The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-27
BRIEFLY TOLD.

prostrations.
Hog cholera is raging in many counties in
New Jersey.
Mccullough, the actor. is said to have be-
| come demented.
| 1t is estimated that the losses in the Cleve-
land fire will reach 100000.
Forest fires have broken out in Michigan
and are doing good deal of damage.
Baron Alvensteben, the new German minis
ter to this country, has arrived at Washing
ton.
Seven hundred cigar rollers at Binghamp-
ton, New York, are on a strike for higher
wages.
Both of the LANDER brothers, the Philadel-
phia bankers who suspended payment have
been arrested.
The extensive works at the CRANKY mining
and smelling company, at Oronogo, Mo-, were
destroyed by fire.
Stafford & Co., of Providence and Fall River,
cotton goods manufacturers, have failed
Liabilities s25O,OOO.
The annual reunion of the society of the
army of the Cumberland convened at Roches-
ter N. Y, on the 18th.
A movement is on foot for making faster
time between Philadelphia and New York
100 miles in three hours.
Bill Taylor, a negro, who assaulted Mrs.
Flipper in June last, was taken from the
officers at Dallas, Texas, and hung.
Mayor Samuel Robinson, of Charlotte,
Michigan, was shot by a tramp at night at
his home, and is now in a critical condition.
News from Peru chronicle the complete de-
feat of General Carceres, the principal revo-
lutionary leader, which occurred at Lima on
9Th ult
John Nelson, a printer of st. Louis, was shot
and killed by Mrs. E. G. Stewart while at
tempting to enter her house during her hus-
bands absence.
]. H. Squier, private banker, of New York
city, who made an assignment short time
ago, committed suicide by cutting his throat
with pen-knife.
oliver Mermaid, Buffalo fresco painter.
will go to Niagara to perfect arrangements
for going over the cataract in a thick rubber
ball fifteen feet Ia diameter for purse of
$1,000.
The total vote of Maine will reach 142, no.
and Robes majority over Nedham is 20,615
This is the largest majority ever given a can
didate for governor In that state in presi-
dental year.
Sam jackson, who outraged and murdered
a white girl aged ID, seven years ago, and who
was recently captured, was taken from the
Hamburg (Ark.) jail by a masked mob and
hungto tree.
On account of the depression in trade the
Edgar Thompson Steel company at Pittsburg
notified its employees that unless they accept
in wages a suspension of operations
will be necessary.
The eight-day bicyle-horse contest at st
Louis resulted in a victory for the horses.
The final score stood: Morgan AS miles, Ar
mainda 3sl; total for the bicycles 1856 miles.
and the horses, $50 milas.
At Philadelphia in the criminal prosecution
Of man for cutting the Baxter telegraph and |
wires, the judge held that the occu-
pants of house had a right to cut the wires |
# stretched without the permission of the
Payne and the Oklahoma boomers have ar
lived in Wichita. They were indicted by the
United States grand jury. A meeting was
,eld at the skating rink at which Payne and
everal others denounced the government for
Irresting them.
Harry Taylor VIM. P. Campbell and Miss
iaud Reed, of Colorado, were drowned while
rossing Grand river near Grand Junction
hey were all interested in stock raising and
we're returning to their ranges when the acct
ent occurred.
The japanese government has proclaimed
during the Franco-Chinese war,
t is expected revision of the treaty between
apan and foreign powers will be concluded
n October and new and important privileges
ill be granted foreigners.
The failures for the last seven days, re-
orted to r. G. Dun g. Co., were 22O as against
% last week. Kiernan's agency reports the
allure of Stafford & Co., of Providence and
all River, cotton goods manufacturers.
hey are said to owe $3.50 1000 in Providence.
DIR. Robert NJ. williamson a druggist at
helbyville, S. c., contemplated getting out .
fe insurance policy. Finding his pulse too
gh to pass the physicians examination, he
'ught to reduce it by taking twenty-five
-ops of aconite, but with fatal results.
The vicinity of Springfield, NO., is consider
by excited over the fact that the multitudin-
Is caves of southwest Missouri frequently
,ound with guano, the product of bats. A
imar company is already shipping two car :
ads of guano per week from Roark Cave,
ar Ozark, to Atlanta, Ca, which brings sos
II ton. =
Two passenger trains on the Chicago, Mil h
aukee and st. Paul railway collided near O.
export Ill., and both were badly wrecked. .,
lie of the engineers had leg broken. The a.
ssengers all escaped without serious in a.
ry. Among them were half dozen Indians ;,
ON Dakota, including Sitting Bull. :,
President Seelye, of Amherst college, has NJ
clined the nomination for governor of Mas W
ohusetts by the prohibition party. He told IL
eporter he was very much surprised when is
formed he had been nominated, as he had
eviously answered every inquiry on the re
bject that he could not accept either the al
or the office. III
chen Fry proposed marriage to Mrs Fen tr
e Carmen, widow living near Homer to
inter-, in Medina county, Ohio. Being re- in
ted, Fry drew revolver and shot Mrs. A
rmon in the head, infiicting a severe but in
necessarily fatal wound. Surprising he of
l killed her he went to neighbours, pro- or
red shot gun, put the muzzle to his mouth