Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-06-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Ou SetuIuhy net sOlu III tuc treasury
had been reduced to $50, 1888, Ply, the
lowest since 1879.
w. @. Short is under arrest at Spo.
kane for forging his mothers name to
promissory note for $500.
Joseph Pulitzer, OF the New York
World, has given 800, 900 to the build
ing fund OF Columbia college.
Lottie Digman, aged Is, and Clara !
Wagner, aged 5, fell into the river at
Detroit, Sunday, and were drowned.
Fired by jealousy, Fred Sargant, of
Battle Breek, Neb., shot and killed his
wife, and then cut his own throat, Friday
morning.
Five persons were burned to death in
a fire Saturday night in the five-story
fiat house at 1873 East Forty-third street,
New York.
A cloudburst at Hinton, W. Va, and
vincinity, Wednesday, did greas damage.
At Hinton alone the damage amounted
to $20O, 900.
A Spanish camp in Wharton county,
Texas, was struck by cyclone Sunday.
Several houses we're torn to pieces and
four persons killed.
Attorney General Sir Charles Russell
received $4,000 for six weeks service
as counsel for Great Britain before the
Behring sea tribunal.
| Peter Mciovern, q young gas.htter,
and young girl were drowned in the
Passaic river at Newark, N. j., Sunday
night by q boat capsizing.
The impeached officials OF Nebraska
have been reinstated by the supreme
court by vote OF 2 to l. Chief Justice
Maxwell was the dissenter.
The steamship Fuerst Bismarck,
which sailed from New York Thursday
morning for Europe, carried $780, 900
in gold and 1882 900 in silver.
A fire at Omaha Saturday destroyed
$3.50, 900 worth of property. During the
progress of the fire a burning wall fell
in, crushing four 6remen to death.
]. H. Burks, citizen Of Los Angeles,
Calf, was ran over and killed by a
heavily loaded truck in Chicago, Satur-
day. The driver WAS arrested and locked
up.
At Tulare, Cal, Monday, Albert Fields
was shot and killed by Charles Parrish
Both were colored. Parrish had been
paying too much attention to Fields
wife.
Governor Flower, Of New York, says
in an interview that "tbere is no reason
why Cleveland should not be the nomi-
nee OF the democratic party for president
in 1885,"
A cloudburst at Miquehaala. Mexico,
has done considerable damage to crops.
, A man named Miraurro, his wife and
child were caught in the waters and
drowned
The impression is growing in Chicago
that the man who committed suicide by
, jumping into the lake from Lake View
Friday, was Herman Schaffner, the miss
ing banker.
1t is estimated that the Briggs tria
cost the Presbyterian Assembly $4,000
Besides this Colonel McCook, leader Of
the prosecution, spent $20.0 out OF his
: own pocket.
A fire started Saturday night in the
Fuento coal mines, situated in Mexico
four miles from Eagle Pass. Sixty mer
were in the mines, and it is feared al
, have lost their lives.
Great distress and suffering exists
among the people of Hope, Ark, anc
vicinity. The terrible cyclone Of May
80 has left 5000 people homeless anC
9 in destitute circumstances.
During an electric storm at Frankford
KY, Monday afternoon the house o
james Redding, farmer, was wrecked
and three persons were killed Instant,
e and one other badly stunned
The state department has cabled it
acceptance Of the resignation of Rowlal
B. Mahony, minister to Ecuador, in
structing him to turn over the Legation
archives to the United States consul.
Charles Y. Richmond, an areonaut
made 3000-f foot ascension at Trenton
N. j., and lost his life. In descending
his parachute refused to work, and b.
fell to the earth with lightning rapidity
A band of eight bandits, under Manue
Logarto, attacked and killed five peddler
on lonely road in the state of Jaliscc
Mexico, and carried off their merchar
disc. A troop of state rifles are pursuin
them.
Notwithstanding many assertions tbs
d DR.. McGlvnn has sailed for Rome, it
known by his closest friends that he
in retreat in the Trappist monastery nea
Lexington, KY, and will stay there som
10 time doing penance.
At Santa Cruz, Cal. Thursday, job
Nc Ludborg fell into boiling liquid at tn
COrrAlltOS paper nlll anu WAS DOllcu
death. The accident was cause
o by false flooring giving way, precipita
= ing him into vat.
- At Los Angeles, Tuesday night, Qua
All Moon, highlander, ran a dirk eigl
inches long through Sue How, a cyprial
and shot Wong All Sip twice throug
the lungs. The murderer escaped an
both his victims are dead.
O. Walter Gray and Dora Velzy wei
found dead in the formers room
Grand Rapids, Mich. Wednesda,
Each had bullet hole in the hea,
Jealousy on the part of one or the 9th,
Id is supposed to be the cause.
At Greenville, Miss, Thursday nigl
w. G. Morrow, of Little Rock, shot an
90 killed his mistress, Effie Baker, who d
serted him for negro. He then cor
mitted suicide. The murdered woms
= was of wealthy Mississippi family.
The steamer Zatagosa foundered in
whirlpool off MantequeIs on the night
ITS May IL, near Msnangua, Columbia. FL
bodies we're recovered. 1t is believe
the rest of the passengers and crew sar
with the steamer and went down Il
river.
At Pine Tree harbor, Ont Wednesd,
night, az twelve men engaged in lOadil
III telegraph poles on a crib for the Clev
land Cedar Company were comil
ashore, their boat sprung leak al
went down. Four of the occupants we
drowned.