Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-04
TELEGRAPHlC.
AN EpIroNE OF TUE PRINCIPAL EVENT
New ATTRACTING PUBLIC INTEREST.

vent in New York is now estimated at
$550,000; insurance, $4,000.
The main building Of Wells col
lege at Aurora, N. Y, was burned.
The loss is over 100000; insurance
100000.
The new Catholic church at Cole
man, Wis, collapsed, killing one man
and crushing seven others SO badly
that several may die.
Edward Hanlan, Jr., young son OF
Hanlan, the oarsman, of Toronto,
Canada, while playing with matches,
set fire TO his clothes and was burned
TO death.
A passenger train ran into the rear
end OF freight at Darlington, OHIO,
badly damaging the passenger loco
motive and breaking several cars.
Nobody was hurt.
The Macintosh sampling works a.
Sandy, fourteen miles south OF Salt
Lake. was burned. The loss is about
| $25, 900, insurance $4,000. The
cause OF the fire is unknown.
For the second time IN three years
large part Of the business portion OF
Litcl field, Conn, has been burned
The fire destroyed several business
blocks.
A fire broke out in the Caldwell
Griffith block, on Market street, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh streets, at
Chattanooga, Tenn, and destroyed
! 800 900 worth OF property.
The wholesale agricultural nipple
ment house Of Martin & Co, and
Kingman & Co., in Peoria, ILL.,, were
burned Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000
The cottage OF J. d. Mccarthy, at
the Mount Tabor Methodist camp
meeting grounds, at Newark, N. j.,
was burned. Two children and the
mother were burned to death.
A boarding house and store at
West Charleston, w, Va, was burned,
and Mre. Wallace and son Simon,
aged 80, were cremated. Robbery,
murder and arson are suspected.
Deacon Lowering, aged 80, and his
sister, Mrs. Richardson, OF Greenfield,
Mass. were instantly killed by light
ming. Their farm house and out
buildings were burned.
Information was received at Tue
son, Ariz., that two men were killed
between Crittenden and Huschua, and
that the deed vas supposed to have
been the work OF Indians. The men
killed were Mexican raqueros.
While Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
was riding in Il victoria in Bellvut
avenue at Newport, r. l., the carriage
was run into by dogosrt, and Mrs
Vanderbilt thrown out. She sus
tanned serious injuries.
George Metzinger, who was the
chief instigator in the Chicago bomb
makers, and connected with the Hay
market riot, died in an insane asylum
at jefferson, H., recently. No one
claimed his body and ii was used fol-
dissecting purposes.
At Moose Lake, near Duluth, MINI.
Japp Cox, well Il do farmer, sho
and instantly killed his Ii year-olt
son. The father was testing Win
| chester rife, when il was accidental,
discharged, the bullet penetrating tn,
boys head.
Adolph Hartman, a German EN-
ployed AS clerk in Morford, Brown
4 Cos store, at Long Branch, n. j
tried TO shoot Mrs Hayes, his mother
, in.law, and then killed his wife an,
, himself at highlands of Navesink, il
the woods back OF Twin lighthouse.
I While Officers Jones and Rosenber
were attempting To make an arrest a
a house on Lafayette street, in Loui:
Vile, Ky, which has beea notoriou
for crimes committed there, both wer
y stabbed To death by Charles Dilgel
! formerly private policeman and watch
man.
$ Nancy Railing, colored womaj
, living at Norfolk, Va, who has bee
sick for some months, has vomited
living frog, nearly as long as a tiuge
and almost white from long deprive
. ton from light. II Is supposed tia
some time ago the woman swallowe
c a tadpole.
a During a heavy gale the sIoop Flor
E b. capsized near New Castle, De
She had on board, Mrs. EIijA
Wheaton, Mrs. Jonathan Turne
: Mrs. Saml, Wheaton and daughter,
Z years OF age, and Mrs. Thomas Finn'
. gan, all OF whom were drowned.
4 Jennie Woolver, domestic on
4 farm near Woodland, Miss, was she
p aAd killed by George Moons, aged
years. who then blew his brains GU
Moons lately returned from Colorad,
and it lie supposed that he killed tn
girl because she WAS soon to be ma
= ried to another man, and refused h
: suit.
Y Three young men Soloman Rel,
. aged 10 years, VIM. Lawrence, age
. Is, and the third name unknown, wer
: drowned in the Est river, opposit
u Sixth street, in New York, from
Il boat which was upset by the was
= from ferry bost. They tried to swir
!, ashore in n strong tide, and their tiy
companions were rescued after Gins
> ing to the boats keel for half an hou
The locomotive of west-boun
u Chicago express on the Erie roa
Jumped the track near Corning, n. Y
and dashed into Lehigh Valley |,
a, connective standing on the track. Til
passenger locomotive overturned an
, crushed to death John Mercereau {