Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-05-19

NEWS tF THE WEEK..
The long drought in Austria is broken
and the wheat crop 10 placed beyond all
possible danger.
Secretary Carlisle hiss received the res
ignation of General Rosecrsns as register
OF the treasury.
Heavy frosts have greatly injured the
vines in the wine districts Of Austria,
Switzerland and France.
A wreck on the Dayton & Michigan
railway, near DAYTON, Ohio, Saturday,
caused the death of five persons.
Two were killed and four seriously in
jured by the wreck of Union Pacific
train near Boulder, Colo, Saturday.
Edwin T. Swift, teller in the
Birmingham, Conn, National Bank, has
been arrested for embexzling $4,000.
William Rountree, a professional
aerouant, was fatally injured in a balloon
ascension at San Francisco, Sunday
The destruction is reported Of the Brit
ish steamer Khivs, off the Arabian coast,
probably with an appalling loss Of life.
H. s. Warner, the patent medicine
man of Rochester, N. Y, has been COM
PEELED to assign. His liabilities are not
given.
The Infanta Of Spain arrived in
Havana Monday afternoon from Porto
Rico. She was accorded splendid re-
ception.
Mrs. Frederick Brown, Of Portland,
took a dose Of rat poison Saturday with
suicidal intent. Family troubles were
the cause.
The navy department has ordered the
steamer Alert to sail for Cores for the
purpose OF protecting the Christians in
that country.
An overcrowded electric car was over
turned in Oakland, CAL, Saturday. Mrs
H. A. Redfield was killed and many 9th
ers badly injured.
BY an explosion Of dynamite neal
Brazil, Ina, Wednesday,, three mel
we're blown to pieces. Their remain
were gathered up in basket.
The electric power house at Louisville
Ky,, was burned Wednesday. The los
is about $4,000 1t is supposed tina
the falling walls killed several people.
The dock warehouses at Basin d.
Kattendyk, Holland, were destroyed b,
fire. The warehouses contained wool
! cotton and sugar. Loss, 900, 900 france
Eta Schuffieton took poison at Chico
CAL, Wednesday morning. She wa
engaged to man named Louis and he
probably die.
Mrs. Berlinda Lapham, midwife Q
San Francisco, is under arrest for tn
. wholesale poisoning of infants. II
bodies of three newly-born babies wer
found in her room.
John D. Carroll, a night watchmar
was shot and seriously wounded by thre
q masked desperadoes at Bonner's Ferry
Idaho, Saturday night. lie was guare
ing the Jail at the time.
While crossing bridge over the Yub
river at Marysville, CAL, Al Vincent,
ranch employee, who was under the il
tluence of liquor, fell off his wagon int
the river and was drowned.
k An unknown man about 40 years I
,e age jumped off ferry boat at PiedmOn
r. shortly after she left her slip for Oal
land Sur day night, and was drowne'
7 The body was not rec )vered.
Mrs. G. s. Red6eld, who was injure
in a railroad accident at San Jose la
week, in which her sister, Mrs. o.
Wheelock, was instantly killed, dis
Sunday evening Of her injuries.
. Paul Eg@n, the 2-year.old son of
photographer, of Seattle, drank an oun
If carboiic acid while his mother "
70 out of the room Saturday night, and Ii
gered interrible agony until he died.
- J. L. Witch, a prominent turpentil
operator, was murdered Saturday mig
near Wallacoochee, Ga, by a neg
employe, in q quarrel about wages. II
murderer escaped. Lynching is threi
ne ened.
The Russian government proposes
convene a commission of Jewish rabt
in September next. The whole Jewi
question will be brought into consid,
- ton and will assist in bringing it tt
~ settlement.
Herr Rozwadovski, member OF t
81 Austrian reischrath. who owns land
Russia Poland, where he occasional
r spends some time, was expelled frt
Poland with his family by the Russi
authorities.
. William Blunck and John Luviel
. each 10 years old, was sentenced at G
|. cago, Saturday, to forty years in the pr
itentiary. The boys held up Alb
Eckroth one night, robbed him, and tn
i'd shot him dead.
J, w. Frost has been convicted of mi
slaughter at San Jose, Cal. for stabbi
ms to death ]. H. Roth at Wright's stati
last February. The men we're railrt
employees, and the killing was the
q" suit of quarrel.
At the colonial office in Berlin il
stated that the powers party to
Ho Samoan treatv have accepted the resig
. tions of Chief Justice Cederkranz q
AM Baron Won Pisaeh, president of
municipal council.
Michael Davitt, the anti-Parnel
w member of the northwest, Cork,
resigned his seat in parliament owinl
bankruptcy. Davitt's financial trout
were caused by costs attendant upon
Northmeatn election contest.