Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-28
TELEGRAPHlC.
An EPIroNE OF TUE PRINCIPAL EVENTS
NEW ATTRACTING PUBLIC INTEREST

| Macon, Mo, were destroyed Dy uft
The loss is over 100000; insurance
$4,000.
The loss By fire at Chattanooga
Tenn, on Aug. 10, was 100000, and
the loss. of life is estimated at ten PEG
pie, and four badly wounded.
Lees planning mill and adjoining
structures at East Saginaw, Mich,
burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance
light.
Yellow fever has been declared an
epidemic at Jacksonville, Fla, and
the people are fleeing. The weather
is hot and very favorable for a spread
Of the disease.
Duriug a thunder storm Martin
Olsen, living on a farm three miles
west of Lonsboro, MINI, was killed
by lightning, together with two OF his
children.
The colored porter Of sleeping car
attached to the Union Pacific west
bound flyer was shot and instantly
killed by an insane passenger named
Hutchinson Arnold, OF Nicholasvlle,
Ky.
Mrs. ID. Mazee, toll-gato keeper on
the turnpike at Columbus, Ind, was
shot and killed in cold blood by man
who rode up 10 her lodge at midnight
Henry Keller, a deputy sheriff, is held
for the crime.
Trappers encamped on the Red
River near Denison, Texas, report the
killing by Indians OF trapper named
Meyers. with his wife and two chill
dren July lG, while in camp on the
Territory side Of the river. Meyers
was from Michigan.
A fouI-story tenement house in
avenue A, New York, caught fire.
The family Of Gustave Beg, consisting
Of himself, wife, daughter and mother
in-law, living on tho top floor, were
burned To death. The other occu
pants escaped. The financial loss is
Insignificant.
William Bowan was arraigned at
Rockaway, n. Y, charged with hav-
ing plucked his wife's eyes out Two
years aho he plucked her right eye
out, but since then has threatened to
have the other one, and on July -
he succeeded in gouglng out her re.
naming eye.
Bearden, the negro who shot and
fatally wounded Officer Palmer at
Springfield, Mo, was captured, but
not until his body was filled with lead
He was placed in the Springfield ILL.,
which is now surrounded by mob OF
800 armed men, who threaten to
lynch the desperate.
Mrs. George Allen was burned to
death at Cleveland, Ohio, by the ex
plosion OF a gasoline stove. She
rushed from the house and fell upon
the pavement, shrieking horribly.
Every particle of clothing was burned
of but her shoes. Her husband is
now a maniac from the shock.
Charles Henry Riedel was hanged
at New Castle, Del, for the murder of
his wife and child, on the night Of
September lG last Riedel then
turned the weapon on himself and
fired two bullets into his head, but
they did not penetrate the brain, and
he recovered. Poverty and despond-
epcy caused the act.
w G.. Lams, blacksmith, was shot
and killed at Danville, Ill.,, by o.
Allen, "a notorious character, who had
been hired by Detective Hal to ar
rest Lams on charge of assaulting II
woman Allen claims was his wife. The
murder was most deliberate, Lams of
ienng no resistance to arrest. The in
dignation against Allen may end in
lynehing,
A car OF stone left the rails near
Mapleton, Pa, where Il gang of men
were building bridge, and crashed
through light trestle, crushing the
workmen into the Janiata river, fifty
feet below. Two men were fatally in
jured, and three are in dangerous
condition. They probably will be
crippled for life. Several others were
more or less injured
At the Ohio & Wisconsin coal
mines, two miles west of Abba, Iowa.
Michael Dial, an old miner, killed his
son Dick with a shotgun. The SON
was about y years old. The old man
is in custody OF the sheriff and nearly
crazcd with grief. 1t seems that
there was family row, and the father
claims he shot his son in self defense.
James 7. McLaws, civil engineer.
was killed on the line of the coal road
OF the Southern Pacific Company, be-
tween Croker and Carbonate, Cal.
Mr.. MeLaws came up on the grade
just as a heavy blast was being OK
ploded. lie was crushed by falling
rock. He was buried iii Carbonate.
He leaves a wife in Memphis, Tenn.
He was aged about 30.
A mixed train ON the Falkland
branch Of the Cincinnati, lndian,
apolis, 81. Louis Il Chicago road, was
thrown from the track near Morgan.
town, lid, by broken rail. The
baggage car and single passenger
coach rolled down thirty-foot en-
bankmeut, aud every person in the
car, with one exception, received in.
iuries. No one was killed outright.
but one or two may die.
Feathers in Flat Cars.