The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
A MIND READERS DEATH


Last week the eastern dispatches
brought the bare intelligence of the
death of ashington Irving Bishop
of hysterical catalepsy. Details OF
his sudden death have reached us,
which in view of the fact of Mr..
Bishop having been prominently
before the public for the last fif-
teen years as mind-reader, will be
of interest to the general public.
Mr.. Bishop was a guest at q dinner
given by the Lambs Club of New
York on the 18th inst. The Club
have monthly ''gambols," followed
by a dinner. The famous mind
reader had come from Philadelphia
as a guest of the Club, and was
asked during the dinner to illus
trate his power of psychology. He
had performed his well known dag
ger feat, which he concluded by
pretending to stab Louis Aldrich,
the actor, who occupied one of the
seats at the table. Subsequently
Mr.. Bishop requested Clay NJ.
Green, the dramatist, who presided,
to think of word, and he Bishop
would name it by placing his hand
on Mr.. Green's forehead. Befose
he could conclude the feat the mind
reader was seized with catalepsy.
A physician was summoned and
Mr.. Bishop was removed to an up
per room and put to bed. He re-
covered shortly and persisted in
concluding his mind-reading feat.
He did so, and while in the act, at
4 A. NJ, he was again stricken with
spasms, and after that began sink
ing, and died a little after noon of
the 18th inst. His wife and mother
had been telegraphed for, but did
not arrive until after his death.
Mr.. Bishop became interested in
mental phenomena about fifteen
years ago, and since has travelled
all over the world giving exhibitions.
He returned not long ago from Aus
tralia. A notable incident of his
life was his controversy with Mr..
Labouchere, who offered him a 920O
bank note if he could read the num-
Der on it. An angry controversy
ensued, and finally a law suit, in
which Bishop had the worst Of it.
Bishop was married three times and
twice divorced. He was a 'sensi-
tive" and appeared to have the gift
of reading the thoughts Of others,
and could certainly find things Sc
creted in the most unlikely places.
His critics called the faculty mus
cle-reading. He was subject of late
to fits of catalepsy.
IS 1T THE MISSING LINK ?
A telegram from Buffalo, New
York, says that on White Island, a
suburb of Tonawanda, men engaged
in excavating a cellar dug up eleven
very peculiar skeletons. The skulls
indicated that the beings to whom
they belonged could not have differ
ed greatly from apes, either in ap-
pearance or intellect. The accom-
panying thigh bones were abnor-
mally long and very slender. There
were thirteen ribs on a side, and
the shoulder blades were entirely
lacking. Many members of the
Buffalo Academy of Natural Scien-
ces think that the long searched
missing link has at last been found
A BATTLE WITH BANDITS.
Dispatches from Tucson, Arizona,
give particulars of the recent fight
between robbers and United States
Paymaster Wham's party near Ce-
dar Springs, in which the robbers
succeeded in carrying away 500 900.
The road where the attack was made
winds down a long hill, near the
top Of which it runs between high
wall on the east and a low ledge of
rocks on the west. A large rock
was discovered in the road and the
party stopped to remove it. A vol
ley Of shots was thereupon fred
from the brow of the hill, which
rose to a height of fifty feet. None
Of the robbers could be seen from
below. The paymaster's party,
which consisted Of /. w. Wham,
Clerk w. R. Gibbon, two non-com-
missioned officers, nine privates and
two drovers, Immediately returned
the fire, which became general
The robbers had placed men fur.
Their up the hill to the right of the
party, and also sent men along the
hill to get in cross fire from the left.
It is known that at least one man
in each of the fanking parties was
either killed or wounded. The pay
masters party made a break for
the ravine below the ledge, which
for three hundred yards is without
shelter, and five were wounded in
crossing it. Paymaster Wham from
behind the ledge, thinking the cross
fire had been silenced, made q he.
roic effort to rally his men, but they
were compelled to seek other shelter
being exposed to a terrible fire
The paymaster, his clerk and the
corporal were the only men who
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