Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-01-17
CONDENSED NEWS.

1t is predicted that 1880 will be the
greatest railroad year this country has
ever known.
The Utes arrived at Washington Sun
day morning and were taken to the Tre-
mont House.
The steamship City of New York, which
arrived Saturday morning, brought 81,
$4,000 in gold bars.
A stock company for the manufacture
of sugar from corn is to be established
at Leavenw0rth, KS.
A company of fGerman-Americans start
from New York to-day to introduce the
telephone exchange system in Germany.
A great snow storm is reported from
the Sierra Nevadas. and several trains
on the Central Pacific road were showed
i'm. rl
United States Senator L. @. C. Lamar,
OF Mississippi, was stricken with para,y-
sis Sunday night. His physician says his
case is hopeful.
The ST. Joseph county registers of
deeds recorded a mortgage last week,
which was dated and acknowledged i'm
1909, and has yet POP years to run.
A bill has been introduced i'm the New
York legislature for the election of pres
idential electors by congressional dis
tricts and two electors at large,
Col. John F. Phillips, Democrat. has
been chosen by the seventh Missouri con-
gressiOnal district to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of A. III. Lay.
T. A. TrOyam, a United States prisoner
sent to the Detroit house of correction
from Fort Smith, Ark, for perjury, has
been pardOned by President Hayes.
German papers say that Germany,
England and the United State have joint
ly guaranteed order at Samoa, recOgniZ-
ing and supporting King MalistOa.
A general reunion of the survivors of
Admiral Farragut's squadron is proposed
at Philadelphia, to celebrate the passing
of the forts by Farragut in April 1862.
In the last four years about One-fifth
of the entire railway mileage and capi-
tai of the United States has been COM
PEELED to change ownership by forced
sale.
A gentleman i'm Hooker, Nebraska, dug
a well four years ago to the depth of 10O
feet. When first dug the water of the
well was warm; it has since been grow
ing hotter, and it now bOils.
The house committee on public build
ingf have agreed to report i'm favor of a
$750,OOO building at Pittsburg, Pa, $780,
coo to be appropriated to begin it; also
$15O,OOO for building at Cleveland.
The American consul at Dublin reports
that during the last 20 years Irishmen
in America have remitted 100000 tC
Ireland for the purpose of aiding rela'
tives in poverty or desirOus of emigrat'
ing.
Krupp's gun factory at Essen, Ger
many, is pressed with orders. Several
hundred additional wOrkmen are en-
plOyed, and prices have advanced so to
60 per cent. over those of three months
ago.
The Vienna Presse is of the opinion
that collision between Russia and Eng.
land is inevitable. The Presse says that
Gen. SkObelOff recently declared at a
banquet that Russia is on the eve of a
national war.
This week Chicago relieved her eleva-
tors by putting over 100000 bushels of
grain, mostly corn, aflOat i'm the harbOr
for shipment to Buffalo i'm the spring
and the elevators now have plenty OF
room for all grain likely to come there,
Gen. Adams says that had he known
of the nameleSs indignities suffered by
the White River agency women while
captives, before the commission met, he
would have advised that Gen. Merritt be
permitted to punish the red devils with
out parley.
The Utah territorial legislature met
last Monday. Lorenzo Snow was elected
president of the council and OrsOn
Pratt speaker of the house, All but six
members are pOlygamists. No message
was received from Gov. Emery, he being
at Washington.
A cold wave: First snow of the season
at Richmond. Va, and fall of 36 degrees
in the thermometer between sunrise and
sunset Tuesday.-Eight inches of snow
at New York, and traffic much delayed
Foot of snow i'm Maine.-Seyere storm
along Long Island sound.
Capt. Eads thinks he ought to have
per cent. interest on the 100000 with
held from payment to him until the
Mississippi jetty work is completed. He
| is to have half the sum if the required
depth is maintained 10 years, and tht
remainder if maintained 20 years. Tht
attOrney-general will consider the mat
| ter.
The engine bell wire of the Steam
ship Lancaster broke Monday, as the
ship was approaching the Congress
street railroad bridge at Boston, and tht
engineer not receiving the signal to re
verse, the vessel ran into the bridge
damaging it considerably. passenger
train approaching was only brought t.
stop 10 feet from destruction.
1.-THE population of our globe, is esti
mated at about 1,3OO,OO0,OOO, is ruled by
II emperOrs, % kings, AZ princes, II sui
tans, IL khans, 6 grand dukes, 6 dukes,
vice king, 1 nisum, radia, imam,
bey and 2S presidents, besides larg,
number of chiefs of wild tribes. OF tn,
republics, 19 are found on American soil
| leaving only 9 for the rest of the world.
Railroad construction i'm Europe i
progressing with almost as much energ,
as in the United States. At present s.
companies are building railways, at ;
cost of $55, 100000. In France plan i
under consideration for the cODstruc
tiOn of 10,625 miles of new railways, a
a cost of $750,OO0,OO0, the work to Occup,
six years. Russia, Austria and Italy ar
also projecting and building new lines
The cause of the delay in finding th
fated train at the bottom of the Tay wa
the excessive muddiness of the water
The divers could not see an inch befOr
them. The water is twenty feet dee
where the train sank. Fox, the diver
walked along the bottom until he cam,
plump up against some object of iron
He at first thought it was part of tn
bridge, but when he felt over it with hi