Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-05-18
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest In a
Condensed Form.

A pOstOfflce has been established al
Sidney. Coos county, and Samuel
Schuck was appointed postmaster.
George l.. Mason has been appointed
postmaster at Lake Creek, Jackson
county, vice Joseph T. Deck, resigned
The mail service between Vale and
Burns, Malheur county, has been in
creased.
Adam A. Baser, the postmaster at
Spicer, Linn county, has resigned, and
John w. Ball has been appointed
postmaster in his place.
Senator Dolph's bill, giving to Dalles
City portion Of the military reserva-
ton adjacent to that town for a park,
passed the senate.
I. b. Merry, of Portland, has been
appointed assistant commissioner to
Australia. Lieut.. Marx has been APP.
pointed secretary of the commission.
John Milligan's team ran away at
Lafayette, throwing him from wagon
against tree and breaking his collar
bone.
J. A. Allison, while working on the
cars at Blalocks, near The Dallos, as
brakeman, slipped and fell between
the cars, breaking several bones in his
left foot.
An east-bound freight tain was
thrown from the track near Pleasant
Valley, and the fireman killed. The
engineer and others were severely in
nd ha hn
There was a shooting scrape at Ne
tarts, in which a man named McCor-
mick was shot by another named Des-
mond, the bullet taking effect in the
groin and making dangerous wound.
AT Astoria, Miss Rhea Durant was
awakened by the noise of man en-
tering her bedroom, who had effected
an entrance through the window. The
young lady making loud outcry, the
burglar decamped in haste.
While the foundrymen at the peni-
tertiary were running off heat, a
quantity of molten metal was spilled
from liable upon the limb of con
| vict named Estes. The metal slipped
down the unfortunate mans leg and
into his shoe. In great agony he ran
and jumped into tub of water, where
he stood until the metal was cooled
His leg and foot was painfully burned
Charles Robertson, young man en-
gagged in rolling logs near Erw nj
mil, two miles above Silverton, Marion
county, nearly lost his life by having
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log, which was a heavy one, and was
rolling down side hill, crashed over
his legs and things, and then, striking
a maui, leaped over his body. In ad-
dition to other serious injuries, Rob
ertson had several ribs broken. His
hurts were considered very serious
but at last accounts he was getting
along all right.
At The Dalles, the little daughter oil
w. II. Moody, aged about three years
got q bottle OF carbolic acid, and be-
fore the mother could take it from hel
had innocently swallowed nearly the
whole contents. Fortunately, DR.. Gil
mer, in his daily visits to one of his
patients, passed by the residence and
Immediately applied the usual anti
dotes for the poison and an emetis
This circumstance, and the little girl
having eaten hearty breakfast y
short time previously, undoubtedly
saved her life. At list accounts the
child was doing well.
Fishermen all the way from St
Helens to the Cascades are idle, on ac.
count of The enforcement Of the law
prohibiting them from using nets with
meshes less than st inches--that is, a
mesh that stretches to that length
They say there is nothing running
but blueback salmon, and they have
to use 5 to 81 inch mesh to take
these, and they claim that the enforce
ment of the law is all in favor of the
wheelmen at the Cascades. They say
that when this large mesh law wa,
made there were no wheels and no at
tention was paid to blueback salmon
which have now become of consider.
able importance, as they are used by
the cannerymen.
William Garvin, locomotive fire
man, 81 years old, was killed in the
Albina railroad yards, opposite the
coal bunkers. While the locomotive
on which he was employed, No. 81
was Oh its way to the bunkers to take
on coal, he and Engineer johnson put
in their time oiling the valves, which
they did by standing in the cab. When
the bunkers were reached, Garvin I'M
dertook to step to the platform by
passing between the tender and the
| connective. About this time locomo-
tive No. 7, which had been down to
the Touring mills, rounded the curve
just below the bunkers pushing eight
or nine cars. These cars struck loco
motive y while Garvin was in the
position previously stated and the ten
der being forced forward by the pres
sure, he was crushed to death. He
died in few minutes. There was a
large cash on the right breast and the
right leg was fearfully mangled. Sew
eral ribs were broken.
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