Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-07-01
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1882.
WIDE WIDE WORLD.

Two Chioamen were Daturalized at
Philadelphia Tuesday.
The Republican majority in Oregon
this year is $3.50. about the largest ever
given.
The name of the Human, Emmett
county. postoffice Las been changed to
Alanson.
The wheat crop of Virginia is nearly
all harvested, aud proves to be the best
for many years.
There was parade of 5000 Masons at
Philadelphia Saturday in honor of the
founding of Masonry.
Standard silver dollars issued last
week 2O5, 500 against 222, 492 for the cor
responding week last year.
The bulk Of the wooden plates now in
use come from NewberD, N. G. where
they are turned out at the rate of $4,000
"a day.
Twelve million bushels of corn were
last year made into glucose in the Unit
ed States alone. Brewers were the larg-
est consumers.
Mrs Barnard, of the Curtis-Barnard
murder case notOriety, has sued for a di
vorce from her husband. She charges
him with cruelty.
The wedding OF Miss Maud Ledyard,
granddaughter of Gen. Cass, and F. R.
Newbold took place Thursday at the re-
sidence of the brides mother at New
port.
Ten persons were seated in a Mather
street house, Detroit, Saturday, when
they were Frustrated by lightning
stroke. Ooe of the number, Mrs. Zilaski
was killed.
The music of the reaper and the
thresher is beginning to be heard over
wide belt Of country. The harvest
yield is reported to be even better than
anticipated.
Wednesday, of last week, at Harrison
a baby aged Is months, son of Postmas-
ter Smith, tried to crawl through fence
and was soon afterward found by its
mother hanging by the neck dead.
Millions of dollars which would have
been put into new buildings this year in
Chicago have been turned into other
channels, owing to the uncertainties of
labor and material from strikes.
After the internal revenue bill is dis
posed of in the House the naval appro-
priation bill will be taken up. The ag-
gregate amount appropriated in the bill
is $685., 997, or over $5,OOO,OOO less than
the estimates.
John H. Shavey, deputy collector of in
ternal revenue and cashier in the Office
of the collector, in Hillsdale, committed
suicide Monday afternoon by shooting
himself in the head. He has been in ill.
health and respondent for some time.
1t is estimated that not less than 13(
persons have been killed by the recent
tornadoes in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa
Nebraska, Dakota and Minnesota ant
that the total amount of property de-
stroyed will exceed three and half mil
lions.
The society Of school principals of Till
nOis has arranged for lake excursion
earlyne monthlto Traverse City, north.
ern Michigan, where they will hold their
annual meeting. They will leave Chi
cago, July I, on the steamer City of Ira
verse.
A prehistoric mound has been opene,
near Montague recently. It is file,
with human bones, stone hatchets, pipes
etc. The mound was covered with tree
some Of which the Montague Lumber
man says were two feet and more in di
ameter.,
The graduates OF the state universit
who were awarded their sheep-skins thi
week number 234. OF these 80 were il
the literary department, 80 doctors o
allOpathic persuasion, Is homeopathic
AZ in the pharmacy department, ant
and there were six who took two de
grees.
A Kentuckan was sentenced in th
court at Frankfort to one year in tn
penitentiary for stealing 1S head of cal
tie. Then negro who had stolen So
worth OF copper received three year