The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL.


In West Point, Ca, Sam Gibson, CO
y ored, grossly assaulted his own daughte
a and was jailed. The next night party c
i colored men broke into the Jail to lynch tn
prisoner. He resisted, cutting six of ther
: severely. The lynchers then shot him dead
q While a we'll was being dug at the
>. factory of Duke & Sons, Durham, N. C..
q the walls caved in, burying seven men
Three were taken out, one badly injured
r Four remain In the well dead.
; Miss Clara Barton, president, dnC
Mr.. A. S. Solomons, vice-president of tn,
American association OF the r I'd Cross, hav
been appointed by the president delegates
to represent the United States at the Genevs
| conference of the International association
in September next.
An Ottawa dispatch says there is nc
truth in the statement purporting to come
from Washington that paper and rags, sup
posed to have been collected in the cholera
infected districts of Europe, are being i'm
ported into the United States through Cana
dian ports. The dispatch adds that the
necessary precautions are taken before ship
ment. The dominion cannot tell what is In
the bales and the fault Of not taking proper
precautions must rest with United States
authorities.
General Grant, residing at Long
Branch, is still lame and unable to attend
the national encampment OF the Grand
Army at Minneapolis this week.
John Nagel, the Louisville (Ky.)
hickman supposed to have been shot acct
dentally by the gambler, Joe Schultze, is
now thought to have been murdered, as the
evidence by the testimony of witness at
the trial indicated. Nagel had been en-
ployed by Schultze to assist him in clipping
with his divorced wife. Mrs. Schultze's
mother testified that Nsgel was shot before
he reached her house, and that the story Of
Schultze of accidental killing is not true.
Tucker, Hammond & Co., Boston,
b. Browne, treasurer Of the Boston Water
Power company. Liabilities, 500, 900; as
sets nominally the same.
The private banking house of F. G.
Hall, Elmira, N. Y, closed its doors on
the 21st. Inability to realize on real estate
and securities is given as the cause. The
bank carried about 800, 900 or 500, 200.
Ex-Governor Yarmouth, of Louisi-
ana, who is now a successful sugar planter,
turning out 1,00O, ZOO pounds of sugar
way to France, where he goes to examine
sugar milling machinery. The sugar plant
ers Of Louisiana, he says, find that under
existing conditions it costs about five cents
a pounI to produce sugar which they have
to sell for about the same sum. Unless
some change occurs they will soon have to
come to full stop.
The two-story brick building occu-
pied by the Live Stock Indicator publishing
company and Wimbush, Powell & Co.,
printers, at Kansas City, fell on the 22i,
he foundation having been weakened by
on the lots adjoinings. The
lamage is estimated at $1,000
A work train with forty bridge hands
vas passing through the Black canon, west
4 Gunnison, Colorado, when spark from
be engine ignit,d a box containing giant
owder. A terrific explosion followed,
iling john Lynch, Joh1 M)rris, j. W.
'lsen, bridge hands, AMI wounding num- I
er Of others. Tls cars and engine were I
ably wrecked. s
A severe hail and wind storm deluged
Wisconsin and did much damage to crops t
nd property ON the 23d.
Two houses of ill-fame, kept by David
Test and Daisy Williams respectively, at
.bina, Ohio, were blown up by citizens by ,
lie use of giant powder. The inmates were
lowed to depart. No one hurt. !,
A fierce fire ragged at Dayton, Ohio, p
the 23i, destroying Dodd's hay rake fac S
ry and twenty private buildings. Loss, a
1000. II
The boiler of steam threshing ma a
line exploded on the farm of Joseph Hall,
ar Bushville, Ind. Engineer Swain was "
lied, David Henderson was crushed to L
ath by the falling of portion OF the W
ier, which was thrown one hundred feet
the air, and four persons severely in &C
red. -
The steamer j. M. Bowel capsized e1
d thirty persons, including the crew, ds
re thrown into the river. All were res
ed but little child of Mr.. Harrison. or
Three young children of Joseph Ash eli
went bathing In the river near Green tt
y, Wis.,, and in attempting to rescue one fr'
their number from drowning all three cit
rished. CO
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WASHINGTON Air
Admiral Nichols, acting secretary of AS
, navy, has issued orders to Commander
ney to remain at St. Johns as long as nee. q