Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-08-04
THE NEW y.

The Ohio wheat crop this year Is eSti-
mated at 23,873.OO0 bushels, or SO per
cent OF last years crop.
Two hundred and seventy assisted i'm
igrants arrived at Castle Garden Sunday
direct from Tralee, Ireland.
The Massachusetts, legislature ad-
jOurned sine die after session of 206
days-the longest on record.
Lightning extinguished all electric
lights in Washington Saturday night,
and badly damaged the machinery at
she works.
OF all who composed the United States
Senate In 1881, 1t Is said Senators An
th0ny and Sherman alone remain In pO-
litical life.
Portions OF Connecticut were visited by
q terrific thunderstorm Saturday night
Many barns were struck and several per-
sons killed. 49,.
The saloOnkeepers' relief association of
st. Louie voted to expel any member
who does not defy the law by keeping
open Sunday. i1
Terry, an Englishman who started
across the English channel Saturday on
floating tricycle., reached Calais safely
In eight hoart.
The cholera is still raging in Egypt.
1922 dying In Cairo, and $50 at other
points Saturday.
Judge Orkey, Of the Ohio Supreme
Court. holds that the Scott liquor law is
unconstitutional. The other four judges
sustained the law.
The expenses of Democratic Kentucky
are climbing up at fearful pace. on
q gold basis they were three times great
or In 1881 than in 1866.
The Oldest church edifice i'm America
Is that of San Miguel at Santa Fe, N. M.
1t was built in 1880, and has been used
as church ever since.
Gen. Hazen, chief of the signal service
10 on a tour of inspection to- the west,
leaving Capt. 8. M. Mills as his temper
successor In Washington.
the disputed boundary question at the
Lake Of the Woods is eliminating in a
war between the Province of Ontario
and Manitoba, If not already begun.
Fort Wayne Ind, Proposes to tax
every key of Milwaukee or Cincinnati
beer brought into that city % cents, and
thereby raise yearly revenue OF $lS
900.
A proposition is mOOted among the
members of the brotherhood to establish
a new telegraph company to be called
the Merchants and Telegraphists' asso-
citation"
The Great Eastern steamship, which
has been costly elephant on the hands
of her owners, is to be used in carrying
coal from the Forth to the Thames in
England. She will carry 10000 tons at
q trip.
The first Sunday of the enforcement
of the Downing law in st, Louis did not
operate satisfactorily. Some 900 saloon
keepers were reported, as also were all
the newspapers, styeet-car officials,
cigar stands, newsboys, etc.
Dispatches from Cork, Ireland, are ia
the effect that the committee investigat-
ing assisted emigration find that 1927
emigrants were assisted at cost OF
ed directly by the British government.
Capt. s. s. Warner, of the revenue cut.
ter Ewing, of Baltimore, left Washing.
ton for Buffalo, where he will assume
command Of the revenue cutter Fessen-
den, which will be ready for service in
about two weeks. The vessel will be
stationed at Detrit.
Three masked men last Saturday
night entered the residence of the Post.
master at Wisconsin Junction, Wis. and
with cooked revOlvers ordered him to
throw up his hands, instead OF which
the plucky postmaster whipped out his
revolver, shooting one of the robbers
through the breast, from the effects OF
which he soon died.