Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-06-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Cholera prevails at Myslowitz, Upper
Silesia, and is spreading to the Russian
border.
Nearly everyone smokes in japan
Girls begin at 10 years of age and boys a
year earlier
Gen. Don Carlos Buell's gold-saving
machine, tested on Gray's harbor, was a
total failure.
Second Lieutenant Lunsford Daniel
Sixth cavalry, was killed in Yellowstone
park by fall from his horse.
Fulton, Ill.,, invited the notorious Col.
Breckenridge to deliver the Fourth Of
July Grafton, but he declined.
Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage and son left
San Francisco Thursday ON the steamer
Alameda for Honolulu and Australia.
The treasury statement issued June LIST
shows that the expenditures of the fiscal
year exceed the receipts by $62 000, 900.
Mrs. Hopper and her two children
were drowned in the Mississippi at
Buffalo, Ia, Friday by the capsizing OF a
boat.
Profs. Bergman Leuthold and Schlane
removed small encysted tumor from
Emperor Williams left cheek at Potsdanl
Friday.
The president has approved the &C,
providing for the sale Of the remainder OIL
the Otoe reservation in Nebraska and
Kansas.
The Irish national party, having healed
their differences, will soon come into
possession of the parliamentary fund now
held in Paris.
One thousand union carpenters at St
Louis struck Friday for an increase Of
wages, and the contractors conceded g.
cents an hour.
John Hewston, who killed a musician
named Burton in a London street, is q
California militia general. He has beer
released on bonds.
Charles Mason, l0-year-old boy was
shot and killed at Los Angeles Wednes
day by Frank Grigrich, 13 years old. The
boys had quarreled.
w. Watson, Is years old, Of Parrot
Lincoln county, was killed May rs while
driving band of horses by collidine
with another rider.
The populists of the Seventh Indiana
district have nominated Joseph A Craw
ford, president of the Illinois Miners
Federation, for congress.
The General Trust Company, of ST.
Louis, lately organized, has assigned
Liabilities, 100000; assets, the same
LIZ ok of business the cause.
Freight Conductor M. B. Haynes oil
the Southern Pacific was shot and killed
by tramp whom he elected from train
near Santa Margaretta, Cal.
w. H. Williams has inspected 10, ass
sheep in Idaho county, and found 45C
clean animals. The remainder were all
more or less infected with scab.
Two bombs exploded almost stimuli
taneously outside the windows of the
minister of finance at Rome Wednesday
night. The damage was email.
DR.. Henry Aernum, an ex congress
man and pension commissioner in Presi
dent Grants administration, died Friday
at his home in Frankllnville, N. Y.
old, shot himself last Tuesday with rife
and died next morning. He had tried un
successfully last April to hang himself.
Baron Thuengir has been fined loo
marks for libeling Chancellor Caprvi
and Herr Overland, editor of the Berlin
Volks-Zeitung. has been fined $50 marks
for the same offense.
The Brooks Locomotive Works, at Dun.
kirk, n Y, have received from Flint &
Co., of New York, an order for thirty
passenger and thirty freight engines, fol
the Central railway, of Brazil.
DR.. J. S. Breed, the young forger who
flooded the country with bogus Wells
Fargo money orders, pleaded guilty at St
Louis Friday and was sentenced to three
and half years in the penitentiary
Ben Ke, ley and party have left Mis-
soula for the middle fork OF the Clearwater
to search for the bones of George Colgate
the cook Of the Carlin party who Wal
abandoned in the Bitter Root range las
fall.
The official report of the naval board
which conducted the recent trial of the
Columbia has been submitted to Acting
Secretary McAdoo. Ii makes it evden
the Columb ia is one of the finest vessels
afoat.
brook trout weighing 10 pounds IL
ounces was caught with rod and line il
the Goquidam river near New Westmin
lister by David Adamson. 1t is the larg
est ever taken from that stream, except
with a net.
York Thursday resulted in the death o
Lizzie wager, aged years, and seriously
injured four others. Fifteen children
were dropped from windows above anc
caught in nets.
Lizzie Ewing, prostitute, disappeared
from Cleveland June Is, 1898. Thurs
day night the police dug up her body or
the premises of Jesse McGregor. She
had been murdered. McGregor has
been arrested.
Henry Firth shot and killed E. M
Taliaserro, a travelling man, at hii
mothers house, at Bunkie, La, Thurs
day night. de had been ordered to stay
away from Mrs. Firth's boarding house
but came again.
Mrs Della Moody, whose HUSBAND
died at Los Angeles Tuesday, committed
suicide Wednesday night on his newly
made grave She left note saying sh,
could not live without him. Two little
children survive.
Lizzie Yaega, years old, was killed
and numerous persons injured by an ex
plosion in distillery on the ground foo
of the double tenement house at IN
Suffolk street, New York, Thursday
which Get FIRE to the building.
There were made in the jute mills o
the Washington state penitentiary dur
ing the month of May 1870, 003 grain bags
l ,761 wool bags and 2,239 oat bags. Tn,
price OF grain bags has been reduced
from cents to 61a cents each.
Alexander McCurry, who horribly
mutilated his step-brother, Charles