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

dubbed l.. A. Steinhauser, editor Of the
Allegheny News, with q policeman
night stick because the News printed
statement regarding "bleached blonde"
supposed TO be Williame' wife. Stein
hauser was fatally hurt.
The Visalia and Sequoia mill stage
was stopped Sunday afternoon by Evans
and Sontag. The stage was on the way
to the mill and about six miles from it.
The bandits came out Of the brush with
leveled gun and the four passengers were
commanded TO get out and empty their
pockets.
Mrs. Mary Jensen, Q widow about SO |
years old, worth about 100000; was
murdered at Seattle, Saturday morning
by her lover and hired man, N. A. Sand
burn, aged % years, who then COM
mitted suicide. Sandburn was jealous Of
Frank Mckinley, who had supplanted
him in Mrs. Jensen's affections.
Robert Hedges, wealthy and retired
merchant Of Baltimore, long connected
with the dry goods importing firm OF
Hedges Bros, shot and killed himself
with a revolver Sunday night ct his
room in the Maryland Club. Mr..
Hedges was So years Of age. The suicide
is attributed to grief over the death Of his
| mOCner anu WIG.
A large quantity of earth and stone
became loosened from the bluff known
as Boyd's hill. which towers 125 feet
above Second avenue, in Pittsburg, Pa,
and crashed down upon two tenement
houses. The houses and occupants were
completely buried. One child WAS
killed outright, and several other per-
sons we're fatally injured.
Police Magistrate George w. More
house of Great Falls, Mont, shot him
self at his residence Monday afternoon.
, He sent his wife out to transact some
business and then committed the des-
perate deed. He placed q revolver in
the roof OF his mouth and the ball came
out Of the back of his mead. Financial
: embarrassment was the cause.
> Seattle Post Intellingencer: ]. P.
Ennis, the eminent leader of the peo-
I pies party, has evidently big scheme
/. on hand. He has fled in the auditors
office an appropriation of 5000 cubic feet
of the water of Cedar river. What Mr.
: Ennis proposes to do with all the water
is mystery. Possible, however, he in
! tends to use it in purifying politics.
Two distinct cyclones, terrific hail
, storm and q water spout, combined
4 wreaked awful destruction in the newly
built towns in Oklahoma Wednesday
night 1t lie reported that so human
lives were sacrificed. 1t is positive thai
40 were killed, while several were
. fatally and scores seriously injured
< The damage to property is inestimable
\ Henry Baddeley, young plumber
= was shot and killed in San Francisco
Tuesday, BY Mrs. Louisa Worthington
= wife of photographer. The couple hat
Q formed an intrigue during the husband'l
!, absence, which Baddeley's friends say
he has been trying to break. Mrs
Worthington on the other hand, say
II she shot Baddeley because of his con
:, slant prosecutions.
y At Tacoma, Sunday evening, Charlie
. Kepna slashed Barney Clearey with
knife on the left side, inhicting ba'
l. wound six inches long, extending int
?, the abdominal cavity. A feud has ex
t. listed between the two men since Clear
n insulted Kenna's wife, q week age
Cleary is notorious character, and ha
t. been frequently arrested for wife-beatinl
Of He will probably die.
le J. w. Macarthur, a druggist in Spt
70 kane, has been detected in defrauding tn
county by giving short weight in til
9. strychnine provided for killing squirrels
ts The Review winds up it's account OF tn
is case by saying, che is president OF th
q state board of pharmacy, and is quite
young man. He is one of the best know
n. druggists in the city, and has alwa,
or borne an unblemished reputation"
m Acting Commissioner of Pension
IL Murphy 10 decidedly of the opinion tn
among the 95S 900 pensioners on th
n. rolls Of the bureau, there are mar
at fraudulent cases, and with view
az purging the list of such as can
re reached, he has issued an order to tt
~ special examiners in the field, directir
or them to use all diligence in searchir
eI out such cases as require the attentie
~ of the bureau.
20. Baker City Democrat: In room No.
at the Arlington hotel there is ve
sick man whose life hangs by slend
~: thread. That person is H. W. Cooke.
ne Portland, who slipped and fell last Su
ay day near the depot, sustaining strang
ne lated hernia. The unfortunate man b
"a about abandoned all hopes OF recove
and patiently awaits the result. d.
OF Atwood and Dodson are doing all in thu
as power for Mr.. Cooke, and still thiI
OF there is hope for his recovery.
,te
Till Mortgage Indebtedness in Maine.
The census bureau has issued bull
he tin on mortgage indebtedness In MAR
cts In 1888 the debt incurred is given as 3
lly 843, O65, and in 1890 it was IS, 454 n
he The real estate mortgage debt exist
1e- January l, 1890, was 1872 1927 ,2O8,
which $14, 15O, 646 or 43 81 per cent, "
The on acres, and $8,476 1852, or 1898 (
no. cent, on lots Cumberland county, &C
emit tanning Portland, has debt of $3.50
i'll 1872; Penobscott county, 1885 ,535
log other county has debt as large as
100000. Maine has per capita debt
inc $40. In Maine the average rate OF int
,cI est on the existing mortgage debt is 6
oss per cent, on acres 6 20 per cent, on /
ar. 600 per cent. From 1880 to 1889
not rate on incurred debt declined from 6
to 6.lS per cent; for mortgages on &C
a. increased from 9 % to ga per cent;
i.s mortgages on lots declined from 6 SO
!, ~ 6. IA per cent.
I'M ,..
A considerable net increase, amou
-. ing to over $1,000, 600, is shown in
az volume of circulate for the month
.a elapsed. According to the treasur
,ne monthly statement, the total circulat
.ei' on June amounted to 81 ,620, 0l0 ,229,
'"e increase OF over $ll5 900. 900 for the "
There has been decreases under
lRh hoodo of TTuitad Statas nOtaH natiO