The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-02-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GEN ERAL.


: National bank of Leadville has been ar
rested.
Backwoods settlers in Ontario are
threatened with starvation owing to the
snow blockade and suspension Of traffic.
The committee on pensions will rec
ommend bill to relieve claimants OF the
burden of evidence regarding their condi-
ton when entering the service.
The committee on claims has recon-
mended bill to prevent the duplication OF
army pay accounts.
Hoffman, to have been executed at
Port Chester, N. Y, has obtained stay of
execution.
Eleven prisoners escaped on the 2Sth
from the Buena Vista (Col.) Jail, and are
still at large.
At Rosita, Colorado, on the 9th,
O'Kurtz, mining boss, was shot dead by
Frank Williams and John Gray, miners.
The shooting grew out of a row at dance,
when Williams was elected from the hall for
disturbance.
John Seybert, well-to-do farmer
living near Hillsboro, ILL.,, suicided by
shooting himself.
A number of leading New England
cotton mills are running half time in conse-
quence Of low prices.
Reports from twenty-seven clearing
houses of the United States for the week
ending January Goth, gives the total clear
ances at $971, ,256, ,404, being decrease of
81 per cent. as compared with the same
period the previous week.
Andrew Mangs, of Cleveland, four
years old, while poking shayings into
stove set fire to his clothing, and expired
after horribly suffering for an hour He was
the last of five children; the others died
within short time of diphtheria. The
mother became a raving maniac when the
last one was taken from her.
The New Jersey house defeated the
joint resolution asking the Jersey congress-
men to favor national postal telegraph
law.
A dispatch from Matamoras, Mexico,
says Rev. Father Damazo Soto, Of Concor-
dia, state of Vera Cruz, has discovered the
key to the Aztec writings.
Martin Sellers, of Kendallville, Ind,
was summoned to testify against c.. C.
Cain, charged with murder, now being
tried at Albion. He remarked that he would
kill himself rather than testify. Shortly
afterwards he went to his room and shot
himself, dying instantly.
A. Medarv, for number of years
paymaster for the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton railroad, has been relieved. His
accounts are said to be $40, 200 short.
Twenty-seven men met at Green's
burg, Pa, and formed secret brother |
hood not to buy French goods. and to boy
colt all dealers selling them until the en-
barge on pork was taken off.
Able Chubert, at Montreal, was fined
the sum of $40 or two months imprisonment |
for kissing Mrs. Bezeau, his landlady, while
she was in bed.
A strange and fatal disease has ap-
peared among the cattle in a Texas county.
A large number have died. The cattle men
will hold a meeting with a view to. checking
the ravages.
Frank James attorney has applied
for change Of venue in the Blue Cut train
The decision is expected on the
11th of February.
The Phoenix glass-works at Phillips
burg, opposite Plttsburg, were destroyed
by fire on the S0th. Loss, about S125, 200;
insurance, $74, 900. The works were among
the largest is the country. The most un-
fortunate circumstance connected with the
OF the works Is that 800 hands
will be thrown out of employment In the
middle of winter.
A Chicago and Northwestern train
was wrecked near Cedar Rapids on the 30th.
Three men were injured and the engine and
tweve cars badly damaged. ,
A large quantity of personal effects
belonging to passengers on the wrecked
steamer City Of Columbus has been taken to
Boston for identification. Reports from the S
wreck state that the steamer is gradually
linking into the water. But little Of the I
'essel is now visible.
The Texas house passed bill pro- {
'iding punishment for fence cutting of from
me to five years in the penitentiary, but the
person owning and residing upon land en- |
losed by another, who refused ingress and t
gress may lawfully open a passageway I
through the enclosure. c
Tilden G. Abbott, cashier of the
Jnion Market National bank, of Boston, i
las disappeared, defaulter to the amount t
I $31, 160, possibly more. @
A committee of labor organizations
rom Pittsburg have gone to Washington to d
rge the passage of the bill restricting the e
Importation of foreign labor under con- Z
ract. v
Ansen Linsenmerk has been arrested b
t st. Louis for committing forgcries while
ostmaster at Krotzingen, Dutch Baden. IL
Delegations of lobbyists are going to :. :.
Washington from Dakota to work for the =,
pening Of the Sioux reservation. v
GA large three story business house at y