Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-03-02
NEWS OF THG WEAK.

hinnSiru drowned himself.
The estimated yield of pecans in this
country is 5000 900 bushels
There will be four, and may be 5, tick
cts in the field in Seattle's municipal
campaign.
Five carloads of Waitsburg potatoes,
crop Of 1894. have been contracted for at
80 cents a sack.
Senator Mitchell has introduced bill
granting two townships of land for state
university at Eugene.
Henry s. Hol len, wealthy manufac-
turer OF gas fixtures, was killed in cable
car accident ct Chicago Monday night.
Fire burned 81 houses in the village OF
Degow Germany, Friday Several per-
sons we're killed and hundreds rendered
homeless.
The Wholesale drug house Of Farrand,
William & ClarK was burned at Detroit
Friday morning. Lose, $4,000; insur-
ance, $l45, 900.
A hurricane that passsd over northern
Germany few days ago wrecked
schoohouse at Seuckers. Seven children
were killed and twenty injured.
S. L. Rowland of Portland attempted
suicide Monday by severing his wrist with
razor. Dependency caused by excess
sive drink prompted the deed.
The l4-year-old daughter of William
Fry, near Dayton, WASH, went home
from q dance Saturday morning, ate a
hearty breakfast and fell dead.
The immense tin-can and japanned-
ware factory of Norton Bros, on Dock
aud Water streets, Chicago, was burned
Monday night. LOSS, 5000, 900.
The stables of Robert Stewart at
Ottawa, Ont, we're destroyed by fire Sun
day. Eleven valuable horses were
burned, causing loss OF $4,000.
All the vessels of the Brazilian govern
ment fleet, except the dynamite cruiser
Nictheroy, have Joined the insurgent
squadron and sailed away from Rio har-
| Dor.
Charles Wilson, his son Benton and
daughter Nellie, have been indicted by
the grand jury at Spokane for the murder
of. W johnson, the husband of Nellie,
about a year ago.
The mill of the Griswold Linseed Oil
Co., at Cleveland, o., the second largest
in the country, was destroyed by hre
Sunday. The loss 10 about $3.50, 900, and
the insurance $lzO,UUU,
Nav Brooklyn, one of the leading la
dies Of the Palmer stock company, which
is playing at the Baldwin theater, in Sar
Francisco, committed suicide Thursday
night by taking poison.
John Thill, residing on Carmine street
New York, was b-ating his wife Tuesday
sight, when his con Herman went to hi
mothers rescue and cut his father
throat. The boy ran away.
Louis Meyer, of Spokane, aged ahou
40 years. died in room In lodging
house in San Jose. Tuesday night, from
he fleets of a dose OF morphine. II II
supposed to be a cGse OF suicide.
A destructive cyclone Sunday evening
struck Homer, La, laying waste every
hing in it's path. The casualties known
rus far are one white child and one ne
gro girl killed and many wounded.
Boston borrowed a million dollar
ast week Oh Wall street, the loan Il
, run nine months and draw only three pc
cent interest. The transaction was sim
pie, the CITY merely giving lis notes.
A terri lie accident occurred at Colfax
Cal, Monday morning, resulting in IN
, 1rowning Of Mrs. T. j Adge and MI
McDonaldson. They were fording swol
len stream, when the wagon overturned
A FIRE in the oil warehouse of P. Il
Preston & Co., at Newark, N. j., cause
a loss of 100000 worth of linseed OF
, The elevators and mills OF the firm wer
also totally destroyed. There 10 no il
suraDce.
At noon Saturday every mine in III
Massillon, Ohio, district shut down
, remain closed, 80 the operators affirm
: until the 5000 miners dependent on ther
for employment, concede to the term
demanded.
The dynamite factory OF James
D Miller. eight miles below BoyertowI
Pa was blown w Wednesday morning
{ A man named Fritz was Ia the building
e He and the factory were biowa 10 piece'
r LOSS heavy.
Julian Garibaldi and Morello Leoi
L ardo, two Italians, became involved IN
quarrel at OAKLAND, Calf, Wednesda.
when Garibaldi pulled revolver an
shot Leonardo in the head and then sh
himself. Both are dead.
9 Erastus Wiman, the well-kuown car
talist and railway magnate, has been a
rested in New York for forgery, and
now in Jail. The charges were prefer.
o by Dunn's Mercantile Agency, and Il
sum involved is 1929, 0lS.90.
Henry Rich, a well-to-do man, died
Savannah, Ca, Wednesday, from ii
effects of self inflicted injuries. He G
his throat with a razor on Monday, aft
a Quarrel with his third wife. This vi
= his third attempt at suicide.
II &c. Brady, of Portland, Or, who
August, 1892, embezzed $25 900 from u
Sunnyside improvement Company, b
been captured after long chase, and
nov en- route to Portland in charge OF {
officer. Brady was captured in Kanss
II will never drink another drop
said Harry Mars ustte, aged 3S addrei
ing his mother, Mrs. Mary X. Marquet'
at her home in Reading, re- Inesd
evening Five minutes later MaE9eei
put bullet into his brain, dying alm(
=, instantly.
Austria has determined to make t
manufacture OF dynamite q monopc
regulated by the state, AID other +
ropean nations are inclined to follow
her footsteps, thus depriving anarchii
70 Of all opportunity of obtaining thu
favorite explosive.
The eight over the Portland and Sale
postoffices grows more bitter every ds
II is said that Cleveland has cent
papers back to the department for nj
- briefs to see If some one cannot he fou
e who 10 not charged with ever, thing Il
aginabl. in crime.
Joseph Keppler, the cartoonist a
editor of Puck, died Suddenly at
A.