Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-01-16
NEWS SEMINARY.

instruction in Peru.
A $500 600 Y. NJ. c. A. building is
to be erected in Chicago.
Alexander William Kinglake. the
noted English historian. is dead.
Senator Farwell denies that he made
any money out OF the alleged silver
pool.
Mr.. Joel, the British consul at Pan
anna, has been transferred to Valpar-
also.
An English syndicate is seeking to
| gain control OF the tile factories in this
country.
1t is said that George j. Gould is to
be made president of the Union Pacific
railroad.
The Emperor William did not send
the usual New Years greeting to Prince
Bismarck.
1.-TWO patients in St. Petersburg died
while receiving an injection of DR..
Koch's lymph.
John +. Miller was arrested in Preble
county. Ohio. for making counterfeit
s. gold pieces.
A part of Emin Pasha's command
| defeated the natives in several engage
ments in Africa.
At McGregor, Texas man named
Heidricks was resuscitated after being
pronounced dead.
Rothschild will join Baroo Hirsch
in the movement to establish colony
of Jews in the Argentine Republic.
Official dispatches show that 92 In
dians are known to have been killed in
the fight on Wounded Knee Creek.
The general opinion is that the force
bill, If it passes the senate, cannot be
brought before the house before adj
journment.
The funeral of tho late General Spin
ner, war treasurer OF the United States,
took place at Utica n. Y, with mill
tary honors.
Seven children belonging to the
family of Scott Thompson, II negro,
were burned to death in Pimlico coun-
ty, North Carolina.
Work in part OF the shops of the Illi-
nois steel company of South Chicago
has been suspended, throwing l, 500
men out of employment.
Vice President Morton has sold his
summer residence, Fair Lawn" at
Newport to Isaac Townsend Barden of
New York, for $3.50 600.
Hope & Co. of Amsterdam. Holland.
have brought suit for the funding of
Louisiana bonds aggregating over
"a, 900, 600, held by them.
| Mrs. Anna Gherardi, wife of Ad-
miral Gherardi, commander of the
South Atlantic squadron, died at the
hotel st. George, Brooklyn.
| Silas Foman, Florida, noted snake
charmer has started to the Everglades
TO secure collection of the poisonous
snakes for the Worlds fair.
| At the special election in Kansas to
choose n state senator for the Concor-
liza district the farmers alliance can
1idate defeated the republican.
An Amite City, La, special says G.
Il. Honeye, prominent citizen of the
town, was assassinated by unknown
persons. The murders escaped.
| Two distinct earthquake shocks with
but few seconds intermission occurrd
ut San Francisco on the I'd. The vi
brations were nearly north and south
Justin A. Pettigrew died in Sioux
| Falls, 5. ID. His brother, Senator Pet
tigrew, is greatly incensed at the Chris
tian Scientists, who had charge of the
case.
| Secretary Rusk has written to Chief
Buchanan of the Worlds Fair Bureau
Of Agriculture saying that the fewer
rules and regulations the better it
would be.
A St. Joseph Mo-. detective and
posse chased party of body-snatchers
10 the medical college. but the sights
Of the dissecting-room proved too
much for them.
Mat Gillespie and John Hughes shot
each other at Dalemite, Ala. Both
courted the same woman, and Gillespie
had told her that Hughes had negro
blood in his veins.
The bureau OF American republics
has received advices of tho almost
total failure of the coffee crop in Java.
which is estimated Mt only about 6 per
cent OF the former annual averages.
The family of Benjamin Tours at
Lauray, Va, were poisoned by eating
pumpkin pies supposed to contain rat
poison. Mrs. Tours and one child
died and the others are seriously i'll.
Senator Ingalls, left Atchison for
Washington after receiving an impera-
tive telegram from Senators Edmunds
and Hoar, that party necessity de-
handed his presence in the national
capital.
A bill will be introduced into the
Texas legislature for the relief OF
counties where there are large bodies
Of non-taXable land under the |. & G..
Northern land grant by deducting the
the amount from county taxes due the
state.
| Feed Necessities of the sioux.
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