The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-13
IDAHO
BRIEFLY TOLD.

BRIEFLY TOLD.
A fire in Cleveland ON Sunday last destroye
$2,500,000 worth of property.
THE principal business block at Arkansa
City burned. Loss, 100000.
Forest fires are raging in Michigan and de
stroying vast tracts of timber.
Tho Lincoln savings bank at Fayetteville
Tenn, closed its doors on the 9Th.
The white house, In the absence of the presi
dent, is being put in complete order.
Prediction is made that the election in Ken
lucky IN November next will be bloody af
fair.
Gov. Cleveland attended the state fair al
Elmira, and made talk to the assembled null
titude.
Assistant Postmaster Horgus, Of Alvin, Ill.,
was arrested In Chicago for rifing registered
letters.
The funeral of Ex-Secretary Folger took
place at Geneva on the 9th, 40. OOOpeople being
present.
The state veterinarian of Kansas states that
pleuro-pneumonia exists In some portions of
that state.
Unless the labor troubles soon cease the
Hooking Valley Ohio coal mines will suspend
operations.
Bane Valley Co., well known cotton fac
tors and commission merchants at Louisville,
have failed.
Gov. Hamilton, of Illinois, has issued pro-
clamation quarantine against cattle from in
fected districts.
Neillson has signed contract with Maple
son to sing In England and America the
coming season.
James G. Blaine made an address on the 4th
before the New England fair association at
Manchester, N. H.
Frank Pr tterson, manager of the opera
house at Long Branch, is a defaulter, and the
police are searching for him.
Rear Admiral Andrew Allen HARDWOOD, U.
S. NJ, died at Marion, Mass, in his SD year.
He was appointed midshipman in 1918 and re-
tired in 1884.
The third annual exhibition of the national
mining exposition, under the auspices of the
Denver chamber of commerce, was formally
opened on the LIST.
The will of Senator Anthony has been fled |
1t bequeaths legacies of about 100000 to his |
sister and relatives. The public requests |
amount 10 *~0,UO
Sioux City and vicinity was visited by ter
ribe rain, wind and hail storm. Several barns |
were unroofed, and other outbuidings demol-
ished. The rain came down in perfect tor
rent.
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 masked mob and
hung to tree.
The warehouses of Joseph Benedict g. Co.,
wholesale rag dealers, and Martin Bratt & Co.,
wholesale tea dealers, Pittsburg, burned. Loss,
$4,000; partially insured. The fire was caused
by spontaneous combustion, which ignited a
large lot of old rags.
The treasury department has received a
letter from DIR. Hall, United States health Off
Ger at London, asserting that the expectation
of rags into this country from England is
fraught with great danger. Smallpox, he |
says, has been for some time prevalent in
London.
The New York weekly bank statement is as
follows: Loans, increase, q, $4,000; specie
decrease, $2l0,0OO legal tender, decrease, ST.
25S 900; deposits, increase, $4l1 ,5OO5; circua-
tion, decrease, $4,000; reserve decrease, ST.
sol, 900. The banks now hold, $30,50000 in ex-
cess of legal requirements.
The first attempt to enforce the prohibitory
law at Dubuque, Iowa, was started few days
ago. Petitions were filed with the clerk |
of the court, praying for injunctions to re- |
strain seventeen saloon keepers of that city {
from maintaining and continuing nuis-
ances in the form of saloons.
The village trustees of Geneva, N. Y,
adopted resolutions of regret at the death and
with the family of Secretary Fol- :
ger. Public buildings and business places
will be draped in mourning for ten days.
was appointed to receive and pro- 1
vide quarters for the distinguished funeral. 3