Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-12-01
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result OF reading trashy novels. have
committed suicide, or tried to. Mabel
Nipple and Lizzie Mcdonald are dead,
but Ida Lewis and Laura Gray were res
cued. They were only Is years old.
The body OF man about 40 years old,
with throat cut from ear to ear, was found /
near the reform school at Salem Sunday. /
A new razor was found near the body. /
The victim WAS said to have been the
janitor OF the Monmouth normal school. 1
The American Casualty Insurance and
Security Company, of Baltimore, pub
lished John NJ. Glover, the ST Louis
LAWYER and exc congressman, as an en-
bezzler OF S66 $40. He sued for $l50,0
damages and has been awarded $27 900.
The executive committee Of the ma
tional worlds fair commission censures
J. BOYD Thatcher's method and sustains
the foreign exhibitors. 1t is said
that Thatcher awarded over 10000, when
he was only authorized to give $4,000
medals.
A stage WAS held up five miles north OF
Ukiah, Cal, by lone highwayman. He
wore blue overalls, q cotton mask and
carried double barreled shotgun. The
amount OF treasure secured it is impos-
sible to ascertain. The passengers were
unmolested.
Col. j. Hampton Hoge, a drunken Vir-
ginian whom Cleveland appointed con
sui at Annoy, China, and who went on
spree at San Francisco en- route to his
post and was recalled, is missing He
left San Francisco November for Wash
ington City.
| A terrible boiler explosion occurred at
Hooks switch, near Beaumont, Tex,
! Tuesday morning, demo,ishing the
Hooks Lumber Compapy's mill Joe
Kirksey, Will weiss and job Mckinney,
the last colored, were killed and several
others injured.
Charles Davis and Leonard Forsythe,
rivals for the hand Of Margaret Farrell
fought a duel with swords at Napoleon
o., Sunday. When these were broken
they slashed each other with jack knives
till both were unconscious. 1t is be-
leved Forsythe will die.
l.. Vance, an old resident of Grants
Pass, was found dead in bel at Wilders.
Vile, Oregon, Wednesday, having shot
himself with a revolver. No cause il
known for the suicide. He was mem
Der of the Masons and Odd Fellows, &C
years old and bachelor.
Augustine Ansta was stabbed to death
at Stockton, California, by Gianbatists
Berano. The men are Italians, quite
} we'll to do, and were partners together
as gardeners and fruit raisers They
quarreled over windmill that hat
blown down on their farm.
Jas. King, son in-law of Mrs. Char
lotte Fetting, who was foully murdered
in Seattle some weeks ago, was muir
dered and his body thrown into slough
y in Tacoma, Saturday. Who the muir
: derer was and what WAS his motive is a
a present shrouded in mystery.
s.. Thursday, while Mr.. and Mrs R. G
. Herring and their little daugbte
, Leonora, of Currinsville, Oregon, wer
a driving up Deep Greek hill, en- route t
Portland, the wagon ran over stone an
pitched the child out. The wheel passe
, over it's neck killing it instantly.
DR.. Bailey, of Gap, village Is mile
y east of Lancaster, Pa, discovered an iro
? pot under an old farmhouse he had RI
Gently bought. Investigation prove
= that the pot contained over $4,000 in gol
and silver coins. There were also foun
three sets OF solid silver spoons, marke
= &C."
A double murder was committed in
saloon at Bull Mountain, Col, Wedne
day night. An x-prize-fghter name
Y Lear, Jealous of Irene Good found ht
y !, drinking with bartender and opene
IL fire, killing her. The bar.keeper the
emptied his revolver into Lear, killir
y him.
!e The bodies of Alexander Mcclellan
&c and his son Oscar, who disappeared fro
h Centralia, ILL.,, in 1881. have been disco
cred buried and staked down in q poI
y on the McClellsnd farm. They had bee
/. murdered, presumably by McCelland
l. brother, who Is now living in the sta
al OF Oregon.
When the Rio Grande Western ira
ID arrived at Ogden Tuesday morning, E
ID press Messenger Sayre failed to open b
~ Car. The door was forced, and the me
le sepger was found dead, with a bull
through his heart and apistol under hiI
I'd His books, money ana everything we
a. intact 1t is supposed he accidental
Az shot himself.
9, The government is said to be We
much worried over the $1,000 900
#. holds against the Union Pacific, thereto
al it has taken steps to control majority
in the receivers 1t is limited by capital
nd pretty familiar with Union Pacific mi
tiers that ultimately the governme
would assume absolute control Of
~. road and run it.
he F. M. English, ex-secretary to Que
ad Liliuokalani of Hawaii, who, since g
was deposed, has been living in Denv
IL is iubilant over the position Secrets
w AZ Gresham has taken. Mr.. English SO
~. W the facts set forth in Secretary Gresham
,se letter are absolutely correct. So far
'a' war and bloodshed are concerned
laughs at the idea.
W, Postmaster Irwin, of Garfield, VIII
aie safe was cracked fortnight ago, '
SO asked last week by J +. Fisk. of Oak
All dale, what he would give for return
the papers and warrants taken from
ed safe. The answer was $50. The sto
nd articles were returned, excepting 800
the school warrants, and Mr.. Fisk demand
ers 800 instead OF $50.
oh A hand car on the Beaver Meac
is branch of the Lehigh Valley railr
the broke it's brake coming down the mo
eve tain side near Hazleton, Pennsylval
ere Friday. In rounding a curve it jun
as the embankment, falling with its
passengers 800 feet. Andrew Koitz
ak killed and Mike Marty fatally and
ton other four badly injured.
ties f. Ashley Mears, the northwest
was Napoleon of finance, is a common !
our oner in the county Jail at Fargo, n
Saturday Judge Mcdonnell appoint'
rior receiver for the North Dakota Title
ave surance Company, of which Near
lgre president. Mears refused to relinq'
for the books and was Immediately ser
IL &. Of ncl,rt