Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-30
COAST CUCLINGS.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.

Harvey Smiley, of Portland, com
mitted suicide in Tacoma hotel by
taking laudanum.
B.F. Young's eyes were burned out
with molten Babbitt metal in the
foundry at Chico, Cal.
John Ellis, travelling for picture
company of East Oakland, Cal, was
drowned at Rohnerville.
Mrs. Sarah e. Best committed sui
eide at Los Angeles by cutting her
throat with a razor.
William Barrett, Cornish miner at
Chips Flat, Sierra county, Cal, was
caved on and killed.
VIM. Ryan fatally shot Charles
Bradshaw at the Manhattan mine,
near Napa, Cal.
The California Republican State
Convention will be held at Sacramento
ON May 1st."
The Nevada Republican State Con
vention will be held at Winnemucca
on May 10Th.
| II. C. Hudson was drowned near
the Cliff House, San Francisco, while
trying to gather mussels.
Lawrence Peterson, engineer of the
Savage mine at Virginia, New, sui
cided by shooting himself through the
head.
At Susanville, CAL, a schoolteacher
named Doyle beat Fred Dooly for
using tobacco. The boy is in critical
condition, and the doctors say there
is no hope of recovery.
Lorenzo Fava, engaged in clearing
grape lands on the fruit farm of Col.
r. II. Wartield, at Healdsburg, CAL.
was accidentally killed by tree fall
ing on him and crushing his head.
An idiotic girl 10 Northern Sonoma,
Cal, makes her home among herds OF
cattle and refuses all the comforts Of
civilization She is twenty-four years
old and the daughter of stock-raiser
Intelligence has been received at
Victoria, B. c., that Rev. Sheldon
Jackson, Mrs. Cunningham and two
Indians were drowned in the Skeena
river. OF the party Mark Mckay, an
Indian, is the sole survivor.
A redwood tree recently felled near
Humboldt, Cal, measured IL feet in
diameter one way, and 20 feet in di
ameter at the stump. 1t was 200 feet
long, tapering to diameter of feet,
and contained enough timber TO con-
struct small village.
The insurance agencies furnish the
following figures in relation to Pacific
Coast fires during the month of Feb
ruary California, $105,3O0; Oregon,
81 ,306; Montana, $3,ll2; Washington
Territory, $1O,930; Wyoming Terri
tory, 81 63S.
/, Frederick Schumacher, a native OF
Germany. 81 years old, committed
suicide at Eureka, CAL. after learning
of the death of the Emperor, by tying
a chalk line around his neck and
rolling out of bed. He often expressed
wish to die at the same time as the
Emperor.
! Fire broke out simultaneously in
J the Aurora hotel and in two story
J lodging house on Poplar street, Walla
) Walla. At the Aurora a man named
Geo. Herold, a farmer, was caught in
bed and fatally burned. There is no
doubt that the fires were the work OF
an incendiary. The mayor offers a
reward of $500 for the apprehension
of the incendiary. Both places were
burned to the ground.
, A disastrous accident occurred on
the main line of the Southern Pacific
between Cotton and Indio, Cal. A
west-bound freight train was backing
and struck some cattle on the track
The caboose was turned over and
nearly all of the train piled on top OF
it. Fire broke out, and thirteen cars
loaded with freight were destroyed
Conductor Mcclure and Brakeman
Vanmotor were killed.
} A Walla Walla man who deals in
, secondhand furniture found $500 in
an old lounge which he was repairing
lie was honest, so he sent word to the
| man from whom he had purchased
the lounge. 1t turned out that the
man who sold the lounge had hidden
the money in it when he was drunk
and forgotten all about it. Then he
had accused his wife of taking it, and
the row that ensued caused the sale OF
the furniture and broke up the family
At the Goldsmith mine at Walker.
; vile, Montana, three miners named
Atwater Lawrence, James Higgins and
Fritz Dell were descending shaft
225 feet deep in a bucket. When fifty
feet from the bottom the wire cable
broke, and the men plunged to the
bottom. Lawrence and Higgins were
instantly killed, and Dell survived
only few minutes. The two former
were married; the latter was unmar.
ried. The coroner's jury exonerated
the mining company.
Fire broke out in the dry house of
the Empire mine, a mile and a hall
from Grass Valley, Cal The whistle
sounded the alarm, and many people
III town went out In few minutes
an explosion occurred which shook
the town like strong earthquake.
Over 200 pounds OF Vigorite pow Ter
IN the dry house had exploded, demol-
ishing that structure. One young man
was killed outright by being struck in
the head by stone. His name was