Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-02-10
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1883.
STATE NEWS.

A reduction of wages has been ordered
in the Grand Rapids furniture factories.
Battle Creek citizens removing to
Dakota, are having frame houses built
to take with them.
The new Walker water works at Mid
land City were tested Oh Friday of last
week, and found satisfactory.
1t is stated that Postmaster COdd has
been renOminated and confirmed as post
master of Detroit for another term.
The Holly waterwOrks at Jackson
pumped 33,964 400 gallons during jan
nary, the greatest monthly amount thus
far.
During January 127, 239 barrels of salt
were inspected by the state inspector,
against $3.50 barrels during January,
1882. ~ - p ut on
Eaton Rapids has shipped 7,O16 rab-
bits this winter, besides eating prob
ably about as many more, and not count
ing the vast multitude still lodging
around.
The iron blast furnace at Elk Rapids,
Antrim county, will be obliged to shut
down March 1st, because unable to get
fuel. 1t uses over 10000 cords OF four
foot wood year.
Jay Hubbell has filed the petition of
So Michigan vessel owners asking that
100000 be appropriated for continuing
the improvement of the Grand Marias,
Lake Superior, harbOr of refuge.
Every business man applied to in Bat
tie Creek, with one exception, signed
the petition for the release of +. B. Mo-
rey, the confessed fOrger, who is now i'm
state prison on 10 years sentence.
A little sensation was produced in
Detroit hotel when it was discovered ]
that the bell boy, Willie Harmon, was in
reality girl. The most astOunded in
dividual Of all was the porter, who had
been the supposed-tO-be-boy's roommate.
Tecumseh turned out en- masse on
skates last Sunday. Twelve young gen.
tlemeh skated to Clinton and back, a dis
lance of five miles; two more ambitious
ones to Milan, 10 miles, and return; and
any amount of boys attended church on
skates.
A girl named House, living five miles
north of Big Rapids, being sick with
diphtheria, lay for three days as one
trance she believed she had died in an
Opuul OouuVy anu AOoPpOoAOu III AAO a.
another person. ,"EE "a t#L !
The supposed earthquake felt in many |
places in southern Michigan Sunday af-
ternOOn proves to have been the shock |
caused by the explosion of oil tank cars
on the Lake Shore and Michigan South |
ern railroad. east of LapOrte, Ind. The |
shock was distinctly felt at Niles, % |
miles distant, and even IL miles further |
north.
The Muskegon News-Reporter says |
over $4,000 have been expended this |
winter in repairing the mills on Muske
gOn lake, putting in new machinery, |
engines. ETC., and when the saving sea-
son opens business will boom all around
the lake. There is no reason why the
season of 1883 should not DO the most
one In the history of the city.
There, WILDE oyer S0,000000 feet of logs
in the rivert0 supply the mills.
The Eagle hotel, at Grand Rapids, a
three-storyl wooden building, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire at an early hour
Monday morning. The fire had got
good start before discovered, and spread
so rapidly that the occupants were only
able to escape with their lives, leaving
their clothes and baggage to be wiped
up in the flames. The women help es-
capped in their night clothes and walked
with bare feet through the snow to the
Rathburn house.