Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-11-17

a train which was going at the rate of
forty miles an hour. He was picked up
more dead than alive.
A fire in the Portland Consolidated
Railway Company's stables at Portland
Sunday morning destroying $50, 600
worth of cars and other property. There
been burned to death, the cars Of the line
being run by.electricity.
Policeman Edward Young. SO years
old, who was attached to the fifth pre-
cinct, Brooklyn, committed suicide We'd
nesday afternoon by shooting himself
through the heart at his home. The
cause OF the act was jealousy Of his wife,
for which there was no real ground.
The steamer City OF Alexandria, of the
New York and Cuba line, was burned at
Sea forty miles from Havana and Matan-
zas. P. W. Bowen, purser, and Mrs.
Carter, stewardess, were drowned. She
had no passengers or cargo. Loss, $780,
900, which is fully covered by insurance.
Mrs. Mary FEST, 81 years old, only Eve
months from Germany, committed sui.
eide at Tacoma Monday by shooting her.
self through the heart. Deceased had
only been married seven weeke. Her
husband is carpenter and works on the
Puget Sound Brewery. No GAUGE is known
for the act.
Congress has passed bill suspending
the mining assessment law for the year
1898, except in the state Of South Dakota.
President Cleveland has not yet signed the
bill, but will do go within few days, I'm.
I doubleday. The exception OF South Da-
kota was made at the request Of the resi-
dent miners.
Judge Brown, of Chicago, on Thurs.
day sent to the insane asylum q crank
named James Hawkins. He is colored
man, 80 years old, and declares that he
is personal friend Of Grover Cleveland
God Almighty and the devil" He says
Ruth Cleveland.
Robert Zollner, OF Mount Angel, Ore
gon, was killed on Monday forenoon
while chopping trees. Not returning
that evening search was instituted anG
he was found Tuesday evening with hi
head crushed and an ak in his hand. Hi
death was instantaneous. He was ,
farmer, aged about 60 years.
One of the worst railroad wrecks tina
ever happened on the Central Pacific &C
Cured Sunday morning between freigh
train No. 10, west-bound, and No. 7, east
bound, about mile west Of Saliva,
small station eighteen miles east Of Reno
resulting in the death OF six persons an,
the serious injury of many others.
Near Spangle. WASH, Thursday,
German named Bailey, while haulin
grain, fell from wagon while trying +
put on the brake and was run over. H
walked quarter Of mile to a hous
with an arm broken and his bowel
badly mashed. He died half an hou
afterward. He has a family at Dee
Park.
At the auction sale of all the dair
stock of Colonel Cornelius, held at tn
fair grounds near Hillsboro, Oregon, cor
sisting of $50 head Of pure and grade
Holstein cows, the lowest brought $27. 8
and the highest $50. About 40 hea
we're sold. A few horses sold brough
$3.50 head. The horses were good wor
horses, weighing 400 pounds.
J R. NJ. Palmer, of Walla Walla, Will
hunting geese on Snake river, acciden,
ally discharged his gun Saturday, tn
shot taking effect in the calf of his lei
leg and tearing away the entire muscle
By timely assistance of comrades i
bandaging he was saved from bleedin
to death and taken to Walla Walla In
wagon, distance Of forty miles.
A terrible duel was fought Monda
, evening in the Selkirk saloon at Colvills
, Two miners, Mcdonald, formerly q bal
keeper, and Harrington, who had starte