Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-03-10

Maine senate votes, 10 10 y, U
the death penalty for murder.
Secretary FOlger has ordered
word "cents" be stamped on
nickel scent pieces.
Michigan oats weigh 40 pOun,
bushel and grow 100 bushels to.
when grown in Dakota.
Ida A. HOsmer and Robert H.
dwarfs. 3 feet 6 inches Ia
married on the Brooklyn museum
Wednesday.
MuskegOn lumbermen decide t.
the mills May Is, and agree that.
necessary to reduce the lumber
Is or 20 per cent below that of last
The shutting down of mines il
neighborh0od of Ispeming throws
men out Of employment, and creal
good deal of disturbance of mind an
merchants. ...
The Huron House, the oldest hOte
Harrisville burned a week ago last nj
the occupants barely escaping with IL
lives. The fire Is supposed to have or,
mated I'm the kitchen.
The Jackson salt we'll is now dow
$3.50 feet, the brine has strength G
80 per cent, which is as strong ss othel
wells in the state, the yield is good, and
the stockholders are pleased.
The state salt inspector inspected dur
ing February 99,915 barrels of salt: Sag
inaw county, 59,104 barrels; Bay county,
35,2l1 barrels; Huron county, 5000 bar
rels; IOscO county, 3,40O barrels.
Forty men working on the HOughton
& L'Anse road at $3.50 a day, and who
| were charged $1,000 month for board,
were discharged last week because they
struck for higher wages or lower board.
A Van Buren county couple is said to
have gone to Chicago and obtained a di-
vOrce, and then proceeded to Dakota,
where each entered land under the
homestead act. They then returned and
were remarked.
Burglars went Though the pOstOffice
at Evart last Saturday night. They blew
off the safe door, but the burglar proof
box inside was too much for them. They
secured four dollars in money, and $21
in stamps. Two men were arrested on
suspicion. They hailed from the third
city in the state. ...t.
Hon. Franklin Wells, of Constantine,
was elected President of the State Board
of Agriculture, at its meeting last week.
| As president of the board he succeeds
Hon. H. G. Wells, of Kalamazoo, who
has been president from its organization
to the present time, and is now presiding
Judge of the Alabama court of claims.
The people of HoughtOn county are
quite stirred up over the introduction
| in the legislature of a bill detaching
portion of the cOunty's territory and
adding it to Baraga county. All the
mining companies and taxpayers in the
county have signed remonstrance,
which has been forwarded to Lansing.
A Romeo maiden became SO interested
at recent church wedding in that
place that Just as the clergyman had
| finished mis- list of questions to the bride.
she uncOnsciously took up the responses
and answered II will" in place of the
bride. This unexpected event paralyzed
the minister and caused painful
silence In the audience.
The province Of Quebec Wednesday had
preliminary blast of Wiggins's storm
| in the shape of heavy fall of snow. At
Montreal It was five feet deep, while at
and around Quebec it was the worst Of
the season. Virgins was delayed on his
way to Halifax, all railroad travel being
blocked. He says 1t is merely an arm OF
his prOphesied great tempest.
The new law reducing revenue taxes
declares stakes on capital and depOsites
of banks, brokers and national banking
associations, except such taxes as are
now due and payable, are hereby repeal
ed" Secretary Folger cOnstrues this to
mean that all such taxes are abolished
not only from the passage Of the bill,
but from Januaay 1, when they were
last payable. The question has been re-
ferred to the Attorney General, who is
expected to sustain the ruling Of the
secretary.
For sale.