The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-12-21

Thomas thompson, creek indian
boy, IS years old, was adjudged guilty
of murder at Fort Smith, Ark. The
boy shot and killed Charles Hermes,
about two miles from Euf.ula, !. r.,
June 8, 1893.
Contractor L. NJ Ross lad the last
stone on the piers for the new Bnrlipg-
ton bridge across the Mississippi al
Alton. 1t is expected the structure
will be completed by February /.
In the circuit r, urt at Greenbnrs,
Ind, Fred Miller, charged With murder.
Ing Fount Robins, pleaded guilty Il"
manslaughter and was sentenced to
ten years in he peniteutiary.
M. B. Carts, recently acquitted OF
killing Policeman Grant in San Fran
cisco, is in Alstin, Texas. He will On:
the Diskell hotel and " il erect an opera
house to cost 100000.
John Tomski, on trial at Stevens
Point, Wis, for the fatal stabbing OF
William Liench at Amherst about
year ago, was found guilty of murder
In the second degree.
A freight train standing at Cisco,
Texas, was allowed to dry and blow up,
parts OF the heavy machinery falling
thirty or forty feet away. Three men
were killed.
For the first time in many years gam
bling houses at Sioux City were raided
and $4,000 worth of pharaphernalia
confscated Fifty arrests were made.
Professor John M. Coulter of Lake
Forest university, delivered two ad-
dresses at the Ford county teachers
association meeting at Paxton, Ill.
At boi..aan's camn. near Dollar Bay,
Mich, M. S. Croskey was stabbed In the
chest by Mat Takonet. The latter has
escaped. Croskey will die.
w. ID. Chalkley, foreman on the Bur
llngton bridge at Belle Foutaine Bluffs,
fell sixty feet to the frozen river and
was instantly killed.
Phoebe, the 3-year-old child of S. j.
Oglesby, was scalded to death at Sc
dalia by overturning a tub of scalding
water upon herself
After a holly contested triangular
race for the mayorship of Austin, Texas,
the present incumbent, John Mcdonald,
was reelected.
Robert REYNOLDS, a negro employee Of
the Anderson, Ind, wire nail mills, was
thrown into vat of boiling acid and
fatally burned.
sample case containing 81 900
worth of jewelry was stolen foom a
Providence, h. l., drummer on the New
Haven railroad.
Another big gas well has been struck
In West Seneca, N, ", the flow of
which Is estimated at one million feet
per day.
Farmer Baker aud his wife were
poisoned by drinking whisky from an
old barrel which was bought at Cooper,
Texas.
Proceedings In the Howard case, at
Jackson, Tenn, were confined to testi-
mony Identifying the defendants hand
writing.
Juan Gadulup was shot by law In
Mexico for beating to death his 3year-
old boy who refused to drink a cup of
coffee.
Mrs. Holiday, the murderess, hanged
herself in her cell at Monticello, N, Y,
but was cut down In time to save her
life.
Stephen Babcock and Alice Bunker,
who eloped from Eau Claire, Wis, a
week ago, returned and were forgiven.
Thirteen counties were represented
at the second annual meeting of the
Colorado State Silver League at Denver.
At Sedalia the seventeenth annual
convention of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association of Missouri is IN session.
St. Joseph, Mo-, thieves have been
robbing mail boxes and altering checks.
Several banks have suffered.
Three men were killed by the explo-
sion of a Texas Pacific locomotive
boiler near Eastland, Texas.
Coal OF superior quality has been
discovered in Madison county, Indiana,
at depth of only 35 feet.
Ex7State Treasurer Il. Stevens Henry
OF Connecticut has been elected repub-
lican mayor of Rockford.
AT Vincennes, Iod., 3-year old grand
daughter of the late Governor Williams
was burned TO death.
Emil Coppo, miner, unmarried, vas
killed by vein rock falling on him at
Houghton, Mich.
scarlet lever OF very virulent type
mas again made its appearance at
Cadillac, Mich.