The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-31
BRIEFLY TOLD.

General Benjamin Alvord, a retired Mexi
an veteran, died at Washington ON the 18th
The bodies of seven men lost at the Hyd,
Park crib, in Lake Michigan, nave been re
covered.
Failures in the United States for seven day.
ending the 18th, number 2lS, against 30 the
previous week.
Hurd, defeated for congress in Ohio, says
he proposes to investigate the count and prob
ably institute a contest.
The farmers in the vicinity of Fargo, D. T..
are holding their grain, as only ffty-five cents
is offered for No. l hard wheat.
Gas exploded in the Central Pacific mill al
Lawrence, Mass, destroying the naphtha
house, SCATTERING its windows and fatally in.
juring two men.
Application has been made for the appoint
ment of a receiver for the Harrison wire
works at st. Louis. The liabilities are said to
exceed the assets 100000.
4 Hay exporters in Canada have received
notice from the secretary of state at Washing
ton that 81 100000 collected for duties will be
refunded at an early date.
H.. B. Scott & Co., barbed wire manufac-
turers, Pittsburg, have notified their 300 en-
ployes that wages will be reduced 10 per cent.
The reduction will be accepted.
A bill has been introduced into the Vermont
legislature by the opponents of capital pun.
ishment by hanging, providing for the exc
cution of murderers by electricity.
E. W. Cole, the Tennessee railroad king, has
purchased the fine blue grass farm known as
Terrass Place and presented it to the state to
uild a house of refuge for boys and girls.
The colored people of South Carolina, to the
number of one thousand, are invited to emf
CRATE to a farm in California, their transport
tation to be paid and deducted from their
wages.
Volney Bulls residence at North East, Pa,
was fired by his maniac brother, who was con-
fined in an upper room. Volney attempted to
rescue the mad man, but both persisted in the
flames.
Lee Song, a Chinese murderer under sem
tence of death at Portland, Oregon, COM
mittd suicide in his cell. He made a rope out
of his clothing and hanged himself to a hook
on the wall.
Postmaster-G General Hatton and the Mexican
lulllsltT nave COHCluutu u pOSldl COHNtntlOu
providing for the exchange of mail between
the United States and Mexico at domestic
rates of postage.
The lease of the Oregon railroad and naviga-
ton company's lines for ninety-nine years, at
$4,000 per annum, made by Henry Willard
for the Northern Pacific, is sustained by Judge
of Portland.
william Eraaman q Garmap sold m ha from
San Francisco. while in a state of intoxication.
fell off the Illinois Central train twenty miles
above Cairo and was instantly killed, his body
being terribly mashed.
The receiver of the Wall Street bank has
paying a dividend of 20 per cent to de-
Ex-President Evans says they will
be paid in full. 1t is doubtful whether the
stockholders will receive anything.
The new lighthouse at He'll Gate was put
into operation a few days ago. The tower is
$50 feet high, surmounted by an electric light
Of "a .900-candle power. The light is the most
one of any lighthouse in the world.
The Boston lads are solid for Belva Lock
wood for president. Four battalions of them
parade the streets every night in Mother Hub
BARD dresses, with bonnets and parasol
and seem to greatly enjoy the sport.
Advices from Lewis county, Tenn, are to the
fleet that the Mormons who have agreed to
their faith have been permitted to
'emain, and that those who persisted in main
aiming their religious opinions were obliged
leave.
A Viroqua Wis special says John Haschka,
German, 90 years old, only released from
- ,.,,o a,..1,,., eLA& ..l 1.lf~a -. IL
nd then took to the woods, carrying his gun
him. A party of forty armed men are
couring the country for him.
Manufacturing jewellers met at Providence
nd decided to form a protective organiza-
In three months the failures in the
rade have numbered thirty, of which thir-
cen were honest, eleven doubtful and six
fraudulent. The total liabilities amounted to
,045,000.
An old fued between Harrison McQuistion
nd ]. A. MCCARTHY, two farmers living near
Texas, illuminated by McQuistion
the latter with a revolver, the bullet
ntering McGarity's face to the right of the
ose and coming out behind the left ear. He
i'll die. McQuistion made no attempt to es-
,pe, and was arrested by officers at the scene
the shooting I
st. Joseph is the point where the Missouri ! ,
liver Commission will do work as an excep ,
on TO the general plan which confines all '
ork TO Kansas City and vicinity, and not
as was stated. The Omaha people are
ghly indignant over the fact that they will q
II be benefited by the present appropria- :
IN, but the commission has decided that the F,
ork can not possibly extend so far with any d
al benefit to the river. s