Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-20
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The outline OF plan for a new ma
tional party, tire outgrowth Of the pan
American bimetallic convention recently
held in st. Louis, has been published.
Free silver is to be the issue and it is
hoped to draw all the free coinage sup
porters from the old parties.
A frightiul rear-end collision occurred
at Gethsemane, KY, Friday morning, on
the Louisville & Nashville railroad, in
which two trainmen were instantly
killed. wreckiDg train with about So
hands has gone to the scene OF the wreck
to begin removing the debris.
Henry Kershaw, editor and manager
Of the New Orleans Commercial, com.
mitted suicide in Chicago Sunday by
throwing himself in front of an approach
ing freight train. Letters on his person
written by himself lead to the opinion
that his mind was unbalanced.
In the senate Monday Senator Wolcott
criticized the president for his letter to
Governor Northern of Georgia, character
izing it as an intrusion, offensive and un.
fitting the relations that should. exist
between the legislative and executive
departments of the government.
Postma ster. General Bissell is expected
to devote considerable attention in his
postal service. He believes Inauguration
OF the service is impossible at the pres
ent time, owing to the deficit Of So ,OOO,-
600 in the postal funds in the treasury.
! A letter from Henry Clay to David
Lambert, the pioneer st. Paul lawyer,
has been discovered among the papers of
the late Gen. H. H. Sibley at ST. Paul.
In it Clay declares himself in favor of
the election OF William Henry Harrison
as president Snd the purchase of Cali
fornia.
| P. B. johnson OF the Walla Walla
Union, has been removed as a member
of the board of penitentiary directors, and
Geo. T. Berry appointed to the vacancy.
johnson is charged with malfeasance in
office, in that he sold grain bags from the
penitentiary jute mill to Umatilla county
farmers.
Colin E. Daughdrill, young railroad
man OF Seattle, who killed Armstrong
Stewart, yardmaster of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia & Georgia railroad, at
Gadsden, Ala, in March, 1891, gave
himself up to Sheriff Woolery Saturday
after having been a fugitive two and a
half years.
At Hazelton, Ohio, Monday night, H
Campbell killed his wife and MORALLY
wounded Patrick Finney, aged "a years
Finney lived at New Bedford, Pa, and
was visiting the Campbell family. Jeal
ousy, without any cause, and the use Of
liquor are the reasons assigned for the
double-murder.
Hartley F. Cook, printers apprentice
employed in the typographical depart
ment of the Washington Workmen, n
Seattle, shot himself through the heat
with 38-caliber revolver Thursday
morning. Disappointment in love anC
excessive use OF tobacco are believed t.
have been the causes.
1t ia understood that the senate viii
fight some Of Cleveland's appointments
particularly those Of outside appoint
ments to territorial positions. The op
ponents of confirmation count on all tn,
republicans and on senators Hill anC
Murphy of New York, Allen Of Nebrask,
and Martin Of Kansas.
A Special frand jury investigating thu
failure of the Kansas City Safe Deposi
& Savings Bank returned sixteen indici
ments, each against President James G
Darragh and Cashier Elmer Stattley
charging grand larceny. The indict
ments were based on their receipt o
deposits when the bank was insolvent.
On Wednesday near Java, Mont,
posse sighted the gang OF train robber