Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-04-15
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
WIDE, WIDE WORLD,


during last week, 1877. fa
Mansion House fund for relief of Rus
sian Jews now amounts to $330,0O0.
The nomination Of Senator Teller to
the SecretaryshipN Of the interior was
promptly confirmed by the Senate.
The decrease Of the national debt so
far during the fiscal year is $ll5,332,-
389. - NJ ".
A bill appropriating $4,000, for the
purchase of seed for the Mississippi sui
ferers by the overflow passed the House.
The Ford brothers, who killed Jesse
James, have been threatened with the
vendetta by the banditti of Missouri and
Tennessee.
The gold imports at New York for the
two weeks, ending Aprif1, were only
$4s.3l3against $6,l46,77S for the same
period last year.5 - I'D
tits estimated that in Great Britain
378I5l persons are engaged in under
ground work, conducted in galleries ex-
tending 58,744 miles. -. - ~ e. q
The House Committee on Education
and Labor has ordered bill drafted to
appropriate $lOOOoOOO for schools
throughout the,United States in proper
ton to the prevailing illiteracy.
During the quarter ending December
81 the postoffice department was self
sustaining, for the first quarter in II
years. 1t is thought there will be sur
plus of 100000 the present year.
The Harmony Mills, at COhoes, N. Y.
which sustain $1,000 people, have an
nounced reduction of 10 per cent in
wages. A strike is possible in conse-
quence.
An engine that crawls over the ground
and pulls an express train "a miles an
hour, which is expected to make GO miles
directly, is the boast of New Jersey
railroad
There are symptoms of strikes
throughout the entire country, and many
students of the labor problem fear anOth-
er general movement among working
men such as we had in 1877.
A Cincinnati body embalming firm Of
ers Mrs. Samuels $4,000 for the body Of
her son, the outlaw Jesse James, with a
share in the proceeds of the exhibition
which they estimate at 100000.
The steamship Assyrian Monarch has
arrived ut Nav York with the elephant
Jumbo in cool condition. Among her
carg, WIS al half Il ton of English
farthiags, Consigned 70 Chicago PARTIES
A Mckinney, Texa', NAN, who owns
one of the only four half dollars coined
by the rebels when they had stolen the
mint at New Orleans in 1861, has refused
$l.lOo for the coin, holding it at $4,000
Silver dollars to the extent of $7O0,0O(
were turned into the treasury from cir.
culatiOn during tine month of March
And yet the silverites insist the people
are weeping for more dollars of the
dads'' "A tt N.Y. e At
Two trains brought into Chicago on
Thursday, of last week, 1888 immigrants
boundfor Dakota and the northwest. AL
the western roads are running extras t.
accommodate the unusually large pas
senger traffic.
Governor St. John, Of Kansas, says
there were sent to the penitentiary from
that state, under the license system, 20
persons during the first eight months o.
1880, against 100 during the same length
of time in 1881 under the prohibition
laws.
Georgia farmers are trying to demon
strate this year that whatever amoun
of cotton they may or may not raise
they ought to raise enough corn ant
wheat enough for their own use at least
That looks like the beginning Of a revo
luton in agricultural industry in tn,
South. T@ ~
The Memphis &c New Orleans railwa,
company contemplate building an EN-
bankment five feet above high waite
mark on the east side of the Mississippi
from Memphis to- yicksburg, which viii
serve for road bed and levee, and ask
the government to guarantee the inter
est on bonds issued for the purpose.
The Dominion government is consider
ing a project for exploring Hudson
straits and bay, to ascertain whether tn
state Of ice and open water in them will
permit of reasonable exit for produc