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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-10-25
TO BE EXECUTED AT FOO CHOW

1hinese Authorities Finally Besfir Them.
selves
view FORK Oct. 20.-The World to-
morrow WIN print the following:
zoo Chow, China. Oct. 20.-Fourteen
win De executed tomorrow The four
eohaemned leaders win leave Ku Cheng
be put to DEATH" ~
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-10-25
BURGLAR HAD cur HER 1ARoAIs
Bodies Of an Aged Couple Found in the
Gel ar of Their iIouse

Milwaukee, Oct. ia special to the
Wisconsin from Hancock, Mich, says:
The bodies of Chris Kramer and wife.
aged people, were found in a cellar In
their house at West Hancock this
morning with throats cut from ear to
ear. The old couple We're commonly
believed to have kept large sums of
money secreted about the house.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-10-25
Businsss Portion Burncd.

Eau Claire. Wis. Oct. 21.-The bust
ness portion Of Fairchild burned this
morning. Loss. $4,000,
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-10-25
DWELLINGS BURNED AT ROCKFORD

70 " 1T y Is kNHIt7 Nc NM The HOUSES
Were Totally Destroyed.
Rockford, Wash, Oct. 1s-Fire at Q
o'clock last evening burned the Hilton
house In Waltman's addition. The flames
communicated 70 the dwelling next to il.
which was also burned. The fire engine
could not be USED as there was no water.
James Smith and Ed Farnsworth. with
their families, occupied the dwellings.
but most Of their household effects were
saved. No insurance.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-10-25

br. ]. Abbey Seymour Jumped In Front
OF q Moving Train.

OF a Moving Train.
Buffalo, Oct. 1S.-Dr. ]. Abbey Seymour.
the distinguished woman physician and
artist OF repute, deliberately took her
own life last night by throwing herself In
front of a West Shore train near the
water works station. She had been com
PEELED to use crutches since last spring
when she suffered an accident to the
nerves of her hip. The afiiiction preyed
upon her mind. She was born at Batavia,
N. Y, "a years ago.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-10-25
BEAT THE TAILOR NEARLY TO rgAIH
PRISONERS at Colorado Springs Gained
Their Liberty.

Colorado Springs, Colo, Oct 19.-Tom
Mccarthy. A. ]. Gray and ]. G. Stuart.
overpowered Jailer Cree this evening
and after beating him frightfully made
their escape from jail. Cree Is in a
dying condition.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-10-25

The Idaho Free Press is one of the
only seven papers In the state of Idaho to
which guaranteed circulation rating is
accorded IN the edition of the American
Newspaper directory for 1884, The cor
rectness of the rating Is guaranteed by
500 forfeit. offered by the publishers of
the dlrsetory, to any person who will show
THAI the ejaculation of the paper is not
CORRECTLY stafod
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23

Loss on building, 81, $50; on stock and
furniture, amount not known; insur-
ance, $1,000. Mr.. Dranz and family
were at Verndale. The origin Of the
fire Is unknown.
The outcome Of dispute at Lac qui
Parle lake is that Frank Murphy, Dell
Hawkins, Frank Clapp, Henry Schoep
and TheO Johnson are arrested for as
sa1lt. The controversy arose over the
parties trespassing on lands bordering
On the lake. The parties live at Apple
ton.
The coroner's jury at saltwater, In
the matter of the death Of Thomas
Rush, guard at the prison. declared
his death to be due to two blows of a
hammer inflicted by Convict James
Kennedy, who has since been pro-
nounced insane and committed to the
Rochester asylum.
The Hayward will contest came I'D
In the probate court at st. Cloud. A
strenuous attempt was made by the
attorney for ID. S. Hayward to have
the matter continued to a time which
would prevent it's being gotten into
the district court next term, as it un-
doubleday will. Everything indicates
that the contest will be long drawn
out.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
Personal Mention.

