Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-05-31
BY TELEGRAPH.
SUMMARY OF THE MOST IMPORT.
ANT NEWS.

High.Toncd Thief Asking for a Sus-
pension Of Opinion
Specials to the wooD RIVER TrMEs1
HALEY, May 81.
Latest quotations: Silver in New
York: *1.lO4 per o.; in Salt Lake,
3 cents less. Lead in New York,
$3.75 per 100 pounds. Union Pacific
shares, 3Sa; Central Pacific, 41s.
1t is again reported that Tildcn has
positively asserted that he would &C.
cept the nomination if rendered him.
The House committee on public
lands will report measure intended
to prevent the issuance of patents to
railroad companies, for lands forfeited
by them.
The chances are that Congress will
adjourn without making any appro-
priations for continuing the improve
ments Of the rivers and harbors of the
country. This will be a death-blow
to Gimlet--Gimlet in Idaho.
The New York papers are getting
savage in their attacks on Blaine be-
cause of his anti-C Chinese record.
This would indicate that Blaine's
boom is increasing at Arthur's expense.
The Decoration Day parade in New
York was the largest since the OBJ.
servance of the day began. The COL
umn was reviewed by the President
and Cabinet.
Over 20 southern delegates hereto.
fore counted for Arthur have left HIM
for Blaine. They are otficeholders
who fear to have their official heads
chopped of. A much larger vote than
has been counted for him is expected
from the South.
Nearly every State reports to the
agricultural bureau that from present
indications the wheat crop will be fully
up to high average.
Wesley Johnson, "a years old, was
hanged at Napoleon, Ohio, last Thurs
day, for the cold blooded murder of
George w. Williams and wife, who
lived on farm. Johnson chopped off
their heads with an ak, his object
being to obtain money to support his
mistress.
Last Thursday a German woman,
Caroline Shreiffer, living on Third
street, while insane from the loss of
her bank book, murdered five Of her
children, and running with her oldest
child, nine years, threw helselfin front
of a train on the Central railroad and
was killed. The child had an arm and
leg crashed and cannot recover.
AT louisville, the county seat Of
Wilson county, inccndiaries burned
the county courthouse and all the
courts records, together with the rec.
ords, deeds, mortgagas,and other val.
uables were totally destroyed. A
large number Of criminal cases were
pending.
A terrible shooting ARRAY occurred
last Wednesday night l6 miles from
CRANKY, Newton county Mo-, in which
John G. Gontz formerly postmaster,
and Nathan Tabor, mercant of CRANKY,
were killed by George Hudson, who
was himself badly wounded. Hudson
Is regarded as desperate, and is
suspected of horse thieving. The
shooting was the result or an old
grudge.
Five hundred laborers and ward
men Of the Wabash road have struck
for their wages.
At krupp's tunnel, near Ligonier,
Pa, scatfolding gave way, killing
nine men and terribly injuring II
others-principally Italians.
Severe and blghting frosts which
have done very considerable damage
to crops, are reported from Wisconsin.
Clothes were frozen stiff on the line,
in some places. Similar reports also
come from Ohio. The Wood River.
ties are not so badly off, after all.
The Greenbackers adopted a plat
form demanding that greenbacks re-
place National Bank notes the
OF the fractional currency:
that the money accumulated in the
Treasury be used to pay off the public
lebt; that tho monopolies be re-
'tricted; that all forfeited land revert
o the public domain, aid be granted
'nly to actual settlers; that alien