Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08
STATE NEWS.

The fshermen's city on Saginaw bay
numbers 60 shanties, but the fishing is
not good.
The Genesee county supervisors took a
vote on the senatorial question. Result:
COnger 10, Bagley 4, Baldwin 3.
Open houses were the order of the day,
| New Years, among the ladies in nearly
all the cities and villages of the state.
A brilliant and unusually large me-
teOr passed over Grand Rapids, from east
to west, about 8..O'clOck Saturday night.
Receipts of the state treasury for the
week ending January 1, $36,23S; pay
ments, $45,643; balance on hand, 81 ,4Oo,-
| 12S.
The report of the fire marshal shows
| that ], ,140 new building were erected In
Detroit during the year 1880, at cost of
81 ,339, ,195.
Peach buds are still alive in Washte-
nav county, according to committee OF
expert budists who have been looking
into the matter.
The Hon. O. A. Bowen, for many years
deputy i'm the State Land Office and MEM
ber of the last legislature, has been taken
to the Pontiac insane asylum.
The annual meeting of the Michigan
State Agricultural society will be held
i'm the city of Jackson, next Monday. and
will organize in the Hurd house parlOrs
at o'clock P. NJ.
An oak log S5 feet long and two feet in
diameter at its smallest end was put
into Saginaw Bay at Ne Aum Guam
point Thursday-the biggest oak log ever
fiOated in that section.
Several capitalists and residents of
the shore towns and number from Bay
City held a meeting at OscOda Wednes-
day, to consider the matter of building
railroad from Alpena to Bay City.
The Manistee mills have turned out
during the past season IL $4,000 feet of
lumber and 440424,6O0 shingles. This
is said to be more shingles than are
manufactured at any other city In the
world in one year.
The Michigan chemical company will
erect at Elk Rapids extensive works for
the manufacture of acetate OF lime and
wood alcohol from the smoke and gasses
which escape from the 30 charcoal fur
naces in that village. The new works
will give employment to about 80 per-
sons.
A strange fatality happened at Addi-
son, thriving village on the remote
western boundary of Lenawee county.
New Years day. ball was given at a
hotel and i'm one of the sets Mrs. Garfield
fell and had her hand lacerated by her
husbands boot heel. Rapid inflammation
set i'm, tetanus followed and in twelve
hours the unfortunate woman was dead.
Monday. five men breaking up roll
way i'm Stinchfield's camp, in Belvidere,
township Montcalm county were drown
ed and buried beneath the ice, by the
rOllway suddenly breaking up and
descending upon them as an avalanche.
Three bodies were recovered from under
the ice Tuesday. The logs were being
moved to broaden the base of the roll
way.
The Saginaw Herald says: "The eX-
tensive firm of Henry Stephens t& Sons,
operating very heavy throughout the
state in the lumber business, are max
ing great improvements at st. Helen
station on the j. l.. & S. railroad, having
let the the contract for the erection of
70 dwelling houses and two large mills.
A new depot has been built at that place
and it is estimated they will expend in
the neighbOrhOOd of 900 there in i'm
prOvements.
On the morning OF the 1st the extern
sive wholesale grocery and lumbermens
furnishing establishment Of Wells, Stone
& Co., at Saginaw City, burned to the
ground. Everything except the safes in
the office was destroyed. The lost proper
ty consisted of substantial brick store
three stories high, a large warehouse and
hay shed. The loss is estimated at
from $4,000 to $4,000, with $31, ,O00in-
surance. The fire is supposed to have
originated in the business Office, but the
cause is not known. Two clerks who
slept in the store narrowly escaped a
roasting.
Some of the pioneers who are claimed
as subscribers to the new History of
Ingham and Eaton counties" have held
an indignation meeting at Grand Ledge
and resolved to resist to the bitter end
any attempt to collect said subscriptions.
They allege that they simply gave the
historian or agent certain memoranda,
which they signed at his request by way
of yerificatiOn, but it now appears that
at the top of each sheet containing their
signatures there is contract by which
the undersigned pledges himself to take
copy of the history and pay SO there
fore on delivery. An interesting time is
anticipated when the case comes up in
the court.