Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-02-22

Eight prisoners escaped from Black
wells Island Monday.
The Senate passed the anti-Chinese
immigration bill Saturday-39 to 27.
Preparations have begun at Yeddo.
Japan. tor the reception of Gen. Grant.
One hundred thousand valentines
passed through the New York city post
office on the 14th.
The New York Star says Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher has jumped from Congre-
gationalism to UniYersalism.
The New York Excise Board has been
indicted by the grand jury for granting
licenses to improper persons.
knight and Jackson, train wreckers,
were tried at Terre Haute, Ind, and sem
fenced to Imprisonment for life.
A terrible catastrophe by landslide
at Kansas City. Mo-, is among the lead
ing events chrOnicled last week.
The President on Saturday signed the
bill to allow women to practice before
the United States Supreme Court.
Judge Solomon Blair, Chairman of the
Republican State Central committee OF
Indiana, died at indianapolis Monday.
Of the $45,OOO,O 900 fractional paper cur
rency, it is estimated that $12,000,00O is
lost or destroyed, giving the government
just that much profit On the issue.
Terror prevails at Sitka, Alaska, the
Indians threatening 10 kill the entire
white population. The Collector at
Alaska telegraphs Secretary Sherman
for aid.
The German singing societies of New
York are preparing to receive the remains
of the late Bayard Taylor. The city hall
requiem hymn was rehearsed by 30C
singers.
Now found that the defalcation OF
County Treasurer Luther II. Conklin, o
Oswego, N. Y, amounts to $4,000. and
that his pilferings had been going or
since 1860.
New Orleans and Vicksburg special.
denounce the recent reports of yellow
fever i'm those cities as preposterously
false, and state that the health OF botf
places Is excellent.
Madame Anderson is i'm Chicago, rest
ing i'm anticipation of her great wall
there, to begin March 3, when she pro-
poses to walk a quarter mile every II
minutes until she completes 2,06S quartz
miles.
| Charles Dean sues Mrs. Bell, at New
York. for $1,000 for acting as her bod
guard. Mrs. Bell is aged about 40, ,dresse
with great magnificence. and is said +
have a husband in California worth $40
100000.
A negro burglar named Parker, ,entere,
Wright's jewelry store, Kansas City, o.
the night of the 18th, and after a despel
ate struggle was stabbed To death by Al
bert Moriarty. clerk who slept in th
store as guard.
The soldiers orphans homc'at Xeni;
Ohio. burned OH the 10th just after tn
600 children therein hal got through
! breakfast. There were many narrow es
capeS. but fortunately no loss of life
Loss TO the state, $4,000.
The Chicago Tribune has n sickenin
} account OF beautiful and accomplishe
Young girl who has been locked up i
solitary. confinement for l6 years a
> Mendoza, Illinois, by her father, throug
the jealousy and cruelty of her stcI
mother. She is now bereft of reason.
al JatleS DUN, Uat-S &c iiido' Ci VII euc -
Louis. Iron Mountain q Southern rail
s road, OH the line between Columbus
, Ky., was arrested at the first named cit
last week, for robbing the mails Of froI
4 $4,000 to $4,000 during the past yea
+. and on his plea of guilty was within fou
hours of his arrest sentenced to thre
4 years imprisonment
DIR. Nedelet. one of the police commi
sioners of st. Louis, No, is said to ha,
: been for some time connected with
ring of gamblers, and TO have aided
# protecting them; and that w. M. Lad
g another commissioner had scandalol
i intrigue with woman a few years az
5 and is under Nedelet's and gamblers il
fiuenoe to such an extent as to rend
him unfit for his position. A Legisl
: tive Committee is still examining In
S the matter.