The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL.

will be held soon in New York. Vice
President Atkins states that Dillon will
probably tender his resignation and thai
Charles Francis Adams will be chosen
president. The earnings Of the company
for May, though not fully made up, will
now, it is estimated, show decrease o.
from $3.50, 900 to $500, 900 net. e
The court of appeals at Frankfort,
Ky., reversed the decision of the lower
courts in the case of Thomas Crittenden,
nephew Of Governor Crittenden, Of Mis-
souri,, charged with and sentenced to the
penitentiary for killing negro. Illegal
evidence is the grounds for reversal.
w. A. Cooper, well known banker
of Montrose, Pa, was shot at three times
by Joseph Drinker, also well known citi-
zen of Binghampton. Two Of the three
shots took effect. Cooper may survive.
Drinker Immediately killed himself.
The Eastern Railroad company has
rendered the committee Of the Chicago con-
vention to notify Mr.. Blaine of his nomina-
ton the use of special train to convey the
committee from Boston to Augusta. The
offer was accepted.
There is trouble between the mem
bers of the Western Trunk Line association
and the eastern trunk lines regarding rates
on wool from the Mississippi river to the
seaboard. The western trunk lines demand
the right to make through rates. This has
been refused by the eastern lines.
10 quarrel at an amateur minstrel
entertainment at a country shool house
near Paris ILL.,, Albert Metcaf, aged IT,
fatally stabbed Anthony McAllister, who
died before morning.
Advices from southern New Jersey
say the thermometer at sunrise on the
morning of the 18th was SO degrees above
zero and there was considerable frost in the
meadows and low places. Much damage,
it is feared, was done tender crops.
A boy named Woods recklessly
threw light into deserted powder mag
azine at Akron, Ohio, causing an explosion
which instantly killed Perry Peck, aged ID,
and slightly injured several other lads.
1t is asserted that the Grand, Trunk
Of the east-bound passenger pool.
VIM. M. Springer has been renomi-
mated for congress- This is Mr.. Springer's
sixth nomination, and he has never had to
make contest since the first time, every
nomination coming to him having been by
reclamation.
A dispatch from New Laredo, Mex
leo, says information has been received
there that terrible accident has occurred
on the Tampico branch of the Mexican Cen
trail railroad, by which two Americans and
twelve Mexican laborers were killed by the
premature explosion of blast.
Daniel Carrigon, chief clerk of the
bureau of medicine and surgery Of the navy
department, and Edwin C. Kirkwood, a
clerk in the same bureau, have been St
ed, charged with defrauding the govern
ment by mears of forged vouchers for sup
plies which had been negotiated by outside
parties.
Andrew Long, whose wife was found
brutally murdered in bed few nights ago
at her home near Muir, Michigan, was ar
rested and made a full confession. He says
that he got up in the night, and with club
beat her head In. '
Fire at Braddock, Pa, wiped out an
entire block.
Mrs. Warren, wife of Bishop Henry
Warren, of Denver, has donated 500, 200 |
to the Denver university for the establish |
ment Of a department of divinity, to be
known as the Iliff School of Divinity, on
condition that others endow single pro-
N.7s'fr fts+
The dedication of the Washington
at Washington, D. c., will take |
place on the 22d Of February, next year.
Extensive preparations are being made for
the event.
Munro's fireworks factory at Brad
lord, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the
10th.
A desperate encounter between Off
,ers and thieves took place on the south
'ork of the Smoky river, in Kansas. The
officers, VINO were members Of the Rocky |
Mountain Detective association, were in
pursuit Of the thieves, who had carried off
number Of cattle When the thieves found
hey could not escape they showed fight.
Two of them were killed and two escaped.
General Miles has detailed Lieuten-
.nts Abercrombie and Brumback and DR..
Robinson, with NJ. Holman, Typographical
to explore the Copper river of
Alaska. The expedition is considered a
dangerous one, as the Copper river country
S occupied by Indians who have never al
owed q white man to explore it.
A boiler at Field & Co.'s brick yard
It Albany, Ga, exploded, killing four ne
,roes.
WASHINGTON
The senate committee on public
ands decided to recommend the forfeiture
II the Ontonagon land grant.