Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-03-11
STATE NEWS.

The PetOskey wOOden-bOwl factory
ships its products to England.
Nearly 100 persons have been converted
at the Methodist revival at Adrian.
The Democrats are alleged to have won
victory at the Howell election Monday.
Grand Rapids has new manufactur-
ing institution with 300-wheelbarrOws
day capacity.
The musical frog has commenced and
and Is giving concerts in various pOr-
tiOns of the state.
The Michigan Tile and Drain assOcia-
tiOn will hold its annual meeting at Lam
sing, March 14th and Is.
Muskegon does not propose to give up
the salt business. Arrangements are be-
ing made to sink another well.
A yelled woman with babe boarded a
railroad at train Hastings, Mich, laid
the infant in strangers lap, and dis
appeared.
A Grand Rapids lady has just COM
pleted quilt containing nearly eleven
thousand pieces of calico. There's
patience for you.
Jackson understands the argument
that c0nvinces railroad corporations.
She gives $4,000 to secure branch Of
the Grand Trunk.
The Kalamazoo Daily Commercial is
stirring up the republican state central
committee to call the next state cOnven-
tiOn in that village.
large and enthusiastic meeting at
st. Louis has endorsed the project of q
railroad from Ovid to Traverse Bay and
appointed committee 10 solicit subscrip-
tiOns.
Arrangements are being made to
erect summer hotel at the mouth of
Black Lake, near Holland. The name of
Black Lake is to be changed to Macata-
wa Bay.
At Marquette the lower packing house
of the Lake Superior Powder COmpany's
mills exploded Monday. Four men were
blown to atoms, and the building an
initiated.
tiOn was won by the Greenback party,
element. Saloons will be closed at 8
| p. m. each day.
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Press Association will at the Pioneer
room in the state capitol aC Lansing on
Wednesday. the 18th day of March, 1882,
at 10 O'Clock a. IN. All persons entitled
to membership are invited to attend.
Collections at the internal revenue
Office i'm Grand Rapids in February
aggregated $6,946,32, of which $3.9S5.50
was for cigar stamps, $2,511.94 for beer
stamps, $340,S7 for special tax stamps,
and $l0S,6l from miscellaneous sources.
1t is considered probable that
Cleveland will join the Kentucky, Ohio
and Michigan trOtting circuit, which
now includes Louisville, Cincinnati,
Maysville, Columbus. Toledo, Detroit,
East Saginaw, Jackson and Grand Rap
ids.
A large meeting was held in Jackson
Saturday evening to consider the subject
of electric light, and an appropriation of
$4,000 to put it i'm use in that city. but
the project received the cold shoulder,
the meeting adjourning without Organiz-
ing.
At meeting Of the executive COM
mittee Of merchants and manufacturers
exchange of Detroit sub-cOmmitte was
appointed to take steps to bring before
the public the project Of building a
narrow guage railroad from that city
to Port Austin.
The large deposits of our found recent
ly in Baraga county have caused no lit
tie excitement among iron men and ex-
plOrers. Numerous parties get off the
trains daily and strike off i'm the woods
or the feasibility of investing i'm the
mineral lands Of that range.
The diseases most fatal in the state
during February were, in the order Civ
en-: Smallpox (27 casesl cerebrO-spinal
J meningitis, Inflammation of the brain,
spasmOdic Group, mumps, puerperal
fever, cholera mOrbus, measles, dysen-
terry and Group. The smallest number
of victims are ascribed to bronchitis
} rheumatism, neuralgia, consumption
and intermittent and remittent fevers
In December last State Salt Inspector
Hill announced that no winter made salt
would be packed cut and put the market
until March 1st, the object being to Sc.
cure better drainage and ensure a
standard grade for all seasons of the
year. This action has had tendency tC
/, leave all the merchantable salt in the
. hands Of the Saginaw valley association
! and that organization put up the price
soc to $1.15 per barrel, and have enjoyed
; fair winter trade at good paying rate
, But the first of March came round al
last. and the 'outsides" have begun
sending cut their circulars shading tn,
4 price 10c 15c barrel below the assOcia
: tiOn prices. To meet this new emergen
cy, the association on Thursday reduced
7 their prices to soc per barrel, squar
s knock off or 35c, and yesterday it wen
@ to zoo per barrel, 10c more. The Objec
!. Of this is, of course, to prevent the manu-
3 factures who are outside Of the assOcia
;. tiOn from unloading" their winte