The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-17
GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Matters of Interest Touched Upon by Press
Netcs Gatterers.

n motterS or Interest Touched Upon by Pre-,
= Netrs Gatherers.
q Fourteen cars of a special freight train lade
with umber fell through a forty foot bridg
near Delhi, Ind, and were wrecked. Tw
brakemen, Goodwin and Hurley, both of La
! Fayette, were injured. The former wa
buried in the ruins.
Four small children, playing with matches
|, set fire to a barn at Grand Rapids, Mich, ant
a little 3year old daughter of j. H. Strickland
was fatally burned.
Patrick Blif and James Miller, tramps, were
struck by a railroad train near Pittsburg.
Miller was instantly killed and Bliff fatally
injured.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ma
chine shops at Trenton, NO., burned a few
nights ago.
Rev. Thomas B. Lee, a Methodist clergy
man, an old and esteemed resident, cut his
throat at Springfield, ILL.,, with razor. Men
tai alteration frfm nervous prostration is the
cause.
Charley Fitzpatrick, only son of Thomas Kill
patrick, a Euclid avenue, Cleveland, drv goods
merchant, was killed through a druggists
mistake. The boy was suffering with dip
liberia, and a prescription was taken to a lead
ing druggist, who ordered a stronger dose
which killed the child.
Heavy rains in Southern Kansas have swol-
len the streams to flood proportions, causing
very serious damage. Tn tracks of the
Southern Kansas Roads and branches of the
Missouri Pacific are under water, preventing
trains FASTING. The Neosho river is for out
OF its banks.
Lowell has presented to the library of Har-
yard College a rare collection of English, It
allan and Spanish works. Some are of great
value and none are common place.
Winnipeg dispatch Big Bear was captured
near Carleton, by Sergeant Swart, of the
mounted police. The chiefs son and one of
his counsellors were taken at the same time
Big Bear said his band was on the way to
to surrender. They had been some
days without provisions and had passed OF
ter's and %1rvine's forces on the way. Seven
more of Big Bears band were captured by
Dennis, surveyor of the scouts, and Irvine
has taken seventeen. The remainder are sur.
rendering to the Indian agent and delivering
up their arms. !
A dispatch from the city of Mexico saws.
proclamation signed by several students
was found placarded on the dead walls de.
claring that the recent decree for the conver
Of the public debt is humiliating and
protesting that the law is one of the mosl G
syrannical ever registered in the history OF &
arbitrary government. Attention is called @
o the protest against the recognition of the q
English debt during Gonzales administration. o
protest written in the blood of the people .,
alls for a popular demonstration of disap :,
roval which concludes the document. The
overnment took immediate measures tc
uard against an outbreak. All the troops =
1 the city were ordered to remain in tbeii {
arracks. Several editors have been arrested a
nd will be taken to YucataD. o
A disastrous fire occurred at Stoughton, :.
lis, on the 9Th. Ten large tobacco ware u
buses with about 5000 cases of tobacco were II
italy destroyed. The losses will aggregate
early If not quite 5000 0 Amount of in W
france unknown. Eastern tobacco buyers Il
re the principal losers. Five hundred men W
'e thrown out of employment in consequence C.
the fire. The total amount of insurance is g,
As, $50. The insurance on deposits not h.
lown. The loss on warehouses is $4,000, :,
bout one-half of which is covered by insur- ;:
ice. There were about Il, 600 cases of to- =,
lcco stored in the warehouses;, worth $50 ",
.ch makes the loss on that article about IL
O0, 000.
J. Milton Turner, (colored). a lawyer and ge
.'litician of St Louis, went 10 Pierce City q
d registered at the Decatur house. The pC
ndlord refused 20 accommodate him.
lrner left in a very indignant state of n,
and next morning prepared his papers nj
d will at once push the case. He sues for I.
1000, and says he will test the matter to =
bitter end. The little town Is greatly ex- ~
ed over the matter. The hotel man is
althy. co
The business portion of Norristown, Ind, sp
S burned. Loss, $50, 900. I'll
The refining shop and ware rooms OF the ~
city oil works of St Louis burned; VI
S, $4,000.
ohm Hanna, a graduate Of the New York ,
dical college and son of a wealthy and >.
minent resident Of New York city, was u"
nd dead in the fifth precinct police station 'r'
lse where he was locked up while i~ntoxica- Oh
/. Congestion of the brain is supposed to on
the cause Of his death. VI
Iaster mechanic Phillips, OF the Missouri ere
ifc railroad, Morris Ross and Jake Jones. an
PARSONS, Kansas, while attempting to cross uc'
'oueu eieeA "ei 'i""" unuei " culVert ere
drowned. one train on the Missouri Pa in
road zane in, the Others are still water WI
nd. Great loss to wheat, corn and oats is oa'
from the overllowed districts In
thern Kansas.
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