Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-02-12
CONDENSED NEWS.

Five persons were drowned at Fall
River, Mass, by breaking through the
ice.
Four thousand weavers are on strike
In Hyde, England, and ii 900 looms are
idle.
Cleveland iron manufacturers have
petltlOned Gen. Garfield for the appoint
ment of a secretary of the treasury who
will favor protection to American indus
tries. i-T 1se a
Last year 7,150 miles of new railway
were constructed, which is nearly dOu-
bic the number constructed i'm 1873 and
three and half times the number con-
structed in 1874.
The Chicago Railway Age says the
gross earnings of the Detroit & Bay
City railroad have increased nearly 100
per cent. In two years, and the net earn
ings over $50 per cent.
Over four and half million pounds of
railroad fastening, valued at about $140,-
600. have been sold in st. Louis. The
supplies are to be used on railroads now
being constructed west of the Mississippi
river.
| The match manufacturers of the
country are said to be forming an as
sOciatiOn under Connecticut law, with
paid-up capital of $2,250,OOO, to buy up
all the match factories and run them on
common basis. e
The whirlgig of time brings round its
changes. When the Twenty-third Ohio
volunteers went out to the war w. S.
ROsecrans was colonel, Stanley Matthews
lieutenant colonel, Rutherford B. Hayes
major of the regiment.
. The New York. Chicago and st. Louis
railroad company, with $16,000,O00 CAPT.
tai, to build line from Cleveland to
Chicago, and to extend line from Fort
| Wayne junction to st. Louis, is annOunc-
ed as organized in New York city.
Jay Gould states at length his views
of the results which will be reached by
the consolidation of the telegraph COM
panies of the country. He predicts
cheaper rates and a general extension of
the telegraph system till it embraces all
the civilized globe, with headquarters at
New York.
Bay county is without county, sur
veyOr and will remain so. The county
clerk and prosecuting attorney, with
whom lies the power to appoint a sur
veyOr i'm case the one elected does not
qualify, think the Office uncOnstitutiOn-
al. Their opinion is confirmed by some
of the best attorneys in the state.
A special from Denver, Colorado, says
that the Hon. Rodney FOOs, once clerk of
the Ohio supreme court. and executive
secretary of GOV. Hayes, was arrested
there on a charge of grand larceny.
He pleaded guilty on the hearing, and
was committed in default of $500 bail.
He stole books from the Methodist uni
yersity libraryt0 buy food.
The Bureau of engraving and printing
at Washington is busily engaged in
printing legal tenders of the denomina-
tiOns of 81 and 50. 1t is believed that
the secretary means, by laying in this
stock of small notes, to relieve his sue
cessor next summer of the annual an
noyance incident to the regular July
and August demand for 81 and 81 notes
for the purpose of paying western har-
vest hands.
Advices from Washington are to the
effect that the scene in Washington on
Inauguration day will be one of supe-
rior beauty and magniicence. An i'm
mence amount of money will be eXpend-
ed i'm preparing all the grand decOra-
tiOns. The streets will be superbly deco
rated for the auspicious occasion. Nu-
merous arches will be erect d in cOnspicu-
GUS portions of the city. Private and
public buildings alike will be prOfusely
decorated. -.f.. st... .l,f -1 rat