Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-07-21

Challos Garcia, who, though young man,
had made a criminal record that showed
him as being one OF the most desperate
men Of the Southwest.
Otto Weidleman, q brickmaker, of
Lakeport, Cal, was found dead in his
cabin Monday. He had been shot in
the heed wi b shotgun and had been
dead for several days.
Mrs. W. w. Martin drowned her two
children and then drowned herself in
. week ago. The bodies of the child
rem have been recovered.
E. ]. Mahsney, a travelling man, COM
mitted suicide in Portland Wednesday
night by taking a solution OF morphine,
antipyrene and bromide of potash pre-
scribed for him for insomnia.
Clearmont, Fla,, was visited Sunday
afternoon by a wind storm OF great VIC.
lence. Five houses were damaged. A
colored girl was instantly killed and
three other children injured.
Two young Swiss residents of Peta.
luna, CAL, we're the victims of acciden tai
death Tuesday. Elvezio Franzoni was
drowned while bathing, and Silvia Corda,
aged Ii, was accidentally shot.
G. A. Russell, employed in San Fran
cisco as a porter. had his skull crushed
by an elevator Monday. He was taken
to his home in Alameda, where he blew
out his brains with q revolver Monday
night.
John Hobbins snd his nephew, John
Rooney, became involved in quarrel al
Great Falls, Mont. Hobbins fred shot
q h,1f h
and killed woman named Cora Broth.
erton.
Peter Carroll, laborer, stabbed his wife,
Mary, five times at San Francisco, Mon.
day night and dangerously wounded her
Carroll was intoxicated at the time and
stabbed his wife upon her refusal of his
demand for money.
As the result of q drunken fight al
Woodbine, KY, the fourth of July, there
was q riot Monday in which City Mar
shal Morrissey, Bud Smith and Jim
Francis, two desperadoes, were killed.
-Four others were wounded.
"Old Man Scott" sentenced to the
Oregon penitentiary, on charge of MUIR
dering his wife, from Yamhill county in
1850, has been pardoned by Governor
Pennoyer. There are evidences that
Scott is innocent of the crime.
The production of silver is not falling
of in the United States. For the first
six months OF the present calendar year
the offers aggregated 100000, ounces
while for the same period last year there
were only As $50, 900 ounces offered.
John d. Crimmins, a prominent politi-
clan, met violent death at Chattanooga,
Tenn, Sunday. He had taken shelter
under tree during a storm, when the
wind tore the top Of the tree from the
trunk. Crimmins was fearfully man.
gled.
Southern Colorado was visited Sunday
by rains which did great damage. South
OF Lamar q cloudburst caused a great
body OF water TO rush into Lamar, cover
ing the streets from one to five feet deep.
Fifteen hundred horses and large mum.
Der OF hogs and fowls we're drowned.
At about 8 is Sunday Chesapeake &
Ohio excursion train, with over 800 peo-
PIE aboard. ran into an open switch at
Newport, KY, and came into collision
with freight train loaded with stone
and coal. Albert Lang, of Covington,
KY, was killed, and several seriously in
jured.
At late hour Sunday night shooting
adray occurred on Eddy street in San
Francisco, in q lodging house, in which
Charles Hagen was killed by Miss Hor.
ton. Miss Horton showed signs Of hav-
ing been somewhat beaten by Hagen.