Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-11-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A disastrous forest fire is raging II
Missouri Many acres of valuabl,
timber in st. Louis county have beer
burned.
The winter season is commencing In
Europe with unusual severity. Eng
land has already been visited by sharr
frosts and a dispatch from Hamburg
announces that there has been a hea w
snowfall and that the thermometer
registered temperature seven degrees
below the freezing point.
1t is denied that the De PAW Plate
Glass works are to be moved from New
Albany, Ind, to Alexandria. but plate
glass works are to established at
the latter city
Mrs. Henderson. as a result of de-
spondency over sickness, cut her throat
with razor at the residence of p.
McDermid, Fontanelle. Iowa, a mem Der
of the last legislature.
c. A. Benson, who was to have been
hanged at Leavenwortb, Kas, this
week for numbering Mrs. Theresa
Mettmann on the Fort Leavenworth
reservation March %, 1890, has been
reprieved by the president until Feb. 5.
A masked robber entered the Chica-
go, Burlington and Quincy depot at
kirkwood, H., and leveling a revolver
at Night Operator Henry Willett,
demanded the contents OF the safe.
The ash was handed over and posse
is in pursuit.
william Bowman, aged so, living
twenty miss from Martinsville, Ind
was visited by fifty Whitecaps who
beat him into insensibility with hoop
poles. He is in critical condition.
William Crook, who was employed
on the farm of James Lewis near
Aurora, Ill fell from the hay loft md
broke his neck, but he lived for short
time afterwards. He leaves family
in England.
The ravages of cholera in Damas-
Gus show an alarming increase Tho
record for the week past shows 1870
cases and ninety deaths. Owing to
the prevalence of cholera Hodeida is in
nearly as bad a situation as Damascus,
but at Aleppo the plague has sub
sided.
The health authorities of Gibraltar
have declared a quarantine against
action is taken on..account of small -pox
nos oCCuiiCu Nv Nutiin.
Advices from Greece state that tor
rents of rain have fallen throughout
that country and that there have been
heavy snowfalls in the mountain dis
tricts, which is unprecedented at this
period of the year.
Philip Kreigbaum. an agricultural
implement dealer of Huntington, Ind.
was thrown from his buggy and re-
ceived fatal injuries.
j. G.. Kunze, n prominent farmer liv-
ing near Mascoutah, Ill. had despei-
ate fight with one of his bulls, and he
is likely to die from his injuries.
John Lilienthal, aged 1s years, son
of prominent farmer of Danvers Ill,
was killed instantly by the explosion
of his gun while clim bling over fence.
The coal miners, strike in the Pitts
burg PA. district will be declared off
Tuesday.
At Halloween party Oscar 3.
Peterson, "a druggist of Fort Madison.
Iowa, was accidentally shot in the
heart by friend.
Senator Quay will institute a $780,
900 libel suit against Chairman James
Kerr of tho Pennsylvania Democratic
committee.
Harry Castle, 17-year- old boy of
Indianapolis, Ind. died from knife
wound inflicted by William Jones, a
bootblacl.
The tallest schoolgirl in the world
lives ut Riednaun, near STERLING. She
is In her 18th year, and is about six
feet high.