Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-05-12
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Seyen deaths from yellow fever occur
red at Havana last week.
Buildings Mt Helena, Montana, rocked
by earthquake Friday, of last week.
The executive committee of the Irish
national league denOunce the dynamit-
erS.
Exchange of 80 per cent bonds into 3
per cents, suspended in April, has been
resumed.
In Russia they still discover places
where explosives are made, and arrests
continue.
An elevated railway company has been
organized in Chicago with capital of
$5,O0O,000.
Rev. Josiah Henderson, Mrs Stoves
"Uncle TOm," died Saturday at Dresden,
Ont, aged "a.
A Montreal paper paid $400 and costs
for the privilege of calling candidate
for Office Free Mason.
Seven Cincinnati shoe factories have
locked out their employees, who are men,
bers of the knights of labor.
The story of the fortune of 100000
left by John Brown when he first died,
has dwindled to about $4,000.
The New York legislature adjourned
without confirming large numb er of
Gov. Cleyeland's nominations.
Six hundred laborers on the Manitoba
railway, between Minneapolis and Lake
MiunstOnka, have struck for $1.75.
The Vanderbilt party made the fast
est time on record last week, PIP miles
in 206 minutes, on the Canada Southern.
The Campbell bill practically repeating
the obnoxious New York Sunday "blue
laws" has been signed by Gov. Cleveland.
Kanas wheat crop will be only three
quarter average, and the places lwhere
it is winter killed will be given up to
corn.
The Parliament still refuses Bradlaugh
the privilege of taking the oath. There
has been a good deal Of swearing about
the matter.
The Mobile Register says that half a
dozen iron furnaces produce more prof
it and clear money for the people of
Alabama than the entire cotton crop of
the season.
The first locomotive has reached HALEY,
in the Wood river region of Idaho. The
Rio Grande road will be completed to
Ogden this week.
At San BernardinO, Cal, some artesian
well-bOrers found large sycamore tree
standing as in life it stood, 2S5 feet be-
low the surface.
Oscar +. Due of Salt Lake City whipped
his 18th wife and she retaliated by hav
ing him arrested for pOlygamy, the court,
putting him under $4,000 bonds.
The number of persons killed by tor
nadOes in this country in 1881 was 1877;
in 1882, 1863, and up to the present date
this year the number is estimated at $50.
The Alaska arrived at New York Sun
day,Cmaking the run from Queenstown
in days % hours AZ minutes. Moody
and Sankey were among her passengers.
Connecticut has allowed her tramp law
to become imperative, and as result,
the state is again numerOusly afflicted
with these public nuisances and dangers.
The Lighthouse Board have received
from the Bull Iron works. Of Detroit, a
project for the foundation and cOnstru-
ction of lighthouse at the mouth of the
Detroit River.
Counsel for the trustees of Brook
Ign bridge and the corporation counsel
of New York and Brooklyn agree that the
great bridge cannot be made free for
any kind of travel.
A Bermuda correspondent says that
the 5000 cOlOred people on those islands |
will own and rule them in 100 years. |
Their children are better educated and |
more capable than the white children.
Delaware has increased the salary of |
her governor to the sum of $500 year. |
At the same price per square mile for |
governing, the executive of Texas would |
have an annual salary Of about $500
1t has been decided that the readjust-
ment of the salaries of postmasters of |
the fourth class under the new law |
should date from March instead Of Oc-
t0ber 1. This will necessitate an increase
of from eight to forty per cent in the
salaries of about $4,000 postmasters, and
will cause large deficiency in appr0pri-
alton for the current fiscal year. ]