Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-05-26

lngersOll thinks the star route cases
Will reach the jury the first week in
June.
Up to May tobacco has paid in tax
10 the government, in round numbers,
$685., 100000.
s. W. Talmage, of Milwaukee, esti-
mates the yield of wheat for 1888 at AGO.
100000 bushels.
The 100000 parliament voted for pro-
noting emigration from the distressed
districts Of Ireland is expended.
Ex-President Hays has a farm near
Bismark, Dakota, on which he has 400
acres i'm oats and 200 in wheat.
The Mobile Register casually remarks
that the first duty and the first principle
of the Democratic party is to get Office.
A snow storm of five minutes duration
passed over Milwaukee Sunday after
noon. The thermometer ranged very
low all day.
The production of rolled iron in Penn
sylvania in 1882 decreased 130,98O tons
while in Ohio an increase of 1881 tons
is reported. IA E.. kt'lE NH
A disastrous forest fire started in the
vicinity of GrOtOn, VT, Sunday, burning
over an immense tract and causing a
loss of $4,000.
Near Edwardsville, ILL.,, a we'll contain
ing twenty feet of water was sucked
perfectly dry. Four persons were killed
at Edwardsville. rs W. b.5kNlLJ
1t is claimed that $3O,OOO,OOO was in
vested last year by English and Scotch
capitalists in the stock business in
Wyoming and Texas.
The silk industry is on the decline in
England, and on the rise in the United
States. So much for British free trade
and American protection.
The showing of the free canals in New
York is claarances of 2l6,109 tons the
first week, against l47,104 tons for the
corresponding week in 1882.
A mammoth apartment house to cost
$3.50, 1000. have Is fats and to be 1872 feet
high is soon to be built in New York. 1t
will accommodate 38 families.
Prayers were said in Catholic churches
at Toronto Sunday for the repOse of the
souls of Brady and Curly, the Phoenix
park assassins hanged last week.
The venerable Bishop Peck of the
Methodist church died last week. He
was faithful servant of the Master and
his life had been one of usefulness.
Proctor Knott was not cleft" The
Kentucky Democratic State Convention
put him in. nomination for Governor,
aad his election is fOregone con-
clusiOn.
The land commissioner of the Kansas
Pacific railroad reports that the sales
of land in Kansas so far this year al
ready exceeds the amount sold last year,
which was 10000 acres.
At Stanton ILL.,, Friday night of last
week the storm struck the camp of
party of railroad graders, instantly kill
ing two persons, fatally injuring three,
and badly iujuring ten others.
A San Francisco firm paid the other
day sos, 400 as duty upon one invoice
of opium. The large invoice was due to
the fact that in July the duty will be
increased from Sc to $40 pound.
Saloons all over Ohio are reported as
closing, owing to the enforcement of the
Scott liquor law recently enacted in that
state. Over 100 saloons in the city of
Dayton alone are said to have closed.
The Brooklyn bridge was lighted by
electricity Saturday night, and present.
ed brilliant appearance. 1t was
genuine surprise, no announcement that |
it would be lighted having been made.
The roof in one of the rooms in the
ROch coal mine, five miles from Belle |
Vile, ILL.,, fell Monday afternoon killing |
1ne man named S. G. Bert and perhaps |
fatally wOunding another named Frank. |
The Firemen's Journal states that the
losses from fires inApril aggregated &c.
100000; the smallest for that month for |
i've years past. The average for April |
Turing that period has been nearly ST. |
10000.
Toledo, o., at noon Monday and at 3
inches on the ground. As far south
md disagreeable.
The President, Monday afternoon, ap-
pointed Walter Evans, of Louisville, KY,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in
lace of Green B. Raum, resigned. Evans
vas the Republican candidate for Gov
'rn0r of Kentucky in 1879.
Jere Dunn, the murderer of the prize
lighter Elliot, was acquitted by the jury4
asst Saturday evening. The jury de-
liberated four hours. insufficient evil
ence and self defence was what in
luenced the jury to acquit.
An extraordinary ease of disputed
Maternity is reported from Omaha. Two
yOmen, each claiming to be the widow
f the same man, have gone to law to
etermine which of them is the mother
his two girls, aged 10 and IL years.
An Oil City man, who lost a leg in the
rmy, settled the pension agent by say
lg he never intended to apply for pen
OD, as he had been more than remun-
rated for his loss by his wife elOplng
18th another man while he was in the