Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-04-21
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, APRIL 81, 1883.
WIDE. WIDE WORLD,

"A SIoYe made III 1873 III YORK, "a, was
recently Sold ioi $1,000.
The prohibit e amendment has been
rejected by lie p,neclicut House.
great fire occurred at London Eng
land, on the 16 inst. Loss. $5C0.OJO.
MI. Galiiger recent editor of the
New York World died on the 10th inst
The thermometer marked So in the
shade at Quincy, ILL.,, Friday of last
week.
OF the 1O6 members of the Texas leg
islature only twelve are natives OF the
state.
1t is expected that the st. Lawerance
river flood will destroy property to the
amount of $750OOO.
A lady who was bitten by rat while
staying at an Atlanta. Ga, hotel, has
brought suit for $4,000.
About $50 miles of thread are made
each day in American mills. Thirty
years ago it was all imported.
A Detroit m an claims to have invent
ed a stOve-pipe that can be manipulated
without swearing. This is hard to be-
lieve.
A strike Of cOlOred washerwOmen in
South Carolina is said by Boston paper
to be a rising OF these women in their
Dinah-mite.
At wOOd-cutting contest in Mexican
county, Pa, two women won the prize
for crOss-cut saving, the contestants
working in pairs.
The London, Eng. Evening News re-
ports 1000 persons arrested at Moscow
on suspicion of being engaged in plot
ting against the life of the car.
The amount of paid notes of the Bank
of England reaches the enormous sum
of e9lOOOOOO. or $47O,OOOOUO If placed
in a pile it would be eight miles high.
The commission on the United States
and Spanish claims has concluded its
work. The claims preferred amounted
to $30.313.58l but only $l,292,541 were
allowed.
heavy gale at Anita and Adair, Iowa
Saturday night worked havoc with build
ings. fences and crops. At the former
place people sought shelter in cellers
and caves.
"Just for fun" scOundrel of Rich
mOnd, Va, gave boy pint of whisky
to drink. The boy died, and his murder
er has been sentenced to twelve years
imprisonment.
Peter Cooper's will was filed last week
1t bequeaths 100000 to Cooper Union.
and $4,000 for special purposes, and
gives the residue-abOut $1,8S0,CO0-tO
his son and daughter.
The Hon. Ben. ButterwOrth, of Ohio,
has been detailed by the Attorney Cen
eral to manage the prosecution OF the
South Carolina election cases, vice the
Hon. Richard Crowley, resigned.
well-to-dO farmer, living near Read
ing, Pa, created sensatirn by bringing
his three young and handsome daughters
into court as plaintiffs in three separate
actions for breach of promise of mar
riage.
During the first nine months of the
current fiscal year the internal revenue
receipts at Washington amounted to
$108,825, 79S, an increase of $2.55l 1893
over those for the corresponding period
last year.
Free-trade England owes national
debt Of $S,779,O00,00O. Per capita her
debt is $11.78. That of the United States
is $5.19. Free-traders would reverse the
figures before generation passes if they
had full power.
Five of the seventy-six United States
Senators are of foreign birth. These
are Fair, Sewell, and Jones of Florida,
who were born in Ireland; Jones, of Ne
vada, who halls from England, and Beck,
who first saw light in Scotland.
New York city has 1000 ragpickers,
whose collections are valued at $4,000
year, while the hand carts engaged in
the same business gather 100000
worth. The entire rag trade of the
country reaches about $30,OOO,OO0 an
nuallv.
Before one of the dinners given by the
British Minister last week the subject of
an international police for the capture
of anarchists was preached, when As
sstant Secretary of State DAVIS said it
was not probable that the United States
would be party to the scheme.
Last Monday the rolling and sheet
mills of the Reading, Pa, iron works
shut down indefinitely on account of the
hands were thrown out of employment.
Gently at prices that would have lost
them money.
Postmaster General Gresham has plac.
ed upon the fraud list the Industrial
Works" of New Philadelphia, o., and
"Union Trust Company" of st. Louis
These firms will hereafter be denied the
facilities of the United States mails as
far as money orders and registered pack.
ages are concerned.
The notifications in the postal money
system authorized by:COngress at its last
session are to go into effect about Sept
LIST. The new law provides for postal
uotao for ouma laaa that @S which ar1