Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-09-21

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Half the town of Oakview, Texas, has
been wiped out by fire. The loss is very
heavy.
The Citizens bank Of Plattsmouth.
Neb.,. suspended Monday, with liabli-
ties of $92 900.
During the first week Of September
there were l46 fresh cases of cholera and
l0l deaths in St. Petersburg.
The fireman was killed and eight per-
sons injured by wreck on the North
western road at Darlington, Sunday.
The sultan has given 300 Turkish
pounds to alleviate the distress caused
by the forest fires in the United States.
There is deficit Of nearly 81, 000, 900
In the revenue of the dominion of Can
ada during the fiscal year en- ded June 30
last.
The sugar planters convention at New
Orleans Thursday declared ia favor Of an
alliance with the republicans on national
issues.
| Larkspur Inn, a magnificent summer
hotel near San Rsfael, Cal, WAS de-
stroyed by fire Thursday. The loss is
$1l5, 900.
At the close OF business Monday the
cash In the treasury amounted to 1927,
$50, 8l6, OF which $66, OPS, 700 represented
the gold reserve.
The celebrated viking ship, which
crossed the Atlantic and WAS exhibited at
the worlds fsir, sank in the river at Chi
cago, during storm Monday.
The umbrella trust, with a capital OF
$1,000, 900, which went into the hands Of
receiver July l6, hae paid it's entire list
of creditors 100 cents on the dollar.
The condition OF wheat throughout the
country, considering both winter and
spring varieties when harvested was 1877,
against "a 0 last year and 1913 in 1892.
Specials from Northeastern Nebraska
and Western Iowa, report killing frosts
Tuesday night. Late corn, fax and gar
den truck are reported killed or badly
damaged.
George Rolands and wife, old and
prominent citizens Of Ravenswood, Ills.
were found dead in bed Monday, having
been ssphyxiated. A gas jet was found
wide open.
Secretary Carlisle has decided that the
reciprocity" conditions attached by the
new tariff bill to the provision for the
free admission Of lumber, did not apply
to the Dominion OF Canada.
John Wentworth, stonemason, broke
his neck Sunday while exercising in the
rooms Of the athletic club at Menlo park,
near San Francisco. He was attempting
difficult feat on the rings.
Mike Forschwiler's hop-house, about
three miles west Of Gervais, burned
to the ground Tuesday morning, with all
it's contents, including 5000 pounds Of
hops, covered by insurance.
j. w. Witt, superintendent of public
schools at Decatur, Tex was assassinated
Wednesday night by s. Simonds, young
business man. Witt had boosted OF his
intimacy with Simonds' sister.
Jos. M Kuch, who killed his neigh
Dor, John Keller, last May, committed
, suicide by morphine in the Jail at
Kalama, Wash, Thursday. Where he
obtained the morphine is mystery.
j. S. Morgan & Co., of London, has
} purchased from the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway Company, $4,000, 900 of the
company's Az per cent bonds. This
pays off all the company's floating debt.
Warrants have been sworn out for the
' arrest of the governor, state auditor and
state treasurer Of Mississippi in connec-
ton with the issue Of state warrants al
legged to be similar to United States cur
rency.
} Two miles south OF Paris, Mo-, Sunday,
during quarrel over some trifiing mat
ter. Edward MUIR shot and fatally
wounded I. Howser. Both are well-to-
do citizens OF Paris. The murderer es-
capped.
Clarence w. CLARK, one Of the promi-
, nent men Of the Brotherhood OF Locomo'
tive Engineers and the next in rank to
Chief Arthur, is lying at the point OF
death from pistol wound, inflicted by
his divorced wife.
, A shocking suicide occurred in New
York Sunday. An unknown woman
threw herself in front OF an approaching
train Her body was caught under the
engine wheels and WAS terribly mangled,
death resulting instantly.
Link Waggoner, noted desperate Of
\ North Louisiana and Eastern Texas, was
shot to death in his cell in the parish
4 Jail at Minden, La by mob Sunday
night. For the past five years he had
been a terror in that country.
Tie monthly statement Of the receipts
of the Northern Pacific for August will
show an increase over the receipts oi
August, 1893 This will be the first time
in eighteen months that the comparative
statements have shown an increase.
Seymour Wilson, formerly editor and
proprietor of the Sun, published al
Shannon City, Ia, committed suicide al
Il North Yakima Tuesday morning by
shooting himself through the head. Ill
health Is supposed to have been the
cause.
A fire Tuesday night at II O'Clock de
stroyed two two-story frame buildings or
o Alder street, Walla Walla, which had
been vacant for several months. tits sup
posed the fire was the work of incendiar
ism. The loss is $4,000, and the insur
ance $500.
Samuel Bentley, an old resident o
Santa Cruz, Calf, while fishing on tht
bank was washed of the rocks at Vue d.
Lew, Monday morning, and drowned
A companion jumped in after him. HI
nearly lost his life, and was with diff
Guilty rescued.
Claude Waller, member of the firm
J of Patterson & Waller, lawyers, was sho
in the groin and possibly fatally injured
!. in Chicago Sunday afternoon by Lee
Roeder, chief clerk for Brand & Holt
man, lawyers. The men had quarrelet
over business matters.
Thomas Cantwell, son of Thoma
Oantwell, president Of the Eagle Brew
ts ing Co., at Chicago, was shot and in
stantly killed Tuesday morning by Thos
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