Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-02-23
NEWS OF The WEEK.

~ SAS'o ~ o notltc VI tile u8lAcCA lS-
lands, as also IL the nutmeg
Europeans every year eat 6,470, 900
tons OF beef, mutton and pork.
The postotice at Larch, Yamhill
county, Or, has been discontinued.
The business portion OF wapokoneta,
Ohio, was burned Saturday night. Loss
$4OO, 900.
While gun testing at Liege Tuesday,
cannon exploded, killing two men and
injuring several others.
A strong wind storm Saturday brought
to Phoenix, Ariz., the first snow that has
fallen there in ten years.
William A. Miles, a prominent brewer,
OF New York, fell out Of q window of the
brewery, Monday and was instantly
killed.
The American Tube and Iron Works at
Youngstown, Ohio, started up Tuesday,
with 400 men, after several months
idleness.
An unknown negro who committed an
assault upen Mrs. Sallie Taylor was
lynchsd near Pioneer, Tenn, Monday
morning.
The rolling mill in Piqua, Ohio, one OF
the largest In the state, resumed work
houuoy iDoi uihsb kAFiue oUo uucH e.onuy
employment.
The legislature OF Colorado has been in
session month at cost to the state OF
over $50. QUO, and not single law has
been enacted.
1t ia thought that after the snow melts,
in Oklahoma, hundreds of dead settlers
will be found along with the remains of
thousands Of cattle.
The operatives Of the Washington mills
at Lawrence, Mass, have decided not to
accept the proposed cut-down in wages Of
to 10 per cent, and will strike.
The house OF Bert Croman, at Bloom
J berg, Pa, was burned Friday morning
in the absence Of the parents, and two
children were burned to crisp.
Snow to the depth of twelve feet has
fallen on the mountain division of the
Central Pacific. Snow plows have sue
ceeded in keeping the track clear.
. One hun dred and fifty imported
Percheron horses were burned to death
Wednesday morning in fire at Syca.
more, Ills. The monetary loss is $50, 900.
Stories ar told Of great cruelties on the
part of Bonilla's troops toward adherents
8 of Vasquez. Even women and children
are shot. People are fleeing the coun-
= try.
Two freights collided on the Wheeling
& Lake Erie road in the storm Monday
morning near Bellevue, Ohio. Three
d men were killed, both engineers, and
one fireman.
/, At Milwau kee, Wis, Sunday morning
Charles Fehrman, q dock laborer, shot
and killed his divorced wife in her house
of i'll repute. He then cut his own throat
from ear to ear.
y, Fred A. Jenkins, Universalst min
lister of Seattle, has left for parts un
known after swindliDg many people o.
money and goods amounting to several
hundred dollars.
Louis Il. Lawrence, mining man
- from Pennsylvania, was attacked by rob
bers near Guadaleazar, = small town
northeast Of San Luis Potosi, and muir
dered and robbed.
Mary Mackey, Is years old, committed
y suicide by taking poison at Saratoga, N
Y, Wednesday. The suicide was the re
suit OF promise made to girl friend
who had also killed herself.
A barn near Pensalin, Germany, ir
. which number Of school children
: sought shelter during q hurricane. wal
blown down, and five school children
were killed and a number injured.
Nora Young, daughter of Farmer W
N. Williams, was ravished by a tram
n near Quito, Shelby county, Ala. Th'
tramp was captured in an adjoining
county Monday morning and lynched.
shooting ARRAY occurred in Sacra
mento Wednesday night between ex
o Policeman Starbird and j. G. Hall
= Starbird was wounded in the stomach
and Hall lies in the hospital at the poin
OF death.
n Walla Walla people use 100 telephone
- instruments and pay $76l.6O MONTH.
.. renta for them. This money goes to en-
X rich stockholders Of the Bell TELEPHONY
&c monopoly in the East who do nothin
" whatever to earn it.
: Near Carson City, New, Thursda
al night, lone high wayman smashed il
the door Of an express car, and at tn
point of pistol compelled the messenge
to hand over tin box containing $1,000
He then escaped.
g A new telephone company, to be know
as the Harrison Telephone Company {
Missouri, will be organized at st. LOU
~ next week. 1t promises to supply
~ much improved telephone at rental nc
D. to exceed 81 per month.
Mrs. 81 muel Milton was taken fror
her bed, near Harodsburg, KY, Thurs
day night, by five masked men, and III
mercifully whipped with switches. Th
y punishment was inflicted because sh
4 was suspected of lnfidelity.
Il So alarming has become the situatio
in the Ksnawha valley where 5000 i'd
miners are growing ugly. that Winche
ter rifles are being shipped from Gil
cinnati and placed in the hands I
trusted men to guard the tipples an
mines.
a Princess Evelyn Colonna, daughter
Mrs. J ohm w. Mackay, whose suit for
judicial separation from her husband
pending ia the courts Of France, wac
passenger on the steamer New Yorl
at which arrived from Southampton Sunda
morning
The Helm family, who were arreste
last Nov ember by Sheriff Wells of POI
county, Oregon, have brought suits a
gregating $50.595 against the sherii
he charging false imprisonment. Tho pa
ties were arrested on warrant for rests
ing ali officer.
A disp patch from Oklahoma says tn
seven persons were found dead in
house there. 1t is reported that the
= throats we're cut, and that the father
<E the victims left note saying that he ht
murdered his family to keep them fro
freezing to death.
. The Pacific Manufacturing Company