Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-04-01
CONDENSED NEWS.

The Ohio Legislature has abolished the
Office of State Controller.
Bayard Taylor has been selected as tho
| poet of the Centennial.
cheyenne and Omaha are over-run with
people on their way to the Black Hills.
I The Democratic greenback convention
Iof New York will meet at New York
| city, June l. - :
Sergeant Bates offers to carry the Amer.
lean flag across the Centennial grounds
Oh the opening day.
The bank of Camden county, n. Y,
failed last week. Liabilities, $4,000; as
sets, about $4,000.
The steamship Ohio arrived at Phila-
delphia last week with 5000 cases of goods
for exhibition inthe British section of the
Centennial exposition. .v..---.-s--
The military authorities at Omaha deny
the reported engagement OF Gen. Crook
with Sitting Bulls party.idsuwoT err
The Ohio Senate has passed q bill per-
hitting railroads to- charge by space oc-
cppied instead of-by weight for light ar
ticles.
The California Legislature has passed,
and the Governor has Just approved bill
providing for furnishing wife-beaters, by
public whipping. q nid diiH hsiiias hre
Gen. Schenck. late Minister to Eng
land, arrived in New York city and inn
mediately leftfOr Washington OH Wednes-
day, March 22d.
The Foreign Relations committee of
the Senate have reported adversely to the
confirmation of Richatd Ii. Dana, jr., to
be Minister to England. arilg
The Opera house and Boston dry goods
store at Scranton, Pa, were burned on
the oath. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000; incendiary; $4,000 reward for
his arrest.
At four o'clock on the morning of the
Oath ult., boiler exploded in the Union
Pacific company's rolling mills at Lara
mic, Wyoming, killing five men and
wounding ten.
DR.. A. w. Washington, of Dennison,
Texas, the grandnephew of the father OF
his country, has the court dress worn by
the latter when he was first made Presi-
dent, and other interesting relics.
The Mississippi Senate, last week. pro-
nounced formal Judgment against Lieut.
Gov. Davis, removing him from office,
and diSqualifying him forever from hold
ing any office i'll the state.
The New York Tribune says: "The
newsl aper verdict on Mr.. Pendleton's
case is not OF the kind calculated to adj
=, 1oi of eli nj
date. There is an overA helming majOr-
ity against him:
Conroy, one of the Utica burglars, was
shot dead March 22d while in the hands
of the officers, by gang of masked men,
who are supposed to have been OF. the
gang, and who might have feared that he
would turn states evidence.
John G. New has resigned the office of
Treasurer of the United States, to take
effect April LIST. He has filled Mr.. Spin
ners place less than a year. He says
that his private interests nc indianapolis
demand this step, as the salary OF $500
is no object. i-
Reports from Cuba state that Captain
General Jovellar is reforming the civil
service Of Cuba in an arbitrary manner.
He has just decreed that officials who
preyaricate or accept brides will be deem
ed guilty Of treason, and be tried by
cOurt-martial.
Two robbers tried to enter the house OF
John Ryan, at Vincennes, Ind, during
his absence. Mrs. Ryan shot one of them
away, haeff h usBhu; wlhR5e Wis fAtneA 6jtRi
ing home, met him at the front gate, anu
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other robber escaped.
Blaine still leads in Wisconsin The
St. Paul PiOne"r-Press says: ''Of the sew
eDty or eighty Republican papers in that
state, ut least three-fOurthS OF them have
recently pronounced for Blaine, and we
doubt Whather there are half dozen OF
the whole number which:have express u
choice for any other candidate"
The Postmaster-G General has received
the following letter from Chill isothe,
Ohio: Il would like to obtain situ;i-
ton in the mail department OH the SclOto
Valley railroad, now in the course If
construction and which is nearly COM
pleted. will pay you 500 tor the pt
sitiOr. Can also furnish good security,
as well as the best of references
Concerning the Presidential question
i'm the east. the Boston Advertiser says
"Whateyer may be the course of parties
and party politics i'm the future, Mr.. Bri. :
tow has fairly earned place among the
few to whom the destinies of the c)untiy
may be fairly entrusted, and this place he
will hold, we trust. for many years to
come. But there are other Richmonds
in The field, Of large experience, OF az
knowledged integrity, their lives crowded.
with useful service, guided by principles
as noble and motives as exalted as the
best, trained in the best schools of Amer
lean politics, and us worthy OF the conf
dence, even of reformers, as any who
have taken the lead in their special work.
Mr.. Blaine stands very prominent
among them. In New England he has
unquestionably stronger following than
any other person named for the Pres
dency."