Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-02-17
TELEGRAPHlC.
In Epitome Of the Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest
A Bold Robbery.

A Bold Robbery.
LIMESTONE, Ind. Ter.-Four masked
men, all heavily armed, entered the
Citizens Bank, and presented pistol
at the head of Cashier w. T. Reynolds
and demanded that he hand over the
cash.
While pretending to comply Rey-
nolds slammed the door OF the safe to
and turned the lock. He was at once
laid out by bullet from the pistol of
one of the dosperadoes, which killed
him instantly. The bank was then
ransacked and all the money in the
cash drawer, some $500, was taken.
An attempt was made to open the
safe, but in this the robbers failed, as
the sound OF pistol shots was heard,
and several people came rushing to
the bank.
In few moments the town was
aroused and twenty or thirty armed
men hurried to the bank. The robbers
were just mounting their horses, and
hot fire was begun, in which Thomas
Evan, ranchman living near the
town, was killed. In the melee four
OF the citizens were wounded, but not
fatally. The surviving robbers then
rode away with the booty, followed by
posse, which after an hours chase
caught the desperadoes and took them
back TO Limestone. The leader was
found guilty of murder and strung up.
The other two were placed in charge
of a strong guard and started for Fort
Washitt, where they were turned over
TO the United States authorities. The
stolen money was recovered.
Fire In stable at Fort LeaveDworth
suffocated thirty-six horses belonging
to Company l, First cavalry.
BY an explosion OF gunpowder at
Brest-Litovski, Russian Poland, eleven
persons were killed, and thirty severely
injured.
At Snowden, Pa, Christian Feick,
recently discharged pit boss of the
| Snowden mines, shot and killed his
wife and himself in the presence OF six
children. Poverty of the family was
the cause.
AT Plymouth, N. c., Jack Blount
Matthew Blount and Patterson Spru-
lit, the negroes who murdered John
Dawson, n peddler, were removed from
the Jail by a mob of masked men, tied
to tree and shot to death.
Otto Purcell committed suicide with
poison, at his Brooklyn On. W home
because OF loss OF work. His lS-year
old widow was inconsolable, and she
killed herself with poison. She left 8
note saying she took her life because
her husband had taken his.
The boiler Of the tug Zouave OK
ploded in the harbor at New York
j. Connolly, engineer, Patrick Heal,
and John Mckenny, firemen, ant
Bernard Booney, steward, were al
shockingly scalded, most of then
fatally.
A Princeton, Dakota, special say
Swede living twenty miles from Their
killed his wife and seven children
cropping their heads off with broa,
axe. A boy of Ia jumped from al
upstairs window and escaped. Whel
asked by the neighbors what he ha
done, the murderer replied, "What
have intended to do for long time.
Warden Brown, of the Utah pen
Tertiary, has been removed for, it
alleged, inhumap treatment of con
A vict named Miller, by combining hir
o in "sweat-b box" for thirty-six hour
: with the thermometer several degree
q below zero, causing his feet and limb
to be badly frozen.
f The almshouse and an adjoinin
dwelling, located in East Village, nes
Munroe. Conn, was burned to til
ground. Three persons persisted i
/ the flames. Numbers of the paupei
4 who were forced to flee from the built
n ing suffered severely from exposur
they having had no time to don prop,
clothing.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, John Cullen,
drunken ship calker, Drained h
% mother with an axe while she WI
10 getting his supper ready. After kis
a ing the corpse he went to q salool
IA told of the crime, and did not resi-
arrest. He gave as an excuse that |
did not wnnt his mother to 90 to IL
poor-house.
If The steamer Marcos, which arrive
. at New York from Havana, brougl
:" the crew of the bark ID. Chaplin,
e Boston, which sank ut sea. Alter ha
Is ing been in their boat ten days witho'
l. food or water, and losing by starvatio
, and exposure Capt. w. G. Hall, Il
, cook and one seaman, the rest of tt
crew were rescued.
Three thousand men, women ar
, girls employed in shoe manufacture
Is were locked out by their employers
1t Cincinnati. The wages of twelve CIR
:. were kept back by one firm, on Il
4 ground that by mistake in figurir
out their work they had been overpai
Fellow-workme took up the girl
y cause, and when the firm refused
l. see committee, struck. The man
lecturers claim that by the agreemel
they could only treat with the geher
committee ON wages.