Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-04-07

VI. haywood, respondent proepector,
committed suicide in Seattle Thursday
by taking morphine.
It is rumoYed that ex-Secretary
Whitney will succeed Robert +. Lincoln
as minister to England.
The great strike Of the coal miners in
the MonoL gahela lie at an end, and 1900
men have returned to work.
Eta Ray, years of age, was burned to
death at Marietta, Ohio, Sunday night,
her clothing catching on fire.
The banks Of Louisville, Ky, have
been victimized to the extent Of $10O,0O0
by the forgery Of warehouse receipts.
The W. Il c. X. r., formerly known as
the Hunt line, has commenced the cree
ton Of depot building at Walla Walla.
In a railroad collision in the city limits
Of Chicago, Tuesday, Frank Usals, Frank
Christian and Frank Rister were fatally |
injured.
The stock barns of Kirk Brothers at
and 100000 worth of fine horses
persisted.
A bill has passed the Arizona legisla.
ture requiring the Spanish language to
be taught in the common schools of the
territory.
Salem is faced with the prospect Of
having to close its schools for the lack of
funds to run them. The district is $780,
600 in debt.
Oliver Sanders and his two children
were burned to death at Neillsville, Wis
Monday night, in fire which destroyed
their home.
1t is conceded by number of Oregon
democrats that the collector OF internal
revenue for Oregon and Washington will
90 to the latter state.
J. Scott Harrison, brother Of ex-Presi-
dent Harrison, is q candidate for surveyor
OF the port OF Kansas City. He has al
ways been democrat.
A serious accident is reported from
Cologne. "A boiler exploded at the
Cologne Tool Works and three workmen
we're killed and 80 injured.
At Oshkosh, Wis, Wednesday, q
Northern Pacific train collided with a
street car. Miss Carrie Swasy and O..
w. Davis were fatally injured.
| A German tailor at Msnhuin has in
vented cloth cuirass that will resist the
sma all calibre bullet. 1t has been tested
and approved by the war department.
The new cruiser New York has proven
the fastest armored vessel in the world.
In one of her.-trial trips she made the
average speed of twenty knots an hour.
Geo. E. Yerger has brought suit against
the Oregonian for 100000 damages.
The paper published an article declaring
as q fraud book for which Yerger was
agent.
The city of Washington is supposed to
have taken in 81 500 900 from visitors to
the Inauguration. And this does not in
clude doctors bills and the cost Of cough
medicines.
A New York paper, in two-colunn
article with glaring headlines, claims
that there is an anarchist threat to assas'
snate the Prince of Wales should he
visit America.
Three negroes attacked three Italians
on the street in the southern part OF
Seattle, Sunday night, inflicting injuries
, will prove fatal.
Frank Soma, while fishing in Lake
Chabot near Oakland, CAL, Wednesday
afternoon, fell in and was drowned. The
body was recovered. He was about q
years old and unmarried.
The Commercial National bank o.
! Nashville, Tenn, suspended last Satur
day. he cause OF the suspension wal
the failure of Dobbins, Darcy & Co.
large cotton brokers Of that city.
According to the Washington state his
, torian, Chehalis county has the creates
number of feet of standing timber of any
county in the state, it being estimated a.
not less than 80, 900, 000, 900 feet.
A new tariff bill has been drafted by
special committee of the New York Re
E form Club. Crude material ia general.
free and with some few exceptions al
the duties are made strictly ad valorem.
William Cussens, foreman Of ba
factory, at Richmond. Va, who die
g recently, had in various life insuranc
companies policies for the enormous sun
for comparatively poor man, OF owe
$92, 900.
The retirement of Statistician Dodg
from the agricultural department Is sal
4 to have been entirely voluntary on hi
part. Statements heretofore made ar
unjust alike to himself and Secretar
Morton.
The government OF Spain, through th
q state department, has officially tendere
to the United States as gift the repro
duction of the flagship of Columbus, th
Santa Maria, now somewhere in The Gu
of Mexico
Three Young men we're drowned SUI
day morning az Marietta islands, Ohi'
, They were attempting t. shoot the swi
" water when their boat ca osized. The
names were George Dow, Harry Dow an
Frank Ackerson.
ms There is great alarm felt among IL
people living in the Tonola district Of Il
IL state of Chiapas, Mexico, over the cru
ton of the san Martin volcano, whiC
has been bel;hing forth flame, lava al
,o ashes for two " seks.
- A company has been organized in OK
o.ado to consi ruct a reservoir Is mil
long to reclaim 300 600 acres of arid Ian
= The canal alone will cost 81 900 900, 81
- will he one OF the largest in the wor
built for b purpose.
Mrs. Everett, the wife OF Chica
drayman, is an expert veterinary surgeo
and treats and prescribes tor suferil
horses without any recompense. 81
10 feels amply paid if she can relieve 9,
feriDg animal from its pain.
Emma F. Ayers stumbled over m,
bag in q depot at Rome, N. Y, al
fractured her kuee-cap. She broug
nd suit against the Delaware & Lackawan
railroad and the jury has just returned
verdict Of $40 900 in her favor.
Under the new schedule of the Mort
ern Pacific, which takes effect ne
90. month, fast train will leave Seattle
GOV the afternoon and make the run to
De ,,lA in 30 ho,,ro Tho proonnf tirno