Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-06-15
TELEGRAPHIC.
An Episne Of the Principal Events Now
Attracting Pablo Interest

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j. T. Stroope,. of Junction City,
Texas, was brutally murdered by two
unknown persons.
Richard Mitchell, employed in slid
ing logs in Provo canyon, Utah, was
killed, being struck by log.
Mrs. Eliza Lewis, an aged woman
and her three grandchildren were
smothered to death in house at
Cleveland, Ohio.
At Ashland, Wis, VIM. Andrews
shot and killed his wife. He then
shot himself, but not fatally, but fin
ished the tragedy by drawing a razor
across his throat.
James Dobie, middle aged English
man, shot and fatally wounded his
wife at hotel in Pullman, Ill. She
had left him several months ago on
account OF his general worthlessness
A collision occurred between pas
senger and freight train, twenty miles
from Barcelona, Spain. Three persons
we're killed and forty-six injured, sew
eral OF whom have died.
VIM. j. Mcfarland, OF Clevela nd,
Ohio, quarreled with his wife, while
under the influence Of liquor. In his
fury he drew a revolver, shot his wife
and three-year-old daughter, and then
shot himself. All are dead.
A barn belonging to A. NJ. Forbes,
and located on West Monroe street,
Chicago, burnsd. Seventy horses
were suifocated, and several people
barely escaped with their lives. The
loss is about $22 600.
Sergeant James White, OF Company
G, stationed ut Fort Gibson, l. T., met
with q fatal accident. He was hold
ing stake in his hand, when horse
kicked at him and drove the stake
through his body. He died instantly.
A cyclone swept over Brownton,
Texas, destroying the Methodist, Bap-
list and Congregational churches and
eight dwellings. One person wa
killed, and eight, including the sheriff
and county recorder, were fatally
wounded.
Mrs. Anna Bryant was murdered by
her father, William Greenwood, at
Curtis, Neb. She had just given
birth to q child, after she had been
married only three months. Her hus-
band has lett the country. She was
only 16 years of age.
Dom Pedro, the Emperor OF Brazil,
appears to be stricken with paralysis.
He has lost the power of speech, and
his breathing is labored. Oxygen was
forced into his lungs, and coffeine was
injected under his skin, with the re-
suit that he became less inert and par
TALLY conscious, but there is little hope
for his recovery.
A man named Likens a. Spring
field, Mo-, crushed the heads of his
two children, boy and girl, aged re-
spectively nine and eleven years, with
an axe, and then cut hts own throat
with pocketknife. He expired in
ten minutes.
William Bullock, an employ OF the
West Shore railroad at Newark
Wayne county, New York, shot his
wife four times with a revolver, killing
her instantly. He then placed the
weapon to his own head and fired, in
flicting fatal wound. Jealousy was
the cause. Three children, aged from
nine to eighteen years, survive.
The steamship City of Para, which
left Colon for New York, went ashore
on Old Providence Island near Pana'
ma. AT last accounts she was lying
in seventeen feet of water. The YES
sci is in no danger, unless heavy
weather sets, in, which is very unlikely
ut this time Of year. The passengers
mails and specie ale still on board.
At the Chickasaw Indian nation, q
bloody bowie-knife butchery occurred
Two farmers named Wash Edward
and james Schneider got into fight
with knives, and the former was liter
ally torn to pieces, his right arm be
ing severed at the shoulder, and his
back split entirely open, besides re-
ceiying numerous other mortal gashes
Charles Carey, who deliberately
killed Moy Nj Ding, Chinaman, al
the stock yards packing house in Chi
cage, has been sentenced TO fifty year,
by the judge. The victim went tc
buy scraps, when Carey walked UP tc
him, laughed, pulled revolver and
shot h m dead. To the Mortified spec
tators he said; 'Pve only killed a
Chinaman."
Three horrible and unjustifable
crimes were avenged by the hanging
OF one white man named Graham, and
two negroes named David Moore and
Willard Hall, at Grecnville, Miss
David Moore killed companion dur
ing game OF dice. Willard Hall
killed l5-year-old boy. Graham, the
white man, was hanged for killing two
white men on the Sunhower river.
The steamer City of Peking which
arrived from Hong Kong and Yoke
homa brought definite account OF
the wreck of the steamer San Pablo,
near Turnabout island, in the straits
of Formosa. A heavy fog prevailed
at the time, and the steamer ran up
on hidden reef. The locality is in
tested with pirates, and as soon as they
saw that the San Pablo was aground
they made an attempt to board her.
but were driven Off after a sharp fight,
in which a number of shots were fired
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