Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-09-11
PITH OF THE NEWS.

Mexico has reduced the duty on
paper so per cent.
The cracker trust has secured control
OF the Baumann bakery and cracker
factory at Dayton, Ohio.
Ex-senator Reagan OF Texas has been
offered place on the interstate com
merce commission, but has declined Il.
The Hon. Henry Ballentine, special
commissioner of the Worlds Columbia
Exposition, sailed for India.
An armed man entered the Canadian
Pacific DEPOT at Nelson, b. c., bound
and gagged the agent and took 81, 900
from the safe.
Michael Stevens. 20 years old. of
Kalamazoo, Mich, made a murderous
assault on his father. The sheriff and
four deputies tried to arrest him.
Stevens fought desperately, and for a
quarter of an hour held the five men at
bay.
The +. oriental congress has been
opened in London.
The Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon is
rapidly improving in health.
The Imperial Bank of Russia has
been empowered to make a temporary
issue of 5000, 900 rubles in otes.
John Ralston of Willow Island, Neb..
has purchased from Frank Iams, st.
Paul, Neb., Clydesdale stallion Duke
of Inverness 1886 by Galawater, dam
Jean of Kampfield, price 81 800.
John w. Turner of Minneapolis has
sued his sweetheart, M IS Ella Ter
willinger, for $1,000 damages for
flirting.
Near Brush Creek, on the St. Louis
& San Francisco railroad, two freight
trains going at full sre d collided, XII l.
ing. four men and demolishing both
trains
Maj. William Tillman, late cashier
OF the broken Falls City lank of Louis
vile, KY, until Friday sinking fund
commissioner and one of the most
prominent men in that city socially,
has fled to Canada and nearly S1OO, 900
OF the banks money is missing.
Jay Gould seems to be losing his
grip. His recent predictions on the
course of the market have all turned
out incorrect. Richmond Terminal
and Pacific Mail have gone down since
he took hold of them and he has been
forced to let go of Union Pac fic.
At Detroit Saturday John Hogan
made balloon ascension. When the
balloon hau reached an attitude of
about twenty-five hundred feet Hogan
attempted to get hold of the para
chute, lost his grip and fell. Every
bone In his body was broken, produc-
ing instant death.
The husk of Indian corn is being
used for the manufacture of paper.
An electrical expert says that the
light of the old oil lamp rcnetrates the
fog better than electricity.
There are two bearing apple trees in
Indiana county, Pennsylvania, that
were planted in 1902. One of them is
ten feet in circumference.
A tree near Manistee, Mich, thirty
six feet in Giro UNI ference twelve fect
in diameter and IT'S fces high, will be
blasted with dynamite, as there is no
saw that will cut it and no mill that
can cut it in boards.
Eastern capitalists have bought $40
acres of land near Pomona, Cal, and
will set out $4,000 fig trees. They will
equip the orchard with irrigation pipes,
bitches, etc, and p4t up extensive
drying houses.
1t is related as curious fact that
aiiS, with d population Oh nearly
1850, 900 souls, has less than 100
negroes within it's limits Statisticians
say that the whole of France cannot
muster negro population exceeding
$40.
A woman sixty years of age plunged
into the river at Railway. N. j., one
day last week and rescued her three
year-old grandchild, who was drown
ing.
young woman of Nevada county
Cal, has inserted her picture in the
Nevada Trans ,ript with the announce
ment that she is in market.
An old man and his son who lately
arrived at Mobile, after driving all the
way from San Diego, Cal, in hack
drawn by two horses, say they would
not make the trip again for $4,000.
A hotel in Hamburg has been built
entirely of compressed wood, which
by the pressure to which it is subjected
is rendered as hard as iron, as well as
absolutely proof against the attacks
of fire.
All the union bakers in the United
States will strike May /, 1892, for
reduction of hours and increase of pay.
The bodies of German farmer and
hi wife were found in we'll at
Bloomfield, Conn. 1t is supposed they
were murdered by gang of Italian
labo-ers.
President Dillon of the Union Pacific
will be succeeded in Jews day by a
man representing the Vanderbilt in
tercst. General Manager Clark will
also be succeeded by Vanderbilt
man.
Young Hearst of California, son of
the deceased millionaire, is said to be
negotiating tor tic purchase of New
York morning paper. Superintendent
Porter of the oencus department will,
it is said, be the editor.
Turkey has yielded TO all Russia's
demands in regard to the Dardanelles.
Advices from Buenos Ayres are to
the effect that the Argentine Republic
is opposed to the Wholesale immigra-
ton of Russian Jews as planned by
Baron Hirsch
The cashier of the Eank of Eng
land declares that there is no truth
whatever in the rumor to the effect
that the bank had been robbed of
very large sum of money.