Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
NEWS OF THE WEAK.

uenclencV Dill.
Oil will be the only fuel used at the
midwinter fair. Thus there will be no
smoke. The buildings are filing up rap
idly.
Schwartz Il Graft wholesale carpets,
mattings and oilcloths, OF Philadelphia,
have assigned assets $3.50 900, liabilities
$275, 900.
Frank Norris, the Dayton church choir
singer who outraged little girl. recently
attempted to commit suicide in Jail. His
defense will be insanity.
donated carload OF -four to the needy
poor OF that city, giving one sack 10 each
family as Christmas present.
The robbers who held up the Mobile &
Ohio train Saturday night at Seminole,
|. T., got forty money packages. Amount
OF money obtained is not known.
Senator Walcott, of Colorado, has un-
dergone an operation in Paris for double
hernia OF the stomach. The patient will
entirely recover in few weeks.
William G. Hultz, prominent attor-
ney OF Sullivan, Ind, was shot and killed
SUNDAY morning by Sam Willis. HultZ
had been intimate with the wife of Will
lis.
! The big log raft which left Marshield
for San Francisco and was broken to
pieces off Humboldt bar, was valued at
$50 900. 1t is said to be almost a total
loss.
Gov. Waite, of Colorado, has paid heed
to the business men, circumstances and
has postponed calling an extra session OF
the legislature. The session may not be
called at all.
II. B. Shields has been arrested in
Chicago for kidnapping Z. M. Byers, a
wealthy iron manufacturer of Pittsburg,
Pa. Byers was found in st. Paul par
TALLY demented.
A vote is being taken on the entire
railroad system between New York and
Chicago as to whether general strike
should be ordered on account of the Le'
high Valley trouble.
Two children of Hugh Latham, OF Sac.
ramento, were fatally burned Tuesday
by gasoline from stove scattering Oh
them and igniting their clothing. One
child died in two hours.
A big fire in San Francisco Monday
destroyed property valued at quarter o
a million dollars. The Bulletin news
paper was burned out and the Call'I
press room badly damaged.
The Chicago election commissioner
have declared John P. Hopkins elected
mayor of Chicago. This was done afte
, the official count was made and Hopkins
plurality was found to be 29O.
The United States steamship Kearsarg
has been ordered to San Domingo, as tn
government has information of an etfor
to assassinate the president of that coun
try, and a revolt is imminent.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred a
Whitesburg, Ala, Saturday. An en-
gineer and fireman were killed and thre
laborers fatally injured. A flying missil
cut off the head Of the engineer.
An explosion in the store of Bruc
Bros, at WOODBURY., Oregon, Sunda
II evening, started 1000 fire, whic
bafiled the efforts of the fremen unit
s the entire block opposite the depot wa
burned.
A special from Wildwood. Fla, says
difficulty between white man and a ne
D gro Monday morning eliminated in
riot in which two white men were she
by negroes, one seriously and the othe
slightly.
v The grand jury of Dubuque, Ia, hs
returned % indictments against Va
Leuven for pension frauds. Other il
dictments were returned against DIR
Pegg and Kissell, of the pension examil
~ ing board.
= Four men were ruu down by a PEN
sylvania engine at Greenburg, Pa
Thursday Three we're killed. tt
forth was but little hurt They we
miners on their way to Williamsport
find work.
John Roth, laboring man, was he
up early Wednesday evening in one
the most populous thoroughfares in 5
Paul, by woman, and robbed OF 80
Roth had 5000 with him which the W
" man overlooked.
Catherine Eads and Mary Learne
two servants employed in the family
Rogers, president of the Standard {
m Company at New York, were found del
in bed Wednesday morning, sutfocat
It. by escaping gas.
rk Mansel Mitchell, planter and me
&c &c chant, was murdered SUNDAY evening
Ursino Landing. Miss, by Willis Gree
= negro whom he had prevented fro
IL shipping bale of stolen cotton. 7
murderer escaped.
Ain Cousins, who killed his wife ID
May for alleged intimacy with her ste
father, was executed in Jail at Knoxvil
IS Tenn, Thursday morning. He said tt
he did not intend to kill his wife but "
after his step-father.
10 A new swindling scheme has been
- covered in San Francisco. A man r,
ID resenting himself as an agent of
Formosa Tea Company has been maxi
lots of money selling dried alfalfa lea'
for tea at 60 cents pound.
The story told by Ben Kelley,
trapper who came out of the Bitter RI
r, mountains with the Carlin party,
- which he bitterly attacked Gen. @
lin and the members of the party, is
nounced on every hand as false.
John Tyler shot and killed Armsts
Morton in the Zion Baptist Church
Indianapolis, Monday morning.
latter had accused the former of be-
b" intimate with Morton's wife, and
previously quarrelled over the matter.
Three negroes entered the residence
Ben Nabor at Durant, Miss, WednesC
night, literally chopped him to pie
est with an ak, and set fire to the buildi
Their object was robbery. One of
murderers has been arrested and C
fessed.
The dry goods firm of Rich, SLIDER
,,, Co, and the A. w. Rich Shoe Co..
'n Milwaukee, Wis, have assigned.
nominal assets of the dry goods comps
are 1925 900, and Of the shoe compa
$106, 900. The assets are as yet
known.