Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-02-09

caused by running cold water into an
overheated boiler.
Etie Woodman, aged 10. Colfax do |
mestic, swallowed q dose Of morphine,
with suicidal intent. She had been de- |
serted by her lover, and said dependency
overcame her. She took too big Q dose
Of the drug and survived.
The schooner Gertie +. Foster, of Glou-
cester, was driven ashore in . gale near
Halifax Tuesday night. Five Of the
crew, who tried to reach the shore in Q
dory, capsized and were drowned. The
remainder were rescued.
Word is received that Henry Sours
and family, formerly of Burbank, Ohio,
have been murdered in Florida, whittier
they went two months ago. 1t 10 said
Sours won large amount of money on
the Corbett- Mitchell fight.
At Spokane T. ]. O'Brien, . telegraph
operator, and Mike Egan, an engineer,
broke open q freight car on the Great
Northern and stole sack of sugar, two
caddies Of tobacco and a box of crackers.
They are held on charge of burglary.
Mitchell of Oregon has given notice
Of an amendment that he intended to Of
fer to the deficiency bill, appropriating
| S7o-,<'t W Puy Suo Jug noAt III AoNoi v.
the claimants rendered by the court of
claims in the Indian depredations cases.
At Sacramento, Monday morning,
August Hill, child aged eleven years,
while reaching behind q stove in the
house Of relatives to get stocking that
hung there, upset a large boiler OF hot
water and was literally cooked to death.
Judge Willis, OF the district court, at
st. Paul, has rendered decision declar-
ing the law for the suppression of rail-
road ticket scalping, by requiring the
scalpers to have licenses, unconetitu-
tional on the ground Of class Legislation.
The gold balance in the treasury has
shrunk to $65 SOC, 900; loss during Janu.
airy, SIS ,OOO,O The official govern
ment statement shows the expenditures
for the first seven months of the current
fiscal year exceeded the receipts SAC ,000,-
600.
George Jarvis, young man Of Seattle,
has been convicted of stealing letter ad-
dressed to a young lady from private
) mail box. He stole the letter to ascer-
tain the name OF his rival. The penalty
is five years imprisonment and $4,000
! fine.
While hunting Monday afternoon, in
; company with George Robinson, aged IL,
Charley Conner, aged Is, was accident
ally shot in the left eye with q rife, near
Dayton, Wash. His recovery is doubt
full, as the bullet lodged inst underneath
the brain.
/ John Mcbride, president of the United
} Nine workers of America, says the riots
: in the Pittsburg coal district are due to
starvation, the price for mining having
: been reduced so low that miners could
J not earn enough wages to keep their fam
! lilies in food.
William Russell, negro miner Of
= Franklin, Wash, lies dying from pis
/ tol wound in the head, inflicted by fel
: low laborer, William Holmes. 1t wal
Russell's own weapon he was shot with
Holmes having stolen it and that leading
to the quarrel.
/ William McCarty, a miser, aged q
= years, was brutally murdered anC
r robbed at his home in st. Johns, N. F.
Tuesday night by some unknown person
His head was beaten to a jelly and al
the money that could be found in hi
house was taken.
n Four boys, of reputable families, have
been arrested at Colfax, for burglaries
They, had a robbers cave, planned or
that of Tom Sawyer, where no end o
:. booty, including 100 door keys. wal
:, found The young rascals will be sent II
= the reform school.
The issue of standard silver dollar
3 from the mints and treasury offices TO
the week ended January q were 1921
'' 1863; for the corresponding period las
year, $685., 2S5. The issue of fractiona
silver coins from the I'd to the 9th inst
aggregated 1856, 1924.
;, Amherst B. Cheney, private banke
u in Sparta, Mich, a prohibition candi
date for governor four years ago AM
once a state senator, has been ARRESTED
u on the charge of making collections an
J. failing to remit the same. 1t ia alleges
that he is insolvent
Representative Hall, of Missouri, vii
introduce bill providing that no peneiol
u shall he paid any one not citizen OF tn
! ers who participated in the late war cor
10 tinue to draw pensions without becom
ing citizens, as they should.
e. Martin Leonard of Stockton, Cal
Is called bis children out OF school, kisse
T. them goodbye, and then shot himse
Is through the head with pistol. He LEI
DOto saying uo uhu UcoH aIIcoVcu, I'LL
ID rather than disgrace his family he ha
to decided to take his own life.
10 1t is said that County Surveyor Anne
re of Seattle will be charged with "swea
ing" his subordinates by requiring thel
le to give him from 10 to 40 per cent OF the
u, wages in consideration Of holding place
ii in his office and field corps An attemI
d, will be made to Gust him from Office.
The steamer City of Topeka arrived .
IN Port Townsend Saturday from Alaski
ID with advices that the colonization VI
y. at the Treadwell mine, Douglas Islant
Id was robbed last week OF $40, 900 worth
gold. The robbery was committed
a. night and is enveloped in much myster.
mt Mr.. Borden, leading manufacturer
ed print cloths, says of people in that bus
n, ness "They are now able to manufaC
ure their goods cheaper than q simil.
!. line of goods can be made anywhere
ed the world, although paying wages whit
M would be regarded in Manchester I
adj prohibitive."
Advices by steamer from China al
n. nounce the complete humiliation
OO earthquake of the beautiful city
GA Kuchan, Persia, containing 10000 il
ed habitants, of whom 1900 we're kille
Ten thousand bodies have been reco
~ cred. Fifty Thousand cattle we're. all
aass destroyed.
N. One of the largest fees ever grant<
ay by the Cook county, Illinois, court VI
10. allowed Thursday by Judge McConne
in the J. H. Walker estate. In settlil
the estate Green, Willetts & Robbins pr