Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-05
NEWS SUMMARY.

lost.
Investigation has shown that ther
is no leprosy on the Island OF Ant
cost.
Lord Salisbury, replying to Turkey
note, says the time is ripe to evacuat
Egypt.
Near Buckingham, Quebec, an infan
was killed and eaten by two insane dea
mutes.
A fire in the customs warehouse a
Copenhagen caused loss of 2, 900, 00l
kroners.
Hayti and Santa Domingo are up il
arms against each other, with q wa
probable.
On the Isthmus OF Panama the ma
tives have begun campaign agains
the Chinese.
Several cases of leprosy are reported
at Englishtown, N. b. Spread of the
disease is feared.
Reports from the Arkansas cotton
districts are that the yield this year
Is above the average.
There is growing tendency among
English juries to inaict capital punish
ment with great care.
Mr.. Lincoln, the United States min
lister to England, strongly denies that
he is about to resign.
A confession of murder made at Salt
Lake, Utah, proves to have been trick
to secure food and shelter.
Ex-President Paul of Venezuela is
in New York and will remain in the
United States several months.
The Irish potato crop of Illinois is
now estimated at not over one-third Of
an average, all due to drought.
Joseph Hatton. the novelist well
known to American readers, will take
a vacation in New York this fall
During neither OF President Harri-
sons visits to Boston was wine offered
to him at any of the public dinners.
In the French senate Vicente Fidel
Lopes, minister of finance, and Cen
eral Lavelle, minister of war, have re-
signed.
The Canadian authorities are very
much worried lest cholera should be
brought to this country next year from
Japan.
Sir Charles Russell is said to be
slated for the lord chancellorship OF
Ireland when next the liberals get into
Office.
The crown princess OF Denmark is
the tallest princess in the world. Her
height is announced to be feet 3
inches.
Lyman f. Morse, aged 81, of MARI
boro, Mass, has been missing since
June 8, when he was last heard of in
st. Louis.
A continent has been divided among
Europe's powers by the Anglo-French,
and Anglo-Portugues
agreements.
The Corn Millers' association of
Leeds advanced the price of flour Is Cd
per sack. This makes an advance of
as cd within n month.
1t is reported that the coal miners
Of southern Illinois will strike Sep
TENDER l for the same wages as arc
polu III llllHOlS.
Three bricklayers were fatally and
tour other men badly hurt by the fall
Of a scaffolding sixty-ive feet down a
furnace stack in Baltimore.
The remains of the famous inventor
Ericsson were transferred to the war
ship Baltimore at New York, which !
sailed Immediately for Sweden.
The Rev. DR.. b. +. Rawlins of Mt.
Nernon, Ind, a veteran Methodist,
mas accepted the assistant editorship
Of the Western Christian Advocate.
A London dispatch says the Irish
potato crop is ruined and the condition
If cereals is bad. One death is re-
ported from eating diseased potatoes.
The fire loss for July passed the
mark of $l4, 900, 900; the loss of the
ear SO far is some $15, 900, 900 short
If the loss for the same period last
Iear.
The electric battery has superseded
he hose and cold water treatment for
aiming refractory prisoners in the
)hio penitentiary with most excellent
'esults.
Senior Romero, Mexican minister to
he United States, who is at present
Ibsent from his post on a visit home,
will soon join his invalid wife at
Carlsbad.
Colonel Kautz is in Washington
pleading his case in the so-called con-
roversy with General Brooke, which
las not been taken up yet by the war
apartment.
1t is stated that the German electric
company of Madrid has in contempla-
ion the installation of plant for cleo
ric blowing on large property in the
e9tral part of Spain.
The recent daily rains in Oklahoma
AVE freshened the pastures and soft
ned the ground so that farmers are
ii at work preparing the ground for
planting wheat and rye.
A Texas woman, tired of carving
water long distance, dug a well in
Ter own yard, meantime preparing her
husbands meals regularly and taking
are of four small children.
A letter from Honolulu reports that
CUNT Seckenyl has been murdered by
lis servants in the South sea islands.
lie was at the head of the expedition
which was exploring the islands.
The Berlin Post says that Russia
ught to prove her desire for peace by
onsenting to an arrangement by which
he great powers shall simultaneously
withdraw their troops massed on the
rontier.
Cholera is spreading along the Med