Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-07-21
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. JULY 81. 1888.


Sing Sing Prison, New York, reports a |
profit last month OF $1,000.
Statistics show that the growth Of
timber In Kansas Is yearly increasing
beyond the consumption.
In certain districts of Java rice
famine is feared, disease having destroy
ed 100000 acres of the plant .iis&2
General Sheridan's mother, aged SO,
still lives in the house where he was
born, in Perry, Somerset county, U.
A Virginia girl named Bond weighs
nearly 400 pounds. She is destined
to make some young Virginian big
bOndhOlder.
Speaker Keifer to New York inter-
viewer: General Sherman, Old Tecum-
sch, will be our next President. You
can put that right down."
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe still re-
ceives an income from the sale of "Uncls
Toms Cabin" first published over 30
years ago. She is II and still engaged
in literary work.
George Ayres, an aged and wealthy
farmer of Salem Ohio known to have
been insane killed his grandson, fired
lle uOu6t dllu UdIL, SuOt ululStlI anu
persisted in the flames.
At Mount Pleasant, Iowa, lad of 3
years climbed on bed and obtained a
revolver hanging in a pouch, with
which he shot his infant sister in the
mouth, INJECTING fatal wounds.
Postmaster General Gresham confirms
the action of his predecessor, fOrbidding
the payment of all money orders and
the delivery of all registered letters to
M. A. Dauphin, lottery dealer, New Or
leans.
Brooklyn Heights girl, disguised as
maid servant. washed the sidewalk in
front of her fathers residence with a
hose for the sake of getting chance to
turn the water on dude who insisted
on making love to her.
The Princess Victoria, wife of the
eldest son of the crown prince of Ger
many, has a'yOung son. His birth took
place at Potsdam, but the little Pots
DANTE came too late to be in the direct
line of succession to the thrOne--he has
an elder brother.
The cholera is raging in SwatOg,
China, and mortality from the disease
increases in Egypt. The Khedive holds
a yacht in readiness to convey him to
Naples if the spread of the scourge COM
pels his departure. Provisions are
scarce at Damietta, and famine is
threatened.
"Turn the rascals outp' shrieks the
New York Sun. Why, they are out.
They were turned out over twenty years
ago, when they stole all the money in
the Treasury, rifled the arsenals, and at
tempted to split the Union, and they
have been out ever since. We supposed
the Sun knew that NorriSto,on Herald.
Six months ago Major WATSON was
one of the most popular and respected
officers in the army, cordially received
in aristOcratic society and always sur
rounded by friends. Saturday night he
slept on the floor of the baggage-rOom
of the Kansas City depot with his leg
chained to an iron post. Gambling did
it
The New York Herald publishes list
NOf fires, explosions, shipwrecks, cyclones
and other disasters which have occurred
during the first six months Of 1883. No
mention is made of any disaster in
which less than three lives were lost
and yet the aggregate of lives lost in
the disasters mentioned reaches 1896
This record is said to be unprecedented
Special Treasury Agent Howell, at
Plattsburg, N. Y. informs the depart
ment that numerous Irish pauper immi.
grants are entering the United States
from Canada, some being Estate aided,
and ticketed to the Western States
Many who were helpless and starving
were sheltered in the Erie county Aims
house. The Treasury officials say pauper
immigration, via Canada, cannot be pre-.
vented.
A French engineer in Brazil has lately
been selected to construct what will
probably be, when completed the largest
dam in the world. The main dam will
be $40 feet long by SO feet high, and two
smaller ones will close side depressions
This work will, it is calculated, back the
water over 1900 acres and retain H.,
100000 cubic meters of water, sufficient
to provide for all the cattle of the region
during three years and for the irrega
ton of 5000 acres of fiat bottom lan(
along the river bed below.
LONDON has 100000 families wht
patronize the pawn shop, giving little
articles from time to time, as pledges, Il