Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-08-25
THE UNITED STATES.

week. 424,4 400.
The new postal notes will be ready
for circulation Sept. 3.
Serious damage to the cotton crop
from drought reported in South Caro-
lima.
BallOu & Co., the New York bankers
and brokers, have failed for half mil
lion.
California wheat crop this year, 3d.
100000 bushels, an increase Of 14,000,-
600 bushels over last year.
Contract signed with Cyrus FristOe
for building an $86,355 government
hospital at Hot Springs, Ark.
The Western Union denies that it has
any disposition to punish the strikers
by refusing them work.
In Virginia they are making -four of
peanuts, and II is praised. 1t is Gust nm
airy in Georgia to pound the nuts for
pastry.
Amalgamated iron and steel workers,
in convention at Philadelphia, declared
against any further disturbance OF the
wages question.
Mrs. Charles A. Knalback, Of Tren
ton N. j., throws her husband into the
canal and jumps in after MIN. She
browns, but he is rescued.
A st. Paul dispatch states that the
Canadian Pacific railway directors con-
template building a branch line from
point on Lake Michigan to Kansas
City.
| The strike at the Bethlehem iron
works, Bethlehem, Pa. has ended by the
disarmament of the branch of the ANAL
gamated association, to which the men
belonged.
Hanlan was fourth at the finish in the
professional scull race at Fall River,
Mass, Monday afternoon. The darkness
and the swapping of the rowers' boats
were marked features of the race.
One private has died, and three others
are sick Of yellow fever at the PensacO-
la navy yard. The yard is eeven miles
from the city, and the disease has not
yet made its appearance at the latter.
A site for the monument authorized
by act of Congress to be erected at the
birthplace Of General Washington has
been selected, and is 300 yards from the
house in which Washington was born.
st. Louis salOOnists are defiant, and
more saloons were kept open last Sun
day than on any day since the Sunday
war began. Gov. Chittenden declares
that the law shall be enforced.
The largest grain fleet that ever sailed
out of Chicago in single day, left that
city on Saturday last, % craft in all, be-
sides which were a number OF others
that waited until daylight Sunday
morning.
The United States circuit court at
Boston holds that persons who belong
4 10 the Chinese race, but who reside
elsewhere than in China, are free to
come into the United States, the same as
other foreigners.
Pittsburg has about paid up the last OF
the claims against the city for damages
by the great railroad riot of. 1877. The
claims amounted to over 100000, but
were compromised on the basis OF u
cents on the dollar.
Mrs. L. N. Parish, Of Chicago, who has
made 20 trips across the Atlantic to pur
chase dresses from the nobility, and hal
, eyaded paving duty on them on TIT
ground that they were old wearing ap
parel, has been arrested by the customs
| offlcials on charge Of perjury.
Paddy Ryan is actively training a
Chicago for his coming glove contes
with Sullivan. The latter Is to spa
, Ryan on the same terms as his recen
, match with Slade in New York city. ]
Ryan stands up the four rounds he. /
to get all the gate receipts, otherwise
: only 35 per cent.
II A prominent treasury official sal
that connection Of his inserted an I'D
vertisement in one Of the WashingtO
papers, Offering to tell Of sure metho
!. OF getting place, In one OF the depart
ments on receipt Of a three cent stamI
He had 700 answers in three days, ant
becoming frightened, returned . tn
stamps to save trouble. - 7o'