Wallace Francis, banker at 1nde-
pendence, Ia, is dead.
M. Joubert, a well-known Partisan
banker, is dead.
DR.. Henry Slade, the spirit medium
Of New York, suffered slight stroke
of paralysis recently.
The Lows, of whom Sir Robert Low,
the Chitral comm ander, is one, are
cousins of Thackeray through the
Shakespeare family.
john r. Rogers, the theatrical man.
ager, obtained decree of divorce In
London against his wife, Minnie
Palmer, the actress.
Keir Hardie has come to the belief
past, and that the time is ripe for the
establishment of an Industrial COM
monwcalth.
DR.. Paul Jaenicke, doctor of phil
osophy of Heidelberg university, Ger
many, and head of the Jaenicke-U JILL
man ink factory Of Newark, N. ]. was
found dead in his room.
At the annual banquet of the Mis-
sissippi State Bankers association in
Jackson, Congressman CatchingS de-
liyered an address in which he sus-
tanned the sound-money policy of the
president.
Chief Whirlwind, the noted Chey-
enne warrior, died at his home near
Fort Reno, o. II. The old chief was
one of the most noted fighters Of all
the Indian bands until after the final
treaty at Medicine Lodge.
Eugene d'Albert, the pianist, has
been appointed court kapellmeister at
Weimar, the position once held by
Liszt. He is the first musician Of
British birth to hold such an appoint
ment in Germany.
Rev. Charles P. Strong Of Savannah
one Of the most prominent Episcopal
clergymen in Georgia, has followed
the example of the Rev. DR.. Herbert
Newton and repudiated the doctrine
of the physical resurrection of Christ.
DR.. Joshua T. Cook, the venerable
president of La Grange college, was
quietly married to Miss Drucilla M.
Hearon, teacher Of elocution at the
college. It is the groom's third mar
rage. The bride is a young woman
just out Of her teens.
Engelbert Humperdinck, who is
hailed in Germany as the new Wag-
ner, because of the eminent success Of
his opera, 'Haensel and Gretel," is
forty-one years old, and for the past
five years he has been teacher in
Hoch's conservatory at Frankfort on
the-Main.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
Wednesday, May is.

Michael Champion, in an ARRAY in
Jerry Champions billiard rooms at
Rochester, stabbed the latter with a
pocket knife in the fleshy part Of the
shoulder. 1t is painful but not dan
gerous wound. No arrests.
The funeral of Emil Jacob, living
four miles west Of Amboy, who COM
mitted suicide by taking poison, &C.
Cured yesterday. Deceased was thirty
years old and leaves a wife in delicate
health, with three little children. He
was subject to fits Of dependency.
The state university class in soci-
ology made tour Of the Saltwater
prison for the purpose of getting illus
trations in study. The class numbered
sixty and was in charge of DR.. S. G..
Smith. Before returning home they
took dinner at the prison. "a .sr.
Fire broke out in the World office
and dwelling of I. Dranz at Staples,
destroying the building and contents.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
EURCH sQUEALS.
He Causes the Arrest of Two More
ALLEGED COuntorfeife-s

ne C1USeS the Arrest of Two More
Alleged Counterfeiters
Winona, Mimi, May 1.-two more
arrests were made at Hokah yester-
day by Deputy United States Marshal
John Gay, and with the first man cap
tured there two days ago it is hoped
that the entire gang of ''queer'' max
ers are rounded up. The hearing of
the two men was had to-day before
United States Court Commissioner G..
A. Morey here. There is rot much
doubt but what the men will be bound
over until the next term Of the United
States court here, as was the case
with their comrade, who was given a
hearing yesterday. Burch pleaded
guilty, and, turning states evidence,
gave the cOnvicting evidence which
caused these two latter arrests by
claiming that he did not know any
thing about the coin molds until they
were shown him by these two men
The names of the new prisoners are
w. A. Stanford and William Hohl.
Hohl has twice been to the peniten-
tiary, once for stealing a horse and
selling it to V. Simpson of this city.
and again for robbing an old man Of
S1O0. Stanford is by trade barber.
His father is Methodist minister in
La Crosse. Wis. Hohl is a brother of
II. S. Hohl, formerly editor Of the
Hokah Chief.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
Tuesday, May IA.

