The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-05-09
THE WEISER SIGNAL.
THURSDAY. NAY o. 1895.
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENT,


perfect, with frequent and abundant
showers of rain by day and night and
days with cloud and sunshine so al
ternating as to make the season ideal.
And how all nature shows it! Or
chards and shade trees in full bloom
and leaf; berry patches and gardens,
which seem to have come into exist
cnce as if by magic; all around the
hills are grass covered and the hocks
and herds feed in the midst of album
dance or lay down satisfied and in no
respect could the prospect for future
good crops be more assuring.
From some quarters complaints
come that crickets are doing damage
but their ravages are confined to
limited localities, and as one ccntem-
plates the secure and prosperous out
look here, we are called to note the
contrast in other sections as reported
in the papers of this week.
From Sioux Center comes the wall
of distress. The terrible Cyclone has
passed over that land and left death
and destruction to mark its path
fifteen dead and many more injured
and homes and crops destroyed
Again, from Kansas the news comes,
showing the same awful record. ST.
Clair, Illinois, continues the record
with four killed and many wounded
and missing and the usual destruction
of property These terrors, as we all
know, are Of such frequent occurrence
rs to make the appearance of any
storm in those countries source of
dread. Happily for us this portion
Of the country has never yet been
visited by any like disaster, and to
one who has experienced the sensa-
ton or seen the effects of one of
these storms it would seem that no
country could offer inducements suffi-
cient to overcome the dread of them
Down in Kentucky the killing of
Archie Brown, son and private secre-
tary of the governor, and of Mrs.
Fulton Gordon, has caused most
profound social sensation Both
parties occupied the highest positions
in society Brown and Mrs. Gordon
were shot in Louisville by Fulton
Gordon, the wronged husband Pub
lie sentiment has acquitted him and
no prosecution will follow. Unwrt-
ten laws among men are, after all,
stronger than statutes made and pro
vided.
Nicaragua has agreed to pay the
claims demanded by England and
England withdraws her war ships.
The payment is to be made in fifteen
days and amounts to ST., 800. There
was no infringement on American
rights or on the ideas supposed to be
embodied in the Monroe doctrine.
The result rs it is may prove very
beneficial to United States interests.
The Japs and Cinnamon were get.
ting along famously with their treaty
matters and had arrived at mutual
understanding when Russia puts in
an appearance and protests against
the whole arrangement and threatens
Japan with war unless her demands
arc conceded. The idea is that Rus.
STA is building railway across Siberia
and the terminus on the Pacific is sc
far north that it will be inaccessible
in winter and another point further
south is very necessary. In the late
treaty Japan acquires the very terri.
tory that Russia desires in Mancharia
and hence Russian interference; and
the other national hogs of Europe
England, France and Germany-aro
roofing around to see If they cannot
find some stray bits of garbage. 1t
is to be hoped that they will all get
into general row among themselves.
The Japs are entitled to all they
claim, and more, for they have ex-
ploded the idea of Chinese greatness
and demonstrated that as nation
they have no existence only an inco-
herent mass of people.
The silver question takes the lead
in political questions and will con
tinue to keep it ms the one question
of greatest interest AT the recent
democratic convention in Chicago,
when the question came up, it result
ed in splitting the party, one part
being for free silver, l6 to | and the
other straight out for gold. 1t is a
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