Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-27
TELEGRAPHIC.
An EPitome Of the Principal Events Now
Attracting Pablic Interest

~ ]'At't ~ LIS oUth ySoi.
The principal business block O
Cherokee, Kas., burned The loss il
between $75, 200 and 800 0O0
An explosion occurred in dyna
mite factory at Grenoble, France
Nine persons were killed and Others
seriously injured.
At Omaha, Neb., Peter Verge, a
mechanic, in a moment of jealousy
cut his yonng wife's throat with ra-
zor SO that she will die, and then at
tempted suicide by cutting his own.
His wound is not fatal.
The will of the late John Roach,
the well known ship builder, was filed
for probate at New York. Roach
leaves all his estate to be divided
among the members Of his family and
their children.
Mrs. G. w. Turpin, wife of promi-
pent business man of Weatherford,
Texas, was stabbed fourteen times in
the heart, and killed, by her father, j.
N. Aston, against whose wishes she
married.
| Fire originating in the gas of the
| foundry department Of the Wood
Reaper Works at Youngstown, Ohio,
made that expensive plant mass of
ruins. The loss is a quarter of mil
lion, insurance, $4,000.
Members of the Salvation Army as
sembled in Congress hall, London, to
witness the marriage OF Gen. Booths
second daughter, Emma, to Mr..
Tucker, an ex-officer in the Indian
civil service. Seven thousand persons
were present.
Mr. and Mrs. j. J. Reynolds arrived
on the morning train from Las Vegas,
N. Nj. On the way to a hotel Mr..
Reynolds let pistol fall from a
| pocket of an overcoat he had on his
arm. The hammer striking the pave
ment. the revolver was discharged, the
shot striking Mrs. Reynolds in the
heart, killing her instantly.
Forty farmers of Ashland and
other Southern Kansas points organ
| lied n Vigilance Committee and made
raid on band Of Indians. -Four OF
the band were caught and strung up
to the nearest tree. Nine more were
chased into the sand hills Of the Cher
| okee strip and are now surrounded in
dug-oui. They refuse to surrender,
and the farmers propose to starve
them and hang them.
Miss M. Austin Jones, dropped dead
at Boston, Mass, of heart disease, at
the Hotel Vendome, during recep
ton which she was giving. She had
been called upon for song, and gave
a selection, repetition of which was
requested. In response she sang one
stanza OF another song, but in the
middle of the second verse sank to
the floor and expired almost immed-
lately.
A passenger train on the Erie rail
road, which left Bradford Pa, collided
with a freight train at point Elk
miles below the city. The many cars
OF which the freight train was com
posed, together with two engines, were
piled up III shapeless mass. The en-
gineers and tiremen of both trains
saved their lives by jumping, but the
| passenger engineer was severely.
though not fatally injured. None Of
the passengers su stained fatal injuries,
The State Normal school at Terre
Haute, Ind was burned completely
except the walls Eight hundred
pupils were in the building when the
fire broke out, all of whom escaped
without II scratch. They lost, how
ever, most of their books and wraps
In pursuance of the policy of the
State there was no insurance on the
structure. Its cost was $4,000 of
which the city Of Terre Haute gave
$50 600, in addition to the grounds.
An explosion in mine three miles
from Corrilos, N. NJ, occurred. The
shifts in the mine We're about chang
ing, the night shift just emerging from
the mine. 1t seems two of the night
shift Jagged behind, for what reason
cannot be ascertained. Instantly an
explosion of gunpowder was heard,
and an investigation made, which re-
vealed the fact that the two who
Jagged behind were caught by the ex
plosion and blown into fragments,
One of the men is named John Cog
Ian. The other is unknown.
About 100 laborers, employed on
the Tennessee tunnel, near Cumber-
land Gap, struck for vi SO per day
This the contractors refused, and the
strikers posted notices throughout the
surrounding country warning all that
II any one went to work in the tun
mel at reduced prices they might ex
pect to be shot down. The contrac-
tors secured men and put them to
work. The strikers, who had been
drinking heavily, appeared on the
scene, and as soon as the men took
their places, opened fire on them with
rifles, shot guns and revolvers. Five
laborers, whose names are not ascer-
teined, were killed outright.
At Centerville, Ga, thirteen persons
were poisoned, two of whom died
Nathan NJ. Cochran, who owns a corn
mill about three hundred yards from
his house, haG taken some corn there
to grind, leaving it in the mill over
night, and grinding it the next day. |
The meal was taken home and some
of it was used for dinner. In few |
minutes Cochran was deathly sick
Shortly aferward his two grandchil |
dren were stricken. In the meantim,
Mrs. Gaddis, Mr.. Cochran's step