Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-16

ne OF. LOUIS, ArkanBaB u IexaS
express train was robbed at Dingsland,
Arkansas. The express messenger
locked the doors, but the robbers
smashed them in and secured between
IS, 900 and $4,000.
The Union Square Theatre, with all
its contents, was destroyed by fire at
New York city. The Morton House,
adjoining it on two sides, was badly
damaged. Six firemen were injured
by falling walls, three fatally.
A false alarm OF fire raised in a
crowded synagogue in Hamburg, Ger,
created u panic, during which four
women were killed and six persons
seriously injured by being trampled
upon in the general rush for exit.
A bridge crew on the Atlantic &
Pacific road, A. T., numbering twenty
| men, working near Holbrook. were
poisoned by eating canned currant
jelly, and several are in such bad con-
dition that their lives are in danger.
The village of Valtorta in the north
Of Italy, was half buried by an ava
| lanche. Many houses were wrecked
and the occupants buried in the ruins.
Troops from Bergamo have arrived to
aid in disinterring the buried. Twenty
three corpses have been recovered, and
several persons have been extricated
alive, though more or less injured.
The Montana Smelling Company
has closed n contract with the Great
Falls Water Power Company of Mon
tRna, and will erect the largest smelt-
ing plant in the world at Great Falls
ON the Missouri. The company has a
capital stock of 81 5000, 600, which will
DO increased, as their plans call for
nearly $4,000 600 for the erection of
furnaces and other structures.
| Mrs. Albert Traflert and her l2-year
old son we're crossing the Ohio and
Mississippi track near Shattock, Ill.,,
in buggy, when they were struck by
the east-bound mail. Mrs. Tratfert
had her head crushed and her hand
cut OFT, dying an hour later. The boy
was wounded in the head and died
soon after The buggy was thrown
sixty yards and ground to kindling
wood, the horse being instantly killed.
Charles Williams eloped from Naco.
sari, Sonora, with the wife of Jack
Martin, cattleman. The woman
appropriated $1,000 and gold watch
and chain belonging to Martin, while
Williams scattered the horses belong
ing to Martin and neighbors to pre-
vent pursuit. The day following
Martin procured horses and a posse
and started in pursuit. He overlook
the party in canyon near Hills
ranch on the San Pedro. AS soon as
Williams saw Martin he opened fire
on him, the shot passing through the
body and causing instant death. Both
Williams and the woman are heavily
armed, and declare they will not be
taken alive.
A passenger train going east and an
oil train coming west on the Union
Pacific near Cotton, Nebraska, collided
with terrific force. Both trains were
piled together in broken mass and
took fire Immediately. In twenty
minutes all was consumed. Engineer
Powell was killed, hut all passengers
escaped, although some were badly
bruised. Among the injured were
George Mcl.arry, Portland, an ankle
sprained A. A. Brown, Portland, head
badly bruised Adson Brown, age five
years, face scratched; Mr.. Knowles,
Union City, Oregon, back bruised !;
Mrs. Burton Reed, Cascade Locks,
bruised Mrs. Lighthall, Helena, Mon
tana, collar-bons broken.