The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-03-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Gen. Harrison will be inaugar-
ated President next Monday. Chief
Justice Fuller viii administer the
oath.
A passenger train on the South
ern Pacific railroad near Pixiey,
CAL, was held up by robbers last
Friday. The robbers secured So
900.
President Cleveland celebrated
Washington's birthday by signing
the bills for the admission of Wash
ington, Montana, and the two Da~
kotas as States.
Congressman Springer has intro
duced bill for the admission of
Idaho and Wyoming as States un-
der the same conditions as are pro-
vided for the new States of Wash-
ington, Montana, etc,
Ten factory girls between. the
ages of Il and 20 years, were
killed by the explosion of giant
powder in a squib factory at Ply
mouth, Pa, Monday. Eleven
armless, legless, or headless bodies
were taken from the ruins.
A number of Mormon missions
aries who have been PROSECUTING in
Indiana lately, were seized by
company of masked men last Fri
day night, stripped and tied to
trees, and given fifty lashcs each.
It is feared that one of them will
die.
President Cleveland has never
crossed the threshold of more than
two houses in Washington outside
the residences Of his cabinet officers
during his term of Office. He has
never seen congress at work, and in
four years he has not once entered
department building,
A dispatch from White Earth
Mimi, says that in the sparcely
settled country around Aitken,
two white children, returning to
their homes from school, were at
tackled and completely devoured by
ravenous timber wolves; a few
bones and sheds of clothing alone
remaining as the horrible testimony
of the childrens fate.
In the law for the admission of
the new States of Washington,
Montana, and the two Dakotas it is
made the duty Of the President to
admit the four new states by pro-
clamation if the constitutions form
ed are ratified at the election to be
held on the first Tuesday in Octo-
Der. Each of the new states shall
be entitled to one representative in
congress, except South Dakota,
which shall be entitled to two rep
resentatives.
On February 16 Gov. Larrabee, Of
Iowa, was indicted by the PolH
county grand jury for criminal libel
Three years ago Chester Turnkey,
boy, was sentenced to sevented 1
years in the pcnitentiary for pei
larcency Mrs. TURNKEY endeaveT
to secure her sons pardon. Go
Larrabee issued a pamphlet givid
his reasons for refusing the pardol
and in the pamphlet he published
an extract from a newspaper in
which it was charged that Mrs.
Turnkey had two husbands. On
this statement the present indict-
ment is grounded. The trial ended
in the Goveror's acquittal.
The Omaha Republican of Feb.
%, tells of peculiar divorce case of
in that city:
Both principals are very wrinkled
and gray, while the plaintiff, Isa-
bella O'Neil, is pitably feeble and
tottering. The defendent, Eugene
O'Neil, is a trife harder than his
poor wife, and there's a cold cum
ming III his manner. They have
Travelled life's pathway together as
man and wife for twenty-six years
and, by their own words, have spent
the greater portion of that time con-
tented and happy. The principal
cause" is nothing more nor less
than a pretty niece, Mary James,
whom "the old man" brought home
to live, some time ago. From the
testimony of the old wife it was
evident that she had become actual
ly jealous Of the maid. But this is
by no means all. Mrs. O'Neil tes-
titled that that her husband, who
apparently is about 70 years old
attempted to seduce the niece on
promise of fine clothing. A young
fireman just across the street from
which live the O'Neils, testified that
he had seen the old man take the
girl out riding and remain out as
late as II o'clock, while the old
wife would come out on the porch
and bemoan the with tears. On
the other hand testimony was intro
duced to the OBJECT that Mrs. 0'Neil
had driven her niece out of doors
and had left her husband.
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