Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-08-10

City Marshal William Want shot Pell
Downey, an old offender, at Metropolis,
Ill, Friday. Downey went cunning for
the mayor and other city officers with q
shotgun and fired q shot at the marshal
Do~ney will die.
War has broken out again among the
striking miners at Birmingham, Ala
! Wednesday afternoon two deputy sher
IDS we're killed, a third fatally wounded
and fourth badly hurt. Two desperate
strikers did it all.
Michael T. Brady, % years of age,
committed suicide in Portland Wednes-
day by taking an overdose OF morphine.
On his person was found letter from
his father disinheriting him ON account
OF his dissolute habits.
/ Mrs. Warren Springer, wife OF Chi
J cago millionaire, WINS held in So, 900 bail
to appear before the Chicago grand jury
on the charge of attempting to bribe two
! jurors in condemnation quit in which
her husband WAS interested.
at st. Joseph, Mo fire consumed the
Bennett lumber yards, the Lincoln school
aud number OF houses and freight cars
Wednesday, causing a loss Of $500, 900.
The fire is supposed to have been started
by spark from a locomotive.
Two prominent book dealers Of Kan
sss City, Herbert Matthews and A. J.
Reed, have been arrested, charged with
violating tho laws relating to obscene
literature, and the stock OF books and
pictures of both has been seized.
Another bank robbery, with all the
trimmings OF Dalton raid, Was enacted
at Guthrie, o. T., Tuesday. As a result
ono o;t;, M;sot,nH a k~xLu. T.
dead, and one OF the outlaws, who gives
his name as Ernest Lucas, ia dying.
Two large brick buildings in Dallas,
fexus, occupied by the Wells Fargo Ex-
press Company and l.. Craddock's large
grocery house, collapsed Tuesday. A
number OF people were buried in the
ruins. One man was taken out dead.
In the United States court at st. Paul
DR.. James Phillips, Of Preston, indicted
with several others on charge of max
'rg false pension returns, Was acquitted.
| Tins is the fourth acquttal in the So
called Van Luven pension fraud cases.
The explosion of thirty-five pounds of
giant powder in the Golden Gate mine
at Sonora, Calf, Tuesday, caused the
death of Lafayette Carr and John Mahn.
gram, inexperienced miners, who had
been sent to the 400 foot level to do some
blasting,
Money is piled ur in London awaiting
| vestment. The Financial Chronicle
says the Bank Of England holds more
| than ever before and that other financial
| Institutions are burdened with money.
A business revival is confidently expected
in London.
Florence Bernard, soubrette, was ar
rested in Chicago Wednesday, and taken
to Fast st. Louis to answer charge OF
swindling Aaron Neal, New York horse
man, out of 81 600. She claims he is per-
scouting her because che would not accept
his attentions.
Louis Holden, who killed George w.
Breckford while on hunting trip in the
Indian territory in 1891, was hanged in
the United States Jail at Fort Smith, Ark
Wednesday. He was the seventy eighth
man hanged by the Federal executoner,
George Malodon.
John Craig, an ex .policeman of Los
Angeles. Calf, Wednesday shot and
killed his father in-law and mother-in-
law named Hunter, and shot and fatally
wounded his brother-in-law, George Hun
ter. He then made an unsuccessful at
tempt to kill himself
| Gov Rich, of Michigan, has refused to
grant the requisition of the governor Of
California for the extiadition OF Alonzo
Whitman, an ex-senator from Wisconsin
who was charged with forgery GOV. Rich
was satisfied that the alleged forged sig.
nature was not genuine.
AS soon as the fact ia established that
Charles Wilfred Mobray, the English
PROSECUTING anarchist who recently ar
rived at New York under an assumed
name, gained entrance to this country
illegally, he will be spprehended and
sent back to Great Britain.
Archie McKillop, aged rs, unmarried
was killed Tuesday morning on the bank
Of the Willamette river, Elk miles north
OF salem, by log rolling over him. He
was one OF gang employed in rolling
balm logs into the river, to be RATED tc
the Oregon City pulp mills.
Mira. Andrew j. Chase, insane. com
United suicide at the Chase ranch, ten
miles sfrom ColfaN, Wash, Thursday
morning. She escaped from the house
while the family slept aud hung herself
To tree in the garden. She was 50 years
old and leaves large family.
Lucius Little, aged 80 years and life.
long resident of Elkhart, Ind, commit
ted suicide Sunday night by taking
twenty grains of morphine. While dy
ing no laughed at what lie had done ant
TESTED with tLose gathered around him
No cause is known for his act.
( Jennie Jones, wife of striking Goa
miner, WAS killed at Phillipsburg, Pa
Tuesday, by a shot fired by James My
ers, a deputy sheriff, maddened by tn.
jeers of the women. Myers fled into the
mine The strikers swear they viii
aveuge the death of the woman.
X. II. Mcdonald, jr., and his brother
Frank Mcdonald, have been indicted a
San Francisco charged with perjury il
having falsified their reports of the de
! fnnct Pacific bank to the bank commits
sioners and with having issued false
checks. The bail is fixed at SIC, 900 il
, each case.
Receiver Eli Tourletot, of the broker
Chemical National Bank, of Chicago, ha.
filed bill in court which charges ex
President Joseph o. Curry with gros,
carelessness in making loans and witt
VIZ ngfully converting large sums to hi,
own use. The bill charges that nearly
$50 900 is missing.
]. l.. Mckenzie was shot and killed 10y
Alex. Aullie at Aspen, COL, Thursday
! Mckenzie at one time conducted cloth
ing stores at Aspen, Leadville and Du
range, but failed some time ago, owing
: Aullie, who had clerked for him, severa
hundred dollars. The shooting was the
, result OF quarrel over the amount owes
Aullie.