The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-06-05
GENERAL NEWS IND NOTES.
Matters of Interest Touched Upon by Press
Netcs Gduerers.

time on the new postoffice building, Balti
more, gave way and seven workmen on 1t al
the time were precipitated to the ground, 6
distance OF seventy feet. John Ro gers, q
bricklayer, was killed outright, and others Sc
riously if not fatally injured.
The Cincinnati Price Current saws
Western packers handled an aggregate Of
1,310 900 hogs since March lst, against /, ITO,
600 year ago, an increase of 200, 900 for the
first one-third of the summer packing season.
The number packed at the principal points In
the West to date since March LIST is as fol
lows; Chicago, 100000; Kansas City, 206, 993;
St. Louis $1,000; Cincinnati, 10000; Indiana.
polls, 25, 800; Milwaukee, 66,500; Cedar Rap
ids, 52,704; Cleveland, $4,000.
The formal opening of the Confed-
crate Soldiers Home near Richmond, Va,
took place on the 20tn. R. E. Lee Camp Con-
federate Veterans, with Aaron Wilkes Post
G. A. r, of Trenton, New Jersey, and the city
military, marched to the Home, where after
prayer by Rev. j. William Jones, Col. Archer
Anderson turned the Home over to General
Fitzhugh Lee, who accepted it In behalf of
the board Of managers. A large number OF
distinguished and invited guests, including
many ladies, were present From the Home
the veterans and military proceeded to Holly
wood Cemetery and participated in the an
nual decoration of the graves of the Confed-
crates.
John Burns and Thomas Dcran,
mechanics employed in the meter room of the
Co lad hpf haa
plosion of meter. Thomas Killan, also en-
ployed there, escaped. The same meter ex-
ploded twelve years ago, killing one man.
Henry Meyer, of the firm of Meyer
& Ribstock, Cincinnati, suicided by hanging
at his residence in Clifton, Ohio. Poor health
was the cause.
A special from Bridgeport, H., says:
The seventeen year old locusts which Prof.
Riley predicted, as mentioned in recent Wash
inston dispatches, seem to have made their
first appearance. They have been found in
large numbers close to the surface of the
ground and moving upwards. The indications
are strong that an unusually large swarm will |
appear in a short time. Very extensive apple |
orchards were planted by capitalists this |
spring, and large eruption of locusts will al
most certainly kill them.
Dispatches from the San Joaquin
say that the Hessian fly has greatly damaged
The wheat crop, and that where twenty BUSH
Ills per acre were expected, not more than sew
IN will lie realized.
Charles Hayes committed suicide at
Newton by taking strychnine. He was under
he influence of liquor at the time, and this is
aid to have been the cause of his rash act.
lie was married man about 80 years Of age,
nd came few months ago from Joliet III.
VIM. Cooper Thompson the newly
ppointed End Dist, collector, came to Wapello
ounty from Ohio in 1913, and followed farm
lg and teaching. In 1878 he became one Of
ne proprietors in the Ottumwa Business Col
,ge; was elected county clerk in 1878; was )
vice reelected, but defeated last fall while :,
inning for the fourth time. He has been !
fe-long Democrat very shrewd, sharp and 4
lccessful politician and leader. ,
A party of railr oaders at Gloster, ?
iss., took VIII Sims, negro laborer, from b
|
e railroad bridge. He had murde red I
,gro woman. 9
Henry Amer, city marshal at Straits "
lie, Ohio, was shot and mortally wounded Ii
Albert Guess. The marshal was trying to q
rest him when Guess fired shall shot in :,
s back. He will die. Guess fled and pos 2
OF men ar e in pursuit Of him. :,
An oil tank of boiling lard in pork a
cking establishment, Brooklyn, N. Y, ex % q
oded, completely wrecking three story S
Hiding. Four workmen were buried in the W
ms. a
Menken. the Elmira. N. Y. murder le
has been sentenced to be hanged July 2nd q,
The voluntary resignation of post II
aster at small town In Indiana, has beer "
,eived at the postoffice department. The pl
tier says: 81 was first appointed in Jamci ~
Folks administration and have served cv OF
since" He also mentions by name and =, ~
fellow townsman as his sue. OF
;sor, saying: 'The change will be demo u,
tic, as l voted for Blaine and he voted for he
ne
Two years ago James j. Crawford. or
ruggist Of Brooklyn, N. Y, took his moth. ar a
n-law to a barren island and left her hero
lie, so he would inherit her property He
) tried and acquitted, but he was harrasscd
the people to such an extent thathe ncarl, DO
ut wild. A few nights ago he became NJ
ing maniac, and was taken to an asylum of
Joseph Rhodes, a mulatto. was o oe
ged at Galveston for murder committed NJ
october last M,
Albert Ford, who on April IA, as w.
lied and robbed Miss Cora Bartlett near Br
ne, N. T., pleaded guilty to both charges, me
was sentenced to Auburn prison for thr Ro
ears. He did not appear affected b. he ee4gg'
tence Cos
ev. j. X. Pearson, pastor of tho to
Presbyterian church OF Collinsville, ILL.,, toe
ided, May 21st. The cause was mental d. W.
sion on account Of i'll health. y
ter
amuel G. Mutt, a religious enthu-
), died at Farmer City, ILL.,, from the ef-
5 of a fast of forty days which he immag- A
the Lord had commanded him to take pull