Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-27
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In tu0 ueAt 1OuS6 tltIe Will Uo uluo-
teen exConfederate Brigadier Generals.
Southern Democrats think they should
have the postoffice department and de-
partment of justice ia Cleveland's cabi-
net.
The Youngest member of Con-
gress Is Robert M. LaFOllett, of WiscOn-
sin. He is %.
Italy every year pays 100000 more
to keep up her prisons than she does to
support her schools.
In October there were 11,718 arrivals
in Canada of whom 1913 were settlers.
the rest passing through to the United
States.
"Blackleg" has broken out among the
young cattle In the western section of
Berks county, Pa. The disease ia very
loathsome, and many young cattle have
succumsed.
During the Democratic display at
Wellington, Kan, sky rockets which had
been fired wildly killed one person, fa-
tslly wounded another and seriously in
jursd third.
1t has been ascertained that Il. l..
Harpster Democracy has been elected
Circuit Clerk of Dewitt County Illinois,
by plurality of one, Captain North, the
Republican candidate has begun con-
test.
Last year mails were carried on Ill.,
100 miles Of railroad, an increase of 1852
during the year. The appropriation for
the present year is $4,3l0,0O0. An in
crease of 1901 ,0OJ is asked for.
James Gordon Bennett says that when
| ha No oIy Do IN in
ough working order, not only all the
rails of the New York Herald will be ca
bled from London.
Rails were removed from the Houston
and Texas Central track, near Hemp
stead Texas, and an express train tumh.
led down thirty.foot embankment.
Ten persons were killed and number
wounded.
The national cotton exchange estima-
ties the cotton crop in the United States
this year at 5, 726, 900 bales, slight in
crease over last years yield. There are
prospects that the stop crop" may in
crease this BY $4,000 bales.
Contractors of the new Georgia Capitol
having decided to use Indiana stone in
its construction, an effort was made to
have the product of Georgia quarries
used instead, but the Legislature almost
unanimously Endorsed the selection Of
the contractors.
A negro woman Of LeayenwOrtA, Kan,
| refused to allow her child to be buried
in grave which had been dug "crOss-
wise with the world" The whole negro
population believe that the mistake in
digging the grave will bring curse up
On them.
The town Of Newington, N. H., has no
store Of any kind, no liquor saloon, no
debt, no lawyer, no doctor. and nobody
| In the poor house. 1t has only one
church, and the Inhabitants spend their
time in thinking of the last new fence
put up in the village. The town should
be phOtogI aphed.
The fortisth anniversary Of the en-.
trance OF Sir John Macdonald into public
life will be celebrated deliberately next
month at Toronto. There will be ma.
fioAal convention OIL the 18th, to be adj
dressed bv the premier, and grand
banquet will be rendered him on the fol-
lowing evening.
In two cases in the United States Su-
prems Court brought up from the Vir.
ginia court which related to property
burned at the capture Of Richmond In
1865, Chief Justice Waite held that his
court had no jurisdiction and dismissed
the suits.
The solicitor general having rendered
an opinion that there is no authority
under existing laws for the instructions
contained In the Treasury Department
circular authorizing the transportation
by bonded express companies of passen
gers baggage without examination
Secretary McCulloeh has rescinded thu
circular.
An unknown disease is dccimatinl