Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-04-03
NEWS SEMINARY.

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Chicago wants the government t
build u breakwater for the worlds fair
The Pennsylvania has gobbled tn
Delaware. Maryland & Virginia road
General Joseph +. Johnston is Ill
the result OF exposure at the Sherman
| funeral.
The Illinois legislature is lingerin,
over its work and shows no disposition
to adjourn.
The Santa Fe road has adopted the
commission plan in paying its loca
ticket agents.
Land Commissioner Groff's resigna
ton is said to have been forced By
Secretary Noble.
Representative Springer of illinois
is seriously ill in Washington with
nervous prostration.
j. A. Simpson & Co., boot and shoe
dealers of Cincinnati failed for $500,
900; assets, $500, 900.
Great preparations are being made
ut Decatur ILL.,. for the &. A. X. cele-
bration April to IL.
Five hundred and seventy-six lives
were lost by the sinking of the steam
ship Utopia in Gibraltar.
Nellie Hayes, the fiancee of Wash.
lngton Ind.) young man, is dying with
grief over his tragic death.
Henry Roth, Of Bucyrus, O., is to
inherit his wife's property if he visits
her grave ten times in five years.
Three school boys near Memphis
burned down the school house because
they were kept after school hours.
A bill appropriating $3.50, 900 for
Missouri's exhibit at the worlds fair
will probably pass the legislature
A Chicago man has a unique scheme
for an exhibit of miniature world at
the worlds fair to occupy ten acres.
Mayor Palmer of Sioux City, Ia, has
notified the liquor men that they will
not be disturbed at night or Sunday.
Gurdiou Conkling of Glen Falls has
sold his Eiectioneer stallion, Governor
Stanford. to a New York horseman for
S15, 900.
The Lehigh will defy the interstate
law by refusing to obey the commits
sioners' order to reduce rates on an
thracite coal.
Both houses of the Missouri legisla-
ture have passed the bill extending the
Australian ballot law to all voting pre-
cincts in the state.
Ex-senator Moody's name will prob
ably be presented for United States
circuit judge for the district in which
is South Dakota.
The government board has refused
to build breakwater at Chicago Mt
Federal expense for the worlds fair
naval exhibit.
Worlds fair architects expect to
save 81, 900, 600 by substituting staff. a
French material, for marble and gran
lite in the building.
Several labor leaders have been ar
rested on a charge of conspiracy to ex-
tort money from Rochester On. Y. {
clothing manufacturers.
A terrific mine explosion occurred
near Ashland, Pa. Two men were
blown to atoms, another fatally injured
and others seriously hurt.
A wreck occurred near Rosedale,
Miss, on the Valley road. The en-
gineer and fireman were both killed.
No passengers were hurt.
Commander-in-C Chief Veazey has is
sued a general order for the obsery
ance OF the silver anniversary OF the
Grand Army, April 6, 1891.
Miss Mary L. Dewey OF Goshen, Ind,
has applied for pension, claiming to
have served as soldier in the Iwen-
ty-sixth Ohio, us Charles Dewey.
Mr. Parnell has obtained control of
the Morning News of Belfast which
belongs to Mr.. Gray, who is also pro-
prietor of the Freeman's journal.
A wagon containing sixteen young
people who had been at ball near
Georgetown, Colo, rolled down the
mountain side, badly injuring all but
one.
A legislative committee is investi-
eating charges of bribery in connec-
ton with the election OF Charles N.
FELTON,, United States senator in Cali
fornia.
The point has been raised in Chi
nese smuggling trial in Utica, N. Y,
that the exclusion act does not pro-
hibit Cinnamon coming to this country
by rowboats.
Owing to the untiring efforts of Mr..
Phelps United States minister to Ger
many. Chancellor Won Caprivi has re-
moved the embargo placed on Ameri-
can cattle landed at Hamburg.
kilograms received at the navy de-
partment at Washington state that
there are hopes of saving the steam
ship Galena and the tugs Nina and Tri-
anna. which went ashore recently.
The Atchison road has guaranteed
The good faith of the Jacksonville
road in the matter OF its
,ut-rate tickets and trouble from that
source Is believed to have been averted.
He'll Help the Alliance.
WASHINGTON, March 24-The farm
'rs' contingent in congress expect
much aid and comfort from Senator
elect Palmer OF Illinois. Dir. Mcclure,
he editor OF the local organ of the or
Ter, said that the farmers alliance
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