The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-08
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months ago he weighed 1872 pounds.
]. B. Hagan. prominent stock raiser ant
!. shipper of southern Illinois, fell under Wa
n bash train near the stock yards, in Chicago
and was instantly killed.
, The heaviest snow storm ever known II
: Colorado occurred on the oath. Fully twenty
inches fell. as much as the aggregate OF tbs
previous falls of whole winter. The snow
is very heavy and numberless roofs have
fallen. but without fatal results so far as re-
ported.
At the session of the Iowa encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic phe state
Legislature was recommended to appropriate
100000 for the establishment of soldiers
home.
The revised edition of the Old Testament,
which will appear simultaneously in London,
New York and Philadelphia May 81, viii meet
with large sale, but it will not be so large as
that for the revised edition of the New Tesla
ment. This version is the joint property of
the universities of Oxford and Cambridge,
and each will issue its own edition, although
both will be printed from plates from one set
of types. The various publishing houses are
working in harmony, and copies of the new
specified. All the editions offered for sale in
this country are imported complete, no sheets
even having been sent forward for binding
Heavy orders for the work from New York,
Boston and Chicago have already been re-
ceived, and the sales will no doubt be very
large.
Washington special says: Representative
Weaver is here. very busy looking AFTER mat
tiers for his constituents and endeavoring to
secure in their places various clerks for whom
he has found office in times past. He will OBJ
Ject 10 certifying to the fitness of his demo |
cratic constituents who apply for office, as |
several other republican congressman are |
doing under the new era of good feeling. The
entire Nebraska delegation are fully satisfied |
with Mr.. Cleveland's course. Laird and Val
entine still linger here.
A grand jury in London indicted Cunning
ham and Burton, the dynamiters, for treason
and felony.
Nearly 10000 Sunday school children of Dub
lin marched in procession to Phoenix Park,
With banners and music, to present an address
10 the prince and princess of Wales.
In Chicago court cattle dealer from
Texas was awarded Judgment for 1866 against
he Western Union Telegraph company for an
'rror in quotation sent over the wires,
through which he lost the amount claimed.
The Illinois house declined an invitation of
he Illinois Central road to visit the New Or
cans exposition. Notwithstanding that the
peaker drew up a resolution favoring the
rip.
Eeighteen cases of smallpox have devel-
ped within a week in the Hotel Dieu at Mon
real.
Under orders of the United States court at r
the Cleveland, Indiana and st
outs road was sold to Thomas c. Platt, for
lie American Express company. his bid being .
10000. There are eighteen miles of track in
oeration, from Anderson 10 Nobleville.
R. d. Mullane, division superintendent Of 81
q Cincinnati Southern railroad. was choro- 81,
rmed while asleep in the Read house at ~,
Tenn, and robbed of nearly ~,
90. He awoke at daybreak greatly nauseat- o.
and could scarcely breathe. He found his n,
othes scattered about, the pockets rifled. his IN
ON door burst open, and chloroform odor Il
II strong in the room. II,
The big hotels at Saratoga will open on the of
st of June.
The recent heavy stow storm In Wyoming II,
sures fine yield of grass The loss of cattle of
the storms of the winter is estimated at ha
I'm TO per cent, taking the territory as q Sill
Iole Ri
Is an experiment to test the truthfulness of loo
, stories of live frogs having been found Oh
bedded in solid rock, Sequin, in 1922, in idt
sed toad in plaster covering and found FL
reptile alive and in good condition on Fl'
,aking the shell ten years later. ito
he National Debt of France: When Napo- ies
n III. fell from power the total funded i
Ut of France was placed at 81, 525, 900, 0O0 sci
> heavy expenses entailed by the war with mi
lssia raised it to nearly s4.000,000,0O 0, the no
ole increase being added between 1871 and MAJ
}. While the aggregate of the funded debt TOR
hardly changed since 1878. recourse has STU
n had to Extraordinary budgets" until ]
re is floating debt of more than $780, tre
900. The total public debt of France is the
s nearly $4,000, 000, goo, entaiing an annual ser
rye Of nearly $40. 000,000 or nearly five thr
es the annual charges on the national for
t of the United States. With all this debt hel,
nee has been, for the past ten years, the TT
It prosperous nation in Europe. tba
is reported that Count Kainoky, the Aus alar
minister of foreign affairs. has
ressed the gravest fears that war will be
issue of the strained relations existing be-
en- Great Britain and Russia. Austrian Jpe
spapers are Of the opinion that England
rtain to obtain the conclusion of an alli- d
with Turkey in the event of war with Nor
STA. the
nj r Inst the electrician who was TO c
-ded the medals for saving life in New cpit
, has been sentenced IN the Illinois peni- tom
arv for ono vear for sAe.lino a watch in mt
ago. wiz
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