The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-11
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Waco, Texas, Is to have SsJO,To cotton
mill.
In England they are telling trees BY eiecs
tricity.
Nearly 5000 miners near Mt. Carmel, Pa,
are idle.
Farm mortgages in Nebraska aggregate
SIS, 900, 900.
Many people arc dying Of famine in
southern Corea.
High license has closed all the saloons In
o California town.
New York's Grants Monument fund
amounts to s1SO,343.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, has the largest axle
factory in the world
Another Emin relief expedition Is being
fitted out in Germany.
The falls of the Rhine are to be utilized
for electrical purposes.
Pittshurg has the largest chimney glass
factory in the country.
Cinnamon are being struggled into San
Francisco in large numbers.
Liquor licenses in Boston. Mass, have
been increased to $3.50 each.
The farmers of central Pennsylvania, as
rule, are not making money.
The largest gas well in the country has
been struck at Lancaster, Ohio.
Not poisonous reptile, insect, or plant is
found in the Puget Sound region.
James G. Flood, ono of tho bonanza kings
of California, died in Germany last week.
ST. Louis, Mo-, is the largest mule mar
kaf in tho world In, aplA
Chicago is to have u new process of manu-
featuring horseshoes, at tho rate of $50 pc,'
minute.
One Of the biggest gas wells in western
Pennsylvania was struck last week in u AZ
Ter county.
The ice crop Of the Hudson river win DO
about two-thirds of the usual amount
OOO, 600 tons. =
1t is reported that million and half on
people are starving in the province of Ch,e
Foo, China.
The English syndicate is seeking to pr
chase some of the twenty six brewSi.s in
st, Louis.
Pittsburg capitalists are going heavily
into the manufacture of textile goods from
the ramie plant.
Avalanches have destroyed many holso3
and caused several deaths in different pats
Of Switzerland.
The tests of the pneumatic dynamt,
gun are regarded as satisfactory By Tbs
secretary Of war.
County Treasurer James M. Lano, of
Circleville, o., is said to have emboszled
A7 0DO and abscnnded
The sale of thoroughbred horses at Lex
ington, KY, was great success. One
horse, Bell Boy, was sold for s5l, 900.
The milling interests of Canada want thu
government to increase the duty on Amer,
can -four from SO cents to 81 per barrel,
Gen. Clark, present clerk of the house Of
representatives, says the republicans VIII
have and possibly 5 majority in tn, next
house.
The electors of Pennsylvania will vote in
June on an amendment to the constitution
to abolish the poll-tax qualification for
voters.
The bill to incorporate the Nicaragua
Canal company Is now a law, and the work
is to be commenced Immediately. The cost
is estimated at S65, 100000
To prevent reduction in tho price of
coal on account of warmer weather, tho
large coal companies will shut down their
collieries two days in each week.
Tho artists and picture collectors of Now
York are talking of keeping away from ITO
Paris Exposition alto serher because
of the bad arrangements made by our gov
eminent.
The results Just published of the ccl3u5
taken Dec. 1, 1888, show the population of
Switzerland at that timc to have been -
934 ,057-an increase Of moro than 10000
since 1880.
The only populous center of the worlds
population that remains shut up from travel
is Lhassa, the capital of Thibet. Only six
CT seven Europeans ever set foot in the city
and none Of them are alive.
A Chicago dispatch states that the Ear
lington railroad strike is still source of
trouble, the brotherhood men claiming that
the railro i'd officials have failed to carry OH
tho agreement made in January.
A conservative member of the Canadian
parliament, an Ottawa despttch says,
will shortly introduce resolution author
izing the dominion government y, plr-
chase the eastern states Of the American
Union
The "alcohol congress- called to meet IN
Christiania, Norway, during the summer
has been postponed until August, 1890. The
object is to discuss the therapeutic value Of
alcohol and the organizing committee in
cludes leading European statesmen and I
scientists.
The Pennsylvania railroad is to remove
its repair shops, freight and transfer yards,
round houses, etc, from Pittsburg Pa, to
Wallis station, about fourteen mics out,
where the company has three hundred acres
of land, upon which extensive improvements
are being made.
In Minneapolis there is body of persons
acting together, led by one C. c. Whitney,
who believe that Christ is on earth in the
person of the Rev. George J. Scheinferth,
now resident of Rock Island, H., who
writes Whitney. His letters are
read as sermons.
General Master Workman Powderly Of
the Knights of Labor has issued another
special call, the second IN a year, for per
capita contributions from the members of
the order. Mr.. Powderly asks that each
assembly shall collect five cents per month
from each member.
The Maine Farmer tells of needy family
for whom kind friends took up contribu-,A
tion, raising SIS in money. The recipients
were grateful for the aid and the whole
family went to the photographer and had
their pictures taken to send round to those
who hal befriended them.
The date of the grand Sunday school con-
vent on to be held in London has been fixed
for July 2-6 From the United States $50
delegates are expected. A Cunard steamer
has been chartered to take delegates from
New York June 10. On their arrival at
Liverpool special train will be found
waiting and will carry them to London.
A bill has been introduced in the Cana
dian parliament to extend the provisions of
the present extradition act. The bill deals
with criminals found in Canada, who may
be surrendered for the offenses enumerated
Of any treaty existing with the
country from which the criminal comes.
Tho protector of tn, bill holds the view that
these criminals are not desirable settlers
and should be got out Of the country under
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