Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-12-15
NEWS or rnn Msnk. .

VI SEhs
The Citizens bank of Minot. North
Dakota, has gone into voluntary liquida-
ton.
Colorado's gold output for 1898 will
show an increase Of over 100 per cent.
over that Of 1892.
Bishop Morris has completed the 18th
anniversary of his services as bishop Of
the Episcopal church Of Oregon.
Thomas Axworthy, the deiaulting
treasurer OF Cleveland, o., 10 dying OF
Bright's disease at Hamilton, Ont.
The steamship Sir John Hawkins,
| from Gibraltar to Liverpool, is supposed
to have foundered with crew OF twenty
five.
A newspaper OF Neustadt, the birth.
place OF Henry Willard, announces that
he has decided to reside there perma-
nently.
John Dunlap of Chicago shot and
killed his wife Monday. Later he killed
himself. The cause Of the deed is I'M
known.
VIM. H. Claggett, vino contested the
election Of Senator Dubois Of Idaho, has
left the republican party and gone to the
populists.
A locomotive on the Texas Pacific ex.
ploded Monday near Eastland. The en-
gineer, fireman and head brakeman were
instantly killed.
The Evans murder trial still continues
at Fresno. No new facts have been
brought out from those given in the trial
OF George Ssntag.
A disgusting exhibition game Of loot
ball between two female elevens wa
witnessed by several thousand people at
San Francisco Sunday.
During saloon row at San Francisco
Monday night Billy Gallagher, q saloon
keeper, shot, probably fatally, Tom Can
man, a bookmaker's assistant.
Scheig and Floyd, who robbed tn.
Bank Of Minneapolis Of $50, 600, have ad
mitted their guilt to the London polio,
and consented to return to America.
BY an explosion in a calcium-ligh
tank in the Peoples Steamboat Linz
office at Albany, N. Y, Tuesday morn
8 ing, four were injured, three fatally.
The Erie road has announced furthc
}. reductions in freight rates to New Yorl
: from Chicago. Other roads have calle'
meetings and will meet the reductions.
Receiver Hadley's report OF tn
Oregon Pacific Railroad for Septem
!. Der shows: Earnings, $l4,87865; ex
penses, $l7,6l7.73; net loss, $l739OS.
The fifth artesian we'll has been sue
cessfully bored on "The Moxie' in tn
Yakima valley. All Of them have tire
mendous flows and irrigate large tract
z of land.
The Wells Fargo Co. has renewed il
= contract with the Southern Pacific &c
twenty years, paying q bonus OF 81 700
600 and 40 per cent Of the annual groe
receipts.
d Near Eckman, w. Va, several riot
have occurred among negro miners VIII
|, were paid off. Drunken brawls have n
suited in several deaths of low whites an
negroes.
James Cameron, first mate of tn
schooner Maid Of Oregon, fell overboar
y, while the vessel was at sea on Nov. l.
and was drowned before assistance coul
reach him.
ID The aerolite which fell August 80 Q
the farm of Lawrence Freeman, ne,
Bath, South Dakota, was found, on beiI
assayed, to contain gold, silver, nick
y and cobalt.
Late Tuesday night two men name
Saunders and Mahon, employed at Il
Andrews. Hitchcock mill at Hubbard, Q
ly dropped dead, the result Of inhaling g
from blast furnace.
Bovaird & Layfang, manufacturers
oil we'll supplies at Pittsburg, have fsile
The company had capital of $500, o
10 and employed 400 men. Receivers W
- conduct the business.
Michael Hennessey, a farmer, viii
drunk, thrust his wife into tirepla
and watched her burn. He refused
call medical attendance and the womi
in will die. Hennessey was arrested.
r. L. MCGEE, a laborer. was foul
dead on the street in Salem Friday.
ceased had INDUCED freely in the drin
ing of egg nog, and it is supposed t
10 liquor caused paralysis OF the heart.
A bronze statue of Roscoe Conkli
was unveiled in Madison Square, N,
York, Sunday, without any ceremony
gathering Of people. 1t was done in Il
10 quiet way at Mrs. Conkling's request.
Several snowslides haye occurred n,
81 Butte, Mont, resulting in the loss
re seven lives. The snow at Hecla is o.
ar twenty feet deep and short distance
thO hiosAhUsAA ~ 40 AoAVy Coo'Aey A0Oo uo'
LII Sheriff Massie OF Columbia coun
Oregon, is missing. An expert who
amined his books reports that he is So
short in his accounts. 1t is supposed
has left the country to escape prose
ps ton.
Fire at Corsicana, Tex, Sunday,
stroyed q grain elevator, twenty.f
thousand bushels OF wheat, two liv,
Ho stables, thirty-fve horses, three freii
Id cars and an electric light plant. liz
500, 900.
Peter Burke and Andrew Ledgwi
who board at the Ramer house in Far
N. D., stole bottle Of what they g
. posed to be whiskey from an sdjoin
r. room Sunday evening. It proved tc
II bedbug poison, and both men will die
As result of Judge Slover's decis
in the Sunday closing case eight bari
at the Midland hotel, Kansas City, "
arrested Sunday while pursuing Il
: avocations. They were bailed out
the proprietors, but did not rest
An work.
James B. Bowling, an old pior
lumber dealer of San Francisco,
Tuesday evening from morphine poll
ing. 1t is supposed he took an overd
,est by mistake, az he was q man Of met
and no reason il known which would
duce him to commit suicide.
A letter written by Eek McCarty,
of the family of train and bank robb
received by a man in Ogden, Utah