Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-05-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK,

By asboiler explosion in a rendering
factory at Hammorbrook, Thursday, FIVE
were killed and seven fatally injured.
William b. Wolgomott killed his di-
vorced wife at st. Louis, Monday night,
by cutting her throat. He then killed
himself.
General o. o. Howard has been elected
president Of the National Temperance
Society, to succeed John Wanamaker, of
Philadelphia.
The northern express on the Illinois
Central WAS wrecked at Buckley, H., by !
breaking in two. Brakeman Sam Ed
gerly was killed.
The collector OF customs at Yaquina |
collected 20 cents last year, and the ex-
pense Of running the office was $l025-at
the rata of $4l00 per 81.
Ed. Smith, young man 81 years old,
was crushed to death in logging camp
near Medford, Oregon, Saturday by u
heavy log rolling upon him.
A large barn on the farm OF Frank Kel
Ter, near Chico, Cal, burned Monday.
Eight fine horses we're burned to death
and eighty tons Of hay destroyed.
The First National bank at Sedalia,
Mo-, failed to open Friday. The bank
has capital OF $3.50, 900, and was sup
posed to have a reserve Of $25 900.
At the Cordite works, near Walltham
Abbey, Monday, thousands of jars Of
nitric and sulphurc acid exploded. -Four
persons were killed and thirty injured.
Colonel A. N. Newman, ex-president
of the Commonwealth Bank, OF Boston,
committed suicide by shooting himself
Wednesday while temporarily deranged.
1 A hotel was blown up at Algiers We'd
nesday. One person wss killed and three
injured, Torti, the landlord, recently
testified against some anarchists at lou
Ion.
Albert Woodley shot and killed Mrs.
Buchanan in Allegheny, Pa, Wednes-
day, and in flcted a probably fatal
wound on himself. The couple were en-
= gagged.
Judge ]. w. Green, master commits
sioner OF the circuit court Of Indiana, shot
D himself through the head with revolver
at Staunton, Sunday. No cause is as
n signed.
Willie Keller. II year old Seattle
schoolboy, accidently killed himself FRI
day noon while playing ball. he was
fielding fly, and fell, striking his head
on projecting root.
+ A coal famine threatens st. Louis. The
x supply will not last more than two weeks
+. Four thousand men have been thrown
out of work by the shutting down Of
mines in that section.
JIG. Cornelius, a gray.haired old mar
of So years, was sentenced in Portlanc
Thursday to twenty years in the penn
Tertiary. His crime was incest with hi
Oh l9-year-old daughter.
Two young men employed in a shinglt
70 mill we're drowned by the capsizing OF {
boat in Burrard inlet, near Vancouver
Tuesday. Their names are l.. +. Dean'
and Norman Hoehel.
10 Major Charles G. Keene, an old ma
tional guardsman, we'll known in MI
tary circles, was accidently asphy xiat.'
by gas at his residence in San francisco
He was "a years of age.
ny Gotleib Knapp, German, 40 years
age, who lives at 81 William stree'
New York, was found dead in be-
Wednesday night, with his skull ba,
tered in and his neck cut.
~ At the wedding of J ohm Bubeck, in Ht
- zelton, Pa Sunday, the guests becam
involved in dispute which ended In
free fight. Rev. Lanyick, the otficatin
clergy man, was fatally stabbed.
A terrible hurricane and thunder storl
IN passed over portion OF West Vlrglnl
Ill Sunday. At Central City the Ohio rive
railroad shops and roundhouse wei
demolished, with loes OF $50 900.
r. H. Mcdonald jr., vice-president
40 the Peoples Home Savings bank and
nv the Pacific bank of SanFrancisco, has bee
RI. indicted by the grand jury for embezzl
ment His bail was fixed at 100000.
! Clearance Hanrick, aged 8, and Lilo,
WEIGH, 10, are acquiring consideran
fame at Colfax as horsethieves. Th'
are under arrest, but in their parents Gu
RS tody, pending the judgment Of the ju
tice.
Charles Robinson, lately one OF Il
HO champion acrobats of America, died
. his home in Muncie, Indiana, from t
LID effects of smoking cigarettes. The
terror OF his mouth and throat had turn
black.
William Whalen, of ST. Peters mi
fame, convicted of obtaining money
n floating stock absolutely valueless, /
r. been sentenced at st. Louis to four ye,
II in the state prison. Whalen secured
OOO, 900.
w. Z. Hazen, an examiner in
United States department OF JUST
committed suicide Thursday night
s. shooting himself in the right temple W
a pistol, at the Arlington Hotel, Cars
an Nevada.
George Gebauers, an lS.year-old
of Healdsburg, Cal, .hot and killed h
|. self Wednesday. Inability to sec
work is given as the cause. His tat
best committed suicide by hanging sew
months ago.
Word has been received that w
Vallandigham and Tom Mimi, min
were held up in the La Sale mounts
a week ago, and robbed of gold mug,
il the valued at $25, 900. A posse is in pur
of the robbers.
Do The Whitley reaper and mower VIZ
no at Muncie, Ind, were burned Sumo
together with 1000 machines ready
shipment. The loss is $245 900, will
- insurance. The works furnished emp
ssler. ment 10 oUo meh'
A six-inch steam pipe in the plaI
the Southern Electric Company, in |
adelphia, exploded Wednesday nj
killing one and injuring three.
Martin, the night engineer, was sea
nops and suffocated by the steam.
The attorneys representing the empl
of the East Tennessee, Virginia q
n Ria railway system have filed 10 the
ted States circuit court petition &c
Hand injunction restraining the receivers
reducing wages 10 per cent.
am At Urbana, Ohio, Sunday afterr
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