Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-08-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

explosion at the gas works in Fresno,
Cal, Sunday.
A ssilbost capsized at Seaford, Della
ware, Monday, and twenty-five people
were drowned.
Five members of the city council of
New Orleans have been indicted for NAL
feasance in office.
A horse kicked j. J. Grimmith, of
OF Island City, on the knee and fractured
the bones of the leg.
The cash balance ia the treasury
Thursday was s11S, 299 800, of which $751;
257 1913 was gold reserve.
The town of Champaign, ILL.,, was
burned Thursday night. Only two bust
ness houses remain. Loss $4,000.
The president has approved the act to
subject to state taxation national bank
notes and United States treasury notes.
At the McAlphin camp in Granite Can
yon, Wyoming, Sunday, four miners
were killed by being buried under fall
OF rock.
Ed Partridge, the Chicago board Of
trade plunger, has been confined in the
Washingtonian Home for the reformar
ton of inebriates.
Lightning struck and killed two fine
horses belonging to Addison Orear, a
farmer living twelve miles west OF
Lebanon, Ind, Thursday.
Fletcher Robinson, a pueilist badly
beaten in q fight with Jimmy Lindsey
Of Omaha, last Thursday night, died Of
his injuries Monday morning.
Judge Bellinger Of the United States
circuit court has decided that he will
he, 10. In In nj
they are indicted by the grand jury.
London ie swarniing with anarchists.
During the last few days, over 400
anarchists have landed in the city. The
police are busy watching the newcomers.
Jennie Meyer and Miss Bernhart,
two 16.year-old girls living at Berrien
Springs, Ind were drowned while bath.
ing in small lake at Stevensville Sun.
day afternoon.
A man was found in the yard of the
Southern Pacific at San Jose, Calf.
Monday morning, having been cut in two
by q train. From papers on his body,
his name is John Burns.
During a fight over the election at
Helena, Ala, Thursday, between Erwin
Lambert and Horace Riddle, two farm
ers, Riddles son stabbed Lambert in the
back, causing his death.
James Towe, farmer of Rock creek
was shot through the lungs and fatally
wounded by hobo at Winona Wash.
Saturday. Both men were drinking, and
quarreled over a game of cards.
The house committee on judiciary has
decided to report the bill introduced by
Delegate Smith, of Arizona, to transfer
the criminal jurisdiction over reservation
Indians in the territories to the federal
courts.
A most surprising strike of free milling
gold ore has been made in the Annie
lode, fifteen miles east of Mosca, Colo,
by the Fuller brothers. Assays have
been made with the astonishing result OF
$42, 900 ton.
J. H. Wbitehouse, travelling salesman
for soap firm, was killed in San Fran
cisco saloon Tuesday evening by Albert
Mace, a fruit dealer. The men were
shaking dice in back room and became
involved in quarrel.
8. Chase, aged about IS and a native
of Maine, died at Olympia, Saturday
after taking morphine with suicidal in
tent. The deceased was an old soldier
but did not affiliate with the Grand Army
at the time of his death.
Two negroes who assaulted Miss Pottl
in Lafayette county, Fla few days agt
were captured near McAlpine Monday
They confessed, and were carried to tn,
scene of the crime and lynched. Mist
Potts is only IA years of age.
Fred Kincaid, about q years of age
was shot and killed at Roseburg, Oregon
Monday, by Sam Brown, who met Kin
caid in the street and opened fire on hin
with a revolver. The young men wer,
paying attention to the same girl.
The conference committee of the TIVE
sundry civil bill Tuesday The senat
, will recede from its amendment appro
priating $l50,000 for public buildings a
Boise, Cheyenne, Helena and Spokane
The wife of John Mckahn, OF Center
town, Indiana, jumped from Santa F.
train near Streator, ILL.,, receiving injurie
which caused her death in two hours
She was on her way home from Califor
MIA. Mrs. Mckahn was eighty dement,
ed.
Benjamin Aikens, one OF the wealth
les ranchmen in Pecos county, Texas, ha
been murdered by two mexicans, VIII
were formerly in his employ. They way
laid and shot him, and then crashed hi
head with rocks and otherwise mutilate
his body.
John and Charles Moore, brothers
aged IS and Is, were drowned in the Obi
river near Cincinnati, while skif rdin
with another boy and three girls. Tn
I skiff broke in two in fifteen feet of Wa
ter. The other four persons wer
rescued.
The Freeman's journal publishes
letter from Justice Mccarthy acknow
edging the receipt OF $4,000 for the Iris
e parliamentary fund from ex-Judge ThoI
Moran of Chicago, who presented til
money in behalf of many American col
tributors.
The state of Wisconsin is about to gu
the United States government for 81 1915
600 on q claim for munitions Of war, etc
furnished in 1861, which were paid IL
only in part by the United States undo
the act of July, 1861, and for interest o
deferred payments.
The president has signed Hermann
bill, authorizing the assurance of paten
confirming title TO all locations of Ian
made with supreme court script Their
are 1000 of these entries which this ne
=! law will pass to patent. Many are in Or
gon and Washington.
Misses Alice Seavey, Cora johnson an
Grace Lowell, aged 10, Is and II, respec
lively, were drowned in the America
Is river at Auburn, CAL, Saturday. The
mara uo ding in tho vivar Whan opa