The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25

however, that they will make the
endeavor TO escape into Sonora,
Mexico. Governor Wolfiy has Of
fered reward of $500 each for the
arrest and conviction of the robbers.
A LIVING GAME OF CHESS.
One of the novelties of a festival
given by the young peoples branch
of the Dorcas Society, for the BEN
eft of the new parish hall of Trim
ity Church, in Washington last
week, was game of chess played
by Mrs. Addison and Mrs. Lowe,
with Miss Keener as herald. On
| the floor in one corner of the room
was painted mammoth chess
board, on which the living game of
chess was played. At 5 o'clock
each evening of the festival, thirty
two young ladies and gentlemen,
dressed in appropriate costumes,
gave march and drill, after which
they took their places on the board
and the game proceeded, being
played strictly according to Hoyle.
UNCLE IRA HARRISON.
The Grand Army of the Republic
| is to hold convention next month
in Orange, N. J. President Harri-
son has been invited to be present
and says he does not know of any
thing to prevent his acceptance of
the invitation. Orange is known
as the city of the Harrisons. He
will see a create. number of them
there than he ever saw before. There
is Uncle Ira Harrison, ninety-fve
years old, the oldest living Harri-
son born in Orange, still active and
attending to business. He voted
for William Henry Harrison in 1886
and again in 1910, and walked a
mile in November last to the voting
precinct and voted for Benjamin
Harrison. Uncle Ira has seven un-
married granddaughter living with
him and proposes, if the President
honors Orange with his presence at
the meeting of the G. A. R., to meet
him, with his granddaughter, at
| the hall and strew the walk with
flowers.
ELECTRAL EXECUTIONS.
The first murderer sentenced to
be executed by electricity received
his sentence in New York last week
and is to be executed at Auburn
state prison some time in June.
Gen. Austin Latrop, the superin-
tendent of state prisons, has just
completed negotiations with Expert
Electrical Engineer H. P. Brown to
furnish the apparatus required. Au-
burn, Sing Sing and Clinton pris-
ons will soon be equipped with the
necessary apparatus, as these three
prisons are the ones in which all
murderers in the state of New York
are hereafter to suffer the death
penalty. The large Westinghouse
dynamos, producing an alternating
current, have been selected by Mr..
Brown as the best adapted for in
Simultaneous killing. Stout copper
wire, resembling ordinary telegraph
wire, will be used There will be a
strong oaken chair, of the reclining
pattern, in which the condemned
will sit, and electrodes for the head
and feet. The former Of these cleo
trodes consists of a metal cap, with
an inner plate covered with a
sponge that has been saturated with
salt water, which is to be fastened
, on the head of the condemned by
means of stout straps held by an
other strap around the body under
the armpits. The other electrode
is simply pair of electrical shoes
tightly laced on the convict's feet.
According to the statutes, only the
prison warden, physician and the
sheriff will be present at the execu-
ton, and the exact date will not be
made public beforehand, the judge
ordering sentence to be executed
within certain week, leaving it to
the sheriff to appoint the day
When the condemned is seated in
the death chair he will be quickly
fastened by iron hooks, the cleo.
trodes having been previously adj
ljusted by the physician and war
den. An electrical bell will be
touched, the sheriff will close the
circuit, an electrical current of the
alternating system, of 1000 volts
will pass into the murderer's body
and instant death will follow.
WILLARD CHALLENGED.
Richard Boeckn, a young Ger
man, was arrested in Albany the
other day for challenging to due
Henry Willard, the well-known fl
nancier. He is slight young man
who, when arrigned before the mag
istrate, frankly admitted sending
the challenge and said be would
have shot Willard if he had got &
chance. The challenge which he
sent was written in the German
language, in an easy, legible hand