c. T. Berg, who has been running
grocery store at Cannon Falls, has
sold out to G. O. Miller of White Rock.
Erick Peterson and Alma Timer
were married at Tw Harbors by JUS
tice L. H. Bryan.
Amel Jacob of Shelby, Blue Earth
county, took strychnine yesterday
with suicidal intent and died Il few
hours thereafter.
A man giving the name Of S. G..
Hammer, Lake Mills, Iowa, fell from
a train at Albert Lea, while stealing a
ride. Both feet We're cut off. He will
recover.
Herman Streibel, late of Milwaukee,
but formerly of South st. Paul, died
after an illness of short duration.
He was sc years old.
Aid. Small Of jordan, while endeav-
oring to board freight train in mo-
ton, got his leg broken and foot badly
smashed. Physicians think amputa-
ton necessary.
Frederick Spinck and Rebecca Van
Helves, both of Belvidere, were mar
ried at the home of the brides broth
er, II. Van Helves, by Rev. Haar of
Lake City. Three hundred families
were invited and about 600 people
were present.
Much commotion has been aroused
in Albert Lea, caused by Mayor Gill
rup enforcing rigid but long SUM
bering ordinance, prohibiting the OBJ
struction of streets. Chief Of Police
Ransom served notices requiring all
signs projecting or hanging over side
walks or streets in front of stores to
be removed on penalty Of arrest.
Scores of signs were taken down.
Some are expensive, just erected, but
none will be allowed on the business
streets, nor will be goods be allowed
on the sidewalks. A few are kicking
hard, but generally the action of the
mayor is approved.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
MINNESOTA IN BRIEF
INTERESTING EVENTS OF THE
WEEK In MINNESOTA.
important Occurrences in the North
Star State Day IVY Day-A General
Resume Of the Weeks Doings Ar
ranged for Rapid Reading.
Sunday. MaY -.

John Lewis Of Mankato received ap-
pointment to the naval academy.
A bag containing the body Of baby
was found floating in a lake at Hell
delberg, near Montgomery, last night,
by children herding cattle. The coro-
ner has been notified.
Company It, Third regiment, Of Fer
gus Falls, was surprised by the resig-
nation Of Captain G. w. Mckay, who
resigned on account Of excess Of other
duties. Lieut.. Danstrom will be the
new captain.
Forged checks were presented to
three business men at Mankato, pay
able to August Anderson and signed
by COCOON McKeaf The checks were
drawn on the Mankato National bank,
but only one merchant accepted and
paid the sharper the difference:
The shooting tournament which has
been in session at Mankato closed
this afternoon. The total average for
the three days, with names of win
ners, are as follows: Palmer, Lake
Park, Iowa, BOG; W. Thielman, St.
Cloud. 300; Gilbert, Spirit Lake, Iowa,
29S; Hamlin, st. James, 297; DR.. L.
w. Lyons, st. Paul, 296.
Alonzo L. Scherer, formerly presi-
dent of the North Dakota Loan and
Investment company of Duluth has
been indicted by the grand jury for
embeZzlement. He is charged with
the misappropriation of about $4,000.
He gave the company security notes
upon which it was afterward found
nothing could be realized. Scherer
left Duluth some time ago for Mime
apolis, but is supposed to have re-
moved from there
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
. MUTT Is CONVICTED.
THE SLAYER OF DUKE MAY SERVE
Ut A LONG TERN.
He Is Convicted mt AtchisOn, Kan,
for Attempting to XIII Coleman
He Will Now he Tried for Shoot
ing Mrs. Payton.

Atchison, Kan, May II. - The Jim
Mutt jury returned verdict of guilty
in the Coleman case to-day. The jury
was out forty minutes. The extreme
penalty on this charge is ten years in
the penitentiary. Mutt was appar-
emily unmoyed by the verdict. He
made no statement, but it is expected
that the usual application for Il new
trial will be made. The verdict is ap-
proved by the people here, even Nuts
friends admitting he is not safe man
to be at large. He will be arraigned
tomorrow on the charge of assault
ing and attempting to kill Mrs. Pay
ton. Mutt was made notorious ten
years ago by numbering Duke in Penn
sylvania.
Cleveland, Ohio, May 17.-Lazlo Da-
honish, one of three men charged with
the murder of Daniel Gehring about
year ago pleaded guilty to murder in
the second degree to-day and was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life. He
slammed insanity, refusing to talk for
several months. Last night he began
to talk. He said an electric wire at
tached to his cell door had prevented
his talking, but that the wire had been
cut To-day his attorney asked that
he be permitted to plead guilty to muir.
der III the second degree.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
Unfortunate Events.

