The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-12-12
BRIEFLY TOLD.

BRIEFLY TOLD.
Burr, Son h Co, brewers, New York, failed
Liabilities $1,000.
Mrs. P. 7. Barnum is seriously i'll, and tn
W himself is not feeling very well.
fire at whitehall, Ill, consumed six bust
ness houses. Loss, SCI 600; insurance, s14,0o0
Payne, the Oklahoma boomer, died sudden
ly at the breakfast table in Wellington, Kas.
last week.
Governor Cleveland has declined a grant
banquet at the Academy of Music. Philadel
phia, rendered by a number of prominenr
democrats.
Mrs. Wattacounit and her 12-year-oM daugh
ter were frozen to death near Oconto, Wis
They lost their way in a swamp a un,
able to get out.
The working force of the Pennsylvania rail
road been reduced. Over HOO men nave
been dismissed. This saves the companyS42,-
900 per month.
Charles 7. Goodwin, cracker manufacturer
suicidcd at Rochester, N. T., by placing his
head on the railroad track. Recent business
troubles affected his mind.
The total indebtedness of the several subsi-
died Pacific railroads to the United States on
June 30, 1884, is reported by the commissioner
of railroads to be sl27,s18,Ge.1s.
George A. Davis, army inspector, died at
Brooklyn. He was appointed from Wisconsin,
in 1851. After the capture of New Orleans he
was given charge of the mint there.
The general feeling Rmong business men of
iPittsburg is daily growing more hopeful.
Large orders for railroad supplies have been
given this week and many bids asked for.
The bank of Middletown, New York, failed
last week. Among the directors of the sus-
pended bank are Omitted States Senator Nan
Wyck, of Nebraska, formerly of Middlescwn,
Representative Davis, Of Chicago, thinks
that Senator Logan will be reelected that
the great sympathy for him will induce some
democratic member of thelegislature tppbreak
the tie.
Edgar Thomso1's steel works at Pittsburg,
employing 5000 men, Will close down.. A 10
per cent. reduction of wages at the american
iron works and Lewis foundry was accepted
by the employees.
The jury, at Fort Worth, Texas, in the case
of young Dawson, who had his hand mashed
n coupling cars, rendered a verdict of $15,O0
against the Galveston, Harrisbures& San An |
tonia railroad.
The leading clearing houses in the United
States report gross exchanges for the week
ended November 10th were $752,s55 1884, de-
crease of 1915 per cent'oompared with the cor
responding week one year ago.
Rev. LuEeD Davis. of Binghampton, NY, aged
is dead. He was a graduate from Madison
in 1910 and preached in several
nr0minaHf fRQnftaf ab,raba =, No. Wi
Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Ohio.
The general assembly of Virginia passed .
over the governors veto the electoral board :
DILL. This is the second time this year the as =
has done this, the court of appeals .
having decided the first bill to- be unconstitu- :
!
The boiler of a'saw mill abozt seven miles p
rom Louisville exploded, tearing the building
o pieces and killing John Morgan, r. Figg n
md four others whose names are not known. n
'wo others were seriously injured and it is d
bought they will die. W
The order issued by the-coal combination tt
ately for a general suspension of work at ali pr
lines the first week of December is rescinded. W
ince the notice was published orders have III
oured in upon retail and Wholesale agents, eo
III &c cOutTdctS nave been made.
The Louisville Courier-Journal staff CORE
'ondent's investigation of the plague in east
n Kentucky sends from Mount Pleasant a -
that since the latter part of August ~
the sparsely populated county of Harlan, -
ere has been over 200 deaths. This county
only one on the outskirts sef the district :
which the disease has been the most fatal. tel
The report of the commissioner of pensions -.
ows that at the close of thed1scal year 1884 A.
ere were 322, 1853 pensioners. There were 90
ned TO this roll during the year the names -
34,l% new pensioners, and L.921 previously ~,
opped were restored to the rolls, making in -
aggregate &,4l3; and 1885 were dropped
various causes. being a net increase on the 5
| of 19y09e- rep
I Is claimed 10y j. Jarrett, general agent Tn,
the Amerif .iu Plate association at nav
tsburg, that --e has discovered a direct and
ision of the tariff law in New York and fem
ston, where galvanized iron and steel ,ar,
are being importedthrough the custom ,r.s
Uses at the same rates as tin plates. The ono
W on these sheets is 4 per cent. per pound no,l
re than on tinplates.
he secretary of the interior, in his animal
'ort, says that thirty-ive hundred and tbir Al
one alleged fraudulent entries of public to n
Us, embracing an area of 10000 acres, have eign
investigated and reported, principally in Ea
ifornia, Colorado, Dakota, Minnesota and aha,
,,~ ,-As an' d 'esser NUMBER In all other Unit
'lc land states and territories; $40 entries
| for cancellation GA boile
ered in ~, casas A., oosn Gen,
suspended awaiting investigation. MINI
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