Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-24
TELEGRAPHlC.
AN EPIToNE OF TUE PRINCIPAL EVENTS
NEW ATTRACTING PUBLIC INTEREST.

Omaha, while bathing.
Nearly the entire business portion
Of Suffolk, Va, was destroyed by fire
which started IN Webb's oil warehouse
The losses aggregate 100000, witt
light insurance.
A daughter OF Dolph Mills, colored
of Yazoo City, Miss, poisoned hel
father and three brothers fatally al
breakfast. Family dissensions were
the cause.
Jacob Moore, carpenter, shot and
killed his sister-in-Iaw, Mrs. Mary
Moore, at Detroit, Mich, then shot al
her daughter, and missing, shot him
self fatally.
Kate and Dennis, children of Pat
rick J. Byrnes, of New York, were
drowned in the harbor by the upset
ting OF rowboat. The f4ther was
saved with difficulty.
A. l.. Pruden, assistant secretary to
the president at Washington, received
intelligence that his son, aged Is, was
| killed in an accident on his farm in
Virginia.
A masked robber entered the farm
house of Conrad Doup, near Cleve-
land, Ohio, and beat the old man with
club, bound his hands, and stole
~, 1900.
Willie Ellsworth, lS-year-old son Of
DIR. Ellsworth, an old resident of La.
Porte, Ind, was shot in the bowels and
killed by Oliver White, another young
man OF the same age, during u quar-
rel.
Fremont Emmons, young man
who deliberately stabbed Bertha Shuts
at Pawnee City, Neb., short time
ago, because she had refused his pro
posal of marriage, was taken from the
authorities and lynched by mob,
f. b. Eddy's lumber mill at Birch.
ton, Canada, burned, together with
the entire seasons cut, valued at 1920,
600. A number OF workmen's hons es
and tool.houses were lost. The total
loss will amount to $500 900, on which
there ia an insurance of 100000.
On the Ohio Valley railroad, be-
tween Henderson and Marion, Ky.
William Cardwell, James Nichols and
Sam Num- INDUCED in shooting
scrape. Cardwell and Num- we're ia
tally shot, and Nichols jumped from
the train and escaped.
A Burlington fast train, west bound.
ran into car which got on the main
track near Round Grove, Iii. The en-
gine and one car were completely
wrecked. The engineer and fireman
were badly hurt. None of the pas.
sengcrs were injured.
Albert M. Fields. of Decatur, Ill.
shot and MORALLY wounded Florence
Fitzpatrick, because she refused to at
tend camp meeting with him. Fields
attempted to escape, but was captured
lour miles from the scene of the
tragedy.
Three armed robbers entered the
house OF VIM. Clark, II wealthy |
farmer, at New Castle, Pa, aud bound |
and gagged the entire family of seven
persons. They then ransacked the |
house, but only succeeded in getting
three gold watches and small sum of |
money
Fifty armed men visited the jail at
Carthage, Tenn, and took out o. II
Handy, who, ON September 18th last,
Killed J. b, Warman, a deputy sheriff
The sheriff refusing to give up the
keys, the mob, with axes and crowbars
broke into Handly's cell. The muir
derer was carried across the river and
hanged to tree in sight of the
Jail.
d F. Ford, an old prospector OF
Tucson, Ari8., has been robbed and
by Papagoes near the Quin
land ranch, ON the Quiietoa road.
Ford has been missing for two months.
but was thought to be prospecting in
ihe mountains till few days since.
when one of the Indians disclosed the
murder, and offered to escort party
o the place.
An inmate of the asl lum at An
'horage, KY Laura Crull by name. ,
literally boiled herself to death. One
II the patients in the female ward in
ome manner opened hot water fan.
'et IN the bath room, and allowed the ,
ub to be filled. Mrs. Crull, seeing '
he tub full, threw OFT her clothes
md jumped in. She was cooked
O death before assistance arrived !
Ter trouble was melancholy. ,,
Deputy Sheriff Hayes, Of Blakfoot d
daho, arrived mt Bozeman, Mont, and q
Alex. Woods, the negro re :
emily arrested there, as tbs man who t
murdered his wife aud was sentenced c
be hanged on June 20. Al the
anne time Williams was executed \
Woods broke Jail aud escaped, and has n
cen at large ever since. HAYES had :
he necessary requisition papers with a
i'm and took his prisoner back to .
IDAHO. The hanging has been fixed n
1r August II. I
Deputy Sheriff l.. S. Elmer mur- \
cred Miss Mollie Korbel. at Wash u
ACTON, Oak, under circum ,tauees of A
ocular atroctty. She was a domes- h
c IN the sheritf's employ, and had 81
cen interested in the management Of
10 household during the temporary
osence OF the family. She had lust h
wen the prisoners supper when /,
liner, who boarded in the house, Il
'ked her II she intended going out II
lat evening. She replied that she :
oulc !! she chose, whereupon Elmer +
not her three times, causing instant =
,atn' lie had not been paying her ~