Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-12

DR.. Merrill Z. Gates has accepted
the presidency of Amherst college.
Mississippi's new Constitution will
provide for qualified womans suffrage.
The experiment of growing tobacco
in New Jersey has proved highly salts
factory.
The abandonment of the Hot Springs
ordered.
Thousands of laborers at good wages
are wanted in Colorado on railroad
and ditch work.
The price of flour in England has
advanced A shillings and sixpence in
the past month.
An electric car ran away at Daven
port, Ia, killing one man and injur-
ing several others.
Mr.. Gladstone in an article in the
Speaker Eulogizes Dollinger and the
late Cardinal Newman.
The lseders in the recent riot at the
massachusetts, state prison are said to
have been cruelty punished.
Congressman Cowles has been re-
nominated by the democrats of the
Eighth North Carolina district.
Oristram Burgess, past grand COM
mander of the Knights Templar of
California, died at San Francisco.
Oliver Wendall Holmes celebrated
his eighty-first birthday anniversary
with his friends at Beverly Farms.
The New York farmers are to meet
at Altamont September 3 to form a
permanent state farmers leaugue.
Hundreds of families of Russian
Jews are preparing to emigrate to Pal
estine to escape further persecution.
j. b. Haggin, the California million
aire, denies the rumor that he is about
to sell his fast horses and retire from
the turf.
The population of Pittsburg is 23S, =
473, an increase of 80, 0S4, and of Allie
gheny City 104, 967, an increase of
| 26, 235.
Barrundia, the Gautemalan revolu-
zionist, was riddled with bullets on
board an American vessel while trying
to escape.
Directors of the Hale & Norcross
Mining company of Cincinnati are ac-
cused of plundering the stockholders
of 81, 000 600.
| Leonard Brown, one of Iowa's most
prominent republicans, has written a
letter to James S. Clarkson, withdraw
ing from the party.
The Corn Millers' association of
Leeds advanced the price of -four Is cd
per sack. This makes an advance of
As Cd within a month.
The National Zeitung says that the
emperor has declined to accept the
resignation of General Verdy du Yer
nois as minister of war.
General Longstreet is understood to
be engaged upon history of the civil
war; and especially of the campaigns
in which he had a share.
The leading horticulturists of the
United States, at a meeting in Chi
cago, took steps toward appropriate
representation at the worlds fair
Edward Eggleston has just finished
another story of western life His
profits in royalties and returns from
serial matter are about IS, 900 year.
The people of California are said to
have the impression thatwhen Senator
Leland Stanford dies he will leave his
vast fortune of $40, 600, 900 to the state.
Thomas G. Boyle, son of the presi-
dent of the National insurance COM
pany of Allegheny City, Pa, was
drowned at Atlantic, n. j., while bath.
ing.
An English geologist predicts that
within fifty years II CONFUSION of ma
ture will sink the whole of New Zea-
land fifty feet below the surface Of the
sea.
An English syndicate is reported to
be seeking to purchase four of the
largest factories in Rhode Island. Sem
ator Brice of Ohio is said to be inter
ested.
The fire loss for July passed the
mark of Sl4, 600, 600; the loss of the
year SO far is some SO, 600, 900 short
of the loss for the same period last
year.
The electric battery has superseded
the hose and cold water treatment for
tanning refractory prisoners in the
Ohio penitentiary with most excellent
results.
Westminster abbey still has room
le It for ninety more burials and, judg-
ing by the average of the past century,
4 will be many years before this space
is filled.
Senior Romero, Mexican minister to
the United States, who is at present
absent from his post on visit home,
will soon join hi, invalid wife at
Carlsbad.
Colonel Kautz is in Washington
pleading his case in the so-called con.
troversy with General Brooke, which
has not been taken up yet by the war
department.
1t is stated that the German electric
company of Madrid has in contempla-
ton the installation of plant for cleo
trio blowing on large property in the
central part of Spain.
The recent daily rains in Oklahoma
have freshened the pastures and soft
ened the ground so that farmers are
all at work preparing the ground for
planting wheat and rye.