Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-04-06

Tuesday night with all Its contents, in
GLIDING thousands OF dollars worth of
costly furniture and paintings.
The secretary of the navy has ordered
Lieutenant Lyman to be tried by court
martial. He was the navigating officer
of the Kearsarge at the time she was
wrecked. The charges against Lyman
are neglect of duty and inefficiency.
Henry Des Marais, alias John Mathe-
son, an English forger, pleaded guilty in
San Francisco Thursday morning and
made an appeal for mercy. He was een-
fenced to San Quentin for two years. Des
Marais comes of good English family.
Mrs. Nina Long, wife OF George w.
Long, a well-known resident of Susan.
vile, Cal, has been arrested charged
with poisoning her husband, who died
last week, and held to await trial in the
sum OF $1,000 Mrs. Long il believed to
be insane.
The Turkish Sultan's kitchen costs the
empire $500, 900 annually. The kitchen
extends $50 feet on every side. The
dishes are sealed in the kitchen by no
less a person than Osman Pasha, the
hero of Plevna, and are unsealed in tine
Sultan's presence.
At Fleming, W. Va, Monday night,
Hoke Napier, well-known lumberman
and discharged employee, Henry Col
lins, met in the street and quarreled.
Both drew REVIEWERS and began firing.
Collins was killed instantly and Napier
survived only few hours.
The body of Hobart Beatty, son OF
General John Beatty, well-known citi-
zen of Columbus, Ohio, president of the
Citizens Saving bank, and ex-congress-
man, was found in a ravine near Chilli
cothe with bullet wound in the head.
1t is thought to be case OF suicide.
The Lapore lodging house and several
adjoining buildings in San Francisco
were DESTROYED by fire early Wednesday
morning. Thirty people were asleep in
the building when the fire broke out
All were removed without serious injury.
The amount of damage was $4,000
Loggers in the Duluth district are
about through their work for the winter,
having put in about 100000, 900 feet, a
slight increase over the estimates made
last fall. The sale of lumber has been
very light up to date, and the outlook
is less promising now than few weeks
: age.
L
organized at Spokane recently to assist in
} prosecuting prominent man Tor seauc
ton, has been made permanent society
for the relief and succor of unfortunate
, girls. Members are now giving enter.
tainments to raise funds to prosecute the
, work.
Secretary Hoke Smith has ordered the
disbarment of N. B. Ellis, of Indianapo
E Is,nt
conducted concern known as the Unior
Comrade COMPANY, at Indianapolis
Each member was assessed 81 for thu
prosecution of claims before the pension
bureau.
William f. Zimmerman, postmaster a
Stayestown, Pa, during President Cleve
:, lands first term, was an applicant TO
reappointment. He learned Tuesda!
that his application had been rejected
The next morning he was found dead
? was wealthy.
A barber named Seth Taylor closed hi
shop at Reno, New, Saturday night at
J. O'Clock and started for his home. Ii
u had gone but a short distance when h.
;. WAS waylaid by a couple OF footpads
j. who without giving him any warnin
b be a cripple for life.
}, On Saturday night a paraffine lam
y exploded in a dwelling-house in
70 in the Clerkenwell district /
London. The house was set oD fire an
re- Mr. and Mrs. 6. Roger and their Chi
ID dren were cremated. The members
10 another family from the house were re
) cued with great difficulty.
Indian Tom, character of the Sp
a. kane tribe, was struck by Norther
s. Pacific switch engine at the Monroe
ID street crossing in Spokane Tuesday afte
X noon, and suffered injuries from whlc
he died. Tom always wore straw hi
~ trimmed with feathers and a long line
N buster. He was said to be more than
10 century old.
j. An Italian named Ceregino, from So
Jose, and woodchopper got drunk Ss
a. urday night and retired in that conditit
at at the Acme clearinghouse in San Fral
no cisco Next morning both we're four
died, but the woodchopper recovere
1t is presumed they neglected to turn Il
n o gas entirely off on retiring.
a Mrs. Margaret Mayer, who was in j
as at Racine, Wis, waiting to be tried
the murOer OF ncT HusDduu idsI huRui
probably poisoned her S.year-old adopt
e.. child, who died suddenly previous to t
Ipy death of her husband. The child's boz
ne was exhumed and sufficient arsenic W
To- found in the stomach to justify the t
lief that the child had been poison
rt- also.
40, After sensational trial, lasting t.
s ao days, before a justice at Chewela
ie' Wash, Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Barn'
teachers in the public school, were fin
"a, $50 and costs for brutally beating g
ev OF William Duffy. The evidence show
lu. that Mrs. Barnes wore out switch Of
sht switch and while waiting for more fro
the adjacent woods attacked the CHI
be- with her fists.
I'M G.F. Willis, of Rome, Ca, was kill
OPP last week by his daughter Lillian and
lite wife. The news Of the tragedy did !
!. leak out for several days until 81
lay Francis, aged eleven, told it to neii
H., bors. The daughter testified that
the father was choking her mother wi
nc she cut his throat with razor and tt
ey. Drained him witt an axe. The jury al
Law being out come time rendered verdict
asst not guilty.
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ing The smugglers' Foe.
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