The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-05-03
Call for a Meeting IN the Interest
of Reducing National
Taxation.
No Settlement Reached in the Con-
terence of the B. & M. and
the Union Pacific.
Decisions by the U. S. Supreme Court
Political, Criminal, Foreign and
Other News.
NEWS NOTES.


Two indictments were found agains
Governor Ordway by the United State
grand jury, at Yankton.
DR.. F. d. Hemenway, professor c
Hebrew and biblical literature at the Gar
rett institute, Evanston, ILL.,, is dead.
r. H. Turner, who left Mingo juno
ton, Ohio, with SIG, 900 Of Pennsylyani
railroad funds, has returned to Pittsbur
and compromised.
A mar and wife blew out the gas il
their room at the Palmer house, Chicago
on retiring. The woman died; the nan /
not expected to recover.
A cut in lumber rates to Colorado
points is announced by the trunk line asso'
citation. The Burlington and Santa #,
roads met the cut with promptness.
In answer to inquiry the commands
ant at Fort Keogh urges a convention Of
stock growers and breeders at that place.
A water spout killed one child and
wounded several other members of a Efam-
lily, whose house was destroyed, in Dade
county, Mo.
The senate judiciary committee re-
ported favorably the resolution to submit
an amendment to the constitution to per-
NIT the president to veto one or more items
Of an appropriation bill while approving
luo ItudluucI lutTtOls
A bank at bingham, ILL.,, has lost
its president and $25, 900 to $50, 900.
The number of standard dollars is
sued last week was 254, 9S8.
An ex-city treasurer of Newark, N.
j., was lined S., 900 for not preventing a
falsa entry in his books.
Washouts of railroads are reported
from the high water in Lake Champ
lain.
The report of the Indian uprising in
the Northwest territory is officially de-
MED.
Two desperadoes fought a duel near
Irving, KY, and both climbed the golden
stairs.
Charles Frike, who is too feeble to
leave his. bed, had strength enough to beat
his wife's brains out with a club at Wauke-
gan, Ill.
Mexican merchants have petitioned
the government to substitute for the stamp
act a tax on sales, agreeing in this event to
advance to the government 81, 900, 900.
! The traffic manager of the Canadian
Pacific road has resigned by request.
Cause, $200, 900 unaccounted for.
The house committee has decided to
require from the Pacific railroads a pay
ment Of thirty-tive per cent of gross earn
ih6o ihtO ~ oiuhilS luAu
In endeavoring to save his household
goods, Moses Glessner was fatally burned
at Marion, Ind.
The village of Wamsley, o., was
destroyed by fire. Loss, $40, 900.
j. C. Burrows, of Michigan, recently
confirmed as solicitor of the treasury, has
written to the president formally declining
the office.
The senate committee on railroads
unanimously agreed to report, with a few
minor amendments, the bill prepared by
Senator Cullom to establish a commission
to regulate inter state and other
purposes.
The eight eastern trunk lines an
nounce that they will sell excursion tickets
to Chicago during the session Of the repub-
lican convention at one fare for the round
trip. The Southwestern, Western and
northwestern roads out of Chicago will sell
round trip tickets for one and one-third
fare.
The Boston Transcript says: There
is no truth in the report that the 81, 900, 900
of new Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
stocki is for the purpose OF securing connec-
ton with the Denver and Rio Grande and
Western railway in Utah.
The steamer Bear, of the Greedy re-
expedition, took her departure from
New York for the arctic regions on the oath.
M. Mcdonald, a. prominent lawyer
Of Denver, was crushed to death between
cars at Coal Creek.
Ex-Gov. Marcus L. Ward, of New
is dead.
The trial of Frank James, for completely
the Mussel Shoals robbery Of 1881, was
concluded at Huntsville, Ala, with a ver-
iict of n guilty." The court house
vas packed. The verdict was greeted with {
James was Immediately arrested |
~ the sheriff of Cooper county, Missouri. {
There was a large meeting at Cooper {
Union, New York, to protest against the !
Introduction into that market Of Chicago l
beef. :
Gov. Crittenden has appointed Gen. +
Y. T. Sherman brigadier general of mill c
la for the eastern district OF Missouri.
Paul Moran, for shooting into a pas y
enger coach, was tried at Galveston, c
'exas, and acquitted. Some indignation D
7as expressed as to the justice Of the ver- p
let, the law proclaiming it no offence to L
into a railway coach unless II Is q
roven that lives are endangered thereby. G
The American minister to Mexico has s
,rwarded to the department of state a copy
I the decree issued by the president Of the v
ordering that on and after the 10th C
I May the duty on all goods imported to o
lat country shall be increased 8 per cent. G
The house committee on postoflices s.
nd post-roads has directed a sub-commit- ii
10, consisting of Messrs. Rogers, Ward,
NJ. Taylor, Bingham and Wakefield, to
repare a bill providing for a contract sys- co
m of postal telegraph.
A disease resembling pleuro-pneu-
onia has broken out among the cattle in
'ashlngton county, Pa. Veterinary sur ar
ions pronounce 1t contagious. They q,
we recommended Governor Pattison to oil
the district. in
Two men went to the house of Amos G,
.ackenstros, residing near Berns, Adams FIR
unity, Indiana. He rose in bed and was In
OF through the heart. The house was in
bbed Of $73. tn
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