Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-08-10

Cholera is spreading rapidly In Al

routed the Malay rebels at Mndanac
June "a, killing $50.
The republicans of the Third Iowa dis
trict have renominated Congressman d.
b. Henderson, OF Dubuque.
The California apricot yield is enor.
nous. Growers are drying the product
for which they expect fancy prices.
Spokane won in it's fight for pnblit
building and gets not only site purchase
money, but 500, GOO for the building.
John Harper, prominent farmer liz
ing near Sonoma, Gal, was instantly
killed in a runaway there Monday morn
ing.
A disastrous fire which started in the
lumber yarde of Minneapolis, Monday
destroyed about $500 $50 worth If prop
erty.
At Bonapertc, Ia , Friday night nine
buildings. including the opera house,
hanx and several stores, were destroyed
by fire.
The cash balance in the treasury at the
close of business Wednesday was a.
COL ,87S, Of which sci, III ,252 was gold
reserve.
The warship Newark, which has been
on duty .on the south Atlantic station,
has sailed from Rio Janiero for Care
Town, Africa
Clay Davis, member Of the Dalton
gang, was killed, and Bud Appling, a
prize fighter. wounded, by othcera at
Morrison, |. T.
Harrison Duncan, colored, was hanged
at Clayton, Mo, Friday, for the murder
Of Policeman James Brady in st. Louis
October q, 1890.
ira Abbott shot and killed Charles Ben
nett, rival horseehoer, at Nevada, Calif
Friday. They qnsrreled long and often
for nearly two years.
boiler at the Lehigh Valley colliery
exploded Sunday night, killing one man
and severely injuring three others, two
OF whom have since died.
Ex-Proprietor Bright, Of the Tennessee
Oil Works, was shot and killed at But
falo, N. Y, Tuesday by man named
Murray, former employe.
The treaty between China and Mexico
will be ratified in few weeks, and the
Chinese are preparing to make large in.
vestments in the latter country.
Great Britain has $3.50 cannons
France, 1894; Germany, $3.50; Aus
tria 2,l70; Turkey, 1852; Russia, 4424
the United States, 1856; the world hae
Al ,073.
John ID. Beam, manager of the Live
Oaks Mining Company at Coarse Gold
gulch, was crushed and instantly killed
by the fall of q hanging wall at the mins
Sunday.
j. Bathurst, conductor on a freight
train on the N. Z. 9. r. r. between San
Rafael, Cal. and Tomales, Was instantly
killed Monday morning by falling under
the train.
Tuesday, boiler of the large mogul
engine on the Canadian Pacific Railway
exploded near Field. B. G. Fireman
Hunt and Engineer Wheatly were in.
stantly killed.
During heavy thunder storm at New
market Junction, N. ] Monday, a srnal
boat containing William Byrne and
Michael Carroll was capsized, and both
were drowned.
Billy Mason agreed to withdraw from
the contest for the Illinois senatorshiE
provided Joseph Medill. editor Of the
Chicago Tribune, would accept, but
Medill refueed.
A passenger train ran into an oper
switch at Cincinnati Monday and wsl
wrecked. The engineer was killed ant
the fireman fatally injured One pas
senger lost leg
MIS-. Hartley, who murdered Senator
Foley at Reno, New expects to become
a mother shortly, and she accuses Foley
who was q married man with bsing TN
father Of the child.
At Kansas City Sunday Philip II
Jackley, an official OF the Missouri Pa
ci6c railroad, shot and killed ID. +. Wolf
a barseeper. The men quarreled owe
the price of a drink.
Army worms are destroying hundred
of acres of crops in Northern Wisconsin
Grasshoppers are causing great destruc
ton. Farmers predict that late crop
will be total failure.
A small yacht, carrying six persons
capsized in Hudson river, opposite Hast
ings, during thunder storm. Georg
Cipher, Henry Hebelin and jacob
Smith, Young men, were drowned.
The secretary Of the interior ha
affirmed the decieion Of the commissions
of the general land office in the case c
the Northern Pacific Railroad Compan,
vs.. S. l.. Lanham, Of Washington.
The Youngstown, o.. street car cen
pany resumed operations Wedneeda
with pon-union men, after tie p {
several weeks. The strikers pied tie
on the tracks and stoned the cars.
Louis BAer, Bernard Smith, Tony Fai
rell and Henry Hombien were killed an
William f Emert fatally injured Tues
day by the falling of an elevator in Clau
sen & Prices brewery, New York.
Ole Frisk was knocked unsconcious b
q bucket Of sand while working at tn
bottom of we'll, in Tacoma, Wedno sllay
and died Thursday. He lay for som
Frank Sawtelle, aged %. WAS acc
dentally drowned Tuesday in deep poo
in Mission Valley, Calf, while swim
ming with two companions. He wa
overcome with cramps, it is supposed.
At the Young Ladies Catholic sem
nary at Winons, MINI. the walls Of
cistern caved in Wednesday, KILN
Joseph Schneider, Albert Struck, Mix
Kulaski and Henry Greibach, laborers.
Henry Bennett, colored, WAS hange
at Memphis, Tenn, Wedne sday. for tn
murder of his wife in May, 1898. lie CT
her almost to pieces with a pocketknif
for deserving him. Bennett died yam,
George B. Castle. a grocer, WAS il
stantly killed by lightning at Lake Onals
Mass, Sunday, and four others were reI
dered unconscious for time. The Dol
struck tree around which the party wa
seated.
Fred Cowley, son of the pioneer mi;
sionary, H. 7. Cowley, was drowned i
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