Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
NEWS OF The WEEK..

the plague at Hongkong Friday.
The oleomargarine law is a dead lette,
where dealers do not voluntarily obey it,
William Astor Chanler, the African
explorer, arrived in New York Tuesday
The democrats of the Fifth Kansas
district have renominated Congressman
George W. Cooper.
The Rhode Island legislature, Wednes.
day. elected George Peabody Wetmore
United States senator.
The long and severe drouth at Burling.
ton, Iowa, was broken Saturday after.
noon by heavy rain.
Governor Lewelling was renominated
by reclamation by the populist conven.
ton of Kansas Wednesday.
Sunday was the hottest day known al
Lynn, Mass, for years. The ther nom.
eter registered 1925 in the shade.
Owen Oglebee, colored, who outraged
Mrs. Wright, near Forsythe, Ga was
captured Monday and hanged by a mob.
Foer hundred deaths in one week from
the black plague is reported from Hong
Kong. At Canton the deaths average
200 daily.
An entire business block on the south
side Of Market street in Latah, Wash.
was destroyed by fire Monday. The loss
is about $40, 600.
7. B. Day, suspected of incendiarism
was arrested Wednesday night at Nun
roe, La, and subsequently taken from
Jail and lynched.
II. F. Bachelor, precedent and wrecker
OF the Stockgrowers' National bank Of
Miles City, Mont, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for rive years.
Fire at Chicago Saturday night de.
stroyed Mr.. McVeagh's spice mill and
the store OF Hays, Tracy x Co, dealers in
Japanese goods. Loss, SIC, 900.
Jack Smish, military leader OF the
strikers at Bull Hill, has gone to Mexico
to avoid arrest. Gen. June j. johnson,
the reputed leader, was myth.
Frank d. McCook, ex-cty clerk OF Ia
coma, mas been sentenced to I've years
in the Walla Walla penitentiary for fo,g-
ing and disposing of city warrants.
A big landslide is reported on the
Northern Pacific, Is miles south of
Ellensburg. About 1000 feet of track are
covered, requiring thirty hours to clear
it.
Rev. DR.. John R. Paxton OF New York
on Monday paid fine of $40 for neglect
ing to record the certificate of marriage
OF W. 9. P. Breckenridge and Mrs.
Wing.
At Leavenworth, Kan, Monday, a
body OF convicted common wealers made
a break for liberty. Deputy marshals
fred upon them, wounding two, but forty
At the American Railway Union con.
yention at Chicago Wednesday, Vice
President Howard boasted that the union
was strong enough to ruin George NJ.
Pullman.
A freight train on the Greenfield &
Northern railway was wrecked near Au-
rora, Mo-, Thursday night, by rocks
piled on the track. Fireman lack White
was killed.
The Chicago Inter Ocean publishes a
statement that Walter @. Gresham will
be candidate of the Illinois populists
Tor United States senator to succeed Sena.
tor Cullom.
There is much ppiehension at Water
loo, Ind, because of two cases of small.
pox at Ashley, a small town on the Wa
bash railway. The village has been
Catawaka, Ohio, is excited over
orgeries aggregating $4,000 uttered by
CHARLES McConkey, prominent citizen
and church member He is said to have
become insane.
In row over cards in notorious re-
'ort at MERGED, CAL, Sunday evening, J.
Wilson, a ranch laborer. stabbed Jim
Burke, well-known local sport, inf1ct
ng fatal wou Ids.
The incident of the pulling down OF the
United States flag from the consulate at
st. Thomas, Ont, has oeen closed. The
perpetrators of the outrage we're drunk
Ind irresponsible.
Rather than 60 to Jail, A. Bacon Craw-
ord, EN- bezzling cashier of the American
National bank, committed suicide at
Springfield, ILL.,, Friday by shooting him
elf through the heart.
A. A. Nickerson, son of the general
of the eastern division OF
he Sante Fe road. has DISAPPEARED from
-os Angeles, after cashing number of
orged checks at saloons.
Senator Sherman has broken the rec
'rd for long service in the senate. Thos.
5enton served twenty-nine years, two
months and twenty-seven days, and on
Saturday Sherman passed that mark.
Jerry O'Neil, a popular Irishman, was
hot and fatally wounded by Policeman
King, in Indianapolis, Sunday evening.
Another policeman murdered citizen
ast week, and the people are indignant.
James Sloutervik was killed at Mason
>ity, Iowa, Wednesday night by being
brown from wagon. He was return
ny from dance and was running his
cam, being thrown out at turn in the
DAD.
A report in favor Of giving H. j.. Moore,
he democratic contestant, the seat for the
econd Kansas district held by Funston,
epublican, has been made by sub-com-
nittee of the house committee on cleo
ions.
Col. A. 6. Weissert, past commander |
n-chief of the q. A. r., in stepping from |
he bath tub at his home in Milwaukee |
fonday night slipped and fell, dislocat-
az shoulder and receiving painful in |
tries.
The steamer Belgic arrived in San
francisco few days ago and brought
ews of an uprising among the natives
n the Island of Mindano which re-
ulted in the massacre Of 80 Spanish
roops.
The mystery of the killing of Archibald
fcKillip, a Chicago street conductor,
as been cleared up. The slayer was G. |
:. Keatly, travelling salesman, whose
aughter McKillip is said to have
3. L. Chapman, president OF the First
ational bank of Great Bend, Kan, and