The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-02-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GEN NERAL.

at Fergus Falls, Minn.. burst, letting ou
400, 900 bushels of wheat.
The directors of the Mexican Contra
railway announce that the road will bt
completed to the United States by the mid
die of March and opened for through traffic
between the 1st and 10th of April.
The people of Long Island are excl
ted over case of poisoning, the victims be-
ing Thomas Collier and wife.
The interest in the Kentucky senate
rial contest is at white heat, and will remain
so until nomination is made. With Swee-
ney withdrawn the deadlock would seem
to be broken, but the indications are that
Carlisle will take his place with probable
deadlock as the result.
The Harper high license law will go
into effect in Chicago on the 1st Of April.
E. f. johnson, agent for the Union
Pacific railroad at Walla Walla, Oregon,
also for the Union Pacific express company,
misappropriated a package containing $1S,-
900 consigned to John Bennett, a railroad
contractor, by Ladd & Tilton, bankers,
Portland. The package was addressed.
"Agent Union Pacific express. johnson
disappeared with the money, but was sub
sequently arrested and jailed.
Peter Clifford, a young brakeman on
the Ohio Central railway, living at Rend
vile, was awakened by two men who ask
ed him to come to the door. He went, and
as soon as the door was opened one of the
men put pistol to his head and fired. Cliff
ford fell into the arms of his wife and soon
died. The alleged murderer was taken from
the Jail and lynched.
Jeff Romers, negro, who outraged
and brutaly stabbed Mrs. Stifin, in the
northern part OF Chambers county, Ala,
was forcibly taken from Jail and hanged to
tree.
The wife and little daughter of Nor
gan Martin, a farmer living near Gallipolis,
Ohio, were burned in their dwelling. 1t is
supposed that the wife's clothing ciught
fire and fired the building.
A special from Culiacan, Chihuahua,
Mexico, says that Judge Henry Cooper,
United States senator from Ten
essee, was killed by robbers on the 4th.
He was manager Of the Polk silver mine.
He left Nashville in November with $50, 200
to pay off the debts Of the concern and start
a mill.
Special agents of the postof1ice de-
partment at Chicago arrested Robert Riley
and James McCarroll for using the mails for
fraudulent purposes, under the name Of
Winship 81 Co. The parties arrested have
been acting as agents for the Royal Havana
lottery company.
The dwelling of VIM. Morrison, in
Pocahontas county, West Virginia, was
burned Morrison and wife escaped with |
four children who were sleeping in the |
room with them, but two girls aged seven |
md eleven, sleeping in another room were |
roasted to death before their parents eyes. |
The Ohio river is rising at great |
.ate, owing to continued rains, and people
llong the stream are in great fear that lives
will be lost and property damaged.
The board of inspectors of steam YES
es began at Boston, on the 9TH, investiga-
ion Of the wreck Of the City of Columbus.
The disaster was attended with loss of
ninety lives.
The senatorial contest in Kentucky
las ended by Blackburn receiving the cau-
,us nomination. The vote stood: Black
,urn, 60; Williams, 81. Senator Williams
erm expires March 3, 1885.
One thousand people left the town of
Ind, on account of the
lood.
At meeting of tho general freight
gents OF the northern trunk lines at Chica-
70 on the 9th, it was decided to advance
Jtah rates.
A memorial to congress to increase
he salaries OF the United States district
Judges, especially that Of Love, of Iowa,
vas prepared by the bar of Davenport. 1t
will be circulated for signatures at every
ounty seat in Iowa.
The people at Harrisburg fear an ice
orge and all the iron mills at that place have
uspended.
The Paris academy of mus has,
'ith~one dissenting voice, proclaimed in
,vor Of the repeal of the decree prohibiting
he importation of American pork.
The cowardly Egyptians, early in the
ght near Takar, threw away their saddles
nd turned loose their horses, effecting
etreat on foot rather than again face the
nemy.
A German farm laborer at Maren-
0, Iowa, killed the daughter of his en-
loyer and then himself.
A freight train on the I,lincis Cen
al jumped the track, injuring three en-
loyes and number of passengers.
Billy McGlory, convicted of violating
le excise law in New York, was sentenced I
six months in the pen.
The wife of Robert z. Porter, ex-
cretary Of the tariff commission, received
sr diverse on the 9th. Cause, desertion. :
lie was awarded $40, 800 alimony. The cash
as paid down as soon as he decree was