Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-30
TELEGRAPHIC.
In Epiton. Of The Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest

Three persons in Newark, N. j., are
known to have been frozen TO death.
The Belfast ste inner Galgrom Castle
went ashore near Drumore. The mas
ter and five men were drowned.
The premature explosion of dyna-
mite near Bremen, Georgia, killed
three convicts and fatally wounded
another.
VIM. A. Parker was lynched at
Washington, N. c., for the murder OF
General Bryan Grimes, which occurred
eight years ago.
Henry Bergh, founder and president
of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, died at mis- resi-
dence in New York City.
A cyclone passed over Opelousas,
La. Many buildings were destroyed.
A man and child were killed, and
several people injured.
A passenger train on the Cincinnati
& Southern railroad was wrecked at
Oakdale, Tenn. -Four persons were
killed and many wounded.
The President has sent to the SEN
ate the name of John Lee Brown, of
New York, to be Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of Idaho.
The governing committee of the
New York Stock Exchange has voted
to list $l4, 254 900 first mortgage bonds
of the Oregon & California road.
A premature explosion of large
charge Of dynamite in railroad cut
near Burgettstown, Pa, buried thirty
workmen beneath mass of debris.
An Italian was killed, two men were
fatally injured, and most of the others
more or less bruised
The steamship Atlas arrived from
West Indian ports. On leaving the
harbor of Carthegena on February 22d
the captain learned that the boiler of
the river steamer Rafael Reyes had
exploded and that thirty persons were
killed.
At Winchester, Ohio, an angry mob
of farmers tarred and feathered two
Mormon elders who have been for
some time trying to hold PROSECUTING
meetings. After the ceremony the
elders were chased to the Ohio river,
which they rossed for safety.
A Belleville, Texas, special says
Tim Forsythe, son of the sheriff of
Pamela county, has been arrested for
the murder of County Treasurer Hill,
chopping off the latter's head with a
Ratchet and taking large amount of
money. Forsythe confesses the crime.
The widow OF the murdered man has
lost her reason.
Charles Wingard and Annie Fox,
uncle and niece, killed themselves
with the same revolver in the Jail at
Alliance, Ohio. The couple eloped
from Monroe, Ind, whore they had
been living as man and wife. They
were ARE sted at Alliance, and killed
themselves rather than go back to the
scene OF their disgrace.
Robert Stewart, d brakeman on the
Utah Central railroad, while engaged
coupling box cars at the Salt Lake
depot, in stepping out from between
two cars caught his left foot in frog
and was unable to extricate himself
He was thrown to the track, the wheels
passing over him and crushing his
left leg and arm to a Jelly. He was
removed to the hospital, where he
died.
At horserace at Alma, N. NJ, Jack
Pittman and Dick Blain, miners well
known in that section, got into dis
pute during which Pittman called the
other liar. Blain challenged Pitt
man to duel with revolvers at thirty
yards. The firing took place at a spot
in the outskirts of town where several
similar encounters have occurred. AT
the word the two men fired almost
simultaneously and both fell dead.
A dispatch from Albany, N. Y.
says; John Jones has been engaged
by railroad company in China for
the past three years, and his mission
is to hire $50 engineers, fremen and
brakemen to run trains on the Ameri-
can system in China. 1t is said the
engineers will be paid $3.50 monthly
tiremen Xl75 and brakemen 1925. All
those engaged will have to sign an
agreement to remain five years with
the company.
A serious accident happened on the
Mexican National railway, fifty miles
south OF Saltillo. A construction train
was taking large number of Mexi
cans from Saltillo to the end of the
track, and while en- route n car con.
tanning thirty men jumped from the
track and rolled down an EN- bankment
killing six and seriously. injuring
twenty. The train was under control
of contractor, and the company is
not responsible for the accident.
Passenger train No. 8, on the Penn.
sylvania Railroad, collided with a
heavy freight train near Huntington
and both trains were wrecked. The
engineer and fireman of the passenger
train were instantly killed, and a
freight brakeman and Pullman pas
senger were seriously hurt. Other
passengers escaped with II severe shak-
ing up. A severe storm was raging
ON the mountains, and the crew on
the freight train were almost frozen.
Famous Colored People.
Uncle Mark Tolliver. an aged col