The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-08-24
NEWS SUMMARY.


A denntation of prominent Frenehmen have
visited ireland to return thanks in person to the
neople of ireland for the aid they gave the
| French wounded in the late war. They met
with an enthusiastic reception at Dublin.
The King of Italy has appointed General
Menabrea one of the arbitrat0rs under the
Treaty of Washington. The. Emperors OF Ger
many and Brazil have not yet appointed the
others to be chosen from those two countries.
Mrs Scales and her paramour, Ford, who
were sentenced to be hung in Kansas, August
18th. have escaped the gallows. The Governor
of Kansas, on the night before the execution
was to take place, committed their sentence to
imprisonment for life
Road Agents stopped the Cloyerdale stage
in Sonoma county on the night of August 10th.
There were four ladies and ten gentlemen on
the stage. The driver was wounded in the
face, one passenger, T. H. Benton, killed, and
and another, named b. S.-Cof'man, dangerous
y wounded The robbers failed to get Wells,
Fargo a. Co.'s treasure box, by the driver
whipping up his horses and getting out of their
reach.
Some French Communists have recently ar
rived in California, and will settle on lands In
Kern COUNTY.
At the industrial Fair in San Francisco,
some thieves got under the floor of the pavilion
and tapping forty gallon cask of cologne, got
away with all of 1t.
The ShOshone Indians, August 10th. made a
raid on stock ranch, forty miles south OF
Winnemucca. New, owned by man named
Foote, and succeeded in driving off slxty-fve
head of cattle. An armed party of whites
started in pursuit, but general outbreak of
the Shoshones and Bannocks is anticipated.
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Nevada, in accordance with instructions from
Judge Rising. are engaged in investigating the
affair Of the hanging of Kirk by the Vigilance
Committee One witness, JOS. King, who re-
fused to answer questions, has been put under
bonds 20 answer for contempt of Court.
Jacob Vanderbilt, President of the Staten
Island Ferry Company, VIM. Braisted, Super
ntendent, and Harry Robinson, the engineer,
against whom the Coroner's jury returned
verdict OF criminal negligence in connection
with the Westfeld ferry boat explosion, after
being arrested were committed to the Tombs
prison by Coroner keenan,, who refused to ad-
init them to bail. They were subsequently, re
leased on hdbeds corpus by Judge Sutherland,
of the Supreme Court; Vanderbilt on $4,000
bonds, aud the Superintendent and engineer ON
$40, 900 bonds each.
The sword subscribed by Alsatian residents
of New York for presentation to Gen Uhrich,
the defender of Strasbourg, was presented TO
him on August 18th.
The election Committee If the French AS.
selnbly on avote for the proongation of Theirs
term as President to three years, stood nine IN
opposition and six in favor of the proposition
The total amount of Internal Revenue paid
into the Treasury during the fiscal year ending
June 80 last, is Sl6O. $50. 554 30.
Hon. Felix X. Brunot declines to accept the
position Of Commissioner of Indian affairs
On August 18th twelve convicts escaped
from the Sing. Sing prison, New York, by
Jumping on tow-boat which approached too
near the dock. The convicts took possession
u the boat and headed her for the west shore |
The alarm was given and other boats started |
n pursuit. but before overtaken the convicts
escaped in small boats to the shore aud took to
he timber. They have not yet been recap
tured