Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-06-26
TELEGRAPHIC.
IN Epitoms Of tho Principal Evsnt Now
Attracting PabIc Interest

thiob, thc hTsb ever organized III
Mexico, has recently been formed il
the City of Mexico.
The boiler of small river boat ex
ploded at Pass Loutre, La. Capt
Biddle was killed, and two coloret
rous 'abou.s fatally scalded.
| An explosion of natural gas oc
Cured at Stewards furnace, ut Sharon
Penn, and four ,nen were horribl,
burned
Frederick w. Toye, township clerk
his wife and three children were
burned to death in their house at Uf
fngton, Ont.
Mrs Sawyer, wife OF Senator Saw
yer, OF Wisconsin, died at Washing.
ton. Mrs. Sawyer has been an inya.
lid for many years.
Two pioneer ladies died suddenly oil
heart disease i'll Tiffin, Ohio, Mrs. Mar
garet Habich, aged seventy-one, and
Mrs. Sarah Cooley, seveniy-six.
Willie Fogelsong, aged thirteen
years, died ut Wooster, Ohio, from the
effects OF kick from horse, re-
4
In Lowndes county, Alabama, Hir-
rison II. Hunston, colored, was killed
by lightning. The current tore a hole
in his hat, broke his neck and crushed
his arm, without breaking the skin.
ST. Paul's Cathedral Mt Buffalo, N.
T., burned, AS the result OF an ex-
plosion OF natural gas. The building
was valued at $250,000; insurance,
sec, 500.
AT Peru, Ind, John Keppardt and
Albert Boyer were arrested Tor drunk.
enness and placed in Jail. Keppardt
soon began snoring which 30 incensed
Boyer that he kicked him TO death.
Dudley Porter, son of Ex-Gov.
James ID. Porter, ut Paris, Tenn, was
shot and killed by Alexander b. White.
Porter had accostcd White, and made
motion as il to draw his pistol.
Thomas Care, aged sixty-six years,
dropped dead at his work bench in the
Scioto Valley Railroad shops at Ports
mouth, Ohio, OF rheumatism OF the
heart.
A cyclone struck the village OF
Pecatonica, ILL.,, wrecking several
houses and innumerable out-buildings.
One woman and three children were
injured, but not fatally. by flying lin
Der.
A Myers, hired by J. f. Cordell
rgent for an indianapolis novelty
house at Shelbyville, Ind, is charged
by the latter with having robbed
him OF $500 worth of lace curtains,
sold them for IA song and skipped.
Sergeant Porter Webster was killed
at Topeka, Kas, by Private David
Lemons. Both were OF the Twenty
fourth infantry, stationed at Fort
Reno, and Porter was sent TO arrest
the latter.
The Southern Baptist Convention
| met at Richmond, Va. Rev. j. =.
Boyce, OF the Southern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary, OF this city, was
elected President, vice DR.. p. III. Nell,
| deceased.
The examination of Emperor Fred
erick's throat. dissipates the last hope
OF his recovery. The disease is spread.
ing and, though the Emperor shows
considerable strength, he is liable to a
sudden and an early death
Near Bloomington, w. Va, Pat Far
ley, an insane man, while walking
with James Boughner, suddenly grew
violent and, seizing his com panion,
after hard struggle, threw him over
cliff l25 feet high, causing death.
Charles Turner, grocer OF Alleg-
heny City, Penn, shot his wife in the
back and then shot himself in the
mead. Death WAS instantaneous in
both cases. The eau Z of the tragedy
was jealousy.
Fire in the medical department of
the university at Philadelphia, de
stroyed many valuable pathologal
specimens, WAX models and delicate
instruments, which will be difficult to
replace. Loss to building onlo $l0,-
600.
While the officers were all at Dime,
thieves kicked in window of the
Pratt County Bank, at Pratt, Kas
and got away with $4,0l6 all in cur
rency. Precautiou had been taken To
partly turn the combination OF the
safe.
The dam Mt Hamlin, Mich, went
out with the flood, and 100000 feet
III logs in Hamlin Lake went into
Lake Michigan, carrying with them
seventeen houses along the stream.
The logs belonged to Pardee, Cook &
Co. No lives lost.
During family qu ,rrel at Denver.
Col, between Henry j. Barron, aged
seventy-seven years, his son in-law, J.
5, Higgins, and Higgins son-in-law,
which originated over the ownership
OF dog, Barron shot and instantly
killed Higgins.
William Remission, an old farmer
u North Booth Bay, Maine, was mar
dered by Lswellyn Quimby. aged 20.
The murderer was captured after "a
desperate fight, during which he re-
ceived severe scalp wound from
shot fired by A. II. Remission, his
victims son.
"A terrible tragedy is reported from
Osceola, Ark. A widow named Allen
was ravlshed and murdered, and her
10 year-old boy and 10 yeal-old girl
were fatally injured, by four mis-
creants. -Four young white farmers