Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-07-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.


numbering Matilda Clover in London.
The lower House Of the Austrian
Diet Thursday passed the gold cur.
rency bill.
Several villages are threatened with
destruction by the eruption of Mount
Ktna.
Gladstonc's majority is increased by
the latest election returns. chiefly from
the rural districts.
The Congressional investigation at
Pittsburg into the causes and facts Of
the Homestead riot was concluded.
For the first time in Montreal the
fall OF the Bastile celebration among
the French people was accompanied by
the display OF Russian flags.
Ex-Secretary Whitney says that, un-
der no circumstances, would he accept
the Craftsmanship of the National Dem
ocratic Committee.
Baird's saw mill boiler at Hague,
Fla. exploded, killing two men and
injuring five others, two of whom will
probably die.
The output of the Minneapolis mills
! last week was 147, 800 barrels, us COM
Tared with 1877, $50 the previous week
and SO, e65 in the same week of 1891.
While boating on Portage Lake Mar
tin Casey, mouldcr at Hancock, Mich,
fell overheard. Frank Thompson, a
fellow laborcr, went to his assistance
and both were drowned.
:. Six Italian laborers digging n sewer
at Shepard's leather factory, in West
port, Conn, were blown mp by an cx-
plosion of tank OF naphtha and four
were fatally injured.
The Indian Currency association has
resolved to petition the House of Com
mons, in the event of no decision being
arrived at by the International None
| tary Conference, to take immediate
steps to introduce n gold standard in
India.
After stormy session at Madison,
Wis, the board of regents refused TO
grant hearing to Prof Gillian, who
was discharged from the Milwaukee
| Normal school last March, without
cause being assigned. lie will now
bring a suit for damages to his reputa-
| ton.
Mrs. Ben jamin Harrison is steadily
improving in health at Loon Lake.
Judge Edmund Roberts, registrar of
the United States land Office at Sacra-
mento, Cal, is dead.
Bridges have been blown up by union
miners in Idaho, who threaten to blow
up the mines if troops enter Wallace.
Richard Mitchell of Greenville, Ga,
is under arrest charged with grave
robbing. He stole the index finger OF
the right hand for luck bone
w. A. Twiggs, one of the men con-
cerned in the killing of Sheriff Byler
of Baxter county, Ark, was killed by
posse while resisting arrest.
David Yeomans, OK president OF the
State Farmers Alliance, has been
nominated for Congress by the People
party, in convention at Winamac, Ind.
A requisitlon was issued on the gov
ernor of Ohio by Governor Fifcr for
Robert Roddy, who is wanted in Chi
cago on charge of murder. Roddy
surrendered in Cincinnati
In freight wreck on the Chicago &
Northwestern road near Clinton, Iowa,
five cars loaded with live stock were
demolished, and Fireman George Cox
was killed.
While attempting to release his SON.
In law from the sheriffs custody in q
hotel OF Spokane, Wash, William Mas
terson, notorious character, was shot
and killed, after fatally wounding
Deputy Sheriff Bowles
A State convention to consider tn,
subject of highway improvement il
Iowa has been called, to meet in De
Moines Aug. Ia.
Frances Chamber of Deputies ha
granted the extra credit of 500, oO
needed for expenses at the worlds fair
The National Association of Retail
Furniture Dealers of America was or
ganized at Grand Rapids, Mich, by tn
election of j. Chauvin Of Butte, Mont.
rs president.
berger, Beiss & Co., of San Francisco
has been arrested on a charge of de
frauding the government out of 50, A.
duties by invoicing silk and woolel
goods as jute and cotton,
Lord Salisbury, it is said, will avail
the issue with the Gladstonians on
division of Parliament on an amend
ment to the Queens speech before re
signing his ministry, if the government
meets defeat i'll the test vote.
The test case involving the propert
of the United Brethren church in Iii
nois was decided by Judge Upton il
the Circuit court at Pontiac in favor O
the Liberals An appeal to the Su
preme court will be taken.
Corporal Henry Sunold of Compan,
M, Sixth Infantry, was shot and NOR
tally wounded at Fort Thomas. uea
Cincinnati, by Private Louis Young O
the same company The tragedy wa
the outcome of an old feud.
Preside Harrison delivered an ad
dress at the commencement of the an
nual convention of the National Edu
catioDal association in New York. n
the conclusion of which he gave a pub
lie reception, lasting two hours. II
.hen took train for Wushinqton
To Push the Anti-option Biil.