Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-05-04
TElEGRAPHIC.


A cyclone struck Newton, Kansas,
destroying the carriage works and
causing two deaths.
The French steamer Fleur de In Mer
foundered off the island of Cayenne.
Sixty passengers were drowned.
Thos. j. Potter, Vice-President and
General Manager of the Union Pa
cific Railroad Company, died at
Welcker's hotel, in Washington.
The survey of the canal contem-
plated in Southern New Mexico is
about completed. 1t will cost nearly
SIS, 100000, and will reclaim 5000, 900
acres.
At st. Johns, Arizona, Alex. Rudd
shot and instantly killed sheep
herder named McCaw. The difficulty
was over sheep. Immediately after
the killing Rudd mounted his horse
and fled to the mountains.
The state deaf and dumb asylum at
Fulton, Mo-, burned. The fire caught
in the dome in the fifth story, and the
building burned down. 1t was large
one and cost the state nearly half a
million dollars, and was insured for
but $4,000. There were $50 pupils
in the building, but all were removed
without injury.
A fire occurred in the Methodist
University, at Mitchell, Dakota, from
the spontaneous combustion of rags in
the art room. There were forty in.
mates in the building, including the
faculty, students and servants. All
but ten of these escaped. Four young
men jumped from a second story
window. Four others and professor
jumped from third story, and another
professor descended from the roof by
a clothes line. The building was com
pletely destroyed. The loss is $50, 900.
The university will be rebuilt.
A man and mis- son living at Poplar
Grove, Dakota, were eaten alive by a
pack of wolves. The facts, as near as
can be obtained, are that the father
and son left their house with shovels
to clear snow from some haystacks not
more than fifteen or twenty rods dis
tant. They were at once attacked by
pack of sixteen wolves, which liter
ally ate them alive, while the wife and
mother gazed through a window at
the horrible sight, knowing it was
certain death to go to their assistance
After the brutes had eaten all the flesh
off the bones they came up to the
house, ran around it several times and
then went away. Next day the re-
mains were visited, but nothing was
found but a few bare bones.
The new office of the Evening Union
at Springfield, Mass was burned out
and the blaze was attended with the
most sickening horror ever witnessed
in that city, six of the employees meet
ing a terrible death, most of them
jumping from the fifth story and being
crushed into a shapeless mass below
six others were badly injured. A large
canvas sheet was stretched over the
sidewalk. Three men jumped on THU
but broke through and fell on thu
pavement. A woman also fell through
the canvas and tanned on the Sidewalk
: insensible. Joseph Landlord wa
standing on the sidewalk at the cor
ner, when Mrs. Farley fell. He stoot
his ground and reached out his arm
to catch her. She fell on his neck
throwing him to the ground senseless
Mrs. Farley was killed instantly. Thu
dead are as follows Henry j. Gould
ing, foreman of the composing room
burned TO death; Miss G. Thompson
r proof reader; Mrs. Frederick E. Far
5 ley, editorial department, fell from tn,
window and killed; Mr.. Lamzon
r Quebec, jumped and killed; w. E
Hovey, OF Boston, fell to the sidewalk
Mr.. Brown, a compositor.