Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-02-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Over $4,000, 900 bushels Of buckwheat
were last year manufactured into cakes.
The supply Of diamonds is twenty
times greater than it was thirty years
ago.
The republicans have decided to con-
test the Chicago city election on the
ground of fraud.
Mrs. Mary de Noon was killed in San
Francisco Wednesday by the sudden
closing Of folding bed.
Comptroller Eckles has authorized the
First National bank Of Helena, Mont, to
resume business January %.
A special from Topeka says Mrs. Lease
will soon remove to California to reside
permanently on fruit ranch.
Gov. Lewelling of Kansas is spending
a few weeks in San Francisco looking at
the midwinter midway freaks.
The great tunnel through the San Luca
mountains, near San Luis Obispo, has
been completed. 1t is 1000 feet long
A log train went through q trestle at
Stephens, Ark, Sunday, killing three Of
the crew and wounding eighteen others
1t is said that Secretary of State Osborn
of Kansas is the organizer of the new Is.
Dor society, the Ancient Order of Loyal
Americans.
The treasury gold Wednesday declined
to $6S, 763, O20, and the currency to $2l )
446, 232, less 81 ,2l3, 1913 paid on interest
and bonds.
BY order of the German emperor al
the ladies and gentlemen of the court
will call upon United States Ambassador
Runyon next Tuesday.
The daughter Of the condemned anar.
chist Valiant has disappeared. 1t is be
lieved that she has been kidnapped by
some would-be guardian.
A dispatch states that L. Dollan and 6
party Of nine amen rerished recently in
an avalanche in the Rocky mountains
near Winnipeg, Manitoba.
F. d. Wanamaker, a nephew of the
ex postmaster general, Is in Jail at Tiffin
O., charged with passing a fraudulent
draft on hotel proprietor.
John e.. Shea, an ex.street-car con
ductor, shot and killed his wife, and Their
fatally shot himself at New York, Tues
day. Jealousy was the cause.
Nearly 1000 men went to work at tn,
Pennsylvania steel works at Harrisburg
Wednesday Orders now in will keel
the big plant running for some time.
A. S. Hill of Vallejo, CAL, blew hi
brains out with pistol, Sunday, dyint
instantly. Hill feared he was to be ar
rested as an accomplish in a murder case
1t is officially announced that the In
dian government does not propose to i'm
pose an import duty on silver for tn,
purpose of assisting it's currency policy
The Tacoma & Puyallup railroad ant
the Point Defiance, Tacoma 4 Edison
road were sold by the sheriff Friday
under an execution of foreclosure suit
The Mexican guerrillas, Santana Pere.
and Ochos, are pillaging ranches ant
towns within fifty miles of Chihuahua
and it is thought they may attack tina
city.
F. B. Jilson, for many years LEADING
business man OF st. Paul, committed sui
eide Friday by shooting himself in thu
head. Business depression is given al
the cause.
Edward G. Hardingham, young En-
glishman, aged %, attempted to commi
suicide in Portland Monday, by takin,
strychnine. He was out Of work ant
respondent.
Near Petaluma, Cal, Monday night
Frank Meagher was killed and his wifi
MORALLY wounded by an unknown
assassin who fred a shot gun through
the window.
At Waco, Texas, Sunday morning, al
unknown person entered the dwelling o
L. Lipschitz, Drained him with Ratchet
then struck his wife on the head with
the same weapon.
Every mine in the vicinity OF Mendoza
ILL.,, shut down Thursday. Four hundred
men are out of employment. The com
panies give no statement az to when the
mines will reopen.
Marion Dunbar, prominent stockmar
of Charlottesville, Ind, was thrown from
his buggy Thursday, alightipg on hi
head. His neck was broken and dealt
WAS instantaneous.
report is current in San Francisco
that Mrs. Stanford lie about to sue G.
Huntington, for 81 10000 Hunting
ton, who is in New York, says the re
port is utterly false.
Todd NJ. Pettigrew cashier OF the FRS
National Bank OF Sundsnce, Wyo., hs,
been sentenced to five years in the peni
Tertiary. He used the banks money TO
speculative purposes.
G. G. Howard and his wife we're foun,
asphyxiated in their room in San Fran
cisco hotel, Sunday morning. Howard
was lawyer and supposed to be wortl
considerable money.
Timothy G. Dunton, aged 80, lef
Sonora, Cal, Wednesday, for his home
some ten miles above that place. Hi
frozen body was found in the bottom Q
his wagon next morning.
Sixteen hundred dollars worth @
slauggled opium was seized by the Gus
toms officers on the steamer Wall
Walla, which arrived at San Francisc
from Victoria Wednesday.
A company Of men has been organixe'
at Hsverhill, Mass, ostensibly to go tt
Brazil 1t is rumored, however, tina
their destination is Honolulu, there t
fight for the deposed queen.
There have been a series of deetructiv,
earthquakes in the province of Urgu
Mongolia. About one hundred of tbs no
maOlc pOpulatiOn, Wltn treir HOOKS, Weti
swallowed up or otherwise destroyed.
James Collins and Charles Currier
footpads who robbed a pedestrian OF
purse containing 40 cents, received sen
tence in San Francisco Monday mornin,
to twenty years each in the penitsntiary
An old man named E. w. Cressey VA
held up by two masked men. near Mil
waukie, Oregon, Sunday, and robbed o
5000 in cash. Cressey was a nicer ant
would not trust his money to the banks
At Houston, Texas, Wednesday night
James M Cane, head Of a detectiv,