Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-06
NORTHERN TRIBUNE,
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 6. 1884.
STATE NEWS.

LA DdItle OI66k JdHudIy u.
Saginaw supervisors have voted 800
to the county Agricultural Society.
John Martin, former staunch PrOhi-
bitiOnist, has opened saloon at Union
City.
The assessed valuation of property in
Saginaw is $22, lSS,OO0.
Ransom Rush. of Eaton Rapids, ship
ped go head OF sheep to Minnesota the
other day.
A live snake Of an imported variety
was found in box Of lemons at Battle
Greek a few days ago.
A Livingston county farmer has six
years. wheat on hand waiting for rise
in prices.
Mrs. Thomas Blair, Alpena, on Thurs
day night fell with great violence
against an open bureau drawer, break
ing her neck.
Horse thieves have been putting in
their work in Eaton county, and several
horses have been stolen.
Mrs. Nolan, of South Branch, brought
down wild goose with rifle ball, but
had to kill 1t with club afterwards.
The clover seed crop of Michigan was
we'll matured this season and is unusu-
ally plump and the quantity large.
A Sanitary Convention, under the au.
spices of the State Board of Health, will
be held at East Saginaw, December 2
and 3.
Gov. Begole pardOned Percy Pearsall,
of Kent county, who was sent to the
Ionia prison for two years on cOnvic-
tiCn for grand larceny.
The State Board of health reports that
during last week diphtheria was pre-
yailing in 20 places, scarlet fever at six,
and measles at two.
For the season to date there have been
shipped from the Saginaw Valley 72O,-
900 feet Of lumber; 139,2260O0 shin
giles, and 100000 lath.
An absent minded farmer drove into
Buchanan the other day with a load of
wood to do some trading, and discovered
for the first that it was Sunday.
Reported that movement is on foot
to remove the county seat of Grand Tray
erse county to Mayfeld-a little village
which is situated near the center of the
comfy.
Hampton, the fraud. who represented
himself a Catholic priest in Pontiac. and
succeeded in obtaining small sums from
servant girls, will for the next three
years and a half lie furnished lis meals
by the state prison authorities.
Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina,
imprisoned at Detroit for swindling, at
tempted to hang himself in his cell
Thursday, but was cut down. In the af-
terROOn he was sentenced to three
months In the house of correction.
The immense trusses for the roof of
the Kalamazoo Presbyterian church are
being put into place. They are seventy
seven feet long and weigh over twenty
five tons. There are already 100000
brick in the building, and 100000 more
to be added.
Frederick w Duvern0ls. banker and
insurance agent at Detroit, has been
missing for two weeks, and is said to be
a defaulter for between $4,000 and $40,-
600. 1t appears that he decided his prop
erty to his wife some years ago, bat the
deeds were only placed on record last
week.
1t is now discovered that an extensive |
pension fraud was perpetrated in the !
state in 1870 and in 1871. A large num-
Der of soldiers, to whom was due some
back bounty, and who have recently |
learned of the same, have found on ap-
plicatiOn to the pension department that |
some rascals in the years mentioned, sby |
statements, drew the money. |
The Grand Rapids e. Indiana railway |
4 ward yearly special premiums for agri- |
sultural products grOwn'On lands along |
the line of their road. This1year Mecos-
la takes off number of premiums as
follows: w. Ladner, $25 for best five
acres OF wheat and $15 for the best acre
If corn; Russell H. Pierce, $40 for second
best acre of cOrn;J. H. Rogers, S. for
,hird best acre of corn,
A portion of the robe of the mummy
recently obtained by Cornell University
las been received by Prof. Albert Miller,
1913 Cass ave. The linen is in an almost
perfect state Of preservation. The HER
,glyphics on the case deciphered by Prof.
Tyler show the name of the person en-
)almed to have been Renpi, who lived in
he 23d dynasty, or contemporary with
elijah, that is 800 years B. C.-Detroit
Evening Journal.
1t is safe to assert that pine stumpage
n Michigan Is worth at least twenty-five
,er cent less than it was in 1892. not
its annual decrease in ex-
ent. Capitalists with money to invest
will undoubtedly be safe in buying eth
r pine trees or pine lumber at present
'rices. There are said to be several men
n Michigan who sold pine lands about
hree years ago, who are now buying the
anne lands back at an enormous profit.
-Muskegon Nc,cs.