Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-11-23
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

teoTBt W. OCfOSSii, TIC INchtuthy tui
man, is dead.
Guillarum Louis Fuiger. French chem
list and scientist, died today, aged rs.
benjamin Jarriki, pianist. aged q, died
at Denver of typhoid fever at the home Of
his father, Max Jarriki.
At Taylor. Texas, Joe Patchen went a
mile over a half-mile track in 2:09. break
ing the pacing record IL seconds.
Barrett Scott, defaulting treasurer of
Holt county, Nebraska, has been SEN
fenced to the pententiary for five years.
Forest fires are extending on the east
side of the Mississippi river north of
Memphis and are doing considerable dam
age.
William e. Russell of Massachusetts
was today appointed by President Cleve
land a member of the board of Indian
commissioners
The Spanish coast steamship Fernando
foundered Tuesday morning 20 miles
north of Bahia. Ten of her passengers
and crew were drowned
A. r. Yoree, postmaster at Sumner was
shot and killed in a duel at Sumner O. T..
by NJ s. Gardner, who was rival claim
ant for the same tract of land.
BY the collapse of the wall of building
i'm the course of erection on Frankfort
avenue, Philadelphia, man was
killed and six seriously injured.
The federal grand jury at Jackson
Miss, by vote of to l. refused to lndict
the governor, treasurer and auditor in the
matter of printing Mississippi state war
rants.
terrific hurricane swept over Belgium
Yesterday In Brussels and its neighbor-
hood number of unfinished houses col
| lapsed and others We're unroofed. Three
persons were killed and many injured.
1t is reported on high authority that DIR.
Karl Won Boettcher, imperial secretary of
state for the interior and vice president
| of the Prussian council of ministers, has
| rendered his resignation.
| A bill has passed both houses of the
| Cherokee legislature making 1t treason
| for Cherokee to sell real estate of this
nation to a non-citizen naming as a pen
atty for so doing death by hanging.
/ Attorney Gehring, retained by the
/ Pittsburg chamber of commerce, Is pre-
| pairing bill in equity to be flied against
| the discretionary pools of George NJ r.
| win & Co., on behalf of the investors.
There are Is cases of scarlet fever in Ia.
coma, and there is a scare among some OF
| the parents of the school children. The
| school and health authorities claim thai
| ample quarantine precautions have beer
| taken.
A large warehouse owned by the Ter.
rabona Tea Company. on Colonial ave
nue. and Mineordes and City streets, an6
four other buildings. including two corl
| factories, were burned in London. Loss
100000.
A passenger on the Missouri. Kansas &
| Texas railroad was held up and robbed
four miles north of Muskogee by BIZ
Cooks men. The information received
| Is to the effect that robbers cleaned out
the express car of its entire contents.
| At st. Joe, Mo-, Lee Frizzle and FRED
Jones, charged with conspiring to rob g
| Rock Island train, pleaded guilty ant
were sent to jail for 30 days, the conspir
acy being held by the court to be mis-
| demeanor.
Judge Scales dismissed the petition II
the election contest case of George b
Swift against Mayor Hopkins of Chi
cago. Attorney ]. s. Miller representing
Swift, the republican contestant, gave no
tice of appeal.
All arrangements have been complete,
at Cramps shipyard for the launching o
the American line steamer st. Louis oil
Sunday next Mrs. Cleveland will chris
ten her. The st. Louis is the first moderl
ocean passenger vessel built in this coun
try.
On November a Liberian gunboat fire.
upon boats that were landing at Settra
koo. Liberia, a cargo from the African
Steamship Companys steamer America
Twenty-Five persons were killed Tn
captain of the America had been preyi
viously notified that the landing of car
goes at Settrako would cause breach o
revenue law, that place not being por
OF entry.