The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-20
BRIEFLY TOLD.

DR.. Chosen was hanged at Philadelphia on
he 9Th for murder.
President Cleveland has appointed General
Iohn c. Black of Danville, ILL.,, commissioner
IF pensions.
Fire losses throughout the country foot up
$1,000, 0O0-5O pc. cent more han the aver
age loss in February during ten years past
Edwin Booth has firmly resolved on leaving
the stage. He will play a series of farewell
engagements in the larger cities of the coun-
| Try.
By an accident on the Illinois Central rail
road near Grenada, Miss, two engines were
totally wrecked and two firemen instantly
killed
The directors of the board of trade of Peoria,
ILL.,, presented resolution to be acted on at
m early day, suspending any member con-
,erned directly or indirectly in the business of
lealing in options.
Josiah Locke dropped dead in the Indianap-
| oils Journal office of heart disease. He was
editor and proprietor of the Journal num-
Der OF years ago and later business manager
Of the Chicago Advance.
The New York Daily Commercial Bulletin
estimates the aggregate fire loss for Febru-
airy at $4,000 O00-56 per cent more than the
average loss for February for years past IN
GLIDING January, some Sls,000.00O worth OF
property burned up thus far in 1885.
The latest regarding Grant is thus stated:
DR.. Douglas says that General Grant has had
a red-letter day for him. He has eaten heart
| lily, been out riding, and seems considerably
improved. The condition of his throat is no
better, however, and the progress OF his diar-
rhGa has not been checked.
In the United States supreme court at
Washington, the motion of NJ. A. Dauphin vs.
he Times Publishing Company of Philadel-
phia to advance the hearing of the case was
ienied. The court granted the motion of
plaintiff in the polygamy case of Clawson
against the United States to advance thehear-
| ng to April 6, 1885.
| The Utah church organs and local author-
ties urge the brethren to renewed diligence
in boycotting "our enemies" Some of their
mutual improvement associations. under the
lead of the bishops, have passed resolutions
not to further patronize Gentiles until the
polygamy prosecutions cease. In speaking
of this the church organ demands that the ac-
| ton be made unanimous
I Agent Gassman, at Mitchell, Dakota, re-
| ceived orders from the interior department
not to allow the Indians to interfere with set
tiers. The tribes now understand the situa-
ton and are said to be satisfied. Land entries
are being made in great numbers. and squat
ter rights filings are coming in by thousands
AS yet, however, there is no plat il the Mitch.
ell land office. Much good land in the Grow
Creek valley is still untaken. "Shacks" are
springing up rapidly.
| George Hatch, a prominent farmer OF
| Niagara county. New York, living two miles
south of Lockport, was bitten on the right leg
by an angry dog last August and, although
no signs of hydrophobia have appeared, Hatch
has suffered considerably ever since from the
wound, which during the past two weeks has
| swollen and the Inflammation has extended to
| other parts of his body, until his life is now
despared Of His physicians are unable to
explain the singular case, it being without
precedent.
| An Atchison Kansas) dispatch says: Il. A.
| Clark and eight surveyors from the Union
Pacific Offices at Omaha went west on the
Central Branch tosurvey an extension of that
road 10 a connection with the Kansas Pacific
either at Monument or Gilmore. Lines will
| De run from Bull Clty 10 Lehora, anu 'he
route Offering the best inducement will be
adopted in case the extension is agreed upon
| by the Union Pacific company. There is no
positive assurance that connection with the
Kansas Pacific will be made, but the fact of
the surveying party being sent out is evil
dence that it is contemplated. Monument is
| eight miles southwest Of Lenora, and the
nearest point on the Kansas Pacific to Bull
| City is 100 miles distant