Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-10-31
NEWS SUMMARY.

The British foreign Office has form
ally recognized g. ) Brazilian republic
Striking street car and omnibu
drivers of Havana, Cuba. have begun
rioting.
The president has commissioner
Stanley ii. Policy as postmaster a
| Osawatomie, Kan.
Conrad Faltz, for thirty years jailel
at the Chicago county Jail, died Thurs
day OF pneumonia.
| Commoner Holden of London ha:
given 81, 600 to the Irish fund OF the
National liberal club.
Isaac Bremen and his wife and sor
were killed by a train at crossing
near Centerville, la.
Sioux City, Ia, officials are solving
the original package problem by filming
the proprietors, each, $50 per month.
Major II. c. Seymour. U. S. A., con-
nected with the civil service depart
ment died at Galveston, aged So years.
Captain l.. w. Cutler. editor and pro-
prietor of the Field and Farm OF Den
yer, died at Salida Col, on the 18th.
The tunnel under the st. Clair river
between St. Clair, Mich, and Sarnia,
Ont, is now ready for railroad tracks.
According to the census bureau the
population of Pennsylvania is 5, 249, =
674-an increase of 965, 583 in ten
years.
Mount Aetna is in state of erup-
ton. The whole eastern side of the
mountain is covered with thick layer
of einders.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says
the supporters of ex-President Celmar.
are intriguing with Il view of returning
him to power
company has been formed with
800, 900 capital to maintain at Chi
cago permanent exhibition of the
products of Texas.
The comptroller OF the currency has
authorized tho Merchants National
bank of Burlington, Ia, to extend its
corporate existence.
Bishop McLaughlin's jubilee cele-
bration closed in Brooklyn with u grand
parade, in which nearly fifty thousand
people participated.
The Illinois Central railroad direc.
tors at meeting in Chicago reelected
Stuyvesant Fish president and selected
two new presidents.
Twenty coopers in the employ OF
Hauber Brothers at Lawrence, Kan.
making apple barrels, struck for an in
crease of one cent per barrel.
The United States express company
has issued positive orders to all its
agents to refuse to assist in any way in
the transaction of lottery business.
Owing to the lack of work the peo-
pie OF Gatineau Point, Ont, are leav-
ing by the dozens for the United States
and the town is fast being depopulated,
The Blankenship Il Blake manufac-
turing company at Dallas, Texas, jeans
and cotton goods, made an assignment.
Liabilities, $3.50, 900; assets the same
General j. C. Sullivan, who COM
manded division under Rosecrans
and who fought the battle of Iuka,
died at Oakland, California, on the
22d.
The population of the state of Wis
consin, corrected, is l, 6S3. go, an in
crease of 36S, 800, and that of the state
of Oregon, 312, 495, an increase Of
1877, 222.
The first locomotive of the Mauitar
& Pixies Peak cogwheel railway reached
the summit of Pixies Peak October 8,
and the last spike was driven that
morning.
Two men entered the residence OF
j. w. Irvine, in Chicago, and after
beating Mrs. Irvine almost to inscnsi-
bility, robbed the house. securing
about 800 in cash.
At an immense meeting in Buenos
Ayres resolutions We're adopted de-
handing the impeachment of ex-Presi-
dent Celman and his partisans for
fraudulent practices.
Milwaukee papers say there are
strong indications that the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore & Western is actually sold
to the Chicago & Northwestern, or
that such deal will shortly be con-
sumated.
The Greek patriarchate has ordered
all churches in Turkey under its juris-
diction closed until further notice as n
protest against the porte's action to-
ward the church. Intense excitement
prevails.
The trial in London of Stephen
al
lean, who was charged with stealing
jewels belonging to the Duke of Edin-
burg in May last, resulted in verdict
of mot proven"
Preston Turpie of New York city, a
youth aged IA, committed suicide by
He was an inveterate reader of dime
novels and it is supposed that his mind
had become thereby affected.
John Nelson. IL day laborer en-
ployed at the Union Pacific mines in
Evanston, Wyoming, was killed by be-
ing caught between the cars. He was
horribly crushed and lived but few
momets after the accident occurred.
The Missouri Il Kansas division of
the st. Louis, Arkansas 4 Texas rail-
way, commonly known as the Cotton
Belt, extending from Birds Point,
Mo-, opposite Cairo H., to Texar-
kama, Ark, has been sold at auction.
The count of the population of the
country is about completed by the CEN
sus Office. The population of all the
states with the exception of South Da-