Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-02-12
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY IL. 1885.
AROUND THE STATE.

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The fishing business OF Michigan
amounted to over 100000 last year.
About 400 unisn cigar makers are now
out on strike at Detroit.
Rumored that another Democratic dali
~ paper will be started at Bay City.
The ice at the entrance to Grand Ha-
ven harbor was still closed Monday.
Produce dealers of Hsrsey are shipping
large quantities of potatoes to Baltimore.
Candon and Flanagan, two check
forgsrs were captured at East Saginaw.
John McClslland of Maple Rapids is in
Jail at st. Johns awaiting trial for for
gerry.
DR.. Halls sanitarium of Eaton Rapids
was burned Monday morning OF last
week.
The Star coal company has been or
ganized in jackson with capital OF
$4,000.
Manistse is in mourning for John Nee
prominent citizen who died Monday OF
last week.
The owners of the Bell mines in On
ionagsn county will spend 100000 In
their development.
People of Saginaw City oppose the pro-
posed consolidation of the cities of East
Saginaw and Saginaw.
John Monaghan, q lumberman OF De-
tr0it. has failed for $4,000. He Operat-
cd extensively at Alpsna.
The Hammond paper company OF Jack
son made an assignment Wednesday,
with liabilities Of $4,000.
1t il understood that Mt. Pleasant
firm will manufacture 15,UOO,OOO shin
giles per year for five years.
Coldwater has spectacle sOcials," In
which all the ladies wear glasses and all
the gentlemen dress suits.
VIM. Pierson, fireman employed on
the Michigan Central, was crushed un-
der the wheels Of locomotive at Detroit.
Frank Munro of East Tawas was ar
rested Thursday, charged with 0utrag-
ing girl of Is whose mind was weak,
and much excitement was created among
the citizens.
Jackson county is about to indulge ia
another HOlcOmb trial-Henry, accused
of perjury in the Joseph Allen matter,
asks for change Of venue.
Geo. W. Love, a farmer and horticult-
urist near ROscommOn, has invented
machine for cutting strawberry runners
without injury to the plants that Will. 1t
10 said, be Of great value to fruit grow
erS.
Teams are hauling bird's-eye maple
logs from near Shaw p. o., in Presqus
Isle county, to the railroad at Indian
RIVER. Our bird's-eye maple and other
hard woods, will soon begin to assume
a tangible market valus.-PreSque Isle
Advance.
Otis 8. Richards, township treasurer
of Campbell, Ionia county, went TO Grand
Rapids with town funds and INDUCED
in a lavish spree at the expense OF The
township.
G. NJ. f. Davis, ex-county treasurer OF
Crawford county has been found behind
in his books more than $500 and has
been given short time TO straighteR
matters up.
A fireman named Bathrick Of the Mich
igan Central railroad, while uneoupling
the rubber pipe which connects tho en-
CINE with the tender, was seriously seald-
cd last week.
A terrific beiler explosion occurred at
the Chicago numbering cOmpany's arte-
sian well at ManisJique Thursday. The
cause is unknown. Fireman Psller was
fatally injured. The boiler was thrown
100 feet and the fue door struck barn
100 yards away.
Ezra Bostwiek, OF Union City, has civ
on q farm containing GAO acres to the
Albien college. The land IL valued at
$4,000. This gift Is to aid in raising
the Asbury centenary fand, and will be
used directly to sndow Bostwick pro-
censorship Of astronomy.
Glare county pine land owners protest
against the extensive mOOnshine lum-
bering of which they are the victims.
Their lands being looked over in the day
time and the creamy trees marked. At
night party of l0ggers with teams and
implements cut out the butt logs and
haul them away, either to be cut at once
at some mill, worked into shingle bolts
or sscrsted for more convenient season.
Dundee must have a. refined class of
people within its limits IL the following
dispatch from that place to the Free
Press correctly represents them; "Ths
bastardy and seduction case Of Squares
w Jones is to be tried hSre next Monday
at 10 q. m. Justice Gee has leased the
Dundee Opera House and will open the
doors to all. It is looked forward to
WITH a. much interest as any circus"
Charles E. Thomas. one of the aspi-
rants for the Battle Greek post office, has
proposed to the Chairman OF the City
COMMITTEES TO submit his claims to the
people by ballot. He asks that two box
90 be provided, one to receive the Demo
cratic vote and one to receive the vote OF
the patrons of the office generally. and
IL he does not receive twice az many as
any other seeker after the Office he will
at once withdraw from the contest.
At Jackson signatures have been re-
cslyed of 103 persons who have agreed to