Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-09-18
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER ls, 1884
WIDE WIDE WORLD

telegraph and electric light poles must
| go.
| Forty thousand people attended the
funeral OF the late Secretary FOlger at
Geneva, Y. President Arthur, Secre-
tariss Teller, Frelinghuysen, and Chan
der, and Postmaster General Gresham
were. present. The ceremonies were
very impressive.
Pompey Graham, aged 10, died on the
so inst, at Montgomery, N. Z. He was a
big boy before the Revolutionary war,
and was oyer 60 when slavery was. abol.
lshed IN New York. He was twice mar
ried before Washington died, and after
wards married third wife.
They say that when william H. Van
derbilt parted with Maud s. he fell up
on her neck and wept. This is one Of
the most touching instances Of watering
stock in the whole Vanderbilt history.
Thomas A. Edison has lost his wife this
year, has taken out IS new patents, and
been party to q law suits.
The steamer Wyoming, which arrived
at New York from Liverpool had 500 Nor
mon Immigrants on board, from the ag-
rieultural districts of England.
Cincinnati Is to have an odd monu-
ment, in the form of ruin, built from
the broken pillars and fragments OF the
Court House burned during the riot.
A lot of empty beer kegs shipped from
Havana to New York were found to be
filled with cigarettes.
Of 4,692,348 persons returned by the
census of Germany in 1882 as engaged
In agricultural work, 1,230,080, or nearly
million and quarter, are females.
MIR. John Hastings is still efficiently
discharging his duties as town clerk of
OnOndaga, N. Y, at the age of SO years.
lie was graduated at Yale college in the
class of rs.
The southern papers report that Miss
Maud ST. Pierre, of Washington, has
bought 1900 acres of coal and timber
lands at Anderson, Tenn, on which she
Will build a model town. with all the
modern cOnveniences.
The cookers in the Enterprise dis
tillery at Pekin, ILL.,, exploded Wednesday
morning, of last week killing three men
instantly, fatally injuring fourth, and
wrecking the structure. The financial
loss is placed at about $4,000.
Robert Bonner in answer to a request
to allow Maud S. to be exhibited at the
Pennsylvania tate fair, says she has
gone into training at Charter Oak park
preparatory to making an attempt to
beat her own record.
Over five thousand dollars has been
raised by penny contributions for mon
ument to Peter Cooper, and the commit
tee now calls upon artsist for models
and suggestions
For the Wilson stakes $4,000 for a.
year-olds, at the National trotting horse
breeders races Wednesday of last week
at New York. Early Dawn, by George
Wilkes, distanced fifteen competitors.
trotting the mile in 2:26A.
During che first eight DAYS of Septem- |
Der the Chichgo and Grand Trunk Road |
brought twenty-seyen carloads of Enro- |
pean immigrants into Chicago bound for |
The West and Northwest.
The proposition of the Chicago Live
stock Exchange to practically demon
'trate whether pleur0. pneumonia Is con-
agious or not, by supplying ten head of
healthy cattle and guaranteeing the ex-
'ense of exposing them to the cOntagioH
aid to extend among certain Illinois
lerds, was heartily Endorsed, by the
)maha Live Stock Exchange.
Freshets in the valley of the Chippewa
lvsr, Wis. caused the river to rise.
cores OF families were obliged to remove
rom their houses for fear of being flood
d out. All the bridges on the Chippewa
nd Eau Claire rivers were carried away.
dam near Chippewa Falls gave way
pleasing 10000 feet Of logs.
The Cincinnati Price Current estima-
IS the corn crop of the United States at
SlO,OOO,OOO bushels, the largest ever
lOwD.
-Four young men, students in q st.
itherines, (OnD college, were drowned
ednesday night in the Wslland Canal,
,ar Port Dalhousie.
oklahoma Payne and his cOnfederates
ere indicted Thursday by the United
ates Grand jury at Wichita, Kan, aad
III be given hearing at Topeka, New,
Streams In the Petersburg (Va.) dis
ct are drying up because Of the pre-
lcted drought, and mills are doing less
an half their usual work. The city of /
tersburg is threatened with water
nine.
1t the annual meeting OF the Womans
ristian Temperance Union, held in
lshingtOn Thursday, Mrs Clara L.
ach was elected President.
q the lake shore swamps near Kin -
dine, Ont, fires are burning, and res Z
noes and large tracts of cedar timber \
ve been consumed.
1t the state convention OF miners at
umbus, Ohio, it was decided by vote
'26 to lib. to continue the summer
es and not demand an advance.
heavy thunderstorm did damage
lrsday afternoon in Massachusetts, A
ms. particularly at Maiden, where a