Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-12-11
CONDENSED NEWS.

/ 1t is thought the New York Obelisk will
be ready to be unveiled on Washington g
birthday. .,.s
In the scnlling match on the Thames,
Ross defeated TTickett, coming in five
lengths ahead. ifi .I7ni g 81 :
A Pole who can neither read, write OF
speak English has been elected to the
Illinois Legislature. Fmas v-f7I-.
O'Leary and Weston have agreed upon
another walk for $500. The match is
to be of the gO-as-yOu-please order of 144
consecutive hours. p3sa = siili =
The subscriptions to the stock of the
De Lesseps Panama Canal company are
| reported from New York to amount to
$3,600,0OO in this country. 49,.
All the members of the Georgia Legis-
lature, irrespective of party, have signed
Alex. H. Stephens in his cabinet. 7in
Eighteen ocean steamers are overdue
at New York, belonging to every line ex-
cept the White Star. Those that have
arrived report encOuntering terrific
storms. " 1 iHft3f Ti'a1 9tJ 9
| The French government wants to sell
the crown jewels, as having no historical
| value, and use the proceeds. about 81
100000 francs, in improving the national
museums. ,r lr....
Richard Smith telegraphs from Wash
lngtOn to his newspaper, the Cincinnati
Gazette, that there is strong talk there
of making General Grant Secretary of
State under Garfield. .rt t.i,r
Thursday of last week Mrs. Belya A.
Lockwood argued a case in the supreme
court of the United States-the first case
IN which a woman has appeared as coun-
sci before that tribunal. 81 ai glda o4
| A couple of trains on the Northwest
ern road telescOped, Saturday at COrney
Station, 3S miles from Chicago. and two
cars burned. Many passengers bakly
hurt, but none fatally. 3T 4al tG4m.
DR.. Talmage's Tabernacle is reported
in desperate financial straits. Four
months arrears of salary are due him,
$1,000 notes are falling due, and there is
but $50 in the treasury. .ii-fg
There are 100000 bushels of grain
frozen in the Erie canal. AS the water
must be drawn off for repairs, there is
no possibility of its reaching tide water,
even if there is January thaw."
The annual report of the commission
er of agriculture gives the total value of
agricultural exports, including bread
stuffs, cotton, wool, etc., at $746.967, ,952
against 1904, 156,492 the previous year.
Tne POnca Indians win their suit in
court at Omaha against the other Indians
who tried to squat on their reservation
First case on record where one Indian
tribe has sued another in the United
States courts. i..,
| During the panic of 1873 the city of s
Louis, Mo-, issued scrip in small denOm
nations as circulating medium. OF
100000 issued not dollar was lost Ol
destroyed, the last $12 being sent in fol
redemption few days ago. .~,,
| A little son of NJ. d. Dawson, proprie
tor of the London (Ont.) Herald, chOked
to death on the street, while returning
from Sunday school on Sunday last. He
had button in his mouth. and it gol
into his throat with fatal result.
F. Dawson, editor of the Charleston
s. c., News and Courier, assaulted Assist
ant United States district Attorney Mar
shall in a street car because the latter re-
fused to bow to him, and got beauti
fully thrashed for his audacity.
keenan,, of OkOlOna states nOtOriety
has started fiery secesh sheet at Mem
phiS called solid south. In his saluta
tory he prays God ''the day be not fal
distant when the Union will become 6
thing for worms to feed upOn."
General Howard has arrived at Wash
ingtOn from the Pacific coast, and it il
, reported will very shortly succeed Gen
eral SchOfield as cOmmandant at Wes
| Point Military Academy. Howard wa!
one of the professors there before tht
war.
The Recommendation abolition of tn,
match-stamp tax and the tax OF
bank deposits made by Commissions
Raum will be opposed in Congress.
on the ground that the popular
verdict in November was in favor of M
change, including no reduction of th'
, revenues. m af,t. ed
The Vermont Legislature Monday pass
ed the most stringent liquor laws evel
enacted in this country. 1t makes every
place where liquor is sold or given ava,
a nuisance to be abated as such. Th'
keeper is made liable, besides. to fDt
of $40 to 5000 and three months i'm
prisOnmeut.
!, Presidential nominations sent to tn,
Senate Monday: Vim. Lawrence, of Ohio
to be first comptroller of the treasury
John f. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, col
lectOr of customs at Philadelphia; Mat
thew r. Barr, of Pennsylvania, collector
of customs for the district of Erie; JOhI
W. Morton, of California, surveyor O
customs at San Francisco; Andrew
Dumont, of Louisiana, naval officer fO
the district of New Orleans; TheOphilu
Gamer, of Fayetteville, Wis.,. pension
agent at Washington. iiq 8s .gaa