Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-12-01


cabin at the midwinter fair. The ex- v
pense is estimated at $500. 4
President Barrios of Guatemala has is :,
sued proclamation emancipating the
laboring classes from slavery. J
Some of the Russian refugees now at
San Francisco will be released and the ,,
others returned to Russian custody. =,
A dispatch from Morlaix says six more !
bodies from the British vessel Aboukir
Bey have been washed ashore there.
Charles Andrews, manager Of the An
drews opera company, was run over by
train at Morrison, ILL.,, Friday and killed.
Fully 200 lives are known to have {
been lost during the gale which swept
over the British coast Saturday and Sun
day.
Jack Butler, one of the Mineral
Range express robbers, pleaded guilty at
Houghton and was sentenced to five
years in prison.
Carlos Diaz Gomez de Cadiz, Spanish
consul at Baltimore. committed suicide
Friday morning. He had been an IN
valid long time.
It is reported a prominent young
farmer, Bert Mackey, near wooster,
Ohio, WAS murdered to obtain 10000 in
surance on his life.
A Chicago grand jury has indicted K.
6. H. Huntington, now in Portland, Or,
on a charge OF embezzling $25 900 while
an insurance broker.
H. NJ. Eaton, telegraph operator, was
shot and killed at Davisville, Cal, Tues
day night by Charles Dodge, whose sister
Eaton had seduced.
Fire Monday afternoon at Lewiston,
Me-, destroyed tenement house. Mrs.
Alfred Dubois and two children were
smothered to death.
William Taught and Allen Stevenson
fought with knives in the street at Pitts.
burg Monday. They hacked each other
cruelty, and both will die.
Saturday evening German sailor
named Gillewee fell from the British
ship Enrol, at the foot of Burnside street,
in Portland, and was drowned.
Michael Mcnamara shot and killed
Mrs. Ella Sweeney and Mary Sweeney,
then shot himself, at Cleveland Monday
morning. The cause is not known.
Rich gold fields are reported from the
Organ mountains, Texas The excite
ment is intense, and an army of pros
Fred Marvin, ex-cashier of the Third
National bank, of Detroit, charged with
embezzlement, has surrendered himself
and been released on $4,000 bonds.
Hundreds of men are enlisting in New
York for the Brazilian war. The war
ships recently purchased have already a
full complement OF officers and seamen.
A whole family named Johnson per-
ished in q snow storm on their claim
near Glass mountain, o. I. They were
boomers and had only wagon for shell
ter.
1t is stated that President Cleveland
, lost 100000 by drop in Chicago gas
stock few days ago. His trip to New
York was to transfer property to cover
the loss.
} Receivers have been appointed for the
East Tennessee Land Company, OF Har-
riman. The estimated assets are 81 l5O,,
OOO and the liabilities are estimated al
81 100000.
Mrs. Rueben Nj. Dakin, wife of a res
taurant keeper at Los Angeles, commit
ted suicide Wednesday by taking poison
because che feared her husband intended
, to desert her.
: By boiler explosion in silk factor,
at Czernowitz, Austria, sixteen people
were killed and twenty injured. A pani'
followed and a large number met witt
minor accidents.
The resignation OF Assistant Secretar,
of War Grant has been accepted. Gen
Joseph r. Doe, of GAINESVILLE, Wis, ad
iutant- general of the Wisconsin Nationa
guard, will succeed him.
n The commissioner OF the general LIANT
: Office has decided the Great Falls Liant
contest in favor of thu TOWNSHIP compan.
as an innocent purchaser. Title 30 tn
whole town was involved.
o Antoine Lebecky, 81 years of age, an
his daughter Fannie. 35 years old, con-
4 mitted suicide at New York, Tuesda
~ night, hanging themselves at their home
r. $40 East SEVENTEEN street.
A bursted water main in Portland Sa
IL urday flooded three streets and damage
thousands of dollars worth of goods /
cellars. j. X. Gill 4 Co., H. B. Lit an
other merchants lost heavily.
J.L. Harper aud James Oleson qua
q relied at Calvert City, KY, over waite
va melons, which the former accused tt
latter OF stealing. Harper was shot dea
and Oleson MORALLY wounded.
~ "Jsck the Slasher" threatens to {
ID. more damage at Washington City and
end by slashing everything in the Viii
House and President Cleveland. He hi
written the police OF his intention.
DIR. @. l.. Flanders of Jefferson Cit
n Mo-, has been sentenced to three yea
n in the penitentiary for fraudulently
II curing possession of a piece OF land Fla
ders is worth half million dollars.
Seventy.fi five citizens. including an e
itor, lawyer, several business men al
even clergymen, will be indicted by &
grand jury at Buffalo, for being membe
of the American Protective Assoclatio
N Governor Peck, of Wisconsin, has
sued a proclamation calling upon t
people for food and clothing to relic
the starving miners at Hurley. The
are 800 people who need immediate
est sistance.
By the caving in of bank while ms
ing excavations for the new gun colt
factory at Goat Island, the United Stat
torpedo station, John McGregor "
killed, two others fatally injured and &c
the seriously hurt.
1t has been reported to the inter
, department that number OF whites hs
, invaded the country of the Uncompal
Indian reservation, Utah, to prospect
gold. Orders have been issued to DIR
NJ the intruders off
IlI Destructive prairie fires are raging
the western part of Oklahoma, and h
ests winds prevail spreading them. TIL
I Ill hoo haan