Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-03-26
GENERAL NEWS.

whisky.
Counterfeit pennies are in circulation
in New York.
President Cleveland was 48 years old
Wednesday Of last week.
It is estimated that there are 100000
cattle in the Black Hill.
There are said to be 534 seamstrsssss
in.Nsw York, each Of whom earns ealy
81 week.
From six to ten inches of snow fell
Tuesday night of last week in Virginia
and North Carolina,
The Governor Of Kansas has been al
lowed $685., 1903 for expenses incurred In
repelling Indian Invasion.
Eliza Weeks, a cOlOrsd woman died at
the COlored home in New York Monday,
March 10th, at the age OF 1O7 years.
r. H. Latmore, a coal mine superlA-
tendsnt was waylaysd by strikers ut
West Newton, Pa, and fatally beaten.
Representative Richardson, OF Tonnes
see, will be the tallest man in the new
Congress. He is about seven feet high.
The Connecticut Senate has rejected
the measure permitting women to vote
at school elections.
Mr.. Endicott, the new Secretary Of
War, confesses that he never made a
campaign speech or political eOntribu-
ton.
The senate has ratified the treaty with
the Khedivs of Egypt, and also the con-
veRtiOn relating to boundary lines OF
this country and Mexico.
Secretary Whitney has nominated
young Kislinbury. son of ore Of the
men lost in the Greeley expedition to
the Naval Academy.
The silver product Of the United States
duet $80ONO0O. There's a bigger bon
ANA in hens then in silver mines.
The City Council Of Cleveland, Ohio,
has refused to repeal the law prohibit
ing billiard playing on Sunday and max
ing Ii misdemsanOr.
The Public Library Committee Of Con-
cord, Mass, have unanimously decided
to exclude from the shelves OF that in.
stitution Mark Twain's new book, Hack
leberry Finn"
The resolution for submitting to the
people an amendment granting suffrage
to women was ordered to third read
ing in the Wisconsin Assembly by q vote
Of 4S to 40.
DR.. Maggie, Registrar of Vital Statistics
in the New York Health Department,
attributes the great increase In pneu-
monia to the skating Kinks.
With the thermometer at Z below zero
at Lafayette. Ind, Tuesday of last week
lightning destroyed straw stack and
barn and killed calf.
The miners at Straitsville, Ohio, Thurs
day ended their eleven months strike.
1t was a bad business from beginning to
end.
A bill was introduced in the Illinois
House imposing fine of 500 on street
car corporations who shall collect fares
from persons who are compelled to stand
up in their cars.
The Supreme bench Of Iowa were
unanimous in the decision that the pro-
hibitOry law is constitutional in every
particular Injgnetions to abate saloons
as nuisances are declared to be valid.
Great restitution prevails in Mason
county, West Virginia, and numbers OF
families are suffering for the nscsssaries
of life.
The fish commissioner of Kansas re-
ports that he has distributed in the
streams of the state 20.0U0 brook trout,
$4,000 shad, 100000 pike perch, bass and
catfish, and 1900 carp.
The Ohio legislature has adopted a
jsint resolution for the submission of
the constitutional amendment to change
the time Of the State election from Oe-
tebsr to November.
The Massachusetts, Legislature, 10
considering a bill to abolish the rule Of
law which excludes the testimony OF
persons who doubt or disbelisYe the sx-
istenco of Supreme Being.
The communication OF the sentences Of
two confessed murderers, under sent 9nce
Of death, by Governor Marmaduke, OF
Missouri, has resulted ia the circulation
of petition asking Marmadukc to re-
sign his Office.
The flour production at Minneapolis
for the week ended Saturday, March IL,
reached 92,140 barrels, against 5000 the
preceding week. The water power hav-
ing increased last week, the production
was expected to to reach 100000 barrels.
The loss sustained by Texas cattlemsn
during the winter is placed at 3 to 8 per
cent Of the herds. At least 10000 head
wandered southwark, and their recovery
will require much time and a heavy
outlay. The ranges are said to be over
stocked, and the throwing Of the surplus
beef upon the market will reduce the
price Of beef.
BY direction of Governor Sherman q
squad Of militia, commanded by Adju-
tant General Alexander, forced the doors
Of the Auditors office at Des Moines, To-
wa, Thursday, elected Auditor Brown
and his deputy, and placed Mr.. Csttell
In possession. Three men. with fixed
bayoneits. were left guarding the en-