Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-12-11

There are 668 prisoners In the peni-
Tertiary at jackson.
The esthetic taste of Elintites is now
appeased. They have dime museum.
Charley0ix has made improvements
costing $64,72 during the past year.
One "Allen" is swindling Free Nasons
throughout the state by begging assist
ance to 60 to England.
Counterfeit "silver" dollars are being
manufactured near Big Rapids and the
state is flooded with Them.
The man who executed Nfs. Suratt is
now mail agent on them. G. r. r. be-
tween Grand Rapids and jackson. His
name is Rath.
E. r. Huntley, Grand Rapids meat
dealer, will ship meat direct to Holland,
where the flesh, trlchin8 and all, is worth
So cents per pound.
The state road between Pressure Isle
and Little Traverse is in such bad con-
ditiOn that a horse mired there one day
last week and died before he could be got
out,
Two st. Johnitss, s. +. Gilman and
Edward Brown, have just purchased
tract of 1900 acres of timbered land in
Arkansas, with view to develop the
timber.
The Union Benevolent Society, of
Grand Rapids, is a new institution that
starts out with worthy object. The
lady members fix over all east-off gar
ments that are given them, and then
make glad and warm the hearts and
bodies OF the poor. Cheboygan has one
society Of this kind, but there is room
for more.
Pretty much every one of the furni-
ture factories in the City will shut down
about the Goth for their annual invent
DRY and repairs of machinery, ETC., The
factories will be closed, thus, from two
to four weeks each, and the $500 to 1000
mechanics employed in them will thus
have short Northumberland Rapids
Eagle.
The assessed valuation of Alpena cOun-
ty. as equalized by the board of supervis-
Ors, is $3,163,000.
Marquette people are getting uneasy
about the delay in the construction of
their custom house.
The poor expenses Of Alpena county
the past year were $5,45109. Eighty-twO
families had to be assisted.
The Detroit exhibit at the New Orleans
exposition will include raised model Of
Belle Isle park.
Judge Grant, of Marquette, while
hanging a picture recently. fell and
broke an arm, and now he has fallen
down stairs and broken wrist.
Tax Receiver GQthard, of Detroit, has
tax roll OF the whole of Wayne county
in 1912. The amount of the levy was
$1,4OO.
1t is said that 10i members OF the next
Legislature of Michigan are graduates
of collegiate institutions.
The public schools at Vassar have been
closed on account of diphtheria, which
is prevailing to considerable extent in
that village.
Hiram Jackson, of Detroit, is organic
ing Democratic salOonkeepefs union,
Forty saloonkeepers are reported to have
joined.
An inventor is at Muskegon trying to
introduce his method Of gas manufac-
turing from saw dust, claiming 1t can be
done cheaper and better than from coal.
I0sco County refused to pay the rail-
road fares Of the Alpena and Bay City
militia to OscOda during the recent riot.
Both companies responded promptly to
the call, but will probably not be 80 has
ty when wanted again.
John l.. Smythe, treasurer of RoscOm-
mon township, went to Canada recently
for his health. An investigation of his
books is in progress, and if suspicious
are verified Smythe had better stay in
in Canada for his health.
Citizens of Pinc0nning are indignant
at the action of Michigan Central rail-
road Conductor who, upon being told by
passenger that he (the passenger) was
going to ILL.," charged the individual
twenty-five cents and told him to get eff
at Pinconning.-[ Bay City Press.
The shipment of forest products from
Nuskeg0n by water this season, were as
follows; Lumber, 529,127.Cco feet; lath,
29,760,000; shingles, 1874, 727( 20: slabs g.
OCo; ties, 10000; pickets. 25,C00.
Goo. Losey, formerly Of Lonawee Co.,
left for Kansas recently, expecting to
make his home in that land Of lOcusts
and honey: En- route he was robbed Of
$1,000 cash, and he now writes to his
brother for money enough to make the
homo rum
Orno Strong, editor of the Nashville
Nows, on trial at that place for assault
with intent to kill DR.. l.. A. FOOtein May
last for the seduction of his wife, was
acquitted by the jury after a few mo-
nents' recess. The verdict gives com
plete satisfaction.
Patrick Fitzgerald committed suicide
in the town jail at EdmOre on Friday
last by cutting his throat with broken
plate. He was suffering with delirium
tremOns.
Rev. John Motto Arnold, d. D., mana