Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-06
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 6. 1884.
WIDE WIDE WORLD.

uoIiC UNIV ueOi0ooo III OClODeI, po,-
100000.
California ostrich eggs are selling at
$3.50 per dozen In San Francisco.
There are fOrty-four religious denom-
nations in the United States.
SignOr BrignOli, the famous tenor,
died at New York Thursday night.
Mrs. Polk, the widow of the ex-Presi-
dent, and her daughter are now In Wash
ington.
The American paper makers are con-
sidering an increase in the price of pa
per.
1t is proposed to place slime" staff
and ball on the top OF the Washington
monument.
large iron and steel establishment
in South Wales has closed, and more
suspensions are expected.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has de-
clared specializing futures" illegal and
obligations thus contracted void,
Capt. j. c. Bonnycastle, who was one
of Gen. Grants staff, died at Louisville
KY, last week.
If President Arthur marries it will be
the first Presidential wedding since that
of John Tyler in 1912.
An underground stream flows beneath
the city of Birmingham, Ala. 1t is to be
used for SO wer.
Pere Hyacinthe. who short time ago
was decapitated of his priesthood, is
again assisting in the Catholic services.
The American minister to Germany
has been designated to represent the
United States at the Congo Conference
at Berlin.
The wife of George MeCreary. of Wat
erfOrd N. Y, presented him with four
children at birth. They are all girls
and weighed seven pounds apiece.
Initiating DR.. Carvers company of cow
boys, lads at Hamilton, Ont, lassOed
boy named John Carey, and dragged him
q long distance, infiieting fatal injuries.
RumOrs have reached London that
severe type of cholera is spreading
through the French squadron under Ad-
miral Courbet, now blockading FOrmo-
ga.
The new Spanish treaty with the
United States abolishes consul or ton
mage dues in American ports and prom-
Uses reform in the custom houses of the
colonies.
For consideration of 5000 the Col
umbus Base Ball Club has transferred
its players to Pittsburg, which city ex-
poets to enter the American Association
next season.
The Armstrong oil well, near Butler,
Pa, gushes at the rate of 100 barrels an
hour, and in twenty-fOur hours put 5000
barrels In tank-beating all previous
records.
The jury in the polygamy case of Rud
ger Clawson, at Salt Lake City, were I'M
able to agree, standings to 4. The
Tn rfa hn cd of
colony of fifty settlers from COnnec-
ticut, under the patronage of P. T. Bar
nun, have bought tract Of land in
Barnes county, d. T., and will settle
there in the spring.
The model of an apparatus for "lifting
vessels over shoals" for which patent
was issued in 1849 to Abraham Lincoln,
will form portion of the Patent Office
exhibit at the New Orleans exposition.
Near Long Creek Oregon. party of
whites stole upon band Of Indians, and
shot and killed two braves. The feeling
against the aborigines is intense among
the whites, and an Indian outbreak is
threatened.
The earnings Of the Northern Pacific
railroad amONnt to $1,113,00O. or on an
averge $4,000 per day. The earnings of
the past month foot $1,500O0O. This
season $1,000 head of cattle have been
shipped east
The daily production of the Penn syl-
vania petroleum field increased 1O,O52
barrels during October. This was en-
tirely caused by the new Butler field
with its phenomenal wells, the old fields
being almost wholly neglected.
"Aunt" Becky Young, of Des Moines
who followed the fortunes Of the One
Hundred and Ninth New York Regiment
during the war, will probably receive
the appointment of MatrOn of the new
Soldiers home at Leavenworth, Kan.
A rosewood tree near Santa Rosa CAL,
furnished all the lumber for the Baptist
church at that place. The interior Of
the building Is finished in wood, there
being no plastered walls. After the
lumber for the church was taken 10000
shingles were taken from what remain
ed Of the tree.
Hurricanes, Sept. 80 and Oct. Z on the
coast of Lower California, were the Sc
verest known. The steamer EstadO de
Sonora was lost, and the fifty-seven per-
sons on board persisted. The schooner
Doralt was also wrecked, and nine sl00ps
and coasters went to the bottom, but the
of lives lost is not exactly
known.
Her First Ride in a Cable Car.