Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-09-04
PiTH OF THE NEWS.

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The San Francisco Argus this week
starts Senator Stanford's boom for the
! Presidential nomination on the Repub-
| lican ticket.
barn near Hope, Ind, belonging to
! Mrs RICHTER, containing 800 bushels
OF wheat, nine head of horses, and a
number of farming implements, was
burned. Loss, $1,000.
Chattle mortgages amounting to s21,-
600 were given by the Morton &
Bockus Lumber company of Detroit,
Mich, upon their entire stock, to
secure creditors.
Near Nicholasville, KY, Mrs. Mary
Richardson and her two girls, aged 5
and 6 years were knocked from rail-
road bridge to the rocks sixty feet be-
low, by an engine, and instantly
! killed.
! William Lewis colored, was taken
from Jail and hanged by mob at
Tullahoma, Tenn. Lewis was drunk
ard, but had committed no crime.
Mexican importers of American
agricultural machinery complain be-
cause of the failure OF the manufac-
turers to print IN Spanish the instruc-
tions for putting the machinery to-
| gether. The purchasers are at a loss
to understand the English terms en-
ployed.
A Berlin paper says Bismarck Is af
ficted with drowsiness and loss OF
memory. Age is rapidly telling on
him.
| Andrew Leonard and Arthur Lawson
of La Harpe, H., were each fined $40
and cost for illegally selling liquor.
The Houser and Hoover families held
their annual reunion a Bloomington,
ILL.,, nearly 200 persons from Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa and Ohio being present.
Gil was struck in jackson township,
Jay county, Ind, the estimated yield
of the well being $50 barrels in TWEEN
ty-four hours.
clergyman residing at present in
the province of Kazan, Russia has
written letter to the Pail Mall Gazette
in which he gives narrowing dcscrip-
ton of the sufferings of the unfortu-
nate peasants of that province brought
On by the failure of the crops. Large
mum bers of them. he says, are in alb
solute state of starvation. Many have
been unable to obtain bread for weeks
Eeputy United States marshals are
after the Dalton gang in the Indian
territory, and will shoot them on
sight.
There was frost at Marshalltown,
Iowa. yesterday morning.
The schooner Ellen and Mary, with
sixty passengers on board, is ashore at
| Antlcosti island.
In a collision between two Northern
Pacific freight trains near Palmer,
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and Fireman frank Cooper were
killed.
The storm throughout central Penn.
sylvania Sunday light was the worst
in sixty years. Many railroad bridges
were washed away, Crops We're badly
damaged.
The identity of Frank Almy, tho
murderer OF Christie Warren at Han
over, n. H., as George II. Abbott, the
escaped convict, has been satisfactorily
established.
A new American line of steamers
connecting Philadelphia with Cuba.
progreso, Vera Cruz and other gulf
points is expected to begin operations
in November. The line will receive
no subvention.
Gen. j. w. Foster says that SPAN
has already denounced her commercial
treaties with England and Canada, so
that they will not share in the advant-
ages of the new reciprocity treaty with
this country.
Gold at Buenos Ayres is quoted at
29+ premium.
II. C. Raikes, postmaster general of
Eng and, is dead.
Two Mont Blanc tourists were k He'd
by an avalanche.
Russia is preparing to make an I'M
usually fine exhibit at the worlds fair
in Chicago.
All English boolSmakers have been
ordered to quit Boulogne and Calais
within fortnight.
English Liberals are rejoicing
over the prospect of new issue in
politics raised by the controversy be-
tween the peers and the comm ns.
One hundred thousand persons have
already arrived at Treves to see the
holy coat. Professions of pilgrims,
chanting as they march, are continu-
ally passing through the streets from
o'clock in the morning until mid
night.
Marion C. defeated Kingston for the
Garfield stakes at Chicago They will
probably race again Wednesday.
The Toronto Mail says that to be O
statesman in Canada is to be thief
Mrs. Olive NJ. Stouts OF Lima, Wis.
has brought sult for $50, 900 damages
against the Madison, Wis, papers for
saying that she confessed 20 having
shot her daughter-in law.
1t is said that many members of the
nobility and gentry who were once
rich in London have been compelled to
pawn their diamonds and family
jewels on account of the Argentine
Republic crash.
During II drunken row at IL christen-
ing party in Chicago Albert Kinki, a
laborer, shot and killed his sister,
Mrs. Amelia Danvald, mother of the
child in whose honor the party was
being given.
The Treasury Department has de-
cided that the only recourse for the re.
covcry of lottery tickets seized AID for
feited by customs collectors Is by lega
proceedings against such officers.
nound TO Have n Circus.
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