Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-03-01
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

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as postmaster at Helena, Mont.
Between the 9TH and 18th inst. there
were 81 cases of cholera in Constantinople.
and 20 deaths.
Statement of the condition of the treas
ury: Cash balance. $i5i ,976, 9SS; gold re-
serve, $55. 511, 7oi.
The export of specie from New York
for the week amounted to s63, POS in gold
and $3.50, 6iS in silver.
David Wetzell, one of the most distin-
guished ministers of the Christian church,
died In San Francisco.
The condition of the treasury shows:
Available cash balance, $1il 423 AS; gold
reserve, Si2 So, 52l.
The president has sent to the senate the
nomination of John C. Curtin to be post
master at Helena, Mont.
Avery ID. Adrich has been appointed po-
lice commissioner of New York, to sue
coed Sheehan. resigned.
The German tank steamer Eliza Mary
from Hamburg. January 90 for Baltimore
Is ashore off Cape Charles, Md.
The statement of the condition of the
treasury shows: Available cash balance.
Sl45,2Ss,03e; gold reserve. $45,6il, sii.
Withdrawals of gold from the New York
sub-treasury amounted to $500, 600. which
leaves the gold reserve 81 7l3, 1856.
Arch-Duke Albert of Austria, died at
Arco. South Tyrol, of congestion of the
lungs. He was in his 18th year
At Indianapolis, Ind. the II T. Condo
implement plant was wrecked by ire
Loss. 100000: covered by insurance.
The latest statement of the condition of
the treasury shows: Available cash bal
ance. Sl42, 571; gold reserve. $40. 7sS, 900.
John T. Stevens, minister to Hawaii in
President Harrson's term, is critically III
with nervous prostration and heart
trouble.
Appearances Indicate that the threaten
ed trouble between the Southern Pacific
company and Its engineers have been
averted.
The president has approved the bin
creating the rank of lieutenant general
OF the army, and nominated Schoheld for
the place.
Bill Cook, the outlaw was sentenced a,
Fort Smith, Ark. in the United States
court, to Is years in the pententiary at
Albany, N. Y.
The comptroller of the currency has de-
clared dividend of 10 per cent in favor
of the creditors of the Lynn County bank
Of Albany. Or.
Judge Handy. late presiding judge of
the Forty-tifth Pennsylvania district is
dead aged 6s He leaves an estate valued
at several million dollars.
Pittsburg papers report that during the
year 1884 the number of persons killed in
that county by steam ears l61 and by
cable and electric cars So
S, c. Ray, cashier of the Carrollton
Mo-, Exchange bank. and prominent bus
mess man, committed suicide by shooting
himself. Cause unknown
The loss by the burning of Daueher,y
Wadworth's silk mills at Paterson,
N. j., is $300,000 A thousand hands are
thrown out of employment
1t is announced that a bid of 49, is
made by a New York stock exchange
member for $4,000 new government 4 per
cent bonds when issued.
The British steamer Virginia, fl ON Bos-
ton February for London, has arrived al
Plymouth, England, after terrible pass
age. She lost 300 head of cattle.
Professor Felix f. Schelling II the Uni
Versity of Pennsylvania is at present tray
cling over the Sahara desert in the course
of his long contemplated African tour.
Bishop McQuaid of Rochester denounces
as a lie the statement that he has been
suspended for six months on account of
a sermon on the part Archbishop Ireland
had taken in the New York election.
Large foes of ice have been passing Ba-
ton Rouge, La, the entire day. Only once
or twice previously has floating Ice been
cen on the Mississippi river this far south.
The total deposits of gold at the assay
office and New York sub-treasury on ac-
count of the bond syndicate up to the
close of business Thursday were $40 637, 600.
The London, Ont, Dundas street Metho-
dist church has been burned, and Fire
Chief Reed Firemen Mcdonald and Sid
dell were seriously, If not fatally, injured
by falling walls. Loss, $50 0O0
Chairman Caldwell of the Western
Trunk Line Association met the Union
Pacific, Burlington and Rock Island Off
clals at Omaha and all differences as to
organization were settled.
The British cruiser Mercury has been
suddenly dispatched to Formosa in re-
Spouse to an urgent appeal from the Brit
ish consul, who said warshp was needed
for the protection of foreigners.
The fishing schooner Emma White was
wrecked by ice in Gravesend bay, Long
Island Sound Captain Hanson and four
sailors reached the shore in a dory -Four
other sailors in dory are missing.
The Forbestown stage was robbed three
miles from Oroville, Cal, by a lone high
wayman with a shotgun. The treasure
box was taken and two passengers robbed
of $40. In all about $500 was secured.
Lii Hung Chang. who has been appointed
peace envoy to Japan. will go to Pekin
on February 81 to confer with the emper-
or. he will return to Tien Tsin in two
weeks and will then proceed to Kobe.
Henry Knobe and Henry Semis of Ho-
boken, about 20 years of age were found
dead in Miller's hotel at Brooklyn. The
door was broken down and it was found
that they had been asphyxiated by gas.
The verdict in the breach of promise
suit brought by Miss Windham agains;
Niscount Deerhurst was entered in Lon
don in favor of the viscount. whose solic-
itors deny that he paid plaintiff anything
1t has leaked out that Lila Vane, act.
ress, became Mrs. George Goodrich Janu-
airy 20. The groom Is a widower, young
rich and handsome. Miss Vane, until re.
Gently. was leading lady with Nat Good
| win.
The United States consul at Gothenburg
| Sweden, Mr. Boyson's report to the state
| department shows that by royal ordinance
| import duties on grains have been greatly
! increased, in cases more than 100 pei
| cent.
! At O'Neill, Neb., during the trial of tbs
men charged with lynching Barrett Scott
a witness named Schmidt, who drove the
| Scott rig on the night of the attack
| identified Moses Elliott one of the at
| lacking parties.
| An agreement was reached between tn,
| Union Pacific and Rio Grande Western
under which the former will give side trip.
| to Salt Lake and the latter stopovers
| only on rni1nd trir, and tho bigbast fret