Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-08-18

A grenade exploded on the German
ironclad Baden, at KieI, Thursday.
Lieutenants Olsner and Iembach and
seven seamen were killed and seventeen
wounded.
Roy, l2-year-od son of J. H. Cross,
wept swimming alone in Mill creek, near
The Dalles, Saturday. His clothes We're
found upon the bank and his dead body
in the water.
A Queensland vessel, while engaged in
securing laborers in the Solomon islands,
was seized by the natives. The white
crew was killed, the vessel ransacked
and burned.
Mrs. Sarah Goodman, wife of Chas.
w. Goodman, was thrown from buggy
at Taylor station, Oregon, Wednesday.
and received injuries from which she
has since died.
Milton Wall, a negro, is under arrest for
robbing registered letter pouches at Liv'
ingston, Mont. Wall had been an en-
ploye in the Office. Marked bills were
found on his person.
The l2.year son Of W. s. Halle, Of
Walla Walla, while hunting in the
mountains, was badly wounded in the
groin by being shot. The boy is in
precarious condition.
Official notice has been issued by the
st. Paul railway ordering cut OF ten per
cent in the wages OF all employees OF the
commercial department where pay ex'
ceeds $40 per month.
A cloudburst in Gratz, the capital oil
Syria, swelled the mountain streams te
torrents, which swept down the valleys
doing great damage. large number o.
persons were drowned.
In a row at the Mayhower mine, neal
Auburn, CAL, Henry Phillips shot ano
| killed B. McMannam and wounded
William Enoldioen. Further particu
/ lars were not learned.
At Barnard, logging camp at Skamo
kawa, Saturday morning, James Snod
grass, aged 40, was crushed into shape
less mass before the eyes OF his mates b.
tree falling upon him.
The Arkansas Valley smelter at Lead
vile reduced wages 10 per cent, ant
These we're driven off by others and tn
/ plant will be shut down.
For the first time since April 20 last
0 when the gold reserve fell below tn
$l0O, 000, 900 mark, the reserve is intact
, Gold in the treasury amounts to 500,
! 79i $40, or $791 $40 free gold.
: Bishop Mulin, of the Roman Catholi
diocese OF Erie. Pa, celebrated the tween
, ty-fifth anniversary of his elevation +
q the epiecopacy Wednesday. Caroline
y Gibbons preached the sermon.
G. P. Ferguson, sheepherder, die
o. suddenly in the mountains at the head {
+ Mckay creek, in Crook county, Oregon
~ one day last week. A coroner's jury d,
~ cded he died from natural causes.
:. There was horrible accident in tn
q converting department of the Besseme
n steel works at Cleveland, Ohio, Tnesda
morning and five men were terribl
burned and cooked by molten metal
20 Nearly one.third OF Port Louis, ii
= capital OF the island of Mauritius, ws
d. stroyed by fire on July %. Two hui
dred and eight houses we're consumes
re The loss is more than l,000, GOO rupees.
a. A Philadelphia dispatch says: tt
Is directors of the LehigR Valley railroa
B. in view of the default OF the Readlr
III railroad company on bills due, has di
re solved the lease OF the road to that co
J. poration.
lis A report is current that the preside
has practically decided to nominate w
% liam B. Hornblower, of New York, to
"a. the vacancy in the United States 8
20 preme court caused by the death
no Blatchford.
The Southern Pacific railway has