Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-05-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Fire ia Louisville, KY, Tuesday night,
destroyed 30 buildings. causing lose of
$400, 900.
Six persons were burned to death in q
tenement house fire in Burlington, Iowa,
Sunday morning.
Major General Alexander Montgomery |
Moore has been gazetted commander OF
the forces in Canada.
Herman Schroeder, aged IL years, fell |
from an excursion boat at the Cascades
Wednesday night and was drowned.
Disappointment in love caused John
E. Sutch, of Oakland, Cal to commit
suicide, Saturday, by taking rough on
rats.
| Henry Oxer, who has been librarian Of
the Portland library for twenty-five
years, has resigned on account of ill
health.
The Home for Destitute Children at
Burlington, VT, was burned Monday
night. The so inmates we're rescued.
Loss $4,000.
The New York Recorders $1,000 prize
for cure for consumption has been
awarded to W. r. Amick, M. D., Of Gin
cinnatl, Ohio.
Charles A. Tanner, q school clerk of
Florence, Oregon, has been arrested and
is in Jail for Incorporating $95.48
school money.
w. j. Norris, a wealthy citizen Of
East Highland, CAL, committed suicide
Wednesday evening by shooting him.
self with q revolver.
Twenty thousand miners in Ohio are
idle, having struck for an advance OF 5
cents per ton. No trouble is reported
and none is anticipated.
Directors of the naval arsenal in Spain
are ordered to prepare war material for
shipment to Cuba and several regiments
are preparing to embark.
A dispatch from Zanzibar brings news Of
the drowning of l25 slaves by the capsiz
ing of an Arab dhow in which the cap
tives were being conveyed.
News Of the bloodiest battle yet fought
in Buenos Ayres has juat been received
1t occurred in Rio Grande do Sui. and il
, is said that 800 men were killed.
Five men, Allen Brown. Robinson
Caruth, Joe Scott, Sandy Cooksey and
Allen Booth, lost their lives in the rag
ing current of Little River, near Searcey
Ark, Tuesday.
Edward Rallyea, of Coos bay, tried te
commit suicide the other day by cutting
: his throat with razor. He was stopped
after cutting two ugly gashes on eact
side of hiR neck.
Henry Darling, wife and child wer'
found dead in their apartments in thu
o Delaware fiat building in Chicago, Satur
= day morning. They had been suffocatet
by escaping gas.
The most serious hail storm known TO
years struck Quincy, Illinois, Saturday
n and did much damage to fruit and othe
trees. Windows and Conservatives wer
j., emashed all over town.
k All Coon, a Chinese cook in the en-
.e ploy of William s. Harley, of Gridley
Cal, committed suicide by hanging Sat
urday night. This the third suicide Il
I. Gridley within month.
A company has been formed in Port
land who propose to buy 1000 acres {
fruit land either in the Hood river or tn
White Salmon country, which will b
, cleared and set to apple trees.
The wool market in Eastern Washing
ton, it is thought, will rate three cent
higher this year than last. The clip
o long and bright, which will have
= tendency to advance the price.
Since Lottie Collins came to this cour
try she has made $25 900. Loie Fullt
receives salary of $500 month frol
tuo + Olcs cTScIob, VI l. alb. OuI Sop
net officers receive $4,000 year.
ne Four men were drowned in the Khan
attn river last week while crossing thu
stream in a boat. Three OF the bodit
have been recovered, but their names al
unknown, as they were strangers.
n A Missouri, Kansas & Texas passeng
train was held up by masked men
Pryor Creek, in Iudisn Territory, Tue
u day night. All the passengers we're r
lieved of their money and valuables.
e The body of woman known as Mr.
Alexander was found in a room in Il
Southern hotel in Chicago, Ssturdi
= morning, with her throat cut. In Il
: woman's right hand was a bloody r
zor.
A dispatch from Cisco says that out
\ 400 residences in the town, only one W
>" left uninjured by the cyclone, that
City Marshal Epplen. Physicians sta
that out of the 200 injured, forty W
ms die.
An old house being torn down at t
ok corner of Broadway and Beaver stree
Williamsburg. N. Y, collapsed sudden
Saturday morning and buried in t
M ruins two children playing on the sid
nv walk.
M A telegram has been received from
editor of the Menominee, Mich, Den
crat, in which be states the story sc
from there about the alleged HI
w ing OF nine men in the Fence river
jam is a fake.
A fire in Milwaukee Sunday morni
destroyed tho dry goods store and ste
of Ward, Schuster x Co., entaiing ],
lnh of 500, 900; insurance $50 900. Mrs. M
~" garet Coon was severely though l
dangerously burned.
per The Colville river has overdowed
banks, owing to melting SHOWS, and b
tom lands are flooded. Seven miles
HO track of the Spokane & Northern are
der water and passengers are transfer
MI that distance by water.
1A A family named Lauter, residing
..,. West Liberty, Pa, were poisoned Sat
as a." day by eating stale sponge cake. {
child Is dead, another cannot recoy
and the remaining members OF
family are in a critical candition.
The Canadian Pacific railway, throu
its local representative, M. Stern,
cd announced at San Francisco that it
completed arrangements for the est
lishment of steamship line from A
tralia to Vancouver, B. c., carrying b
, freight and passengers.
Vale Gazette: Considerable exc
ment has been manifested in Vale
mat wook in c0naenuanco nf tho Drosv