Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-05-18
TElEGRAPHIC.
In Epitom. Of A, Principal Events Now
Attracting Pablo Interest

Andrew Biebel and Mary HEM
were drowned while crossing Grow
river in boat at Delano, Mich.
The factory and warehouse of the
Eau Claire Sash & Door Company, al
Eau Claire, Wis, burned. Loss, $780,
600; insurance, 100000
Rear-Admral Charles Stewart Baggs
died at New Brunswick, N. j., of par.
alysis and general debility. He leaves
widow.
James Cummings, manager OF the
commercial agency, committed sui
eide at Dayton, Ohio, by shooting. He
had been dealing heavily at bucket
shops.
c. S. Wertmer, known as crack
pigeon shot, has absconded with $4,000
belonging to the Waverly Building
Association, of which he was the sec
rotary.
Will English, colored, living in Bon
ham, Texas, stabbed his wife near the
heart three times. He then stabbed
himself in several places, lnhicting
fatal injuries. The cause was jeal-
ousy.
William Bullock, an employe OF
the West Shore railroad at Newark,
Wayne county,, New York, shot his
wife FOUR times with revolver, killing
her instantly. He then shot himself
lnfiicting fatal wound.
A serious cutting ARRAY took place
in the suburbs Of Fort Smith, Ark.
Lizzie Posey, lewd woman, stabbed
appearing against her in the Police
court. Mrs. Posey is in Jail, and Josie
Martin will die.
Phillip Held, a young farmer living
fourteen miles west Of Lemars, Iowa,
shot and instantly killed his mother,
and shortly afterward committed sui
eide. The trouble which existed for
some time in the family eliminated
in squabble over selling horse.
Hardy Posy, colored, was lynched at
Bessemer, Alabama, for an attempt to
rape a girl Is years of age. The town
is surrounded by armed negroes, who
threaten to burn the houses and kill
the citizens to avenge the lynching OF
Posey.
Seven children in less than two
years is the record of Mrs. Phoebe
Lynch. of Seymour, Ind, who eigh-
teen months ago gave birth to triplets
and who to-day is the mother of two
boys and two girls All seven, with
their mother, are alive nd well.
The abolition OF slavery in Brazil
is progressing with great rapidity
Hundreds of thousands who were
slaves have been freed in the past few
years, and it is proposed to set fixed
md early day when slavery shall
cease.
Dexter, the famous trotter, died al
the stable of Robert Bonner, in New
York. He was thirty years old. He
died of old age end exhaustion. Dex
ter was the greatest trotter OF his day
He was the first horse to trot a mile il
2174.
John Bogard, l6 years old, PLEADED
guilty at Kansas City, Mo-, to murder
in the first degree. He was sentenced
to be hanged. Bogard held the hands
of James Weir, at Independence, Mo.
last January, while Charles e. Meyer
struck him on the head, killing him
Meyer was tried last week, convicted
and sentenced to be hanged.
Capt. Ramon Arguiles, of the Mex
lean army, and Adolfo Towesa, clerk
in the Mexican national railway
otfices, quarreled in u restaurant a
New Laredo, Mexico. At meeting
subsequently, Arguilles shot Towesa
wounding him in the groin. The lat
ter returned the fire, killing his antag
onist
Policeman Clancy found mar
named Chester Williams lying appar
emily lead on the back porch OF q
howell in South Helena, Ark. Hi,
head was fearfully bruised either by q
club or sand bag. He was taken to
the station house, and was partially
restored to sensibility. He says while
he was walking along the levee man
ran up to him and knocked him in the
head.
At a prayer meeting at a colored
church in Berkeley county, S. c., tive
young men got into II row about q
girl. They broke the meeting up
rhe preachers and church officers at
tempted to quiet the quarreling men,
but they did not succeed. One of the
men, named Brown, drew pistol and
blew the brain of his antagonist
Richardson, out right in the church
building. The murderer has been ar
rested and jailed.
A duel between women occurred on
the Island of Corsica. The two vira-
goes concerned were named Frances
ca FORTUNATE and Benoita Pasqualini.
A long and bitter hatred existed be-
tween them, and during quarrel they
agreed that one must die. Stilettos
were the weapons employed, and they
were piled with mad energy and rap
dity. After short and sharp strug-
sle Benoita Pasquilini fell, stricken
through the heart with her adversary's
stiletto.
Fire broke out in the second floor
of four-story fiat at New York. The