Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-11-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Stokes, the murderer of Fisk, left Au-
burn prison October 2Sth, gray-haired
man.
Louisville, KY, is to have new water
works reservoir of 100000, 900 gallons ca
pacity, to cost $435,O
The Pope county, Arkansas, murderers
were brought to Little Rock. last week
by Deputy Marshal Leaper, from Texas.
He gets 5000 reward.
Capt. Josiah S. Grindle, of the ship St.
Mark, was last week convicted in New
York of cruelty to his seamen. lie was
proved to have inflicted the most terrible
cruelty upon his crews for years. and in
two instances it resulted in death.
The Postmaster General of England
has deputed w. III. Prease. a well known
engineer, and Mr.. Fisher. of the London
office, to proceed on a mission to the
United States to examine and report up
on the American telegraph system.
The Porte has accepted two months
armistice, and has ordered an immediate
cessation of hostilities; and Russia is
taking steps to forward negotiations for
the arrangement of all pending questions.
A conference will probably assemble
shortly.
A village of 80 lodges of Shoshones was
attacked October 30th by large Sioux
party, estimated at 1,200 lodges, at Paint
ed Rock, and, so far as learned. only one
Sboshone escaped. The fight took place
at Painted Rock, near the scene of Capt.
Kenzie Bates fight i'm 1864.
| The accident to a wedding party from
the knocking down of a lamp at Maroa,
| ILL.,, last week, has resulted i'm the death
| of the bride, and the bridegroom it is
thought cannot live. A lady guest is al
so in critical condition, and the person
who knocked down the lamp is nearly
insane.
The Pennsylvania museum and school
of industrial art, to be established i'm
Memorial hall, will probably be closely
patterned after the South Kensington
museum of London. The original sub
scription for the institution was $4,000,
of which fully $4,000 has already been
expended.
Weeden, Goodwin and Collier, three of
the men who assisted i'm the prize fight
near Philadelphia, i'm which young Walk
er was killed, were found guilty of man.
slaughter and sentenced to six years i'm
Trenton penitentiary. Two others, Clark
and Neary, were sent for two years each.
A new trial has been moved for.
Rush r. Sloan. who fed from Sandus-
ky, Ohio, to Europe, i'm 1874 under a
charge of forgery, and caused his bail to
pay $32, 800, has returned to this country
and proposes to stand trial and make
trouble for the Cincinnati, Sandusky 81
Cleveland railroad company. The opin-
ion is that he cannot be convicted of any
thing criminal, but that he is guilty, new
ertheless.
A local passenger train on the New
York division of the Pennsylvania rail-
road was wrecked at Linden depot, N j..
by running into two detached freight
cars. The brakeman, Jacob Edison, was
fatally injured; w. H. Vanderwater. a
fireman, was wounded in the head; E.
w. Wright. of Chicago. Ills, arm broken
and otherwise hurt. This is one of the
first accidents on the Pennsylvania road
i'll which any one has been injured since
theopening of the exposition.
A letter from on board the u s. steam
er Ossippee, Key West. Fla. Oct. %, says
that terrible storm and hurricane was
encountered during their trip, which
commenced Oct II. and continued 26
hours. The seas made clean sweeps over
the vessel, causing great suffering to the
sailors. The storm came up over Cuba
and passed over Key West. A vessel was
capsized i'm Key West harbor and all on
board drowned. The island of Kayacar-
ga was flooded and its entire population
of 400 persons swept away. The storm
| is pronounced the worst which has visit
ed Key West for over 80 years.