
gine ever built in America, the nominal
rating being 5000 horse power.
I.W. Ingersoll, a prominent citizen of
Detroit, and formerly one of the leading
builders of that city, died last Saturday
forenoon, from an applOplectic fit.
The Peninsula car company at Adrian
has purchased 80 acres more land, and
proposes to increase its works to capac-
ity of 1,500 men as soon as possible.
The Students Lecture association at
Ann Arbor had net profit of $675 on the
last years course, and has given $500 OF
it to the University gymnasium fund.
Five bushels of wild rice from WiscOn-
sin will be sOwed around the lakes near
Grayling this spring, with the hopes Of
inducing wild ducks to visit these local
ties.
Watkins, Hidden & Arnold of Bay City
have been awarded the contract for furn-
ishing the plans and specifications for
new academy building to be built at
Salt Lake City, Utah.
The amount of salt inspected during
the first four months of the fiscal year,
December, January, February and March,
was 554, 1888 barrels more that for the
corresponding months last year.
The death of Senator Lewis Durkee of
the 18th district Barry and Eaton cOun-
ties). which occurred at his home in
Nashville on Monday afternoon, is the
first removal by death of senator dur
ing a session for Is years.
The corps of instructors in the. State
University consist of 32 full professors,
IA assistant professors and 33 lecturers,
instructors and assistants, making to-
tai of 20. The whole number of pupils
i'm all departments the past year was 1,
534.
Architect E. E. Myers of Detroit, who
perpared the plans for our new state
capitol, has filed an application at Wash
ingtOn, asking to be appointed super
vising architect of the treasury, which
office is now held by Mr.. Hill of Massa-
chusetts.
The editor of the ScOOlcraft Courier
has Just learned to ride bicycle and
makes lively paper. He has already
invented three new ways OF getting off
the machine when he is in hurry; and
he is now at work on new scheme for
staying on when he isn't in a hurry.
A queer political coincidence hap,
pened i'm the township of Burdell at the
recent election. L. ID. Cool, Republican,
was elected supervisor over Ransom, his
opponent, by one majority. Last year
Cool was also elected over the same gen.
tleman by just one majOrity.-Reed City
Clarion.
A Michigan fruit-belter writes to a Chi
cago paper that plums, peaches and the
tender varieties of grapes will be great
rarities in the fruit-belt this season,
while apples, cherries and pears promise
fair crop. Strawberry plants are all
right, but berry bushes generally are
badly used up.
A correspondent of the American Ship
gives figures to show that the amount of
pine timber now standing Is about 49,
5OO,OOO.OOO feet, of which about 30,0O0,-
100000 feet is credited to Michigan.
This state is destroying its forests at the
rate of about 5,OO0,OO0,OO0 feet year, and
and the writer argues that owners of
pine lands are now very fOolishly part
ing with timber for one tenth what it
will bring in few years.
An unsuccessful attempt to break out
of the Jackson penitentiary was made
by four desperate cOnvicts Thursday of
last week. They Overpowered the keeper
in one of the shops, and, tying tOgather
some ladders, attempted to scale the
wall. Three of them were shaken from
the ladders before they could ascend,
and the fourth, Lynch-a twenty-year
man from Saginaw-whO got over the
wall. was shot dead bv guard.