Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-10-17
NEWS SUMMARY.

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At Tipperary the Irish conspirators
trials resulted in some noisy demon
STATIONS.
The bill removing Oklahoma's capt.
tai to Oklahoma City passed the Ter
ritorial legislature.
John Yoher, merchant. lost his
life under circumstances that point to
murder at Wichita, Kas.
A Chicago baby was killed by having
its breath sucked by cat, " accord
ing to coroner's verdict.
The clergy of Treves, Germany, have
denounced lawn tennis as an unbecom-
ing game for German girls.
A device has been patented for util-
zing tho vast beds Of Ignite in the
northwest as fuel at low cost.
TUE secretary of the eastern syndi-
cate who will build the cotton mill in
Kearney, has arrived in that city.
Benson, the supposed murderer of
Mrs. Mettman of Leavenworth, Kas,
has been arrested at Camden, n. j.
The supreme court OF Minnesota has
decided that upper berths in spleeping
cars must be closed when not in use.
young church organist, named d.
+. Kern, at Camden, N. j., has devel-
oped wonderful mind-reading powers.
Jonas e. Clark, founder of Clark
university, Worcester, Mass, has made
another gift of $50, 900 to the general
fund.
Sixty leper convicts confined in Now
Caledonia, the French penal settle
ment, have escaped and no trace of
| them can be found.
Under the apportionment for surveys
OF public lands for the year ending
June 80, 1892. North and South Dako-
ia get $40, 900 each.
Gold quartz in paying quantities is
reported near Saratoga, Carbon coun-
| ty, Wyoming. 1t is thought much will
run 81, 500 to the ton.
General Thomas +. Drayton, aged
eighty-three years, the last surviving
classmate Of Jefferson Davis at West
Point, is dangerously i'll at Charlotte
| n. G..
The secretary OF war has turned over
the unoccupied military posts OF Forts
lotion and Mcdowell to the secretary
of the interior to be used for school
purposes.
The postoffice department received
information that the postmaster at
Baton Rouge, La, has absconded, and
that his bondsmen have taken possess
sion of the office.
A straw paper trust, representing
eighty-two mills, with an output of
1925 tons daily, has been formed to
control the market west OF the Allie
gheny mountains.
Ellen Gregory died at Knoxville,
Tenn, aged over 100 years. She
came from County Kerry ireland, 40
years ago and had children in Lynch
burg and Titfin, Ohio.
Governor Campbell has issued u
proclamation converting the Ohio leg
| islature in extra session October ii,
to consider legislation relative to the
city government of Cincinnati
Dispatches from several points along
the border in Canada tell of the great
rush to ship into the United States all
barley, peas, eggs etc, possible before
the Mckinley bill goes into effect.
The secretary of the navy has
| awarded to Cramp & Sons, OF Philadel-
phia, the contract for two coast line
| battle ships to cost So, 020, 900 each
and one armoured cruiser to cost
81, 725, 600.
Prairie fires near the town of Law
renee, Grant county, Minnesota have
been raging for two days. Much prop
erty has been destroyed, including
wheat in the stack, granaries, farm
machinery, houses and barns.
The war department has ordered the
dismissal of Clarence McDougal. u pri-
vate of company b, Eighth infantry,
stationed at Fort Niobrara on the
ground OF enlistment under age with
out the consent of his parents or guar
dian.
The Railway Ago publishes sum
mary of the railway construction in
the United States for the first nine
months this year, showing B. 1872 miles
of new road already built in thirty
nine states, and on PIP different lines.
The total construction for the year is
estimated at from six thousand to
sixty-tiy hundred miles, against 5, 200
last year.
The president has appointed Austin
j. Braddock of Rockville, Md. Henry
X. Atten OF Hiawatha, Kan. John S.
Mayhugh of Nevada and Miss Helen
p. Clark OF Montana to be special
agents to make allotments of lands in
in severalty to Indians under the pro-
visions of the act of congress APP
proved February s. 1887
The United Veterans. composed of
soldiers who fought on both sides in
the late war, met in Washington and
reaffirmed its declaration of principles,
to which objections were made by a
number of Grand Army of the Repub-
lie posts. The clause to which obiec-
ton was made declared that men who
did their duty as they saw it, which
ever side they were on, were deserving
of honorable recognition.
No More wild West shows.
| WASHINGTON Oct. 4.--Actinp In