The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-06-26
GENERAL NEWS and NOTES.
Matters of Interest Touched Upon by Press
Netcs Gdtherers.

Matters of Interest Touched Upon by Pre-
Netcs CATERERS.
Seventeen year locusts in counties
numbers have made their appearance in FaJ
cite county, Ill. The pests have already bt
gan work on the fruit orchards and farmer
are beginning to view them with serious az
prehensions.
At the stockholders meeting of tn,
Chicago, Milwaukee Il St. Paul railway com
pany, the old board of directors and Phil D
Armour, of Chicago, was chosen to fill tn,
vacancy caused by the death of s. s. Merrill
The directors meeting resulted in the cleo
ton of Alexander Mitchell as president, Ju
Illus Wadsworth as vice president, John B
Dumont as second vice president, and Ros
well Miller as general manager
Schneider, charged with the murder
of his mother, at Dantown, Ohio, October
ural crime.
A telegram from Bonham, county
seat of Fannin county, Texas, says Sam and
Ed. Dyer, the murderers of Sheriff Ragsdale
and Deputy Sheriff Buchanan, in jail awaiting
trial, were taken out by mob of masked
men and hung to tree 300 yards from the
jail. There were upwards of 1OO men who
called on the jailor and no one was identified.
The coroner's jury returned verdict of death
from strangulation at the hands of unknown
parties.
Over thousand men ana r~ys made
a raid upon the Salvation Army at-Akron, o.,
pelting the soldiers with mud and stones,
tearing their flags to pieces, and destroying
their drums. Several women soldiers were
assaulted and quite badly injured before the
police dispersed the mob.
The Boston police raided three of
the city poolrooms, where most of the base
ball gambling is done, and arrested ten sellers
OF tickets and seized all the paraphernalia.
Proprietors of several hotels at the
White Mountains have invited Grant and his
family to spend the next summer with them.
Colonel Fred Grant in acknowledging the
invitation says General Grant requests
me to say that he does not believe it will
be possible for him to accept an invita-
ton. His health is so bad and he is
10 weak that it is now great question with
him to arrange as to whether'he can get to
Mount McGregor, but should his health i'm
prove he viii visit Mount Washington with
great pleasure"
r. ports to President Strasser, of tho |
Union, from unions all over the
United States and Canada, show a slight inn
orovcment in the cigar trade which has been
Effected b. the general depression. The sales
If cigars during the month of May just passed
we're ), 900 600 less than for the corresponding
,eriod of 1854 But two strikes are now in
,rogress, one at Hamilton, Ont, and another
It Covington, KY.
S decoy for Odlum when the latter took his
atal leap from the Brooklyn bridge, has been
ound guilty on a charge of aiding and abet-
ing Odlum in his insane attempt, and SEN
nnced to eight months imprisonment. His
ounscl obtained stay of the proceedings
nd will carry this case to the appellation.
Intelligence is received of a bloody
OF at negro camp meeting at Zion church, ,
ork county, S. c., caused by whisky and r. ,
airy between the city and the country ne
-oes. The conflict ragged over an hour, and at
s conclusion there were three dead and 1
vcnty more or less injured. The country ne
-ocs retained possession OF the field.
Fifty-three of the memorial stones I
= the Washington monument, which have
any years been stored away, have been Sc
cted to be placed on the interior wall of the
ructure. The selected stones are those pre- Z
nted by foreign countries, the states and
rritories, and Masonic and 1. o. 0. F. and
importance societies They are to be placed
the walls between the heights Of 100 and c
0 feet, and are to be cut down to thin slabs Il
four to eight inches in thickness and in 3
rted in cuts made in the walls so that they 9
Il not project. o.
Three chilrcn, sons of Henry Alt. n
eyer aged respectively two, five and seven cl
airs, residing at Tarenturn, Pa, were ter P
ply burned by the explosion Of a can of kero W
ne oil. The little fellows had poured por- W
IN of the fluid upon the floor OF an outbuild. D.
ana set nre TO It, The flames communi- Of
ted to the can which exploded. The two CO
iesI cannot recover. co
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The Pennsylvania Legislature ad- :,
irned on the 18th. =,
Anthony Funk, alias Talbot. who is m
arged with Systematically stealing more -,
IN two hundred volumes from the Chicago "
bile Library, in the course of two years, dt
lie in the employ of the library, and who +,
S suspected of design to blow up Chicago l
iversity by the employment of an Internal r.
chine, was found to be insane and sent to DC
} Elgin insane asylum. hi
A special to the Times Democrat wi
N Aberdeen, Miss, says: +. o. Sykes, Of "
place, who was appointed internal revenue co
ector of the Mississippi district a short III
C ago to succeed James Hill, (colored), has Gu
item to the president formally declining lei
position. The examination OF the Office 10
WINGED him the duties would require more of
{ than the salary was worth. II
lenry McGeary, Pittsburg, recently ~
Titled as the prosecutor OF the Widow He