Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-01-10
CONDENSED NEWS.

SdluCuO aUOut Id
Tom Scott started out i'm railroad life
as station agent at Holidaysburg, Pa.
After an idleness of ten years the Erie
blast furnace has just gone into opera
tiOn.
Edison holds electric light company's
stock of the value, at present, prices, of
$5,OOO,OOO. ....'.,
X. StOelberger, customs inspector, fell
into the hold of vessel at New Orleans,
Saturday, and was killed.
The business of lottery dealers in New
York has fallen off so per cent. since the
recent action of the Postmaster General.
Edison exhibited one of his electric
lights burning as clearly as ever, for
four hours, submerged in jar of water
The New York produce exchange post
p0nes the Genital system until state and
national legislation to enforce it can be
had.
Gov. Cornell was duly inaugurated
governor of New York on the 1st. Foster,
of Ohio, will be sworn i'm on the 18th
inst. ae f
General Bachelor sent from Egypt a
gold coin over 1000 years old, to be made
into a pen with which Gov. Cornell could
write his first message.
Louisiana estimates this years sugar
crop at about 175, 900 hOgsheads of finer
quality than usual, owing to the in
creased use of improved machinery.
Canada, with 100000 population, has
cabinet of 13 ministers, while the
United States, with population of 5O,-
100000 has but seven cabinet ministers.
The malleable iron works i'm Pittsburg
and vicinity are refusing orders, as they
are unable to fill them, and the orders
have to be sent to Cleveland and other
cities.
At Columbus, Ga, on Christmas day, a
box of ripe Strawberries, grown i'm the
open air, were among the pleasant
sights. The planter reported lot more
nearly ripe.
A gypsey camp was recently found be-
tween LOslan and Rybink, with all its
inmates, numbering eleven persons,
frozen to death in sitting posture
around an expiring fire. ~,
The Kansas Supreme Court has affirm
ed the titles of the settlers i'm the POtta-
wattOmie Indian title case of Kansas,
thus reversing the decision of District
Judge Moran of two years ago.
The coal miners of the Bellville Qll.)
district are on strike to the number of
LOO. They want four cents bushel,
and propose to work but eight hours a
day, SO that all may be employed.
Some tramp photographer got into the
meeting of general passenger and ticket
agents at Chicago and secured the pas
sage of resolution requiring that passes
issued to editors shall bear photograph
of the holder.
ALI attempts to raise the irOn-clad
GrOsser Kurfurst being fruitless, the
German admiralty is considering the
advisability of blowing up the vessel
with a view to recovering the material
in fragments.
A Mormon agent from Salt Lake CITY
is at the capitol negotiating for permis-
to establish Mormon settlement i'm
Mexico under the guarantee of religious
liberty. The agent expects to succeed
in his mission.
We seldom think much about the hay
crop, but the department of agriculture
estimates its value for 1879 at $685. 600.
600. The tobacco crop is worth only
$21 100000. The Oat crop is worth 1921, :
100000, and the potato crop $79,0OO.OOO
A writer in the Bismarck, Dakota, Tri-
bune argues that railroads and their
operations are among the greatest
sources of increased rain fall i'm cOun-
tries reported arid, and have already
changed the climate along the Northern
Pacific railroad.
The New York Graphic, speaking OF
the remarkable rise in Edison electric
| light shares, says that as high as $45OC
has been paid for one of the shares, and
inside holders will not sell at that price
preferring to take chances of their at.
tanning much higher value.
Last year one hundred and one men
were hanged in the United States fol
various crimes, an increase of five over
the previous year, and two were shot
one in Utah and one in Texas, where
the condemned are given their choice be-
tween the gallOws and the bullet.
The Methodist church i'm the United
States Oe the 1st of July, 1879, consisted
of 96 conferences, 1855 preachers l..
$685. 1897 lay members, 1921 church edi.
fees valued at $66, ,99O, $500 par
sOnages valued at $S,6O3, ,293). 1925
Sunday schools. 214,69S Sunday school
teachers and officers, and 1,543,3S6 Sun
day school scholars. Ha.Il
| A locomotive and four freight cars ot
a train on the Long Branch road fel
through 80 feet draw at Woodbridge
Tuesday morning. The wreck took fir
and IA cars of the train were burned
The engineer was slightly hurt. Tht
draw of the bridge had bOen left open
Loss, $4,000. The accident was caused
by the bridgeman mistaking the time
, and false signal lights.
! The suit of the st. Louis. Alton ant
Terre Haute railroad against S. j. Tilden
Charles Butler, Russell Sage and ROber
Bayard, former purchasing cOmmitte,
of the company has been discontinued
Russell Sage and the executors of Bay
ard each paid the sum in dispute som,
time ago, and negotiations with Tildel
and Butler were brought to successful
termination. Tilden is reported to hav
paid over 100000 in settlement.
i The extraordinary concentration O
E Russian military forces upon the west
r ern borders of the empire, it wOul
: appear from cable dispatches,
q awakening a general sense of uneasi
d ness throughout Europe. NOtwithstand
; ing the late pacific declarations of tn
!. Russian Cabinet it appears that nearl
n One-half the enormous army of the EN-
q pire is already cOverged toward EurOp,
q and reinfOrcements have been pourin,
: in for the past fortnight. The frOntie
d fortresses are being rapidly arme,
t Military railways are in course of con
r structiOn Supplies, munitions of wa
q and materials for Notifications on va.