The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-31
GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Matters of Interest Touched Upon by PRESS
Neics Gd1.erera

tiary, Pa, on May 31st, 1884, by beating o.
his brains with a wooden bobbin and bar
iron, was hung in the corridor of the couni
prison. The keeper had administered a ma
seating medicine which the prison physical
had prescribed thereby mourning Taylor's a
mostly. Taylor was only IS years of age, bl
4, of a vicious disposition, the police RECORD
l showing that be has stabbed II persons an
. shot Is during ten years before the murder.
Geo. Yerder, IS years old, was arrested o
the street, in Chicago, by the police for sci
ing a reprint from the American newspaper
OF the London Pail Mall Gazette scandal. H
= was fined one hundred dollars by Justic
Foote. The fine was suspended on his prom
Use OF disseminating the sale of the pamphlet
An elderly lady, Mrs. Dream, of Peoria, re
: turning from a visit to friends in Minnesota
walked of the car In which she was t~rayelin,
near Madison, while partly asleep, and wa
killed.
During a severe storm, lightning struck tn,
residence and barns of David Lewis, six milei
east of WATERFOWL, Wis, instantly killing Mr.
Lewis, in.uring %se7eral members of the fam
ily and totally destroying the buildings. Tn,
loss on the buildings amounts to several thou
sand dollars.
At Freeport, Ill, Alice and Minnie Cruise,
while riding at a rapid rate in the rear seat
ii wagon: fell backwards and sustained ia
tai injuries.
On the public road, Just east of Cranberr,
Plains, Ohio. a few evenings ago, Henry Hell
ser, one of the wealthiest farmersin Northern
Ohio, was assaulted by a tramp who literally
hacked him to death with a large knife. The
murderer escaped, but is being pursued by a
posse of citizens, who propose lynching him.
A Fl. Reno dispatch says; Gen. Sheridan
has just had a conference with the CHEYENNE
chiefs, supposed to represent the disaffected
element of whom Stone Calf was the most
prominent. They disclaim any warlike inten-
tion, but the officials are reticent as to what
took place. There are now sixteen companies
of soldiers under command of Gen. f.
v. Sumner, and if Stone Calf was found to
be turbulent Sheridan would make short work
Of him and all connected with him.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, through her attorney,
Howard Douglass. Of Cincinnati, has brought
suit to prosecute the Church Musical COM
pany, OF Cincinnati, for publishing4 poem of
hers as that of a dead poet. Miss Wheeler
publicly announced some time ago that sbe
was the author Of the poem.
The large cloth printing and bleaching
works OF James T. Martin & Co., Philadel-
phla, were destroyed by fire. Loss $3.50. 900.
partially insured. The fire was caused b.
the explosion of a gasoline lamp in the
engine room. Fifty hands are thrown out of
work.
All the buildings, plants, ETC., of the late
WORLDS industrial and Cotton Centennial
we're sold by auction to the new Company.
known as the North, Central and South
expositions for S175, 900, that being
the exact amount of the debts owned by II
the same time four writs of attachment
we're served by creditors of the late company
or $94,Sl9 for material, furnished in the con
of the buildings.
At Debuiek's rancho, in Colorado, twelve
ut Of a herd of eighteen horses in q pasture
Fere killed by lightning. A hail storm had
Iiyen the horses against barb wire, which
the lightning through the herd
With the above result.
A terrific hail storm passed over the section
4 country from Niagara to Reynolds, Oak, a
ew nights ago utterly destroying all the grain
one OF the best wheat-growiny regions In
he Northwest. The loss covers 0,OO0 acres,
n%yolving POO, 900 bushels of grain.
Mrs. Jones, of Buffalo with a party Of Ia
les at Bath Island, fell into the stream and
carried over the American Falls.
It is estimated that there were So 900 visf-
,rs at Niagara Falls on the 18th on the oc- ]
aston Of the celebration Of the receiving the {
i'gara restoration by the state OF NewYork.
Recently the wife of Abe Dlnser, a wealthy
ut eccentric farmer, living west Of Bloom Z
lgton, Ill, sued him for a divorce and en-
lined him from disposing of his property.
his so incensed him that he drove all his n
ock, including stock worth 50, 900, into the b
arm, and setting fire to it burned the whole S
ling to the ground. He is missing and is b
,lieved to have purposely persisted in the ),
mes. ~
Frank Williams and Clarke Montgomery. W
Inds on T. j. Gray's plantation, near Butler, Il
A., quarreled about a woman. Montgomery sf
read rat poison on the meat that was ra- k
med out to be eaten by the hands. VIII q
died from the effects and others are I.
athly sick. Montgomery fed and has not n
t been captured. o
In Troy, n. Y, a few nights ago, John Col p
,y and Michael Casey, young men, quar- 81
led. The former shot Casey dead. The M
Irderer was arrested and admitted the 81
ooting. OF
John Guaut, the En- glishman who muir 20
ed his wife at Hoboken, N. Y, committed de
eide BY hanging himself in the Hudson te
lnty jail. ~
The Governor OF louisiana has ordered the az
,cution of Charles Davis, George and Ma les
Ida Jones for the murder Of Mrs. Henriett, r
lie, widow of Judge James Cole, in the ~
IN of P~luquemine, Aberville parish. The m
cution will take place on Friday, July 81. dc
special brings particulars OF a monster nc
SIS meeting held by the Mormons Of Paris, l.,
tho, to demonstrate against the test oath gu
r recently passed by the Idaho legislature. to
law prohibits any person from voting, t'
ding office or serving as q juror, who be- &c