Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-06-09

$3.50 900 worth Of property. The insur-
snce is $6l 900.
Ex-Secretary Foster has settled with
his creditors on q basis OF 30 cents on the
dollar. He intends to pay the re-
when able to do 90.
A disastrous cyclone passed over
Southwestern Arkansas, Tuesday. The
Guernsey hotel at Hope was blown
down, burying seven people in the
debris.
Attired in 500, 900 worth Of jewels, not
to mention accessories in the way OF
silks and laces, the Infanta Eulalie. ON
Monday, had her photographs takeA in
New York.
A freight train on the Fort Wayne
road was wrecked Thursday morning
near Dunkirk. Seventeen cars were
piled up. A number Of tramps are le-
ported killed.
Ex-Judge ]. NJ. Beck, of the Iowa
supreme court, was found dead in his
bed at Fort Madison, Tuesday morning,
the result Of heart failure, caused by
rheumatism.
The inquest over the remains OF Ex-
Mayor Wheelwright OF Tacoma, who was
found dead in Chicago on May ID, is just
completed. The jury brought in YER
dict of suicide.
F. f. Towner, q middle-age hand
some and well-dressed man, blew out bis
brains with a revolver at the Hollender
hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday. Un-
requited love was the cause.
Two mad dogs made their appearance
in the neighborhood OF Forty-eighth and
West Lake streets, Chicago, Tuesday
afternoon, and, before being killed, sue
ceeded in biting over 20 people.
A 3.year-old child named KilliJr,
whose parents live near Fort Spokane,
was burned to death May "a by the &C.
cidental upsetting OF pan Of hot greese
which was standing on the kitchen
stove.
The Big Stone Gap Land Company,
of Bristol, Tenn, capitalized at $1,000
600, with bonded indebtedness Of 81
OOO, 900 more, has been forced into liqui-
dalton by a suit in the United States
court by stockholders.
While six young people were romping
in boat on the Charles river, near For
est Grove, Mass they upset the craft
and Alma Veatte and Maria Hanson,
SWoui6H kIlc, AVuA OsAOA
occupants were rescued.
Near Hazelhurst, Ca, Monday, an I'M
known white tramp tried to commit q
criminal assault on a white woman, Mrs.
Crosby. She drew a pistol and shot him
in the head. He staggered off short
distance and fell dead in his tracks.
Mrs. Nihonl, wife Of a prominent far
mer living seven miles west of Rosalia,
Wash, committed suicide Tuesday by
taking poison. No cause is known for
the deed. She leaves . husband and q
large family of nearly grown children.
David Coldren, aged As, shot at but
missed his wife Kate, at Philadelphia,
Monday morning and then fred bullet
into his own brain. The suicide and
would. be murderer had been on a week q
spree since receiving his pension money.
The library in the womsn's building
at the Worlds fair was furnished by the
women of New YORK. 1t contains $500
books written by the women OF the state,
which at the close of the exposition are
to become part of the state library at AL
bany.
At Conceivable, Pa, Tuesday, an en-
tire family named Hoy, consisting OF
mother, father and two children, were
found dead in their house. The theory
prevails that the husband perpetrated
the horrible deed and then committed
suicide.
Erwin Taylor, of Antelope, shot and
seriously wounded Lai Tai, the Chinese
hotel keeper at the same place, on Fri
day last. They had had some trouble
over board bill which led to the shoot
ing. Taylor is at large and Lai Tai will
get we'll
Mrs. Eva Donovan, aged %, wife Of q
laborer, committed suicide at Boise,
Idaho, Tuesday, by poisoning herself
with aconite, taking an ounce of the
drug. There was no apparent cause, but
domestic trouble, it is thought, drove heI
to the desperate act.
At Fall River, Mass, Tuesday night,
Miss Bertha Manchester, aged %, was
found dying in pool OF blood in hel
room. She had been brutally murdered
with an axe, her face and body being
terribly mutilated. Robbery ia supposed
to have been the motive.
Edward Clauschmidt, the 17-year-old
son of a wealthy widow, living in New
York, was charged with homicide al
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for having caused the death OF Katie Nc.
bicycle Wednesday night.
At the office OF the express company in
st Louis, it was learned that the exact
amount of money secured by the train
robbers at Picific, Missouri, Wednesday
night was 81 ,20G. OF this 81 900 was in
silver. Some checks were also secured
on which payment has been stopped.
Lloyd Brooke. one of the oldest resi-.
dents of Portland, died Monday. He
was born in Georgetown, d. c., July g.
1919. He WAS a member OF an old Mary
land family, his father and mother beinl
direct descendants of old and
highly respected families Of that state.
A George Gibson, native of England
who lived in the coast mountains from
1873 to 1881, came up the Columbis
river in 1882, is wanted to communicate
with Lewis A. Croft & LEROY, lawyers
Los Angeles, CAL. before December %
1894. He will hear OF something to hil
advantage.
Train No. 26 on the Louisville, New
Albany & Chicago struck horse on the
cattle guard, west OF Broad Ripple, Ind.
Monday morning. The engine and bag
gage car turned over and three coaches
left the track. Engineer George Plan,
was fatally injured, and died in an houl
after the wreck occurred.
A Chinaman, Zum Cow, known il
Albany as Sullivan" assaulted Sue
Hung, wife of Salem Chinaman, il
the lodging house of Good Hin, on Sec
ond street, using dagger and infiictins
six serious wounds. He also stabbee