Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-03-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

RI '.S,oiia hhs mllltaiy guard vi
on men and three officers.
William Bowman was robbed and
murdered by highwaymen Tuesday night
near Jetersonville, Ind.
The jury in the Corbett. Mitchell prizs-
nghtlng case at Jacksonville has re-
turned verdict of not guilty.
The Tradesman, of Chattanooga, Tenn,
has reports OF twenty-five mills and fur
naces that resumed operations last week.
The Jersey Central railway car shops
at Elizabethport, N. j., have resumed
work on full time, employing 500 men.
| The WOODEN mills at Oregon City
started up Monday morning with part
OF the force, after six weeks close
down.
Rev. John A. Paddock, bishop of Ia
coma, is lying in critical condition at
! Miramar, California. 1t is the result OF
stroke of paralysis.
The barbed wire mill and rolling mill
OF the WashburH & Moen Manufacturing
Company, at Worcester, Mass, have
started on double time.
James Montgomery Bailey, the famous
Danbury News editor, and originator of
american Domestic Humor," died in
DanDury, Conn.,, sunday.
John Hamilton, Of Brooklyn, n. Y,
died OF exhaustion Monday, superin
duced by hiccoughs, which the physi-
clans were unable to check.
Four children Of John Kelly, Of
Fayetteville, N. Y, were poisoned from
eating wild parsnips Sunday. Two died
and the others will survive.
The Lehigh Coal Il Iron Company, Of
Milwaukee, Wis, which went into a re-
ceiver's hands in April, 1898, has been
declared restored to solvency.
All the miners in Ohio subdistrict No
6, over 1000 in number, have agreed to
return to work, pending settlement OF
the wage question by arbitration.
Mr.. Hennedberger, an aged German,
WAS killed and his wife seriously wounded
by two robbers who entered their dwell
ing at hillsboio, Iowa, Sunday night.
Issues of standard silver dollars for the
week ended March 3, 1894, 1888, 25O.
Shipment of fractional silver coins for
the month of February, 1894, $43O,392
By the collapse OF high walk in Lin
den, Mich, Wednesday, six persons
we're probably fatally injured and a
dozen others more or less seriously hurt.
Senator Mills has again Withdrawn
from the finance committee, upon which
he WAS placed as a substitute for Nc
I Pherson by the senate. No cause lie
given.
Andrew Morales assaulted and shot
Ramon Aqua at Rocky Hill, Calf, Sat
urday ght, the latter dying immedi
stely. jealousy was the cause OF the
} crime.
There was a wholesale chloroformine
of reside nts by burglars in Jefiersonvile
Ind Monday night. Four families were
chloroformed and their houses ran
sacked.
Andrew Carnegie has donated sl25, JIG
to the aid of the poor Of Pittsburg. This
with what has been raised through othel
charities, will keep 1000 men at work dur
ing March.
Squire has introduced bill in the sen
ate to turn all the Puyallup Indian lands
held in common over TO commission t.
be disposed of for the benefit OF individ
ual Indians.
/ At Hay Springs, Neb., Sunday night
Gould A. Still, the night telegraph oper
ator, was instantly killed by an unknown
man who fred load of buckshot through
the window.
Stephen Geer, milkman, OF Jefferson
Vile, Ind, reputed to be wealthy, wal
called to his door early Tuesday morning
and shot through the heart by an un
known assassin.
While walking in thick grove, l.
Maxwell, a well-known old gentleman
!, living between Scio and Lebanon, los
E one OF bis eyes by it's being torn out by
the limb of tree.
The Colum bian Fire Insurance Com
! psny of America has assigned to S. III
Sullivan, of Louisville, Ky. The asset
bilities of Sl25,000.
John g. Hallock, confidential clerk o
, Pabst & Co., importers, was arrested il
New York, Wednesday, charged with
swindling the firm out of $65, 900 ant
causing an assignment
CIV. Jacobs and j. p. Oldham, vel
. known old-timers, have been committed
to the Idaho asylum for the insane. Bus
mess troubles are the causes assigned fol
their minds' giving away.
A premature explosion occurred a
\ Sierra Mojada miues, near San Antonio
Texas, Just as the shift of the day wal
! leaving Sunday Three of the miner
were killed and several injured.
While about to enter the mayors offici
at the city hall in Boston, Wednesday
Alderman Lomasney was fred upon fiv
times by a man named Doonan. He wa
wounded in the leg and seriously hurt.
The boiler in Freelys planning mill a
Warsaw, Ind, exploded, burning thu
building. Charles Dawson, the superin
tendent, and Frank Rippy, engineer
were killed, and two others fatally hurt
t O. G. Gregory, assistant cashier O
Gregory & Sons private bank, was foun'
unconscious in the vault Thursday morn
ing. He had been sandbsgged and tn
vault robbed of several thousand dollars
Frederick Collins. an employe of tn
e Hadlock mills, Port Townsend, was sc
verely injured Saturday. While extract
ing cartridge from q gun, the shell ex
ploded, tearing away the left arm an
side.
Mrs Eliza Davis, familiarly known ii
: San Francisco as q Old Aunt Eliza,
: died March 2, having lived l03 years,
months and lS days. She was mu
latto and WAS born slave, October Il
1890
At Roslyn, Wash, Sunday, Essu Bal
timore shot and killed Mrs. Lille Turner
!. Both are colcred. The tragedy was tn
result Of marriage arrangement, whic
Baltimore alleges Mrs. Turner failed t
fulfill.
d Sylvester Rhodes, colored, who she
and killed Robert Roster, in Tstns