Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-04-14

Petersburg, ana Iatal csAsce arc Vi Hhhy
occurrence.
Secretary Smith does not expect the
Cherokee strip will be opened to settle
ment before the LIST Of July next.
Secretary Smith has caused twenty.
nine incompetent clerks to be dropped
from the rolls in the pension office.
Senator White, of California, fsvors the
election of presidents and United States
senators by direct vote Of the people.
At Spokane, Thursday, little Birdena
Turner, 2 years and 4 months old, fell
into q tub OF hot water and was scalded
to death.
Water broke into the Laurel Hill mine
at Hazleton, Pa, Monday. All the min
ers were rescued except three, who were
drowned.
A sailboat with q pleasure party cap
sized at Amsterdam Tuesday. -Four
were drowned, and the remainder were
rescued exhausted.
The Herald's Valparaiso correspondent
says: Domingo Gava has been nomi-
mated Chilian minister to the United
States in the place of Blest Gava.
A freight and passenger train collided
at Edwardsville, H., Monday. One en-
vineer, two firemen and a passenger were
killed and many others badly injured.
Charles H. Hanover, barber, COM
mitted suicide at Vancouver, Wash, on
Monday, by means of morphine. A
woman was at the bottom Of his troubles.
A barn valued at 81 $50 was burned
to the ground at haywood, N. j., Mon
day morning. The charred bodies Of four
unknown tramps were taken from the
ruins.
Joseph Suffer was arrested in st. Paul
Thursday for begging, and over $40, 0OO
in money and securities was found on his
person. 1t is thought that Suffer ID
insane.
An engine and one car jumped the
track on the Portland & Vancouver mo.
tor line, Tuesday night, causing bad
smashup. Engineer Hans was probably
fatally injured.
Tena SPAIN, aged II years, ran away
from her home in Tacoma, Saturday, and
was married in the evening to d. W
Rankins, an employe of the street rail
way company.
A serious landslide on the Great North
ern's coast line, a short distance north o
Edmonds, on the shore of Puget Sound
killed Robert Baker and seriously injured
Charles Rode and Frank Kelly.
The Southern Pacific offers reward o
$4,000 each for the arrest and conviction
of the persons who removed the rail from
the track Thursday night for the purpose
Of wrecking the north-bound passenge
train.
At Tacoma, Iowa, boiler explosion &C
Cured Saturday, killing Henry Kinnes
aged 80, Henry Kinnes, jr., John kinne
and Peter Kinnes, all three sons of Henri,
Kinnes. How the explosion occurred i
not known.
The continental trust company OF New
York has in hand the business of effect
ing consolidation or a trust for six @
the greatest type writer companies il
this country on a basis Of $40, 5000
capitalization.
A terrible accident happened Tuesda
at West Superior, Wis, by falling sea
fold OH the Harrington elevator, whereof
five carpenters were precipitated sixt
feet to the ground, sustaining serious an
probably fatal injuries.
Henry Clay Swain, cashier of tn
Second National bank, of Washington
d. c., was burned to a crisp while er
deavoring to control meadow frt
which threatened the home OF his eli
ters, whom he was visiting
DR.. William ii. Childs, OF Pittsburi
Pa, was found unconscious Monds
night, from an overdose of morphine,
the fiat. of Mrs. Olive Jardine, l5l We
Thirty-fifth street. He died in Ne
York hospital Tuesday morning.
A special from the City of Mexico sayi
The war department denies the repo
that the Yaqui Indians are again on Il
warpath and are committing depred
tons upon the white settlers OF the Yaq
river valley, in the state OF Sonora.
Irene Worrell Holton, the actress
Chicago, one of the famous Worrell 81
tiers, Mrs. George knight being anothe
has been awarded 5000 damages
Dubuque for injuries received by fallil
down the opera house stairway there.
Rabbi H. Sonnenschein, one OF Il
most prominent Hebrews in the countr
was granted divorce from his wife Tue
day, at st. Louis, on the ground
desertion. Mrs. Sonnenschein is now
: Chicago She did not contest the suit.
In pursuit OF his vocation as boz
agent, Richard Phelan called at the hou
of James Gawthorne, at Oakland, Ca
when Gawthorne's dog bit him in d
leg. Phelan brought suit for damage
and a jury has just awarded him $4,000.
A band OF whitecaps went to the hou
of George Black, near Jonesboro, Arl
and proceeded to batter down the do,
Black shot the leader, who proved to
w. j. Metcalf, a prominent citizen of t
, place. Black was then shot down by
gang.
Representative Charles F. Hooker,
Mississippi, in attempting to alight fro
cable car in Washington Saturday, "
struck by one coming in the oppos
( direction and violently thrown to
track. 1t is thought his injuries "
prove fatal.
, At the Easter celebration at Grang
Texas, q feud of thirty years standi
was wiped out by shooting ARRAY
!, tween Jim Beard and Jim Curtis. Be
men were killed, and during the shoot
Dora Mixers, Bohemian girl. was sc
ously wounded.
Ninety houses in Talienpoechlarn,
the Danube, were burned to the grou
Monday. Fifteen dead bodies have be
removed from the ruins and twelve m,
0 are known to be under the ashes.
persons, whose fate has not been asc
tanned, are missing.
As a result Of the trouble betwe
union and Ron-union men at Eurel
d CAL, q shooting ARRAY occurred !,
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