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

? prospects in Missouri. Tho potat,
crop will be light.
Uruguay officials propose to raise tn,
, customary duties 10 per cent and max,
them payable in gold
, Nathaniel b. Locke. father of tn,
} late ID. r. Locke petroleum v. Mas
by) died at Toledo, aged 81 years.
, Seattle, the Indian chief after whom
the Washington city was named, is te
have monument erected to him by
the whites.
1t Is conceded on every hand now
that the river and harbor bill has very
little IL indeed any show of success al
this session.
Joaquin Miller is credited with writ.
ing the worst hand in the United States,
which serves to veil certain eccentrici-
ties in spelling.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres SAYS
the government troops have been
largely reinforced and President Col
man has returned.
Private advices from Zanzibar state
that all foreigners there except Ger
mans welcome the establishment of
the British protectorate.
The house committee on invalid pen-
sions ordered favorable report on the
bill granting 81, 900 year to the wild
ow of the late General Mcclellan.
A largely attended meeting of citi-
zens OF Columbus, Ca, adopted reso-
lut!ons strongly protesting against the
passage OF the Lodge federal election
bill.
John Cleary and John Harris, United
States deputy marshals, were fatally
shot at the farmers alliance picnic at
Oliver Ca, as the result of q quarrel
over family affairs.
The postal force in the CHEYENNE
postoffice will be increased August 1.
Two new carriers will be added to ac-
commodate the increase Of work in the
department of free delivery.
Lehome, Wash, special announces
the death of Hon. w. T. Henderson,
ex-attorney general of Arkansas. He
was federal judge in New Mexico
during Cieveland's Administration.
A duel with swords was fought in
Paris between NJ. Menier and George
Hugo, son of Victor Hugo, in which
Hugo was slightly wounded. The
trouble arose from private quarrel.
There is genuine case Of leprosy in
New York city. The victim is Manuel
Carutia, twenty years old, son of a no.
BILE family in Spain, who has been at
tending the military academy at Ches-
ter, Pa.
Guy r. Pelton of New York, who
was making tour Of the Yellowstone
park, dropped dead while ascending st.
Mary's mountain. Mr.. Pelton was for
two consecutive terms congressman
for New York.
Attorney General Dollard rendered |
an opinion at Pierre. South Dakota.
that the maintenance of place where
liquor is drank is violation of the
law, and n seller must prove he is not
the law.
Near Zanesheld, Logan county, O.,
Albert ID. Parmenter, young farmer,
shot his wife fatally and then blew out
his own brains with shot gun. Mrs.
Parmenter lived four hours after the
shooting. Parmenter was Jealous of
his wife.
The Washington crop bulletin saws
that reports from the northwest indi-
cate that the weather in that section
Turing the past week was generally
favorable, although in some localities
he dry weather continues and crops
ire much in need of rain.
The troops of San Salvador invaded
Guatemala and planted their flag on
duatemalan soil. Guatemala was in
suited and declared war. The Guate-
nalan troops fought with great cour- I
'ge at Cootepeque and Chingo. The
oss is great ON both sides.
Railroad officials in Chicago saw that
ne reports of cutting rates for the :
irand Army encampment at Boston
rom Chicago are untrue and intimate :
hat the rumors were instigated for -.
he purpose of breaking the rates if :
ossible.
BUENos AYREs, July 2S.-The au- !
horlties of the Argentine Republic
ave notified all telegraph companies. =
hose lines connect with the lines of q
hat country that Geographic commu- h
ication will be suspended until fur \
her notice.
Secretary Kremer of the Johnstown f
GOD relief committee has issued n b
eport, showing that total of tho n
contributions received was 81, 912,346.- +
., and the total expenditures 81, 49, h
lO.S3 The commission has $67, SO5.- G
cash in hand. j,
The town of Wallace, Idaho, a great p
lining camp of the Occur D'Alene c.
lining district one hundred miles a
'uthwest of Spokane Falls, Wash. ST
as completely destroyed by fire with
lie exception of the depots of the I'm
N Pacific and Northwestern railroads.
An aged farmer named George Duff +
3D. living near Harrington, shot and p'
vigorously wounded his grandson. al
scar Bodine, and then cut his own D,
roat with razor, dying almost in sa
antly The tragedy grew out of a d,
'tty quarrel between the men. Bodine h,
III probably recover. &C
The American Abroad al
When he goes abroad for the first ao
ne the American looks after the anti IN
e including the baronial castle in CIV