The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-12-07
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
APPEARS LIKE RETRIBUTION.

patch transmits story whic
seems like the visitation of wrat
upon a person who cursed his ere
ator. 1t states until recently JOIN
Chana was healthy, muscula
working man in Pottstown, Penn
He and number of others met il
saloon, and while drinking, Chan,
cursed the church and religion in
most outrageous manner. Just at
ter he delivered his bitter oatl
against his Creator for allowing
poverty, hunger and misery in this
world, Chana was stricken dumb
and his entire body from head te
foot became paralyzed. He has
been helpless paralytic ever since
On Thursday, Thanksgiving morn
ing, his dead body was found in bis
bedroom. About his neck was 6
leather strap loosely suspended
from the bedpost Chana being en-.
tirely helpless, the question arises
who did the deed? The police are
investigating.
A TRICK COSTS HIS LIFE.
Another of those foolhardy tricks
took place at Lynn, Massachusetts,,
last week, where the actor was laid
out by his pretended slight of hand.
1t appears that man by the name
of Sawtelle, performer in dime
museum, was performing a trick
with his rifle, which he apparently
loaded with leaden bullet and re-
qnested some one to shoot it at him,
appearing to catch the bullet in his
mouth. He failed to substitute the
pasteboard bullet, and person in
the crowd was requested to fire,
who banged away and killed Saw
telle on the spot.
ADVOCATING A RAID.
A correspondent writing from
Caldwell, Ohio, to the Washington
Post, makes the following pitiful
appeal to Congress:
six hundred thousand families.
IN sickness, poverty and distress,
are anxiously looking to Washing
ton for Christmas gift. There are
100000 upadjusted claims on file
in the pension office. Congress has
promised to break the deadlock and
let them fly. It can easily do so
by certifying the laws, striking out
all the technicalities that hinder
and delay the consideration of our
long delayed pensions. Let it cut
the red tape and the boys will
bless it. Every pension means from
800 to $1,000 for some poor sol
dier's family. What a nice Christ
mas gift it would be. 1t will be so
easy for Congress to do it, too
Think Of it, 0 We statesmen and
of Washington, as you
sit down to your Thanksgiving
turkey. Think of the 6OO,OO0 poor
families who have no turkey, and
have nothing for which to- give
thanks but the hope Of the pension
that you are to send them for
Christmas gift"
A RAPID FIRING GUN.
A recent dispatch from Philadel- |
phia says:
The Driggs-Schroeder rapid fir
ing gun, invented by Lieuts. briggs
and Schroeder, U. S. n, has been |
sold to English capitalists for 5000
)OO. The sale was consummated |
IN this city last week, and it is stat
ed that the inventors were paid the
.ull purchase price IN cash. Eng
lsh ordnance experts unanimously
recommended the purchase. The
advantages of the new gun consist
n It's light weight and rapid firing
capacity. 1t weighs only 5 pounds,
S made OF the strongest kind of
steel and can fire shot three miles.
It can be fired three times as fast
Is the famous English Armstrong
gun. The name of the new COM
oany will be the Driggs-Schroeder
ordnance Co., and all the work will
'e done in England, excepting the
guns sold to the United States gov
which will be manufac-
ured here, owing to the act of Con-
'ress requiring all ordnance used
n the army and navy to be made
n this country
RAMMED AND SUNK.
A Reedville, Va, dispatch, No
ember 2Sth, gives the details of an
interesting naval battle between the
.olice Tug "Augusta, of Onandock
,lrslnla, and the oyster schooner
lawson" Of Crisfeld, Md, which I
ook place on the Lewis Reserva-
ION off Hog Island, in which the {
chooner Lawson" was sunk by /
he Augusta" in two and a-haif !
athoms of water. "The fight was
ne outcome of the disputed line I
etween Maryland and Virginia.
'lrginia claimed the Hog Island
nd the Flats were within the state
mlts and had jealousy guarded it
ON all intruders. The Augusta
lighted the Lawson on the grounds.
ecldlng at once to put for her /:
'hnI "a