Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-12-14
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Ex-Governor Odin Bowie of Maryland
is dead.
The cash in the treasury is $151, 256, 7Sl,
net gold $l0S. $685. l9.
David Joyce, a millionaire lumbermah
of Lyons. Iowa, is dead. He was nearly
70 years old.
Steamship Lain will take out 175, 0lO
ounces of silver and the Majestic Oh
Wednesday will take out $4,000 ounces
more.
Fire in the beef house of the Fowler
Packing Company. at Kansas City, gut
ted the building. Loss, $4,000; fully in
sured.
Senator Coke of Texas expresses al
opinion that ex-senator Chiffon Will biz
elected to succeed him, as enough MEM
bers Of the legislature are already
pledged.
4 special from BlisSfield. Mich. sayB
the town of Metamore, Ohio. five miles
south of there has been burned. Twenty
Ave families are homeless. A terrible gale
is blowing.
Petroleum train derailed at Morshank,
60 miles north of Tambov. Russia, caught
fire. Three railroad officials were burned
to death and several others were killei
or injured
The North Platte, Neb.. National bank
of the national bank examiner. Assets
and liabilities are not known. Capital
stock, $4,000
Mrs. Colonel r. E, A. Crofton, wife OF
the commandant of Fort sheridan. died
of apoplexy aged so years. She was the
daughter Of Commander Schubrck of the
United States navy.
The transcontinental railroad lines have
so far failed utterly in making any prog
ress which will lead to a settlement that
will enable all of the western roads to
get together in one agreement
Governor Tillman of South Carolina
pardoned Dispensary Constable Jack
Blandon, convicted of numbering Wilson,
a negro, while searching his residence for
contraband whisky in Spartanburg.
The Great Western Manufacturing
Company, one of the largest manufacture
| ing concerns of agricultural implements,
confessed judgment in the United States
circuit court at Chicago on a note for
$25. 900
James Kanahman Read, convicted OF
the murder of Florence Dennis at South
! End, London, June "A, was hanged. Read
| was married man who had been inti-
mate with the woman he was convicted
of killing.
The Alexandria. Va, local train COM
ing to Washington, was wrecked at jack
son City, Va, at the end of a long bridge
| Fireman William T. Walker was crushed
to death. None of the passengers were
seriously injured.
! News has reached Santa Rosa, Mexico
! of the murder of a family of five Seminole
| Indians on a reservation near this place
the result of a feud between the Indians
and settlers. A few days ago two Mex
leans were murdered by the Indians.
The remains of Princess Bismark will
| be Inferred at Narsein. The funeral will
be of quiet and simple character. Prince
Bismark has received many messages OF
coincidence, including words of sympathy
| from Emperor William and eX-ChancelloT
Won Caprivi.
| According to Attorney Waters of the
| Pierce Oil Company of st. Louis, a branch
of the Standard the officers of that com
| pany will go to Texas and submit them
selves to the court at Waco in which in
| dictments We're recently found agaim
them for maintaining trust relations
| The American ship Parsons, coal-laden
| from New South Wales to Manila, was
| lost in "a typhoon on the 18th of September
last on one of the Philippine islands,
Six of the crew, including the mate cook
and steward, were lost. The wrecked
vessel was owned at Rockport, Maine
Captain Boggs of the steamship Ohio.
| from Liverpool. says: November % dur
ing severe gale, Mrs. Hanna Williams
VINO was accompanied by her
husband, John, and their n-year-old son.
committed suicide by jumping overheard
King Humbert opened the parliament;
of Italy with touching reference to tbs
suffering and ruin caused by the recent
earthquakes. His majesty concluded with
expressions of confidence in the con-
tinued maintenance of the peace of Eu-
rope.
The wife and three children Of Henry
Mudea, laborer We're burned at SIS Van.
Horn street Chicago. one of the chill
ruins. The others. with their mother
dren was dead when taken from the
were so badly burned that recovery was
impossible.
DR.. Fairfax Irwin of the United States
marine hospital service has sued for a.
divorce from Alice c. Irwin. The papers
are said to be of sensational character
and have been withheld from publca-
ton by order of the court. Or. Irwin has
been in Europe for year to study chol-I
era as a special agent of the marine SER
vice.
Plate glass manufacturers hold a meet
ing at Pittsburg Tuesday for the purpose
of perfecting "A combination that viii In
volVe immense interests Plants repre-
scented to be worth $50, 100000, and employ
ing about 700 men, will be represented
The production will be decreased and
prices advanced. Every plant In the
United States In operation Is interested.