Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-03-23
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The morning express on the College |
Hill road was held up at Springfield !
Grove, Ohio, Thursday, by two men,
who robbed every passenger on the train
and escaped. The robbery occurred in q
populous part of the city.
Two seamen from the steamer Cleon,
known only as Ben and Tony, we're
drowned at Westport, Cal, Wednesday
night, owing to the swapping of a small
boat in which they were carrying line
Marion T. Skaats shot his wife dead
and then killed himself on the platform
of the Big Four depot at Alton, Ills, Sun
day. Nobody knows the cause OF the
terrible tragedy, but it is supposed to
have been the result OF q family quarrel.
John Bachman, 20 years of age, died
at Santa Rosa, Cal, Tuesday. from the
effects of a severe beating administered
to him by James Petray, 25 years Did.
The men quarreled over stock belonging
to Petray, and which broke into Bach
mans enclosure.
The body of young mulatto woman
WAS found hanging to tree near Little
Rock. Ark, Sunday. On her bosom was
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} any body cuts this body down he will
share the same fate" The affair is en-
veloped in mystery.
E. r. Walters, chief clerk to Superin-
tendent Brint, of the Colorado Midland
railway, was arrested at Denver, Tues.
day, charged with embezzling $l5 1000.
i, Walters secured the money by means of
, forged pay-rolls, which he successfully
cashed for over four years.
A. j. Tusk, Charles Menke and John
t Chapman, officers of the defunct Hutch
r inson, Kas., National Bank have beer
placed under arrest by Deputy United
States Marshal Graves, on warrants
i charging them with making false entries
/ and altering the books Of the bank.
The official and commercial estimates
q of the worlds wheat crop for 1893 make
= it 81 100000 bushels less than last year
4 The final estimate will probably still fur
Their reduce the total for 1898, as the pre-
liminary estimates of Russia and Ger
many are greatly reduced by the fina
. estimates.
The body of Mrs. Eggleston, horribl.
mangled, was found in her room at Car
p son, Nevada. The head was stuffed int
J. q Eve pound lard bucket, the skull wa
u crushed in, and there were over jozel
L gashes in the head neck and face. 1t !
thought that drunken Indians committe
TO the crime.
~ Recent assays prove that the grea
% sapd bills in the vicinity of Duncan
B. Colo. contain from 81 to 500 worth of gol
per ton. There are 49, 900 to 20, 900 acre
st of these sand hills, some of them beiD
g. 1000 feet high. The people are tumblin
y over each other in their eagerness
10 reach camp.
Melvin Grubb, of Wythe county, Va
r, is Is years old and weighs 535 pound
IN He is not merely a mountain of flesh, bl
a, an active and intelligent boy. he CO
ne follow a pillow all day without unusual II
ti0ue, and is a bright and intelligent p'
er pill of the pup.ic school.
as Two thousand striking silk weaver
OF when the mills closed at Paterson, N.
90 Thursday night, mopbed Frank Newkirl
who returned to work after going out on
be strike. The policemen who came to h
n assistance were slightly hurt and Nev
G. kirk escaped with a few bruises. Sc
re eral strikers we're injured.
At Pittsburg, Pa, Monday nigh
of George Depowitch, Hungarian. laid
ed wait for Peter Stravitch and shot h I
on killing him instantly. Depowitch h'
ote and has not yet been captured. Abo
a year ago Stravitch claimed that Dep
,aa witch was insane and had him sent TO |
m asylum. He sought revenge.
*. Ferdinand Engraf one of the propri
,ri- tors of the Willard House in North Pc
land was shot and killed Monday mig
M by an unknown person. Engraff "
av sitting in the barroom drinking a gls
ace of wine when some one burst open t
ct- door and fired a shot, striking him in
breast. The murderer escaped.
a Somebody recently wrote Secreta
400 Carlisle offering to buy $4,000 600 ount
he of silver bullion now in the treasury at
do. cents per ounce, on condition that an
port duty of l21a cents per ounce on !
yer, coined or uncoined, should be levi
"as by congress for five years. The fede
zen zen constitution does not admit of duty
ny exports.
j. n. Miller, one of a party of tn
hunters from San Francisco, was xii
ave near Ukiah. Cal, Monday morning.
ek k appears that Miller, George Ferguson q
!, DO Ferguson's brother shot at deer aim
W simultaneously from different directio
Both Miller and the deer dropped de
bill George Ferguson is believed to have Fl
GIN the fatal bullet.
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