Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-08-15

Three hundred people were renderet
homeless by fire at Braddock, Pa.
Capt. Boyd of the United State
Navy died suddenly in New York.
Half the citizens of Rey Bay, New
fondland, are down with diphtheria.
City Clerk Albert Geohegan of Paris
ILL.,, is short a large amount and hai
fed
Kate Douglas, colored, OF lagrange
Mo-, was seriously injured by an angry
COW.
Seinan & Smith, proprietors OF the
oldest retail shoe store in Clevelad, o.,
failed.
Democratic members OF the Illinois
legislature serenaded General Palmer
at Springfield.
1t is reported that Secretary Blaine
favors the annexation OF Hayti and
San Domingo.
Miss Jennie Hartman killed herself
at Mertztown, Pa, fearing an attacA:
of hydrophobia.
Secretary Window will receive bids
for silver under the new law on and
after August 10.
The population of Arizona is 81, 900.
Tucson has 5, 1856; Phoenix, 3,115, and
Prescott, 1,843.
More shoes are manufactured at
Haverhill, Mass, than in any other
city of the United States.
Charles Barnes, a colored forger,
wanted at Centralia, Mo-, has been
arrested at Indianapolis, Ind.
A supposed dead man was resusci-
tated at TeXarkana, Ark, after being
taken to an undertaker's room.
If any British war ships go into
Behring Sea this year the Nymph and
Daphne will probably be the ones.
The Union Labor party of Miller
county Arkansas, will submit an ulti-
matum to each of the old parties.
James Clark & Co., coffee dealers of
New Orleans, La, have assigned with
Sl5S, 600 liabilities and $95 900 assets.
The Rev. DR.. +. b. Hurlbut of Chi
cago has declined to accept the presi-
dency of Colgate university, Utica,
N. Y.
President Diaz of Mexico declares
that he will not interfere in the Guate-
malan-Salvadorian war except as arbi-
traitor.
Astrike affecting l 900 men employed
by Rainey & Co. in the coke regions
of Pennsylvania will be ordered in a
few days.
The trans Caspian railway of Russia
is totally unable to handle the cotton
crop of Turkestan, which has increased
wonderfully.
Amnesty has been granted by the
French government to all persons con-
victed of offenses in connection with
labor strikes.
A preacher at Canton, O., has got
himself into trouble through express
ing new views of Christ's birth and
resurrection.
The families of Paul and Elias Brent
of Kirkwood, H., were poisoned by
impure beef tongue, and Mrs. Elias
Brent will die.
Senior Ramon Mendoza, Argentine
minister to Mexico, has been recalled
and it is reported will be retired for
incompetency.
Four men stopped Santa Fe train
in Colorado and began firing on the
engineer and fireman, who put on
steam and escaped.
License Inspector Enoch Day of Min
Mimi, is missing with 81, 900
license money belonging to saloon
keepers of the city.
Electric cabs are said to be such
success at Stuttgart, Germany, that the
cab horses will be transferred to some
other field of usefulness.
The house committee on postoffices
and postroads has authorized favora-
BILE report, without amendment, on the
senate postal subsidy bill.
A luminous buoy has been invented,
the light for which is produced by
phosphuret of calcium and is visible
two and half miles away.
Justice Miller of the United States
supreme court has been on the bench
for twenty-eight years. His commits
sion was signed by Lincoln.
Great excitement still prevails at
Buenos Ayres, notwithstanding the
termination of the instruction, and
the disquietude continues to increase.
Fred w. Lee, late of Pineville, KY,
ran away after borrowing 800, and
later forged paper he had uttered to
the extent of 81, 750 found its way to
town.
Daniel P. Smith, one of the Oldest
men in Philadelphia, died
on the Sd from the indirect effect of
wounds received in the southern army
at Franklin, Tenn.
The total wheat yield of Tennessee
is plated at $500. 900 bushels. Corn
will produce only 60 per cent of crop
if the rest of the reason be favorable.
Cotton is in fine shape.
w. S. Williams of Cherokee county.
Alabama, is the father of twenty-eight
the eldest of whom is 40
years old, the youngest 6. Mr.. Will
liams is 20 years of age.
f. j. Uyton, collector OF an Omaha
insurance company, shot himself be-
cause the daughter of the secretary of
the company had broken her engage
ment to him and refused to renew it.
Alfred de Castro of New York has
imported u life size Parian marble
statue of Abraham Lincoln the work
of Ferrari, the famous Italian sculptor
of Rome. The work is valued at So