Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-09-04
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 4. 1884.
WIDE WIDE WORLD

France the ratio is 800, and in Great
Britain $1O9.
The red flannel shirt which, tied to an
oar was used as distress signal by the
Greedy party ia the arctic regions, will
be on exhibition at the Cincinnati Ex-
position.
The citizens of Moberly, Mo-, are In
dignant that the Fair Association of the
county has invited the desperate Frank
James, as an h0nersu guest to the fair.
The Ministry of Marine of Russia has
issued plan for a polar expedition.
The idea Is to have several large parties
start from Jeanette island, proceed en-
tirely on foot across the ice, leaving
large depOts of provisions in the rear.
The Governor General of Canada has
been ordered by the home government
to secure the services of 600 vOyageurs
for the relief of General Gordon at
Khartoum. They are needed to take
flat-b0ttOmed boats up the Nile and for
making portagss around the rapids.
Preference will be given to officers who
served under General Wolseley in the
Red River campaign.
A tiny steamer brought across the
Atlantic In big one, and tOwed through
tuo Oo' IuWleHU6 IlN6I anu bu0 ldhoS, IL
finally to be carried by men forty miles
overland to get her to Lake Pend
dOreille, which is close to the northern
boundary line of Idaho. She is owned
by Englishmen who have bought a
tract there.
Richard M. Hunt. of New York, has
been decorated with the legion OF honor
of ribbon by the republic Of France.
Hmm rf.r IAa 1f
architecture at the Paris school of fine
arts.
Prof. Sabine, of the New York college
of physicians and surgeons, has just dis
missed as cured Thomas Colt, whose
nose was eaten away by eancerOus
sore. Sabine grated finger Of the
patients hand on his face and thus
made a new nose. 1t is the most re-
markable case on record.
There is an immense fruit crop in
Oregon this year, and whole orchards
are going to waste for want of market.
Two persons were injured and several
buildings destroyed by cyclone which
struck Huron, Oak.
A Chicago Arm has contracted to sup
ply 100000 pounds of compressed beef
for the Gordon relief expedition.
A prominent position in the signal
service is spoken OF for Lieut.. Greedy, as
substantial recognition for his serv-
ices.
Gan. Sheridan had rousing recep-
ton by the $4,000 persons at the encamp
ment of the New Hampshire veterans,
near Weirs N. H.. Thursday.
The Dominion government refuses to
permit passage through Canada of
American cattle to England, owing to
the risk Of introducing cattle disease.
The Paris Figaro says France has 51,-
CO troops in Algiers, which are ready to
seize Cairo when ordered, il the French
be barred from the Suez canal.
On P. Doughtis's plantation, near Eu-
faulo, Ala, the negroes ate hog that
had been bitten by mad dog, and now
81 darkeys are suffering from hydro
phObia.
Talmadge, the Wisconsin statician,
from reliable sources estimates that the
quality Of the wheat crop of the cOuntry
is this year superior, and the total yield
the largest ever known.
The Lowell Mess, manufacturing
companies Thursday voted to stop all
COltSu iuiiIp eACePt tile LdWI6HC0 IOT
two weeks instead of one, as previously
voted. The print works will run as
usual.
Jay-Eys-Sse utterly failed at New
York Thursday to reduce the Maud s.
record of 2:092. The conditions were
not altogether favorable, and he could
not trot faster than 2:121s, greatly to
the chagrin of bis driver.
1t is now considered quite certain
that Ferdinand Ward has several mil
lion In cash hid away where he can get
1t whom the time GENES for him to seek
other chimes unmolested. In the mean
time William ii. Vanderbilt holds mort
cages on all Of Gen. Grants property
There Is only one thing that honest
men afSthA north ann do tn rahuko diu.