Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-08-25
The new sidewalk at Goulden's corner

mouse on Ihird street, formerly occupied
by J. 8. Douglass, and moved in yester-
day.
Farmers, remember the approaching
county fair, and make your arrange
ments to be there with specimens Of
your farm products.
The City Of Cleveland came near pull
ing out portion of s. Baker & Sons
dock last Wednesday in her endeavOrs to
to get to her dock during the gale.
The Messenger gives an excursion to-
day from ChebOygan, Mackinaw City, st.
Ignace and Mackinac to the Chneaux Is
lands for the benefit of the Fort Macki-
nae band
Lester l.. Burton. the wrestler who de-
fsated Robert Wright in contest in
Cheboygan, met his match at Ishpeming
where he was thrown three times,
straight, by Richard Dunn.
Reid & Co. received an order from a
Buffalo, N. Y. canning establishment for
two carloads of huckleberries, but were
unable to procure a sufficient quantity
at one time to load car and could not
fill the order.
Wednesday afternoon couple of dry
land sailors, navigating the river in a
small sail boat were dumped cut by cap
sizing. They chung to their craft until
some sailors on the the schooner Aconti-
tias went out in yawl and picked them
up.
1t is reported that oae our citizens inr
terviewed Gov Begois during his recent
visit, and asked him. what his views were
in regard to the hanging Of TIL Warner.
The Governor is said t. have renlied.
Officially l have r..othing TO say, but
pit'"'eis =" ID been here think
"'o'" nave aiken hand in it,
"e' lcsday noon the water in the river
~ .sed several inches higher than the
highest point attained this season. All
. Tie low lands on both sides of the river
were flooded. The sidewalk along Main
street in front of Bakers dock was afiOat
' and much of the blocking under it float
away, leaving the walk In somewhat
demoralized condition.
The contract for building the extern
: sion of the Detroit, Mackinac and Mar
i quette RAILROAD, from Marquette to The
: iron mining region of Lake Superior
y was let Saturday to Cragie, Rafferty, \
Yeomans, of Buffalo, n. Y. Work to be-
e gin within ten days, and the firm give
d bonds under heavy penalty TO complete
J, the road on or before February /, 1884.
John f. Mcdonald sent the TRIBUNE &
specimen bunch of his field of oats, re
T fered to in the TRIBUNE last week. II
e measures over five feet in height and The
v heads are well filled with plump grain
g other parties have set up The claim Of
having better looking oats than MIR. Nc
s Donal.;, but not having seen their fields
7. or specimen of the grain, we only have
/ their word for it.
! young lad fell off the dock at The
a Cheboygan Lumber Company's mill las1
n Sunday and narrowly escaped drowning
Fortunately he was fished out by the en-
: gineer of the tug Eva English. The
D small boy" is entirely too reckless, ant
n it is a wonder more of him" is mo-
/ drowned. The docks, logs &C., furnish
: him every advantage and he never hest
tates to take all chances.
|, sailor on the barge r. Gaskin, John
a st. Clair by name, had leg broke Mon
t day forenoon while loading timber, a
: stick rolling on him. His other leg was
: also badly bruised and skinned. Drs. T
: A. and c. A. Perrin set the limb and
@ dressed the bruised leg. The captain
said he would make him as comfortable
r as possible and take him to Kingston
where he would get him into the marine
hospital.
0 A Mrs. Howell was seriously injured
4 Wednesday by being thrown from. wag-
| on, the horse running away. She was
0 picked up in an unconscious condition
and placed in wagon and driven to the
Office of DR.. A. M. GerOw who dressed the
wounds. She received bad cut on the
back of her head, her face was badly
. bruised and one finger dislocated. II
;; was couple Of hours after the accident
, before she fully recovered consciousness
and when she did she did not remember
anything about the accident.