John Mahoney was killed by a fall
from a window at Elkhart, Ind.
George S. Mcdonald, we'll known
business man, was trapped in fold
ing bed at Detroit and may die.
Brakeman Bartholemy was killed in
freight train wreck near Newark
N. j.
The factory of the Blair House Col
lar company burned at Blair, Neb,
Loss, $4,000, covered by insurance.
Henry Eberhart of Willow Creek,
Ind, while hunting, got his shotgun
tangled in fence and was killed by
it's discharge.
Fire at Pratt. a mining town near
Birmingham, Ala, destroyed the town
nall, public school, hotel, church and
several dwellings.
George Lewis, wealthy citizen and
a we'll known lumberman of Peru.
Ind, was killed by being struckv.by a
flying board in his mill.
Conrad Schneidman of Tuscola. ILL.,.
took two ounces Of carbolic acid by
mistake and died half hour after.
he was sixty-five years of age.
At Red Oak, Ind, 100000 feet of
lumber belonging to the T. NJ. Rich
ardson Lumber company was burned.
There was no insurance.
Passenger Train No. a. on the Wa
bash railroad struck and instantly
killed Philip Holdernitter, an old resi-.
dent of Edwardsville, Ill.
While blowing up stumps Albert
Sackett and Frank Jones, living south
OF Lebanon, Ind, were blown to
atoms by the premature explosion of
a stick of dynamite.
John Long, brakeman, and Peter
klmmer, fireman, were very seriously
scalded by the blowing out of the
crown sheet Of an engine on the Pan.
handle road near Winamac, Ind.
The st. Joseph, Mo-, pump works
and the st. Joseph excelsior works
and two-story hotel adjacent in the
suburb of st. George were DESTROYED
by fire. The loss is placed at 100000
The residence Of Thaddius Brown. q
farmer residing half a mile from the
village Of Bryan, Ohio, was DESTROYED
by fire. His wife persisted in the
flames and his five-year-old son is ia
tally burned.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
TO EMPLOY CONVICTS.
Commission Appointed to Determine
the Number to Be EmDioyc;l

Commission Appointed to Determine
the Number to Be Employed.
st. Paul, May 17.-Gov. Clough this
morning appointed Frank Temple of
Blue Earth City and Theodore L.
Schumacher of st. Paul to act with
Labor Commissioner Powers in de-
termining the number of inmates at
the state prison that may be employed
at any one industry. The law pro-
vides that the labor commissioner
shall be chairman of the board and
that one of the members shall be
member of the state prison board and
the other some one outside. The law
limits the number of convicts that
may be employed at any one industry
III the prison to 10 per cent of the
total number employed at the industry
throughout the state.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
Washington.

Washington.
A dairy division of the agricultural
department has been created.
The latest guess is that the national
supreme court will uphold the income
tax law.
Mai. Frederick Crandall Of the Third
infantry has retired, having reached
the age limit.
Seneca Hazelton, United States min
lister to Venezuela, has been recalled
because of drunkenness and neglect
of duty.
Reports to the agricultural depart
ment from it's European agents indi-
cate that the area of winter wheat In
France is considerably smaller than
last year.
Assistant Secretary McAdoo, of the
navy, is giving his personal attention
to the duty of getting the United
States fleet in readiness for the Kiel
celebration.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23

At the last meeting at Paris of the
French Academy Of Sciences, Drs.
Reclus and Terrier announced the dis
covery Of serum capable Of curing can
Ger and cancerous tumors. Several
hopeless cases have been cured. The
system of cultivating the vaccine is
the same as that adopted by Roux for
diphtheria. The patients are treated
with the serum obtained from the
blood Of dogs previously inoculated
with generous fluid. Further expert.
ments are being made.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
Friday, May II.

Clerk Of Court Hanson's residence
at Fergus Falls was burned this morn
ing. The family was taken out with
difficulty.
Mrs. Sarah e. jerks, an old and
prominent lady Of st. Cloud, wife Of
James jerks, died Of cancer of the
stomach. She leaves three children
MIS-. t.. Ranney Of St. Cloud, James
3. jerks and w. L. r. jerks, a Cali
fOrnia editor.
A surveying party of eleven men in
charge Of John Krey, left Duluth to
survey route for the Lake Superior
Mississippi canal. They will be in the
field about three months. Mai. Sears
has so far exhausted about one-half
of the appropriation of $4,000 made
for the purpose of surveying a canal
route.
w. A. Sanford and William Hohl
were arrested at Hokah as also being
implicated with the counterfeiting
gang there. Their hearing has been
continued at Winona before United
States Court Commissioner G. A.
Morey. Hohl is an old offended, hay
ing been to the penitentiary twice. He
is brother of q. S. Hohl, formerly
editor Of the Hokah Chief. Stanford
is the son of a La Crosse Methodist
preacher. Both men will be bound
over.
There is more activity in building at
Rochester this spring than for num-
Der of years previous, and a good num-
Der of high-grade houses are already
unCer way. A vacant house is an IN
heard of thing in this city, and houses
that are for rent are spoken for in
advance, so great is the demand.
There is no apparent boom, but resi-
dence property has appreciated in val
ue very perceptibly during the past
year or two, and the choice vacant
lots are nearly all sold to prospective
builders.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23

