Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Oregon.
Seattle, it is announced is 10 have an
iron furnace and freight-car shops, en-
lploying over 1000 men.
| A disastrous fire in Kaslo, B. c.. Sun.
day. burned nearly everything on Front
street. The loss is $3.50, 900.
The Missouri stats building at Chicago
cost $40 900 and sold for $3.50 One man
tel alone cost more than that.
Complete figures OF Pennsylvania
election give Golusha Grow 1877, 1863 plu-
rality. There will be no contest.
Representative Wilson is seriously ill
in the City Of Mexico with typhoid fever
Physicians have given up hope OF saving
his life.
The Bethlehem Iron Compsny's steel
mill in Bethlehem, Pa, has started up on
. double Shift" giving employment to
100 hands.
Five were killed and several others in
jured by the explosion OF boiler in the
oil mill OF Fromsn & Hyne at Compile,
La, Thursday.
By an explosion of gas at the Point
Breeze Gas Works in Philadelphia, Tues
day, one man was killed and three dan
gerously injured.
A boiler explosion in one Of the big
iron works at Alexandrowski, Russia,
killed twenty five persons and seriously
injured ten more.
A tract of 64OO acres OF timber land
In the Nehalem valley is said to have
been sold to New York and Boston
capitalists for $4,000.
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self five times, but not fatally, in the
Marion county Jail. His knife was taken
away, and he will Iecover.
Owing to the failure Of the men to &C.
cept reduction of wages, eight toundries
n Cleveland, Ohio, we're closed Saturday
night, locking out 1900 men.
| Adolph Ferles, chief cashier OF the
Austrian state debt department, who
absconded, being a defaulter for 10000
forms. has committed suicide.
| W. R Meggiuson, while fording the
Silrtz river on the 18Th inst, was
browne His horse began struggling,
throwing him under the water.
| Two lives we're lost and score placed
IN imminent peril by fire which con-
sumed portion OF the state home TOR
feeble minded children at Vineland, N
J., Sunday night.
One J. J. Anderson, of Rockford, Ill.
is seeking a location for q rolling mill.
which will employ 125 to 100 men, and
| offers to build it at Aberdeen-provided
be is given bonus OF $l5O,0OO
Burglars entered the house OF Henry
German, treasurer of Exeter township,
Mich, shot German twice, shot and
instantly killed Mrs. German and es'
capped with nearly $1,000. No clue.
Mathew Steiner Of Syracuse and p.
Barrett of Montreal, while driving across
the st. Lawrence on the ice, from Pres
colt to Ogdensburg, Monday evening
drove into an airhole and were drowned.
1t is understood that Wells, Fargo &
Co. have purchased majority OF the
stock in the Commercial National bank
Of Portland, and will Immediately double
the capital stock, which is now $25O,OO0
Hon. J. G. Broomsll, one of the
weslthiest land owners OF Chester, Pa,
has failed. He has over $500, 600 in real
estate in that city and vicinity. He says
the aesets exceed the liabilities by $780,
900.
| News has been received of the burning
Of a farm house and its occupants, ten
miles west of Murfresboso, Pike county
Ark. John Wort, wife and five children
occupied the house, and all periFhed ir
the flames.
The official statement of the treasury
receipts and expenses shows, in rouno
numbers, that for eight months OF the
present fiscal year the expenses of the
government exceeded the receipts by
$4S, 900, 900.
The body of H. K Byers, who was col
lector for a sewing machine company
and who disappeared February unde
mysterious circumstances, was recovered
} from San Francisco bay on Sunday. Fou
play is suspected.
: q. T. White, one of the parties who re
: 3 Gently hanged in effigy j. Sterling Nor
: ton and his son, Carl M. Morton, in Ne
braska City, has been found guilty O
+. criminal libel The penalty is $500 fin
and six months in the county jail.
Three pickpockets ma lie rich hall Oh
crowded Wabash cable car at Twelfth
street in Chicago Wednesday night
They stole purse containing $500 il
> cash and silver certificates and paper
valued pit SIS 900 from passenger.
A Little Rock, Ark, Sunday nigh
D VIM. Farrar and John Ballard, Will
drunk. attempted to burst in the door {
}. a room in which William Parker wa
sleeping Parker took the men for bul
glars and fired, killing beth of them.
Daniel Slaughter, of Carroll county
Virginia, who stabbed two men to deaf
= and cut the bride at wedding in ALI
gheny county, North Carolina, two weel
ago, was taken by a mob from the Jail /
Sparta, Saturday night, and lynched.
William Gilbert, a sailor on the bar
Detroit was drowned at midnight Satu
day, while attempting to board the vess
in Tacoma harbor. 1t is supposed th
he was intoxicated. The body has nj
been recovered, but the bottom is beir
dragged
Bert Paterson, a colored barber, sh
and seriously wounded Hazel Craig,
colored girl, at Canton Pa, Thursda
st and then committed suicide by shootir
himself in the right temple. The girl,
is thought, will recover. Jealousy wi
the cause.
John Callahan, an aged farmer, vi
70 shot dead at Burlington. Wis, Tuesds
night by a man who entered the hou
demanding money, which Callahan sa
he did not have. Neighbors are scouriI
the woods for the murderer, and W
hang him If caught.
- At White Oak Run, Pa, Saturdi
Re nipht, q negro shot and killed Christ's
Ehler, a merchant, at the latter's rel
dence, and fatally wounded his vii
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