Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-05-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK,

Mrs. Emily Burke, one more of the
pioneers, died at her home in Portland.
Monday. She came to Oregon with her
mother, Mrs. L. Goddard, in 1852.
E. A. Brown, a telegraph operator Of
Portland, and Mrs. Wilson have
eloped. Brown left a wife and four
children in destitute circumstances.
Glocklees' six-storv stone warehouse
for butchers supplies and an adjoining
building were burned at Pittsburg, Thurs
day morning. Loss, $3.50, 900; insurance,
100000.
Washington's worlds fair commits
sion is already in trouble and cramped
for the want OF funds. High salaries
and poor management are the causes OF
the difficulty.
James Gordon Bennett is no longer
sole proprietor of the New York Herald.
1t is said that John W. Mackey, the Cali
fornia bonanza king, has now q control.
ling interest in the paper.
Colombets ribbon factory in St.
Etienne, department Of the Loire, in
France, was burned Wednesday. The
loss is estimated at 5 900, 900 francs. Sew
eral firemen we're injured.
William Edwards, who has hung
around Portland for seven years, died
suddenly few days ago Of heart disease.
He repeatedly refused to give the names
and addresses of his people.
Samuel Dodd, a subject Of her majesty,
Queen Victoria, about 55 years of age,
fell from q gangplank leading from Irv-
ing dock, Albina, to the ship Oimara,
Thursday morning and was drowned.
Matthew O'Brien was burned to death,
and William Whslen badly burned, and
will probably die, by fire which des-
troyed the clearinghouse of Mrs.
Graham at New Rochelle, N. Y, Thurs
day.
WI. Morgan, prominent real estate man
Of San Francisco, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart Tues
day. Business troubles are supposed to
have been the cause. He was Az years
Of age, and leaves widow and child.
Last Tuesday night Charles Boyd and
Jack Maloney got into an alteration at
the Club saloon, in Chinatown, Fresno,
| Cal. Four shots were fired. Maloney
was hit near the right srmpit, the ball
coming out over the left hip. He has
since died.
Colonel Lewis J. Brumby, aged 81
years, editor of the Marvin Free Press,
and Colonel Thomas Harris, aged 45,
editor of the New Capital of Ocala,
Florida, are at outs, and duel is in
prospect, challenge having been sent
and accepted.
George Phillips, q green goods man, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, was shot and, it is be-
lieved, fatally wounded Saturday night
by man named Joseph Hall, who went
there from Steelton, Pa, for the purpose
of buying $1,000 in counterfeit money.
Phillips tried to get Halls money away
from him.
| p. j. Sullivan has been found guilty
Of murder in the first degree for killing
his wife, Deanie Sullivan, at San Fran
cisco last November. The murder was
very brutal affair. The man borrowed
money from his wife with which he
bought the knife to kill her. He stabbed
her eight times.
| The steamer Havana, en- route from
Newfoundland via Sidney, when nine
miles off Whitehead collided with the
schooner j. A. Silver, of Lunenburg,
bound to Canso from the banks, Sunday
evening. Two of the crew, George Har-
ris, of Lunep burg, and William Chrouse,
Of La Hav, were lost
Three of the men who robbed the ex-
press-car of the Mobile & Ohio raiload al
Laketon Bay, ILL.,, Thursday night were
captured at Berkeley, small station
four miles from Laketon, and have been
identified by Express Messenger Ray
One of them has been out of the peni
Tertiary just three weeks.
Heck Wheeler has been sentenced
from Crook county to the penitentiary fol
life. Wheeler is the man who stabbed
and killed julie Edmupds at dance
at the Willow creek school house on the
night of January 6, 1898, and having
been found guilty Of murder in the
second degree was sent up for SO years.
Hepler, Kansas, Crawford county vii
lage with q population OF 800, was re
duced to ashes early Tuesday morning
1t 10 almost certain that the fire wal
started by the Gland league" of Allen
Crawford and Bourbon counties, which
few years ago, was brought to nationa
notice by it's murders and wholesale
thefts.
The south-bound freight train on thu
Ohio River railroad went off the track q
Walkers, w. Va, Thursday morning
falling 35 feet. Fire broke, burning fiv,
oil cars, the caboose and two cars O.
merchandise. Two men were killed, on,
burned until unacceptable and another
fatally injured. Conductor Geo. Ernes
was badly hurt.
The headless, limbless bodies of two
men were found floating in barrel il
Blue river in Kansas City, Wednesday
night. The appearances indicate tbs
heads and limbs were chopped off with ;
blunt ak. No clothing or other means o
Identification was found. They are no
believed to have come from medica
college. The coroner is investigating.
The body of an unknown man wa
thrown upon the beach at Astoria Satur
day morning. 1t was partially decom
posed and had evidently been in the waite
for a month. 1t was dressed in tn,
finest clothing and shoes, and $33 il
, silver and gold watch and chain wer
found in its pockets. There is no clu.
whatever as to his name, and no evi
dence Of foul play.
VIM. Ash, the old man who forget
checks on some banks in Eastern Ore
gon, pleaded guilty to the crime q
Prineville at the recent session OF cour
held in that city, and Judge Bradshaw
sentenced him to three years in the pen
itentiary. His is old and decrepit, an,
perhaps his venerable appearance wa
the means of him being successful in tn
commission Of the crime.
At Hildreth, CAL, Wednesday, vii
liam Levarone, Jr., aged II, shot ant
k;Ilod Elijah Ehoyt a0aJ Az ayorop