There is general alarm in Canada
about the largely increased emigration
this spring from the dominion to the
United States. Three years of Lad
business and poor crops have COM
pletely discouraged large element of
the Canadian population. Meanwhile
news comes Of increased wages and
Increased businesses in the states.
which agents Of the American and
Canadian railway companies are using
to the utmost advantage. They have
men in the counties of Rimonski,
Matanc and Ronaventure, Quebec,
who have induced whole families to
embark, bag and baggage, for the
United States. The numbe, Of desert.
Id farms is something enormous.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
Saturday, May is.

John Grams, an old and respected
business man of Jordan, died.
Robert Small, who had his foot in
jured by the cars at Jordan recently,
had to have it amputsted, as ganyrene
was beginning to set in.
The Citizens bank of Redwood
Falls has closed it's doors. A receiver
will be appointed or an assignment
made.
Fire destroyed the postotticc and the
Whiting and Schwab buildings at
Clearwater. The &C rtents Of the post
Office Is total loss.
The new State bank commenced
business at Sherburn with the follow
ing officers: President, Christ Schwa-
ger; cashier, H. II. jenkins.
The Owatonna conference. of the
Congregational church has just closed
a two-day meeting at Spring Valley.
OF the twenty churches belonging to
this conference, fourteen were repre-
scented.
John Linders, employed in Moberg's
tailor shop at Ancka, committed sui
eide last night by cutting his throat
with a razor. No cause for the act is
known. He was married few
months ago.
The case of Mrs. Sarah Shortall of
Green Isle against the village Of
Glencoe, for $1,000 on account of
damages sustained by falling on a
defective sidewalk, resulted in a YER
dict Of $1,000 for the plaintiff.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
HAS MADE PROGRESS.
Increase of Membership in the Roy
nj Arcanum.

st. Paul, May 17.-About 100 dele
gates, representing twenty-one grand
councils, are in attendanc, upon the
eighteenth annual session of the SUI
prenle council Of the Royal Arcanum,
which convened here to-day. The SEES
sion will continue for one week. and
be executive. The report of G. w.
Hazard, supreme regent, showed that
during 1894 the Royal Arcanum paid
to widows and orphans death bene-
fits amounting to $1,000 500. leaving Il
balance OH hand Of $463,47S. On Dec
81, 1894, the order had a membership
of 159,5O7, net increase for the year
of 11,0S3. During 1894 16,5O9 new
members were initiated and 1874
deaths recorded.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23
Kept Out of Wisconsin,

Madison, Wis. May Reinsurance
Commissioner Fricke to-day refused
the application Of the Supreme Tribe
of Ben Hur Fraterl.al Life Insurance
Association of Charlottesville, Ind, to
do business in Wis onsin for the rea-
son was not organized two years prior
to the application, as required by the
Wisconsin law. The certificate of the
Indiana insurance commissioner
stated that the association had been
organized two years, but an examina-
ton of the articles of Incorporation
showed that the company was incor-
porated Jan. 8, 1894.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23

A New York paper estimates that
1900 people leave that port every week
for Europe, each on an average with
$1,000 to spend, so that the steamship
companies and Europe get at least
100000 in hard American cash
every week. This amounts to $780,
100000 year, which is quite serious
drain upon the earnings Of tho United
States.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23

Joseph Jefferson has been engaged
by Yale college for series of lectures
at that university on dramatic art.
What could be more significant Of the
broadening of opinion and sentiment
that has taken place since the found
ing Of the college? The appearance of
a professional actor in the lecture
room of the college founded in Puri-
tanism would once have been cause
for sessions and accommodation.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23

1t is stated that between 1000 and
1900 pagans Of Eastern Russia, re-
Gently converted to Christianity, have
voluntarily returned to their native
rites. Heredity and habit are strong,
and the mixture Of Shamanism and
Lamaism, in which these semi-barbar-
ians have been reared, undoubtedly
offers more pungent attractions to
their wild and superstitious natures
than the clear rationalim of Christi.
anity.