Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-31
TELEGRAPHIC.
A Epitans Of b. Principal Events Nov
Attracting Pablo Interest

| VIM. @. mitchell Tell rom street
car at st. Louis, and was killed.
The academy of music was burned
at Haverhill, Mass. Loss, 100000
insurance, $4,000.
A construction train and engine on
the Joliet d Eastern road was wrecked
by distractions on the track. Three
Italian laborers were instantly killed.
Gus Boyles, aged 10, was hanged
for the murder of VIM. Morgan, in the
Creek nation, year ago. He died
very hard.
At Buena Vista, ILL.,, Charles Deck
Ter, farmer, aged So, sent his chill
dren out Of the house and then shot
his wife, killing her instantly, and
shot himself and cut his throat.
X. Is. Parrish, wholesale shoe
dealer at Louisville, KY, reputed to
be worth 100000, committed suicide
because he could not pay five dollar
board bill.
The street railway stable AT Wichi-
Ia, Kan, were burned. Three en-
ployes were very seriously burned and
otherwise injured. The loss WAS not
ascertained.
David Clark and his wife were found
hanging in a corn crib near Sandwich,
Ill. They left paper signed by both,
saying they died for each other. Clark
was thirty years old.
Fire destroyed half the business
portion Of Elmoro, Colo, some half a
dozen business houses, with contents,
being consumed. The loss is estimated
at $75, 900; insurance 5000.
The body Of Alice Kelly was found
in the outskirts OF Ottumwa, Iowa,
with the throat cut and the head
badly beaten. The nature OF the
wounds indicate murder.
Hattie de Baum, aged Is years, was
shot and killed by her aunt, Mrs.
Jennings, at Terre Haute, Ind. The
two had been quarreling for some
days.
Josiah Wilder, 81 years OF age, a
prominent business man of Cincinnati,
committed suicide. The only known
cause is an ELECTION OF the head whic h
gave him great pain and rendered him
Respondent.
Three men entered the office of an
insurance company at Milwaukee, and
engaged the cashier and clerk in con-
versation. Before they left one oil
them stole $1,000 from the cash
drawer.
In the roundhouse of Winslow
Ariz., a fireman named Snyder had a
few words with night Waterman
about some oil, and the latter shot
Snyder twice. The latter died in ten
minutes.
A freight train on the Louisville
New Albany & Chicago railway ran
into small land slide. The locomo-
tive and ten cars were wrecked. David
Julian, brakeman, Engineer Harnet
and Fireman Blachman were killed.
Henry Soper, a farm hand, con.
fesses to killing 6 year-old frankie
Williams, kicking him to death be
cause the child followed him to the
field to see the cows MIXED, at Hunt
ington, Long Island.
Mrs. Elizabeth Simon shot and in
stantly killed VIM. Bowling at Bury.
ranch, Wyo. Bowling was assaultinl
her Syear old daughter. Mrs. Simon
was given a hearing and discharged
amid cheers.
A large fire in the business block,
opposite the Erie railway depot broke
out at Patterson, N. J. Escape b,
the ordinary way for the inmates wa.
cut OIL in few minutes. Number,
jumped from windows ard ESCAPED
with slight bruises, but it is reported
that several lost their lives.
Fire originating in sawmill at AL
pena, Mich spread rapidly, and wa.
soon beyond control. All building,
for space of three blocks wide anC
half n mile long were consumed
causing loss of about 100000. Fiji
teen hundred persons are homeless,
and several seriously injured.
Matthias Schreiner, Whitewater
was discovered at Chicago, Ill.,, burned
horribly and dying. He had com,
home drunk, and his clothes had beer
saturated with kerosene and fired
His wife, mother-in-ltw and a boarde,
are under arrest, and indications are
that they were the perpetrators of the
horrible deed.
While 300 or 400 people were seated
in the grand stand on the grounds O.
the Yalobusha county, Mississippi
lair association, the supports gave wa,
without warning, and the structure
fell to the ground. No one was killed
outright, but nearly fifty people wer,
taken from the ruins with broken arm,
and legs.
Laural Fork meeting house in
Weakley county, Tenn, was a scene
ot terrible tragedy. Just as the
minister was announcing his text s
volley of firearms was discharged out
side the door. When the smoke
cleared away it was found that Ewel
Lawson and his son, John, were killed
and that three Fusion boys, Tom, jim
and Enos, and John Porter, were ia
tally wounded.