Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-06-22

Commodore Benedict's steam yacht
Oneida, with Mrs. Cleveland, Ruth,
Els her and nurse and Mr.. and Mrs.
Benedict and Miss Benedict aboard, ar
rived at Buzzard's Bay, Mass, Friday
Lexington. Nebraska, bank has two
women, q mother and daughter for its
chief officers. Mrs. H. R. Temple is
president and Miss Temple vice-presi-
dent of the First National bank OF that
city.
After the first of next September it will
be a misdemeanor in New York to fur
nish information concerning persons or
corporations to newspaper representa-
tives which, if published, would be libel
Gus.
Davis, Steele Il Co., bankers, Of Belle.
vile, Kan, have been carried down by
the failure of D. M. Steel, of st. Joseph,
| Mo. The firm was considered very
strong. Liabilities, $4,000; assets, I'M
known.
A fire broke out at late hour Sunday
night in a coal yard at Rockwell and
Eighteenth streets, Chicago. Eighteen
horses were burned to death, and one
man is reported killed. The loss is
$500, 900.
Heavy rains have raised the Saline
river very high. Mrs. Sarah Hsdley and
two daughters, who live near Yorkville,
Kan, attempted to cross to church Sun
day. Mrs. Hadley and one daughter
were drowned.
g. w. Fival, president of large har-
ness house and an ex-city official, was
burned to crisp at Webster City, Iowa,
Friday morning, in the city Jail, which
he set on fire. He had been locked up
for intoxication.
Mrs. Giuseppe Flora was shot and in
stantly killed at Chicago Monday by
Louie Vreckie. Frank Flora, her hus-
band, was seriously wounded. The
shooting was the result of quarrel be-
tween the two men.
At Delsno, Mimi, Tuesday night
Alfred johnson, Swede laborer, slashed
his wife in the throat twice with razor,
and then cut his throat. LOSS of money
driven him crazy.
Mrs. H. M. Grier, arrested at Spokane
a week ago for tire murder by poison of
the last of her six husbands, has been
held for murder without bail. Some very
damaging testimony was adduced at her
preliminary examination.
r. E. e. Grenshaw, railroad con-
tractor, of Springfield, Mo-, and Robert
Council, laborer, were instantly killed
Monday while at work on the Hot
Springs, Little Rock & Texas read by a
premature blast of dynamite.
The truce is ended and again the army
of deputies in the coke regions have
made killing. One striker killed in
his boots, two others dying, and still an.
other shot through the head, is the re-
suit of battle at Lamont Sunday.
A. B. Smith, of Portland, Or, killed
himself at the Vagan House, at Hot
Springs, Ark, where he was guest
,, He fred three bullets into his head, and
death was instantaneous. He suffered
from disease, and was respondent.
The new bill for funding the debt te
the government of the Central and Union
, Pacific railroads agreed upon by the house
committee on Pacific railroads provides
for the issuance of 3 percent bonds, in
terest payable semi-annually, to run fifty
years.
The right name of George F. Parker
lynched at Colfax, was Joseph j. Graf
He vas German, 81 years old. Hi
parents wished him to be a clergyman
: but he had natural taste for burglary
Bill Pinkerton knew him in Chicago as
n hotel thief
A bad accident occurred Sunday nigh
q on the Canadian Pacific near Winnipeg
A bridge gave way and the engine ant
: four cars were piled into the river. TIT
: wreck took fire and soon the entire trail
8 was burned. 1t is not known how man.
were killed.
s Nat Seligman, well-known none,
y broker and mining speculator, killet
q himself at his Office at Oakland. Cal, b.
shooting himself through the heart. tn
g cause is supposed to have been seriou
II losses Seligman has lately received il
It mining speculations.
The assets of Steel & Walker, st. Jo
9 seph, Mo-, will not be nearly sufficien
!. to meet the obligations, and the cred
q tors may not get so cents on the dollar
as the liabilities now aggregate nearl
4 81 600, 900. The shrinkage is in propert
:. turned over as assets.
n The town OF Winthrop, Mo-, has bee
wiped out OF existence by freshet in th
4 Missouri river. The channel has change
= :. and the main river is now running owe
the site of the town. Winthrop was 4
miles south of st. Joseph, and was th
. junction OF four railroads.
= A crowd of Bohemians and Poles be
= came intoxicated at a dance hall in Oh
cago Monday night, and about midnigh
when party of them left the hall fo
their homes, they became involved in
10 row. The result was that two were kille
p and four seriously injured.
. David johnson and two friends wer
> fishing Sunday at Selma, Ala, and cal
ried what they thought was a demijoh
d OF alcohol. Johnson and Paul Fraze
ID took drink and in ten minutes wel
4 dead. The fluid was aconite stolen b
y mistake from drug store.
The discovery of the body of an UT
=, known man in the Spokane river nee
n Reardon has given the authorities mul
he der mystery. A bullet hole in the bac
De of the skull indicates that the unknow
was shot from behind There was moth
q, ing on the body to afford clue.
r Mrs. Sidney w. Lobb, wife OF an a.
IL countant of the New Vancouver Con
re pany of Nanaimo, B. c., was sht
through the heart in her bedroom Satu
I'd day night, whether by her own hand {
IN bv the act OF her husband, frepzied /
~ drink, ia q matter Of grave doubt.
co Joe Halle, justice Of the peace at Vac
vile, CAL, shot and killed Deputy Sheri
9. George L. Parker Monday afternoon. tt
n two men had not been on good terms Il
n some time. The immediate cause of II
in shooting was vile epithet used by Pa
ker with reference to Hailes wife.
ne A disastrous windstorm passed ov,
ar GRAFT county, from Fox Valley to Lor