Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-04-27
CONDENSED NEWS.

The Rothschilds have taken SIC, ,OOO. 900
OF the fuur and hall per cents.
The mills throughout New Hampshire
are cuttirg wages eight per cent.
Egypt has, under pressure, paid $780,
OOO. of judgments obtained by its credit
OrS.
Twenty-Five persons We're wounded
with stone in political riot in Montreal
last week
Itis again alleged that Southern ne-
grOes are being kidnapped and sold into
slavery in Cuba.
Charles Dimmit has been convicted at
Balavia,O., OF robbing the county treas
uer's sale of $4,000.
Ex-COngressman George /. Smith, of
Lou isiIia, is The compromise Candidate
Tor collector at New Orleans.
The Canadian Government will place
a duty OF l71s per cent ad valorem OH
impoitations of American silver coin.
A heavy gale OH the Spanish coast last
Saturday hight caused the loss of many
craft and the drowning of nearly 20U fish
ermsn,
Ch. f. Wood New York aeronaut, is
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The belief that it will be waited across
tile Atlantic.
Samuel A Wood of New York has
Withdrawn his objections to the Wood
will which provided for All American
Musical College.
The potatO-bug has reached Belgium.
spite Ut the vigilance OF host of inspec-
tors, and has gone into business there OH
his own account,
Bishop McCOskry sends through the
Associated Press an unqualified denial OF
the articles which have appeared in diff
erent papers against him.
Col. Reed Kleeman. of Chicago was
killed last week by falling no feet down
| Il shat at the Sunrise mine, OF which he
had charge at L,ramie City.
The published report that the Senate
passed the House bill granting three
months extra pay to officers and soldiers
OF the Mexican War is erroneous.
A freight train on the Iron Mountain
road. MlssOuri,went down AN embank-
ment Monday morning anu four siamps
who were stealing rIue were killed.
There are six colored bishops in the
Methodist Church, each one Of whom lives
| in the North, and the Southern negroes
propose 10 stop paying them SoO,OOO per
year.
The Herald, after a canvass of Congress
finds 256 members of both houses op-
posed to reOpening the Presidential ques.
tion; 10 in favor OF it; Undecided, and
30 absent.
Prof. Joseph Ferrivelet. while giving
pyrOtechnic exhibition at New Orleans
fair grounds Monday, was mortally
wounded by the premature explosion Ol
"a fire works bomb. n
William III. Vanderbilt's son Cornelius
his sOE-in.law TwOmbley. eX-Gov. Nor
gan, Anson Stager, and Gen. Eckerl, are
all mentioned rs possible SUCCESSORS Ol
the late President Orton.
| The strike of spinners and weayers al
Preston England, has collapsed, and al
though the strikers elsewhere show an
uncom promising spirit, there are signs ol
disintegration among them. goai-
An overloaded elevator in the building
os the Howe Sewing Machine Company
Chicago fell Monday. with ten persoii'
on board "a distance OF 50 feet. Nine
the ten travellers were injured,
The bark AZor, with 20O emigrants
sailed from Charleston 5. Z, for Liberia
The only white men OH board were thre'
officers anu reporter OF a Charleston
paper. This is the first shiplOad sent ou
by the Exodus association.
| o. C. Zellers. cashier of the Nationa
Exchange Bank, Tiffin. o., after banking
hours OH Saturday last absconded, taking
with him $45,5o0. The surplus Of th
bank exceeds the amODnt taken. In
loss is confined exclusively TO stockhold
ers.
Paul SOleillet is the name OF the geniu
who proposes to build railroad acros
the desert of Sahara to TimbuctoO an
beyond. He estimates the cost at SOO,
OO0, 900 francs, which he expects vii
return fair interest by the reclamation
of that hitherto unprOductiye region.
The Galveston News publishes
special from Fort Mcintosh statin
that the Indian raiders from Mexlc
have killed many people and Carried o
two white boys named Taylor. The col
respondent expresses belief that tines
; raids are melted by the supporters G
Lerdo for the purpose oi bringing aDou
misunderstanding between the Unite
States aud the Diaz government. Th
mail il-carrier who LETT Fort Davis Satur
! day morning was murdered by Indian
20 miles from that post. A dctachmeii
of cavalry has been sent out.