Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-04-07

DR.. F. O. st. CLAIR, for more than I
years head Of the consular
bureau Of the state department, has been {
removed by Secretary Gresham. His Of
ense WAS the holding back Of official pa.
pers on the score that they were personal {
letters.
King Owygang, the Chinese vice
consul at San Francisco, brands a. q [
the recent report that the ,
Chinese Six Companies have issued
circular to their countrymen, advising
them to resist the provisions of the Geary
law by force.
DIR. Henry de Groat, . wellknown
mining man and writer on mining topics
was killed by train at Alameda Tues
day. He was standing on the track read
ing . paper while waiting for local train
when the Santa Cruz train came along
and struck him.
An immense sensation has been
caused by the exposure Of land office
frauds in dealings in Texas lands, as
shown by the legislative Investigation
committee. 1t is said that the legisla.
ture would probably impeach Commits
sioner McCaughey.
Tenas Pete, middle aged Indian, was
found in the residence district on the |
west side Of Olympia Tuesday with his
head nearly severed from his body. He
had evidently lain there all night. Two
siwashes, arrested for drunkenness, are
suspected OF the crime.
DR.. Henry de Grost, we'll known
mining man and writer on mining topics,
was killed by train at Alameda, Cal.
Tuesday. He was standing on the track
reading paper, while waiting for local
train, when the Santa Cruz train came
along and struck him.
In mining district 20 miles beyond
Wickenherg, Ariz., the bodies Of Next
can named Montex and boy IA years
old were found IN their cabin horribly
burned and mutilated, having been
thrown in the fireplace and probably
murdered by Mexican robbers.
Barney McFsdden, q miner, murdered
his wife and child at Scranton, Pa, Mon.
day night. The house next morning
presented the appearance of q terrible
struggle for life On the part of the MUIR
dered woman. McFadden ID missing.
A posse is searching for him.
An Illinois man named Smith has de-
parted this life after ll9 years Of it. He
claimed to the last to have worked for
Washington, but otherwise the only stain
on him was due to tobacco, which fatal
weed he had chewsd for eighty years
and gummed for twenty-five more.
At a negro dance at Plaindealing, La,
Saturday night, the crowd became
boisterous and posse attempted to qniet
them. Shooting WAS started by the ne
groes. When the smoke cleared away ii
was discovered that two negroes were
dead and two others fatally wounded.
The St. Clair county judges, Benjamin
F. G. Openhauer and Thomas D. hewitt,
have been discharged by United States
Commissioner Nicolls. The bondholders
say the judges may get out this time, but
they will be arrested again for contempt
as coon as the court meets and they re-
fuse to issue bonds.
There are on file in the treasury de-
partment nearly 100 applications for ap
pointments a. chiefs OF divisions. So far,
no appointments in this class have been
made. Many applicants have been sur
prised 10 learn that even this class o.
positions must comply with the civil
service rules, or partially 30.
Private Reinhart, of battery F, First
artillery, United States army, shot 6
comrade, Private Frock, twice Tuesday
evening at Fort Sheridan, and narrowly
escaped being mobbed by the other sol
diers before being placed in the Ruarc
house. Frock is seriously wounded. i
is said he purloined some of Reinhart't
rations.
John Voski, q Hungarian living il
Pennsylvania, has just purchased witt
for $50. The man who cold her state
; eleetully that he can get another as goo'
for $40. The incident shows that, com
: mercially considered, the Spectator i
not lacking in astuteness, and also tina
= the Flag Of the Free is lending tn
shelter Of its folds to some peculiar cattle
In the telegraphic competitive contes
a of the John w. Mckay message class
= held in New York, open to all receivers
y G. s. Durkee, of Portland, Or, won tn
i first prize, gold medal valued at $50
The second prize, gold medal valued q
O 500, went to J. II. Jones of San Fran
4 cisco. Dnrkee received ninety five NET
9 sages in ffty-ive minutes.
n Edward Sterret, physician, shot hi
n wife and then killed himself at Auburn
Neb, Wednesday. His wife had de
q serted him. He met her ON the stree
d drew q revolver, grasped her by tn
Il throat, forced the weapon into her mouth
a fred, and then turned the revolver o
v himself. The woman was fatally injured
The cause of their trouble is unknown.
10 Anarchists Meyrules and Chappulit
4 we're sentenced to life imprisonment ft
D. the murder Of fellow anarchist, yout
"a named Bison, at Paris, whom they su
il pected of being a police spy. A seer
meeting OF anarchists decided upon h
-, execution, and the prisoners entice
= him to lonely spot stabbed and strange
g. :, him and threw the body into the s
4. Denis canal.
I'd About 8 O'Clock Tuesday night Ma
Bowers, bartender, shot and fatal
"a wounded James Hall, colored porter
"a tho Depot hotel, in Redding. Gal. Boz
D. ers claims that Hall had been speAkiI
n of him in derogatory manner. AIT
I'd his arrest Bowers is said to have T
marked that he shot the negro, and
:, the off GERS would give him gun
~ would kill himself.
d. The Iowa and Oregon Land Compan
nd with a capital stock Of 81 900 600, Was {
Id ganized at Muscatine, Iowa, Wednesda
by IL of the principal lumbermen of I
70 Mississippi valley. The object Of Z
n company will be to handle tract OF S5
no 600 acres Of Oregon land which 10 rich
he timbered. Farming and grazing lands
n. the tract are to be leased and lumb
mills erected on the timber land.
all Ed Carr, son Of the president of t
nd the Eagle bank at Eagle, Nebraska, st
bit and fatally wounded Andrew He's
ma tough character, Tuesday morning. T
q men had had trouble before, and as ca
NOS DRIVING home from a dance with