Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-01-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Manitoba legislature convened
Thursday.
Russian troops are to be equipped with
snowshoes.
One district in Tennessee exports an
nually over 10000 quarts of blsckberries.
France and Italy raised SO, 0OO, 900
bushels Of chestnuts for home use and ex-
port.
1t is reported that the Portland Savings
Bank will reopen for business on Febru
airy /.
The tomato is q native Of South Amer
ica and takes its name from Portuguese
word.
A severe shock of earthquake was ex-
perienced in Olympia, WASH, Sunday
morning.
1t is said thst the Cape Cod cranberry
boys produced 150, 900 barrels Of the red
berries this season.
The freight conductors and train men
of the Nashville, Chattanooga Il st. Louis
railroad are on strike.
Diphtheria and scarlet fever are max
ing their appearance in East Portland,
and physicians fear an epidemic.
Three unknown Hungarians were run
down and killed by train on the Penn
sylvanis road near Pittsburg Thursday.
George Holsworth Of Los Angeles was
accidentally ehot Saturday afternoon by
his 18-year-old son. The two were out
hunting.
Philip Boogar, a capitalist Of Oakland,
Cal., is on trial for having attempted to
prison his wife bv putting rat poison in
her rice on three different occasions.
A snowslide Thursday afternoon at q
point in Boulder gulch, near Mullan,
Idaho, caused the death Of Cornelius Nc
Greevy and John Bollin, old prospectors
A locomotive boiler exploded at Win
chester, Ind, on the big Four" road,
Sunday night, killing the fireman, fatally
injuring the engineer, and wounding two
others.
A work train was wrecked on the
Chehalis South Bend branch of the
Northern Pacific near Chehalie, WASH,
Sunday, and the engineer, A. S. Moore,
WAS killed.
Wilson Bros. sawmill boiler at Abel.
phia, O, exploded Thursday morning
killing Noah Huffman, Silas Wilson
g Amos Stevens, and fatally woundine
John Wilson.
- During 1893 the Chicago City Railway
Company, on the South Side, carried up
ward of l2O, 500 900 passengers. The rev
enues were 5000, 900 and the net earn
d ings SO, 400, 900.
Charley Bennett, the famous catcher
of the baseball club, was run over by ar
- Atchison & Topeka passenger train q
= Wellsville, Kansas, Wednesday. and hat
both legs cut off.
A large wooden mill at Harrisville, r
l., owned and operated by William link
d ham & Son, was totally destroyed by fir
Sunday morning. The loss is $445, 900
IS partially insured.
In q game Of billiards Monday night a
st. Paul, Henry Sampson, champion o
the Northwest, made run OF SUI witt
o the anchor nurse, thus beating Schaefer'
famous run Of 566.
At San Francisco, Wednesday morn
ing, Charles HUM shot and fatal.
,y wounded his wife. Hum was angere'
= because she refused to get up and pre-
pare breakfast for him.
Edward Lewis, a young carpenter
whose domestic relations were unhappy
n shot and killed his wife Friday, at Gin
- cinnati, O., and then killed himself, fall
ing on his wife's body.
An inventory of appraisement in tn
Leland Stanford estate WAS filed at Sa
Francisco Wednesday. The total, nc
including Palo Alto, Gridley or Vim
III ranches, is $17,6S9,3l9.
The steamer Minnie M. was sunk 6
Fort Bellingham Saturday night. Cal
tain Jones and wife and the crew wer
rescued from the roof of the pilot house
~ which was not submerged.
S. H. Foss, wealthy citizen, VS.
killed by young man named Dorr
Guthrie, Oklahoma, Friday morning
10 Foss was being tried for killing Dor
senior, at the time of the killing.
st Three miners were struck by trai
FIX near Wilkeson, Wash, Monday nigh
ar One of them was instantly killed, anotht
had both arms amputated, and the thii
was rendered unconscious for time.
Comfortably quartered in priva
apartments in st. Vinrent's hospital
Portland is Mr.. Patrick Gatens. He
lO4 years old, is sound in mind and bod
and promises to live ten years longer
IS An opium smuggler was arrested
Spokane Tuesday, and $4,000 worth
opium captured. The prisoner gave Il
40 name of s. B. Davis. He had the opiu
. in four large trunks labeled hardware
Id Bob Walters, one of the crew OF Il
sealing schooner Kate and Annie, whi
under the influence Of liquor at San Fra
cisco Tuesday. jumped overheard, and
attempting to swim ashore was browne
H. At San Francisco, Sunday mornil
Il the police seized 200 pounds OF lille
- opium which was being uploaded befo
q house on Sacramento street, The DIR
was concealed in coal oil cans and pota
sacks.
j, P. Stout, agent of the Domini
Express Company at Vancouver, b.
shot himself Wednesday near the hes
!" and will die The cause is unknow
and it 10 not thought he is short in
accounts.
W.. Beck & Co.. commission M
chants of San Francisco, made ap ASST Z
est ment Wednesday. Liabilities $500 ~
George G. Waite, clerk employed
the firm. is charged with having emb'
zled 1876, 600.
Antoine Anderson, an old-time reside
a.. of South Seattle, was burned to death
his dwelling, near the southern end
the Grant street bridge, which was {
, stroyed by fire Wednesday night betwe
and 10 o'clock.
Antonio Grenilli, fruitdealer,
- Stamford, Conn. committed suicide
IT New York Monday. He swallow
Al Paris green. shot himself in the head q
jumped from q fifth story. Domes
,,ts trouble was the cause.