Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-11-10

ballot Rev. Edward w. Bagley, pastor of
the Christian church of Washington City
was selected.
The regents of the University of Cali
fornia are casting about for q man to fill
the chair of professor of Oriental lam
guages. The CHI air was endowed by Ed
ward Tompkins in 1872, and an estate
which he decided for the purpose now
yields $4,000 year.
A charge of manslau ghter has been
placed against Daniel Rowen, foreman of
the men who were working at the hill on
Twenty-second street, in San Francisco,
when the explosion occurred few nights
ago, by which Charles Nolan and Charles
Swanson lost their lives.
Edward Hammond, cashier of the we'll
known dry goods house OF Sweater,
Pembroke & Co., committed suicide at
his home at Bayonne, New Jersey,
Friday morning. He cut his throat with
a razor, the act being attributed to ILL
ness He was 81 years old.
Frederick A. Lovecraft, 81 years old,
secretary of the Coney Island Jockey
Club and manager of Palmer's theater in
New York, shot himself twice in the
head Thursday morning. Before fireing
the shots, Lovecraft swallowed dose of
poison and died shortly afterward.
May Gould, aged 80 years, shot herself
through the heart at San Jose Sunday
morning, dying instantly. She was di-
vorced from her husband on the ground
: OF his intemperance, and was awarded
, alimony, but had not been able to get it.
, This, together with her domestic trouble,
caused dependency.
. Three hundred and nineteen men, un-
able to find employment at San Fran
, cisco, have started South in d body with
!. the intention of going to New Orleans
They have no money and expect to tramp
8 all of the way, except when they secure
/. rides on freight trains. They are moi
y tramps, but are looking for work.
Q Secretary Carlisle has requested an ap
preparation of $4,000 to defray the ex
j, penses OF transporting gold bullion from
g at Philadelphia and gold and silver
v bullion from the mint at Carson City t.
San Francisco, as we'll as increased de
posits of gold bullion at minor ASSAY
i. offices.
d The Hotel st. George in Brooklyn, N
" Y. was the scene of tragic and sensa
tional suicide Monday night, whel
& Samuel G. Cook, 40 year old, wealth.
- mineowner, placed pistol over his RICH
7 ear and blew out his brains. For over
a. year past he had had law suit draggin
"a in the courts, and Monday the case wa
decided against him.
- John s. johnson broke the world
If bicycle record for q quarter of a mile
+. flying start, of 81 seconds, held by Tin
!. norman and Rhodes, at Independence
~ Iowa, one day this week. He went tn
distance in 25 AS seconds over slo'
track, and with the thermometer stanc
10 ing at 80 degrees. Tyler recently rod
80 3 the distance in 255s seconds.
III George Painter, the wife-mprdere
- sentenced to be hanged December
~ says he thinks hypnotism will hel
secure his pardon. He declares ma
n, in hypnotic state must tell the trui
90 and act just as he did on the occasion b
ne is questioned about. Painter hopes Go
Id Altgeld will submit him to experiment
IN with a view to securing pardon.
James D. Murry, first officer of the il
q: fated Strathbane when she was wreckt
,e- on the coast, near Ilwaco, three yea
n. ago, has erected q monument over Il
he graves of Captain Cuthell and the me
he who persisted with him. The captain
be wife, who lives in England, will not
lieve that her husband is dead. She vi
a bride at the time of the accident.
lc- During quarrel in q tenement in Be
Id. ton Wednesday night, occupied by Jof
ird Glass and family, Louis Warsofsky,