Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-09-11
WIDE WIDE WORLD.


A crank applied at the Patent Office
for assistance in constructing ma
chine to test whether the moon Is lnhab-
tied or not. He wants the Government to
contribute $3,000,O0O to this object.
GENERAL WoLsELEY proposes to reach
DongOla with the Gordon relief expedl-
ton by Ney. Z. He declares his conf
dence of accomplishing this programme:
The relief party will consist OF 1000
men. -Four hundred more river boats
have been ordered.
The contract of the Merritt Wrecking
Company to deliver the sunken United
States ship TallapOOsa at Brooklyn for
$4,000, has been accepted.
The window-glass and many of the
bottle factories at Pittsburg resumed
operation last week. All the cotton rae
tories in the vicinity of Pittsburg, Va,
have shut down, resulting in suffering
for the necessities Of life among some OF
the discharged employees.
The records of the War Department
show that there were 100000 dessrIsrs
from the army during the rebellion.
Indian Commissioner Price has order
cd additional supplies to be sent the
starving Piegans in Montana, and
prompt measures for their relief will De
taken.
The refusal of friends to allow certain
uniformed secret societies to hold serv-
ices over Rev. John Brooks, q Washing
ton cOlOred Baptist minister, led to a riot
ut his funeral.
There is great falling off of the yield
in the oil regions Of Pennsylvania. The
Oil City Derrick says the falling off
during the past month. both ia the yield
of oil and the new bOrings, exceeds any
thing seen for nine years past.
A Washoe Indian squaw is $50 years
old, and has a grandson 80 years old.
President r. Il. Price, of the league to
enforce the prOhibitory law, was rotten
egged at his home, Elkader, Iowa.
The annual trades procession at ST..
Louis, Mo. was four miles long and 30.
600 strangers witnessed 1t.
At Mitchell, Wednesday, of last week
the cornerstone of the new Dakota Uni
versity, Methodist institution, was
laid.
A little boy in New York was dragged
off the roof by his kite and caught In
bll6 tbltSIdpu WllIS. WulOu ouop0uuOu
him sixty five feet from the ground.
A family of five persons at Baltimore
were taken with cramps and vomiting
after eating sardines, and two children
will not SURVIVE. They were poisoned by
the tin covering the sardines.
Mr.. James L. Edwards, then of Virgin
ia, was the first Commissioner Of Pen
sons, serving from 1888 until 1850, when
his office consisted of fifteen clerks,
where there is now an annual payroll of
$1,900,O00.
A dispatch received in London states
that a Russian war ship has seized the
American schooner Sophia johnson, of
San Francisco, while pursuing an al
legged eOntraband traffic with the natives
of Behring island.
The Government returns of area de-
voted to sorghum do not indicate any
increase except in Michigan, Iowa
and Nebraska and some Of the Southern
States. 1t appears to be grswn as for
age for stock more than formerly.
Near Shenandoah, Pa, the Lehigh VAL
ley Road has sunk three feet. There is
crack $50 feet long and four wide.
The Canadian inspector Of cattle quar-
antlned recommends strict embargo
against the United States, so as to pre-
vent the introduction of pleurO-pneu-
mOnia into the Dominion.
In the special pacing race for $4,000
at Minneapolis, Thursday, Johnston de-
feated Richball, taking the first and
third heats. The time was 2:13, 2:2OX.
2I74.
Commissioner Price, of the Indian
office, does not believe in the report OF a
threatened Indian outbreak in the north
west, and credits the rum0r to stOckmen
who want the Indians removed.
A cable message to s. w. Tallmadge,
of Milwaukee, states that the English
wheat CROP this harvest is about 72,OOO,-
600 bushels an increase of 100000
bushels over last year. The yield in
France promises to be large.
There was burned on the steamer City
of Merida, at Havana, valuable cOllec-
ton OF Mexican rarities, geological and
botanical, destined for the New Orleans
exposition. Gen. Diza, head Of the Next
can commission, says the loss cannot be
replaced in 10 years.
One of the curiosities to be exhibited
at New Orleans exposition is palmetto
stump completely petrlfied. 1t was dug
up recently from the sand on the beach
at mount Pleasant, S. G. and weighs 40
pounds. 1t is solid, and the grain of the
palmetto wood is easily discsrRed. 1t is
said to be the only instaace on record in
which palmetto wood has ever become
petriiisd.
During August there were 143 casual
ties on the lakes as follows: Lake Mich
igan, So; Lake Huron, 20; Lake Erie, 35;
Lake Superior, 5; Detroit river, 6; Sault
river, 3; Lake st. Clair, 6; River st. Clair,
2; Georgian Bay,1; Lake Ontario, 10; dis
abled, $500, stranded. $4,000, heavy