Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-06-02
THE WIS.

Pope LeO's income is given at $l,SOO,-
600 year.
There were % deaths at Havana last
week from yellow fever.
Rhode Islands new governor, Mr..
BOurn, was inaugurated Tuesday.
Chicago is already figuring to secure
the next National Republican cOnyen-
ton.
Official information of a treaty of
peace between Chilli and Peru received
by the State department.
There is cOlOred church in New York
city whose leading members have prop
erty valued at $4,000,O00.
The police of Buffalo. N. Y. have been
ordered to suppress all manner of gam
bling, pool selling included.
Receipts of the patent office for the
current year will reach $l,200000, or
100000 more than last year.
Montreal, Can, is stirred up because
some of its citizens advocate indepen-
dence from the mother country.
Only % per cent Of the white popula-
ton of Kentucky can read and write.
Kentucky is reliably Democratic.
The Chicago Tribune says "there is
not town in the new northwest that
hasn't an over supply of lawyers
The Pope is said to be satisfied with
the reception of his Irish circular. He
says he expected more opposition than
has developed.
The British training ship Mars was
destroyed by an incendiary fire Saturday,
and the 400 boys on board barely escaped
with their lives.
C1The.t German Emperor has issued a
decree assigning NOy 10 and II next as
the days for celebrating the 400th ami
versary of the birth of Luther.
Canada has a salary grab in pros
pect, the members Of parliament pro-
posing to vote themselves salaries of ST..
500 each. instead of $1,000, as now.
At Guacanope, in the Sierra Madres
General Crooks forces defeated the hos
tiles i'm an engagement, in which thirty
Indians were killed. They fed, and Crook
started in pursuit.
During heavy windstOrm at BelOit,
Wis, Friday of last week, huge hail
stones demolished many windows, and
live fish fell in a business street, one of
which weighed pound.
The $4,000 men idle for two weeks
past by the shOemakers' lockout at Gin
cinnati resume work, having arranged
with their employers to settle the differ
ences between them by arbitration.
At meeting i'm Cork Friday of last
week. the Mayor presiding, e250 was
subscribed for the Parnell fund, and
Philadelphia Convention was thanked
for the support Of the national leader.
Nathan M. Mason, the man who threw
the rope that hauled Commodore Perry
on board the Niagara after leaving the
Lawrence in the battle of Lake Erie,
died at CrochetOn, n. Y, last week, aged
SO.
For fifty years mass has been said for
the first Napoleon on the anniversary Of
his death, but Gen. Thibaudin, the
present French minister of war, has for
hidden any service in cOmmemOratiOn
of the founder of the Napoleonic dynasty.
John Bright, has for many years been
trying to get bill through the British
parliament to allow man to marry his
deceased wife's sister, but has not sue
ceeded, but Notwithstanding his failure,
it is said he is about to practice what he
has advocated so long and earnestly.
The DETECTION of the cables of the
Brooklyn bridge under the grand pro-
cessiOn was six inches. The engineers
say that the span can drop four feet be-
fore the limit of the elasticity of the Ca
bles is reached. and that il would be i'm
possible to find space enough on 1t to
place weight sufficient to break it.
The great bridge connecting New York
city and Brooklyn was formally opened
| Thursday of last week. On the following
day it is estimated $4,000 foot passen-
gers crossed over, paying one cent each.
The total receipts for the day was about
$500. Should this prove fair average
it would amount to about $13,0O0,00O per
year, paying per cent interest on the
investment, $15.000,O00, and leave $780,
600 surplus.
Minneapolis, MIMI, is reported to ship
annually, beyond her local consumption,
1,650,870 barrels of flour. "These," says
the Tribune's statistician, eff piled one
above the other, end to end, would reach
$50 miles. The -four would make about
495, $4,000 loaves of bread, the ordinary
size of bakers loaves. These piled in a
pyramid would make, roughly calcu-
lated, a square pyramid with base 300
feet square, and with height of nearly
1000 feet.