Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Trenton, have resumed.
The Mexicans have appropriated 5000,
600 to represent Mexico Mt the worlds
exhibition at New Orleans.
OPremier GladstOne's wife, after wearing
plain clothes all her life. has suddenly
taken to rich dressing and diamonds.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has about cOnsumated the negotiations to
lease the Lehigh Valley railroad.
John Roberts was fined $40 at the Es-
sex market court. New York, for an at
tempt to die by poison the week proceed
ing.
Chas. Bartlett, of New York State, frOze
tO1dsath near L'Anse, while he was in
tOxicated. He was single man and 20
years old.
The Louisiana lottery company will
sell no more tickets in Illinois ON ac-
count Of the prosecutions in state and
federal courts.
The Massachusetts senate has resolved
in favor of biennial elections, and pro-
vided for free distribution of text books
In public schools.
Mrs. Eddy's requests to Lucy Stone
and Susan B. Anthony of $4,000 each
were left to them and not to the woman
suffrage cause.
Lord GOrmOyle. it is said, seeks to COM
promise on Miss Fortescue's injured af-
fectiOns for 100000, but she insists on
$250.O00.
The nail plate mill of the POttstOwn
Iron Company and seven furnaces in
the pudding department, at Reading,
Pa, have resumed.
James Russell Lowell has been named
by Harvard College to represent that in
stitutiOn ut the trl-centary celebration
of Ediuburg University In April.
Ten per cent. of the reduction ordered
I'm the wages Of the machine mOlders of
Pittsburgh some time ago has been with
drawn and the threatened strike averted.
Texas was visited by tornado, as the
final sweep of the prevailing rains.
Much damage has been done at Waco,
Mineola, and along the International and
Texas Pacific railroads.
The excess in the value of exports of
this country oyer imports OF merchan-
disc for the six months ended Dec. 81,
was $61 ,68S665. and for the icalender
year ended same date, $lO8,O71,8
Judge McKennen. in the United States
opinion that the wages certificates issued
by the Reading Railroad Company in
1879 and 1880 were not subject to tax
of ten per cent.
Wednesday morning Jerry Hanley, of
Terre Haute, Ind, missed his wife Mary,
aged 36, from bed. Search revealed her
at the bottom of the cistern. Her mind
was deranged, and she had slipped ont
m ho nj nh I'D I'M mad m
Eighteen drunken men took posses
sion of coal train on the Toledo, Gin
cinnati and st. Louis Railroad, and ia
tally beat the breakman, T. s. Collins.
Conductor Curtin was injured, but cut
loose the engine and escaped with his
life.
A negro boot black attended masked
ball at Stamford. Ct, Thursday night.
and danced with the aristOcratic ladies.
When the unmasking came and his grin
ming features were disclosed, he left the
giddy thrOng sOquickly that 1t will take
two years for him to figure out what
allied him.
A couple Of enterprislng st. Louis
chaps had doctor graft an arm Of
one to that of the other, from the shout
der to the elbow, hOpiag that when the
operation was complete, they would be
good for dime museum triumphs. At
the end of three days they were 80 Sick
that it was necessary to cat them apart.
Information as to the number of en-
listed mem IN the late war Is furnished
Congress, on which to base legislation
for the equalization of bOunties, as fol-
lows: Three years, 2,O30.804: two years,
44,4OO; one year, 491, 1852; nine months.
875.SSl; eight months, 373; six months,
2O.439; four months, AZ; one hundred
days, 85.507; three months. SAG; sixty
days, 2,045.
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