The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-24
BRIEFLY TOLD.

BRIEFLY TOLD.
Eight 1ve-story houses in ~Sixty-secon
street. New York. fell on the 18th. Man.
workmen were injured, probably some o
them fatally.
Russia is putting the great naval and mill
airy station of Cronstadt in a state of com
plete defense. Hundreds of torpedoes have
been sunk in the harbor.
John d. Mckee, well known in oil circles In
Pittsburg, having failed in business and be
come a victim of infammatory rheumatism
ended his days with a revolver.
While a heavy storm was passing over
Washington on the 9th the Washington mon
ument was struck three times by lightning,
without causing the least damage.
Justice Andrew wylie. CT the supreme
court of the district of Columbia, has notified
the president that he wishes to be placed on
the retired list. He is II years old.
George II. Mills. who murdered his wife in
Brooklyn on October 6. 1883, paid the pena ty
OF the crime by hanging in the yard of the
Raymond street jail, New York. on the 10th.
Postmaster Cooke, of Unionville, Conn.
was arrested by Postofhce Inspector Bassett
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order funds. He gave $4,000 bonds for ap-
pearance.
Agents of the Pennsylvania railway COM
pany have been instructed to restore passen-
ger rates on all It's lines, which is taken to
mean that the Pennsylvania management has
got tired of the rate war.
Suit for $4,000 damages was brought at
Salt Lake by w. /. Cay eleven-year-old boy
against the D. g. II. G.. railroad company on
account of injuries su tanned by a railroad
accident and which resulted in the loss of one
leg. The jury rendered a verdict for the
plaintiff for $4,000.
]. Henry Shaw, a democratic member of
the lower house of the Illinois legislature
from Cass county. was found dead in bed at
the Palace hotel. Springfield, Sunday. This
makes the third death in the legislature since
the opening of the session. Shaw's death
leaves the house tied"
The Chicago of public safety
met and decided to increase its numbers to
$50 and devote itself to the permanent work
of prosecuting election frauds regardless OF
party. Three of its members subscr. bed an
aggregate of $1,000 for that work, and other
members present contributed smaller sums.
AT a largely attended camp fire of General
John Buford Post, G.. A. r., at Rock Island.
Ills, resolutions offered by II. c.. Connolly
were adopted. that the meeting avowed its
warmest affection for the old commander OF
its members, General Grant, and extended
sympathy with him and his family
in their affiiction.
Chess, Cook s. Co., and Shoeuberger & Co.,
extensive nail manufacturers IF Pittsburg,
have decided TO manufacture steel instead of
iron nail, hereafter and have contracted for
to make steel. About2O men will
be thrown out of employment and it is
thought other manufacturers will be COM
oelled to follow their example.
A bloody tragedy, growing out of family
roubles, was enacted at Poplar Bluffs, Mo-,
md caused great excitement. Louis Derry, a
member of the city council and at one time
ity marshal. shot his wife four times, killing ]
Ter instantly, and then blew out his own
Jealousy is alleged as the cause of
)crry's act, he having accused his wife of be- '
ng too intimate with another man. '
A. r. Dimmick, charged with being one Of {
he men who set fire to the town of Weston, l
RECON, a year ago, whLn s50o,0o0 in property
as burned, was discovered in Gerva's. Ore c
~ tNNbtAy chOiihf NJ q pussy VI L
x, made an unsuccessful attempt to arrest
re fugitive. The sheriff presented a double I
arreled shotgun and ordered Dimmick to f
lrrender, but the latter sprang On him, tore
10 gun from his grasp, and covering the +
'owd with it made his escape. =
The following figures are taken from a a
compiled by Secretary Stone. of A
lie Chicago board of trade, to show the visi- D
e supply of wheat, corn. oats. rye and barley 4
the United States and Canada on Saturday, s.
pril IL. and the amount of increase or de- Il
ease for the week ending at that date:
heat, 1851 ,232 bushels, a decrease of 49, 81
bushels; corn, 0 1858, 1855 bushels, an increase =,
1.072.503 bushels: oats. 2,4ls,31O bushels, a n
Grease of 246, 1SS bushels; rye, 3D., 7s9 BUSH =
a decrease of 45, l42 bushels; barley, 1880 ~
lshels. The stocks of grain in store in Chi a
go April IL were: Wheat, 1880, 400 bush Z
J; corn. 2.36s, $50 b~u-h.sis; oats, $3.50 bu . \,
;; rye, 129,6i3 bushels; barley. 50.43s bush o.