Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-02-06
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break among the Blackfoot Indians.
Texas will not appropriate for the
worlds fair II the force bill is passed
Mr.. and Mrs. Beeler OF Brooklyn.
Ind. have eighteen children alive and
one dead.
An attempt to, assassinate Rev. Mr..
Whisnaud was made at a revival al
Bethel, Ind.
The Wisconsin democratic caucus
nominated William +. Villas for United
States senator.
Joseph King. a young lawyer OF St.
Paul, has been driven insane by his
losses at poker.
The deficit in the Arkansas state
treasury is now rumored to have
reached 500, 800.
Kansas legislators are becoming
much mixed up over the senatorial
contest going on.
Senator Teller received majority
Tor reelection in both houses OF the
Colorado legislature.
The Chicago and Ohio river traffic
association lines have issued l. 600 mile
tickets at &c per mile.
The Ohio legislature has taken steps
TO investigate the state penitentiary
and the imbecile asylum.
1t is estimated that so, 900 persons
nave been thrown out OF work by Sc
we're weather in France.
George Harris OF Newbern, ILL.,. is
trying to suicide by fasting. He has
been at it twenty-six days.
Missouri has decided to make no ap-
preparation for the worlds fair until
the force bill has been killed.
At jefferson City, Mo-, Senator
George G. Vest was formally declared
collected for third term.
Ex-Congressman Hansbrough was
elected senator by the North Dakota
legislature to succeed Pierce.
A whisky-crazed Mexican at Wich-
ta, kas., stabbed three people. One
is dead and another is dying.
The London Times says that negro
emigration is the only solution of the
southern problem in America.
Two unknown cowboys fought duel
near Landers, Wyo. One was killed
and the other fatally wounded.
The German reichstag defeated the
notion to repeal the prohibition OF the
Importation OF American pork.
Attorney General Miller has refused
20 bring suit against the Frisco road
Tor the recovery of certain lands.
The Missouri house of representa-
lives voted to make no worlds fair
appropriation pending force bill action.
Tho democrats of the Minnesota leg
islature in joint caucus nominated for
United States senator William S. Villas.
Grain is being rebilled from Kansas
City at the rate prevailing prior to
January Is in defiance of Chairman
Midgleys order.
The treasurer of the Chicago
Worlds fair organization is going to
bring suit against subscribers who have
failed to pay up.
Mrs. Julia Higbee was adjudged in.
sane and found guilty of the murder of
her four children ut her trial In Wood
county, Kentucky.
number Of petitions have been
presented in favor of transferring the
license fees from the local to the
county school fund.
The Arkansas house has decided to
take no action regarding the Worlds
Fair appropriation until the fate of the
force bill is decided.
A bill making an appropriation for
the Worlds fair was laid on the table
in the Alabama senate, pending the
fate of the force bill.
The Standard oil company has
bought out c. c. Harris. the largest
individual oil producer in Ohio. 1t
will pay 81, 750 900.
Bob Ford, the slayer of Jesse James
INDUCED in bar-room duel with j. ID.
Harden in Walsenburg. Colo. Both
were slightly wounded.
The Canadian Indian agent Of the
Blackfoots reports that American In
dians expected the Canadian tribes to
help them in massacre.
Assistant Adiutant General Corbin
says the committee appointed to inves-
tigate the fight at Wounded Knee will
find Col. Forsythe culpable.
b. p. Hutchinson. the veteran Chi
caso board OF trade man, announces
that he has quit specializing but is still
doing commission business.
In the Minnesota House joint res
olution was offered memorializing con-
gress in favor OF the construction of a
canal in New York at Niagara Falls.
The house committee on public
buildings has agreed to report favora-
bly, the bill to appropriate 81, 900, 900
for new public building in Chicago.
Commissioner De Young OF the
Worlds fair bitterly denounces the at
tack on the national commission made
by the Chandler congressional com.
mittee.
The farmers alliance of Ohio adopted
a resolution demanding government
loans at 2 per cent Affiliation with
the knights of Labor was unfavorably
viewed.
The republicans have introduced a
substitute for the Bennett law in the
Wisconsin legislature designed to meet
the objections of the supporters OF
parochial schools.
IL turns out that the reason why
Banker Brennan of Litchfield. Mimi.
blew out his brains was because the
bank had only $40. 900 with which to
pay $3.50, 900 Of liabilities.