Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-10-02
PITH OF THE NEWS.

Miss Mary Lincot of st. Louis wa.
fatally shot by Frank Richart, a dis
carded lover.
! About twenty Cinnamon sneaket
across the river at Detroit Sunday
night from Windsor, Ont.
A monument to Hendrick Hudson
the explorer, will be unveiled at At
lantic Heights, N. j.. Sept. 0 1863.
Lieut. Gov. Jones of New ork has
decided not to run as a Farmers
Alliance candidate for Governor this
fall.
Dubuque stockholders of the Life
and Indemnity insurance company OF
Sioux City have asked to have a re-
ceiver appointed
Bishop Turner is trying to have an
appropriation made by Congress to
carry out his plan of colonizing 100, OOo
negroes in Africa.
Timothy Hopkins has arrived and is
in Boston, aud is making arrange
ments to contest the will Of the late
Mrs Hopkins-Searles
Sir James Ferguson has been an.
pointed to the Office of postmaster
general of Eng land. vacant through
the death of Henry Cecil Raikes.
Sir John E. Gorst, political secretary
Of the Indian office, says the people Of
England must be allowed to , wn the
land they live on or they will be a
revolution.
At bull-fght at Marseilles Sunday
the spectators became Disguised with
the toreadors, claiming that the latter
were afraid Of the bulls. A riot fol-
lowed, and force Of police had to be
called IN to quell the disturbance.
rock on the track on the Colorado
Midi and wrecked freight train.
Brakeman J. Z. Hogan was burned to
death between the engine and tank,
and Engineer Britten and Fireman
Stiffler fatally injured. 1hir, five
head of cattle were killed.
Mrs. Allen J. Phinney, president of
the National Non-P artisan Woman
Christian Temperance union has issued
call for the second annual conyen-
ton of the union to be held in Asso ia
ton hall, Brooklyn, n. Y, Nov. 10 to
I3, inclusive.
AS the enormous stock of fabrics
crowded into America in anticipation
of the Mckinley tariff law begin to be
exhausted British manufacturers and
exporters are getting a glimpse of the
real effects of the new duties. Tho
heaviest blow has fallen on Bradford
and Leeds, where the wooden indus.
tries are fainting under the shock
The statement is positively made by
citizens of Coal Creek and Briceville.
Tenn, that the convicts in that region
will be released so surely as the Legis-
lature ad Journs without taking some
step looking to the final removal of
the convicts.
The Pope Saturday addressed 1000
French workingmen who had made n
pilgrimage to Rome.
An officer sent expressly by the sui
tan has returned from Mityiene. He
brings the report that there is no sign
of British occupation, but the inhabi-
tants say that a British force landed
on the island and remained there two
days, holding intercourse by boats
with the war vessels off shore
Mrs. Ashton Dixie was married
Saturday to Mr.. Russell Cooke.
The bodies of 1890 victims of the
flood at Consuegra in Spain have been
buried. The town wears a most DESC
late aspect. The official report of tho
disaster says 500 buildings in Consuepra
have vanished from their sites, while
$50 are in precarious condition and
need to be demolished.
By an explosion in a mine ut Char
leroi, Belgium, twenty nine people
wore killed.