Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-05-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

N. L. Morrison has been appointed
postmaster at Juniper, Umatilla county,
Oregon.
There are 80 cases OF smallpox in Tex
arkana, Ark. Up to Friday there had
been fifteen deaths.
Governor Flower of New York has
vetoed the bill allowing Some of Veterans
posts to carry arms.
Nearly II 900 brickmakers struck in
Cleveland, o., Monday, for an advance OF
about 80 cents day.
The annexation of the Samoan Islands |
to New Zealand is now being considered |
by the British parliament.
General j. r. Williamson, a promi-
nent man of Austin, Nevada, shot him. !
self through the head Saturday.
Mrs. G. II. Baehm Of Post Falls, Ida,
was drowned in the Spokane river Satur-
day by the overturning of q rowboat.
Fire Tuesday night destroyed the great
saw mills connected with the arsenal at
Mourillon, causing loss Of 81 100000.
Associate Justice Van R. Paterson has
resigned from the supreme bench OF Cal
ifornia. An insufficient salary is the
reason given.
Charles Hallam and another man
named Gamble we're drowned recently
near Kooskia, in the interior OF Idaho.
They fell from a raft.
Reddy Wilson, the man who shot and
killed Marshal Whitney. at Missouri
Valley, Ia, Saturday night, was lynched
at 2 o'clock Tuesday morning.
F. r. Metcalf, respondent old vet
eran, threw himself into the Willamette
river at Portland Tuesday morning. He
was pulled out with graphing hooks.
The St. Charles Hotel at New Orleans
burned Saturday night. The hotel was
built in 1856 at a cost of 81 900 900, and
for years was the finest in the South.
Henry G. Young, of the wholesale rag
| 6rm of Young Bros, was found dead in a
secluded part Of Erie, Pa, his skull hav-
ing been crushed with q bludgeon. No
clew.
Ferdinand Gibson, well-to.do manu-
facturer of Mount Eden. Calf, met q
sudden death Thursday by shooting him
self through the head accidentally, as it
10 supported.
DR.. William Holder, one of the oldest
ply sicians in the state, scholar and in
ventor, committed suicide in miserable
| uOV6I ILL Odn EldASioto RuANoys AAS
was 70 years old.
The body of John Ledrick was found
buried in q manure pile near his house
at Cornelius, Oregon, Saturday. The
skull was crushed, showing that Ledrick
had been murdered.
Three children of Mr.. and Mrs. Philip
Schneider, who lives near the outskirts OF
Scranton, Pa, were burned to death Fri
day morning during fire which con-
sumed their home.
Out of 1877 plans submitted by architects
from every state in the Union for WASH
ington's new state capitol, the commits
sion IN Thursday selected that of Ernest
Flagg, Of New York.
Fire in Gosport, Cara county, N. Y,
a village of 5000 people, Thursday night,
destroyed hotel and several dwellings,
all of wood. The bar .tender Of the hotel
persisted in the flames.
At San Jose, Wednesday, Baptiste
Christian, an old pioneer resident, fell
from q scaffolding while painting resi-
dence, striking on board fence in his
descent and breaking his neck.
A Brooklyn, N. Y, woman committed
suicide in horrible manner Sunday
She saturated her bed with oil, lay down
then ignited the he'd, and roasted te
death. Firemen extinguished the flames
Farmer Gardiner was shot dead at 9
} window of his farm house at Ballyhavis-
lock, County Antrim, Ireland. The
murder is believed to be Of agrarian orr
gin. A neighbor has been arrested or
suspicion.
1t is announced that the executive au
thorities in Washington and the Unior
Pacific reorganization committee have
, agreed upon Attorney General Olney'i
plan for the adjustment of the Unior
Pacific debt.
D At Salt Lake City, Tuesday night
: Charles Theide, saloon keeper, muir
dered his wife by cutting her throat. TIT
woman's mead was nearly severed iron
the body. Theide was arrested and con
fessed the crime.
Montgomery Gibbs, a well-knowl
\ Young lawyer, was shot in Buffalo, Sat
i, urday. He died Immediately after hi
4 arrival at the hospital. AS yet there i
no clue to his assassin, and the affair
shrouded in mystery.
The engineer of west-bound freigh
train discovered the body of man lyin
on the track, Just west of the Deschute
bridge, Thursday morning. He had ev
identity been run over by train, as tn
body was badly mangled.
Harrison Price, aged So, committe
suicide by shooting, on the steame
Saale, soon after the vessel left South
# ampton for New York. Price was Ms
tive of the United States, but had n
sided in England 10 years.
Barney Duffy shot and fatally wounde
Martin Joyce at Douglas City, Alask'
over q trivial dispute. Both were en-
1e ployes Of the Treadwell mine, and one
them was suspected of the recent robbel
of the chlorination gold works.
Two large boilers at Robertson
Goldwin's lumber mill at Williamstowl
N. c., exploded Tuesday. There were
- persons In the building, and all We
- injured. Isaac Bright was dead whe
- taken out, and four others are dying.
A Station agent and operator, w.
Ogle, of Belgrade, west OF Bozeman, Moni
was found dead on the station platfor
Thursday evening. He had been sh
by a burglar, who had made an attem
b. to break into the railway company's sal
Charles underwood and Henry Han
erson, employed as carpenters on Il
dome OF Sutro's mammoth bath-house
nd the Cliff, San Francisco, were kill
Monday. The scaffold broke and tn
were dashed 30 feet to the fagstones /
90 low.
While l6 coal miners were descen
ing a shaft leading to mine at Bots
. Lac, in, the Mons district, Belgium, t
l. Mt finn n yh,,lo y