Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-08-28
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 81. 1884.
WIDE WIDE WORLD


Mr.. Vanderbilt admits that he is.
worth $194,0O0OOO.'
Five clothes pin manufactures turn
out annually 100000 pins.
Oyer $4,000 people are locked up in the
jails and prisons Of New York.
The Sprague estate property at Au-
gusta, Me-, which cost 100000 Is years
ago. was sold at auction for 100000.
An effort Is being made to colonize in
Canada some of the Hebrews expelled
from the Russian Empire.
George W. Lee. the oarsmsn, bravely
saved the lives Of two cOlorsd walters in
CanadarO lake. He was highly compli-
mented by the guests.
Measures have been taken to place a
monument over the grave of General
James Shields, the hero of three wars
and Senator of the United States at
different times OF three States.
The value of the exports of domestic
breadstuffs in July, 1884. is $12,053,9 $40;
for the some mOnth in 1883, $10,313673;
for the seven months ended July 81, 1884,
$79.547, 251: for the same period in 1883,
sos ,420,916.
Reported that contagious pleuro-pneu-
mOnia has infected many herds of cattle
on the IlIinsis prairies. The Chicago
Breeders Gazette says that the extent of
the infection has only dawned on cattle
owners.
wv. II. Bailey, an Iowa City lawyer was
tarred and feathered by drunken mob
Thursday, for his part in prosecuting
two brewers.
The Treasury Department has decided
that steam yacht under five tons bur-
den, net, can not engage in marine bus.
mess, nor can marine license be issued
her.
WoIkmen arranged the timbers of the
derrick on top Of the Washington monu-
ment by the reflected light of electric
lamps on the treasury building and
Smithsonian institution.
Patrick Eagen, President Of the Irish
National League of America, declines to
receive the $4,000 salary attached to that
office, prsferring to give his services to
the cause gratuitOusly.
Postmaster Robinson colored. of Bam-
borg, S. c., has sent to the Postoffice De-
partment II statement declaring that he
Is threatened with death if he does
not abandon his office.
Governor Murray, of Utah, telegraphed
to the Interior Department that the Ute
Indians are on the warpath in Colorado
and Utah, and ask that troops be sent to
protect the whites.
When the rain did come in Illinois il
came so abundantly that half of the
heavy hay and oat crop is probably lost
in gathering. Ia the black soil
countries, which were visited by the July
-Seluges the wheat which was standing
or in shock was seriously damaged.
The heat on Monday of last week in Lon
don sent the mercury up to SO - Faren-
heit. It was the most intense that has
been experienced in twenty years. Work
partially suspended and several deaths
from sunstroke occurred.
Two hospitals for sick horses have
been established in London. They are
furnished with Russian, Turkish and
shOwer-baths, and are supplied with
surgeons, physicians and nurses. AM
balances are proved for taking disabled
horses to the hospital.
A recently imported Swedish farm
laborer in Connecticut thrust his hand
into stone wall to pull out woodchuek
which he had driven to cover. He pulled
the game out by the teeth, instead of the
tail, and while his wounds We're being
dressed asserted in several languages,
including the prOIahe, bnab, THIS must De
murderous land, when even the rab'
bitt we're so bloodthirsty.
A Pennsylvania camp meeting was re
Gently routed by the ubiquitous small
boy VINO stirred up hornets nest IL
the vicinity of the congregation. A
good deacon remarked after the picnic
that If the saints and sinners exhibited
half the anxiety to escape perditiOn and
enter heaven that they did to avoid thu
companionship Of hornets there would
be no further necessity for revivals.
The fancy food products of Europe arr
being largely. reproduced in this countr.
and exported to Europe. MacOroni IL
made by Italians in New York, Men
chatel cheese by Swiss in Jersey
Schweizer kase by Germans in Ohio, AL
bert biscuit by Englishmen in Albany
and cavlare by Russians In Harlem. Con
spicuous among the liquors is port wine
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