Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-02-25
STATE NEWS.

A siX-fOOt vein of coal has been dis
covered in Elba township, Gratiot cOun-
ty.
The latest returns from the Bellevue
fire, place the losses at $4,000, and in
surance at $7,100.
The state board of health report Of
Feb. II, shows just II cases of smallpox
in the state at that date.
Mason people aver that they can haul
freight from Lansing cheaper by wagon
than they can get it by rail.
The citizens of Grand Haven, by an
adverse majority of SO votes, have decid-
ed not to bond the city for water works.
A PetOskey hackman charged with
Outraging woman was let off on on
$500 bail, with his father as one of the
sureties.
The ex-member of the Louisiana legis-
lature who has been in the IOnia house
of correction has been pardOned out, and
will open barber shop at Ionia.
Charles Goliath, the Deerfeld farmer
who shot Charles Cannon on Sunday in
quarrel about cow, was arrested at
Adrian on Monday while at his fathers
house.
The aesthetic craze has struck the adj
vertising man of the Jackson Wagon
Company, and he has issued a new addi-
tiOn of the Jackson wagon song, the
first page illustrated with huge sun
flower and the last with lily.
A cock fight, witnessed by large
number of people, was one of the attrac-
tiOns at Kalamazoo on Sunday. Theun-
lawful assemblage was held within the
corporation and near its business center.
An effort will be made to arrest all par
ticipants.
The 0ntOnagon & Brule River railroad
! fight, which ragged so fiercely in the state
Legislature last winter, is now re-Opened
at Washington, and the old parties are
all up in arms again. The ship canal
company does not propose to give up its
grip on that grant.
S. A. Wilbur of Union City met with
singular experience one day last week.
| The cords of one of his legs contracted
to such an extent as to break the bone
midway between the hip and the knee
| joint. He has long suffered from
rheumatism, but now feels much re-
| iieved.
The Brighton Citizen says Representa-
| tive Vim. Ball of Hamburg has sold to E.
| w. BOyden of Delhi mills, Washtenaw
county, "a thoroughbred American meri-
no ewes for 81 200, and the fOur-years-old
shOrthOrn bull Lord BarriRgton, which
has attracted much attention at the
Central Michigan fairs.
On Monday Martin Hudson, of the
Hudson house, Lansing purchased of
| ii. j. C0rwin of DimOndale, 81 live
turkeys which weighed 76S pounds.
One of the number weighed 32 pounds.
| They are of bronze variety, and none of
them were over year old. Mr.. Hudson
paid II cents pound, live weight.
Some wOrkmen who were employed by
sub-cOntractOr in building the East
Saginaw extension of the Port Huron &
| Northwestern railroad were left in the
lurch by him, and not yet having been
able to get their pay have sought to seri-
0usly Obstruct the operation of the road
by cutting bridge in Tuscola county.
The Three Rivers Herald says: "A
thousand acres of corn have been en-
gagged of farmers in this vicinity to be
used in the canning factory which is be-
ing built in this place. This industry
will give work to a great many hands
and make market for garden crops
never before thought to be profitable.
The Grand Lodge of Michigan /. O. O.
+. met at Lansing last Tuesday. Three
hundred lodges were represented. The
reports of the Secretary and Treasurer
are very ilattering, and show an increase
of membership of 712 over the previous
year, The attendance is very large, and
the members are fine looking body OF
men.
We have taken some pains to ascertain
| the facts, and we think that Navin had
when he left here, something like &c.
600 or $1,000, provided he got nothing
from the proceeds of the bond rascalities,
and the New Workers still adhere to the
statement that the money is all there.
No trace of him has yet been discovered
beyond st. Louis, and we do not know Of
any decided effort being made to search
for him.-Adriam Times.
The young mems republican club of
Grand Rapids haYe formed stock COM
pany and will purchase the Daily Demo-
crat and run that newspaper hereafter
as republican organ. The papers are
reported signed and the money will be
paid over within a week. There has
been dissatisfaction with the Eagle for
some time among the young men of the
party there, and they now propose TO
have paper managed to their notion.
r. A. Beal, editor of the Ann
ArbOr Courier, who was prominent
candidate for governor before the last
Republican state convention, in noticing
the discussion which has been going on
relative to the next gubernatorial
nominee, says: "The best interests of
the state and of the Republican party de-
mand Governor JerOme's denomination"
Frank b. Stockbridge and T. W. Palmer