Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-10-24
NEWS SUMMARY.

I l y
King Humbert of Italy has sent to
the emperor of Germany life-size
portrait of himself.
The striking London corn porters of
the Allan steamship company have re-
sumed work on the company's terms
The Vermont legislature has passed
Il resolution asking the worlds fair
managers to close the grounds on Sun
day.
Twenty-one Chinese captured on a
sloop at Port Townsend Wash, have
been ordered sert back to British Col
nmbia.
The British government denies that
lover prevails to an alarming extent
among tho grenadier guards now in
Burmuda.
The new ballot reform law was tried
In Newark on the 14th at the city cleo
ton for the first time and worked sat
isfactorily.
Russia will begin the construction
OF the trans iberian railway at once
Government officials will have COM
plete control.
The police census shows New York
city's population to be 1,710,715, an
Increase OF 1877, PA over the govern
ment figures.
The shortage of ex-City Treasurer
Fitzpatrick OF Terre Haute, Ind, has
been fixed at SIS, 522, divided almost
equally between his two terms.
Commander Charles L. Huntington,
commander of the Pensacola navy yard,
died at Saratoga. N. r., on the 18th.
He has been i'll for several months.
head end collision occurred be-
tween two Union Pacific freight trains
near Lookout station Wyoming. Both
engines were wrecked. but no one was
injured.
Ellen Gregory died at Knoxville,
| Tenn. aged over 100 years. Sho
came from County Kerry. ireland, 45
years ago and had children in Lynch
burg and Tihin. Ohio
| Newark, n. j., went democratic by
an overwhelming majority in the char
ter election. The democrats elected
nine out OF fifteen aldermen, which
makes the council tie.
| Tho Nebraska supreme court has
deferred the execution of Ed Neal, con-
victed of the murder Of Allan and Dor
othy Jones, at Omaha, until it can
pass on the appeal in January.
| George Mckay who left his wife
and two children fifteen years ago in
southern Indiana, has returned and
found his wife living at Minneapolis
and happily married. Last Sunday
the wife of two men died.
Emperor William has received from
the king of Italy telegram announc-
| ing that he has sent to the kaiser a
life-size portrait of himself. In the
telegram King Humbert addresses the
emperor as his "true friend and ally"
| The case of Frank Slavin and Joe
McAuliffe, the pugilists, came up in
police court at London. After listen
ing to the evidence and arguments the
court committed the prisoners for trial
for engaging in common prize fight.
The New York World announces that.
yielding to the advice of his physicians,
Mr.. Pulitzer has withdrawn entirely
from the editorship and control of the
World. which has been vested in an ex-
ecutive board OF its principal editors.
August Schulz, aged twenty three,
shot his sweetheart, Miss Minnie Berg.
aman aged twenty. at her home at
Bridgeport in Des Moines county, near
Burlington, Iowa, and then killed him.
self. Cause, unreouited love. The
girl may die.
Edward Cation of Washington, a cigar
maker 25 years of age, committed sui
eide in the rear of the white house.
He squeezed his head in between the
iron ratings of the fence that sur
rounds the grounds and choked him.
self to death.
Census reports: Population OF Far
go, n. D., 5, 631, increase 1890 pei
cent los. 43; population of the state oil
Arkansas. 1,l25, 3S5, increase 1922, $50,
per cent 1923; population of the state
of North Dakota 1872, 425, increase
las, Sol, per cent 394.26.
The supreme court of Iowa brought
the celebrated Billings murder case to
a conclusion on the 14th by reversing
for the second time the decision of the
district court in the case. The SUI.
preme court holds positively that
Kingsley committed suicide.
General Reuben Davis, aged So, Of
Aberdeen, Miss, died on the 14th. He
was the first cousin of Jefferson Davis,
a prominent figure in the Mexican wal
and ranked as the most celebrated
criminal lawyer in the south. He
served in the Thirty-f fifth and Thirty
sixth congresses.
The Irish Times says that William
A. Graham, member of the commons
for west Limerick. and Timothy Har.
rington, member for Dublin, who were
appointed members of the sommittee
to visit the United States TO solicit aid
for the Irish cause, have refused to
accept the appointments.
A committee from Chicago in the in
terest of the worlds fair visited Wash
ington county, Tennessee, and bought
of Henry Reed the log cabin in which
Abraham Lincoln lived as boy and
where his father was married to Nancy
Hanks, the certificate being preserved
there yet in the county clerks office.
The price paid for this historic relic
was 81, 900 and it will be taken down
and erected on a prominent site at the
worlds fair.
! Justice MiIIer,s Successor.