Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-03-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


difficulty will be felt in providing force
of 1000 or 1900 men for service in the
SOudan If the government wants IL
The New York Chamber of Commerce
Thursday elected ex-President Arthur an
hOh0rary member.
Wheat stocks throughout the country,
embracing the visible supply, are placed
at 205,000,000 bushels, against 10000
OOObushels at this time last year.
During February the fire loss reached
$lO,OOO,COO and since January LIST the
property destroyed aggregates ia value
$lS.500,000.
DR.. Albert f. Goerson, who poisoned
his wife five years ago, was hanged
Thursday forenoon at Philadelphia.
The gross earnings of the Northera
Pacific and Louisville and Nashville
Roads for February are respectively
$49,477 and $66,291 greater than for tho
same month last year.
Counterfeit coupons of Reading City
bonds are for sale.
After playing series of farewell en-
gagements, Mr.. Edwin Booth has deeid-
ed upon quitting the stage.
According to an arrangement between
them. August Schaefer on Thurs lay pois
eRed his wife at Burnett, Texas, and af-
ter she was dead took the deadly dose
himself. They left 2-year-old child
Mrs. Abagail Gardner. who, thirty
years ago, was sent to the Massachusetts
State Prison for life for numbering her
husband, has just confessed the crime t.
the prison chaplain. She is now II
years old.
The Northwestern cremation society
was organized Wednesday of last week,
at Davenport, Iowa.
1t being expected that the National
Encampment, G.. A. r., will be held at
Sacramento in 1886, the California leg
islature has appropriated $4,000 to de-
fray the expenses.
Four prisoners escaped from the par
ish prison at New Orleans early Thurs
day mOrniLg. 1kree others got out last
Tuesday morning, and the public are be-
ginning to doubt the efficiency of the
officers in charge.
Employees in the machine shop of the
Wabash Read at Fort Wayne and St.
Louis struck Thursday against the pro-
posed reduction. Missouri Pacific work
men threaten to qHit, and il they
stop work traffic will be very seriously
interfsrred with.
Employees Ia the Texas and Pacific
shops at Fort Worth, stopped work
| Thursday morning, anc eXtinguished
the fires in all the freight and switch
engines in the yards. East bound freight
trains were side tracked and the iocOmO-
tives taken to the rOundheuse, but pas
songer trains wore not mOlested. A
number of cars filled with cattle and
California fruit are detained
Frank Kunkle. of Allegheny City, plac-
Ell a mixture of turpentine, tar, and lin
seed oil on the stove in his kitchen
Thursday night. The mixture boiled
over, and an explosion followed, scatter
ing the blazing fluid in all directions
The clothing of three children wko were
in the room took Are. bat Kunkle rushed
to the reseus, throwing each in turn
through a window into the yard. One
of them died in an hour, but the others
may recover. Kunkls himself ana an
other man received severe burns.
Senator Cameron has returned frem
Florida in improved health.
George w. Childs says there is no hope
for the recovery Of General Grant.
American corn is selling in the City
Of Mckee for eighty-fva cents to ST. q
hushel less than native corn. 1t is
brought in by the Mexican Central rail
way.
The English Government has coneed
ed to the colony of Newfoundland TIT
privilege of negotiating directly will
the United States for the renewal of TIT
fishery clauses of the treaty of Washing
ton Independents of any action or nego
tiatisn by the Government of Canada.