The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-06-13
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Ex-Secretary of State John w. Foster
has returned from his trip to Europe.
He says widespread business depression
prevails throughout India, the Straits
settlements, and wherever British mer.
chants and commerce have extended in
the east.
The jubilee celebration of the inter
national conference of the Young Mems
Christian association took place in
London. John Wanamaker presided,
and there were eighteen thousand peo-
pie present.
General Houston has been committed
to trial in London on the charge of
manslaughter, having caused the death
of George Burton by thrusting the point
of an umbrella in his eye. Houston is
an American.
Governor Mckinley has ordered out
the Second regiment of Tihin, Ohio, on
account of increased mining troubles in
Belmont county, near Wheeling, w. Va,
and has the Third regiment at Dayton
under arms.
The body found in the Spokane river
at Kaufman's ranch has been identified
as that of Judge J. M. Kinnaird, who
mysteriously disappeared from Spokane
four months ago. Foul play is sus-
pected.
Barker's army of industrials stole a
passenger train at Mojave, CAL, and
succeeded in getting as far as Barstow,
where they were stopped. Deputies
have been sent to arrest them.
August Hagen, the absconding cashier
of the Exchange bank of New York,
was brought to San Francisco on the
Mariposa, having been apprehended at
Apia, Samoa.
The raging Skykomish cannot be
crossed, and 80 the Tualco settlers are
isolated from the rest of Saohomish
county and the world at large until the
food abates.
sent up to Monte Cristo to begin work
on the mines, and it is given out that
the plant will 60 ahead full blast "a
hours day.
Kelly's industrials are having a hard
time of it. His army are in need of
rations and many are reported sick.
They abandoned their boats at Cairo,
Ill.
Three hundred and fifty common
wealers have started from Helena to
Fort Benton, where they propose to
take boats down the Missouri river.
Twenty-one of Whatcom's II school
districts have an aggregate bonded in.
debtedness of $3.50, 800. Of this $ss 900
is Whatcom's and 5000 Blaine's.
The United States attorney general
claims SIS 100000 from the estate of
the late Leland Stanford, and the sen.
ate is investigating the matter.
The Whatcom board of trade has
at work trying to secure the
removal of one of the Oregon City
Touring mills to that place.
A bill for $25, 900 each for the states
Of Washington, Montana, Idaho, Oregon
and the Dakotas for irrigation purposes
has been presented.
Banking authorities say the defeat of
the state bank measures establishes as
a fnality that state bank currency will
never be revived.
Three hundred commonwealers, CON-
posed of Poles, Bohemians and Aus
trians have started from Chicago for
Washington.
Five cars of cattle were ditched at
Rock Island, Kan, by citizens placing
l farm wagon on the track to stop the
rain.
The German National bank, one of
he Oldest In Denver, has closed it's
loors and is going out of business.
The first carload of new wheat was
hipped from Poso, Kern county, Cal,
". M. Myer, of San Francisco.
Subpoenas directed to members of the
ugar trust have been issued to the sen.
Ite committee of investigation.
The Ohio state republican convention
at Columbus. They put free
liver clause in their platform.
Everett's offer for the county seat
# Snohomish county will be twenty
5-foot lots and $40, 900 cash.
The Brawley bill for the repeal Of the
en- per cent tax on the circulation of |
tate banks was defeated.
-Four hundred acres of Umatilla res
rvation land las been leased to one
Mcpherson.