Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-08-13
STATE NEWS.


The contractors of the Ontonagon and
Brule River railroad have issued call
for 300 teams at $5 per day.
Before the end of 1882, it is intended
to have saw-mill capacity enough at On
t0nagOn to cut 100000 feet Of lumber
per year.
Contractors in OntOnagOn county are
now busy getting out $4,000 ties for the
OntOnagOn and Brule River railroad
company.
Lenawee officials propose to prosecute
the ministers and justices who fail to
report to the county clerk the marriages
az which they officiate.
What is known as the nine-mile dam
on the Manistee river broke away last
Friday, and Mrs. Nicholas Wilbur was
drowned in the rush of waters.
Elder James White, for many years the
acknowledged leader of the Seventh-Day
Adventists, died at his home in Battle
Creek, Aug. 8, of paralysis, aged SO years.
Rev. W. E. Caldwell, . Congregation
alist of Kent county, has heen appointed
chaplain of the Ionia house of cOrrec-
tion, and DR.. r. Long of Ionia ply
sician.
One thousand tons of steel rails are on
the way from England for the Toronto
and Nipissing railroad, of which the
Ontario and Sault Ste. Marie is an eX-
tension.
The Washington National Republican
alludes to Judge Cooley, of Michigan, as
the probable successor of the late Judge
Clifford, on the United States supreme
court bench.
Detroit is the 18th city in the union in
the point Of population, Grand Rapids is
the 58th, Bay City the 9th, East Sagi-
nav the 10. jackson the 18th, Kala-
mazOo the 1881, and Saginaw City the
230th.
The salt works built and in process Of
erection at Manistee have capacity of
LOO barrels daily, and this will be more
than doubled before year passes. Man
istee and MuskegOn clearly have reached
new eras of prosperity.
For so years the government has been
wearing out mules at Mackinac in the
never-ending work Of hauling water
from the river to the fort. II has just
occurred to the officer now in command
that the work can be done by machinery
at less sacrifice of jackass power
Evening Ne,US.
Rev. AlOis Loebenstein, pastor of the
German Methodist church at East Sagl-
nav, was overcome by the heat while at
tending camp meeting near Lansing
last week. and was brought home, dying
soon after reaching there. He was over
| 60 years old, and was good old man
and able preacher.
Southern Michigan is being raided by
a sharper selling packages for exter-
minating potato bugs, with directions
not to open the packages until wanted
for immediate use. On opening, the
package is found to contain two blocks
of wood, with directions to place a bug
on one block and mash him with the
other.
The Turf, Field and farm says:-On the
strength of a jump made by Dale recently
at Alpena, Mich, his hacker offers to
match him to jump any man in the world
one single standing jump for from $2,-
500 to $1,000 a side. The distance which
Dale is said to covered, with the use of
fifteenpound dumb-bells is IA feet 2
inches.
From 43 acres Messrs. Waterman &
Monroe of Pittsfeld, had $50 bushels of
wheat, an average Of 20 bushels to the
acre. They disposed of 800 bushels at
$1.10. If these yields keep coming in,
the dOleful stories told by the farmers
will be taken as wind, designed to create
corner on this needful cereal.-AnB
HarbOr Courier.
The total sales of upper peninsula
government lands for the month of July,
as reported by the register of the land
Office in Marquette, amounted to 57,7O9
acres, 1900 acres of which were sold for
hOmesteads to actual settlers. The total
acreage sold during the month just
closed was an increase over the June
sales of 1878 acres.
Mrs. Gardner awOke Wednesday morn
ing, and feeling desire to yawn did so,
resulting in the dislOcatiOn of her jaw.
She remained in this condition nearly
all day, being unable to either talk or
eat. DR.. Smith was called, but was COM
PEELED to put the patent under the in
fluence of chlOrOfOrm before he could
replace the dislOcated bone, which he did
and now her jaw wags at the will Of its
owner again.-TraUerse Bay Eagle.
The satisfies of the United States GUS
toms house at Port Huron show that dur
ing the month of July 4,251 immigrants
entered at that port, bound for homes in
the United States. The value of imports
for the month was $13,535; duties there
on, $4,S16 A; value of exports, 1920, O,O94
free goods $90,703; goods entered fol
immediate consumption, $24,349; duties
thereon, $13,546,67; bonded goods fol
Manitoba, $211 1,l53; duties thereon, $112,
462.
} The Marquette monument association
hoped to get the proposed shaft sacred tc