The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-01-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK
GENERAL.

dent.
The Fitzgeralds and Webb, Washing
ton pension attorneys, have given bail il
$1,000 to answer to the indictments agains
them. They have been suspended from
practice before the commissioner OF pen
sions.
Great distress exists from small-po,
at Gadsden, Tennessee. Out Of q cases Il
have died. An appeal is made for nurse,
and virus.
The Reading Pa.) rail mills will
close down indefinitely on January 1st. This
will throw 800 men out OF work.
The New York weekly bank state
ment on the 22d reports as follows: Loans,
increase, 81, ,0S0; specie, increase, $4,000, :
500; legal tenders, decrease, $622, 500; de-
posits, increase, So. 199 800; circulation, in
crease, $44, 100; reserve, increase, 81, ,63S, =
175. The banks now hold 1894, $50 in excess
Of legal requirements.
The landing of the Pilgrims was OBJ
he Pilgrim society on Pilgrim hill. Thos.
Russell presiding.
The Burlington Gazette publishes
complete description of the buildings and
! improvements OF Burlington during 1888,
which foot up in cost over 81, ,O0O, COG, the
| best record OF growth in the history of the
| city.
Nennor reads the ruddy skies 10 mean
unusual, even summer warmth during the
latter part OF December and much Of Janu-
sry, but thinks "March and April will
probably give us the coId and snow lacking
through the first half of the winter. -
In quarrel at Grafton, W. Va, Car
ter Smith drove scissors through George
McDaniel's heart, killing him instantly.
Charles Weaver, immured IN the
Sunbury (Pa.) Jail, confessed to connection
with gang of burglars, and gave the names
and addresses OF all the members.
The lunatic asylum on Ward s Island.
New YORK harbor, caught fire, causing
great excitement among the 1 ,32O patients,
but all were removed in safety. The damage !
Is 25,000.
Edward Moran, sent by the Irish
World to London TO investigate, reports
that the adverse feeling of the English peo-
pie prevented General Pryor from taking
more prominent part in the defense of |
O'Donnell.
At the annual dinner of the Brook
lyu New England society, President Ar
thur, General Grant, Henry Ward Beecher,
and others made short speeches. Two hun
dred and fifty persons were present.
The supreme court of Michigan
affirmed the judgment from the superior
court of Detroit in the case of Mclean VS..
Scrips. This was the libel suit of DIR.
Mclean against the Evening News, of De-
trot, in which Mclean was awarded $780,
600.
Miss Gabriel Greely, daughter of the
late Horace Greely, was thrown from a
sleigh at the depot at Pleasantville, n. Y,
her horse taking fright. She was not Sc
riously injured.
Lorrillard & Co.. Jersey City, dis
tributed $4,000 among their factory
hands on Christmas.
Judge Van worse, of the supreme
cour; OF Now York has given decision IN
the euit OF Harvey Kennedy against Henry
II. Porter. president of the Minneapolis 4
Omaha railway, Roswell L. Flower. David
Dows and others, ordering Porter 10 make
the accounting sought FOR.
Judge ioufbourrow, of Atlantic,
Iowa. was transferred 10y Governor Sher-
man from the circuit judgoship of the Thir-
Ieenth circuit 10 the district iudgeshlp Of the
Thirteenth district. made Nacan, by the res
gnalion of Judge Reed elected 10 the su-
preme bench. Major Lyman, Of Council /,
Bluffs, Is appointed 20 the vacarcy Of cir
,ut Judge.
An Orangemen procession at Harbor /
Grace, n. f., was attacked by amob on the a
everal mortally wounded. :
Mrs. General Sherman and daughter 5
,achael, had narrow escape from death b
m the a6th ut st. Louis. They had been "
ttending Xavier church, on Ninth and Lu- b
as avenue, and had adjusted themselves in a
helr buggy 10 20 nome, Nutn tue norses
ecame frightened and dashed madly up :.
lucas avenue until reaching Eleventh :,
treet, where they collided with lamp post IT
nd awning The ladies were taken from ;,
he wreck uninjured but badly shocked.
Archbishop Perche, who for some -
'eeks has been in falling health, was in such "
II alarming condition on the 26th that 1t ..
ias deemed imperative TO administer the =,
,st sacrament. The archbishop suffers l.,
,ore by age than sickness. His. death Is !,
xpected momentarly.
Wm. McCaffery, Il prominent ward p
olitcan and assistant superintendent OF L
larkets at New Orleans. was shot and NOR IL
lily wounded In a gambling saloon by Dud in
enand, one OF the proprletors OF the es-
Iblishment. l..
Three men digging coal near Jirard- BY
lie, Pa, were buried by falling earth. Sc
ne was fatally and the others seriously in aC
red. in
A petition requesting congress to p'
revent tho innortation of foroion lohorcre |