The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-01-05
at Marblehead, Mass, q few nights

ufacturing district, the principal
business of the town, was burned
to the ground. The most reliable
estimates of the loss put it at $780,
600. One thousand or more men
have been thrown out of employ
ment, and many families have been
rendered homeless. Thirty-eight
structures were destroyed, thirteen
of which were dwelling houses, and
twelve factories. So quickly did
the flames spread that whole blocks
were ruined in fifteen minutes. Be-
tween eight and nine acres were
burned over. There was but one
person seriously injured, that was
a man who broke his leg in jump
ing from a second story window.
The heat was SO great that the curb
stones were cracked and crumbled
into fragments, and car rails were
twisted out of shape. None of the
manufacturers think it possible to
rebuild this winter.
A London dispatch to San
Francisco paper says that the per-
Torrance Of Jules Verne's hero in
"Around the World in Eighty
Days" has just been surpassed by
an English postcard, which has
returned from its travels. It was
mailed in October to Hongkong by
way of United States and Yoko-
hama; reached Hongkong Noyem-
Der Odd and was directed to Lon
don, by way of Brindisi, November
25th, and reached it's original owner
Monday morning, December 18th,
within seventy-five days. The post
age on the card only cost 3 half
pence.
The latest gossip about the do
ings of President Cleveland after
his term expires, is that he will not
go to Europe, as it has been report
ed that he intended doing, but that
it is quite decided that the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland will reside
at Orange, N. j., and Mr.. Cleveland
will have important business occu-
patton in New York. The Presi-
dent has, it is said, been offered the
management of several important
financial institutions in New York
City, and it is quite understood
that he has decided to accept one
of the offers.
The municipal council of Paris
has accepted the statues of Lafay-
cite and Washington, presented to
that city by Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer,
editor Of the New York World.
The last bulletin about Mr.. John
Bright's health is unfavorable. 1t
is announced that his lungs are
growing worse, and he is becoming
weaker. Renewed anxiety Is felt
by his friends.
1t seems certain now that no
successor to Lork Sackville will
be sent to Washington while Mr..
Cleveland remains in office as Presi-
dent. Minister Phelps understands
this from an authoritative source,
though the British Government has
lodged all direct questions on the
subject in Parliament, and has de-
cided not to give the American Min
lister the benefit of its decision Off
cially expressed. By this policy it
hopes to fully emphasize it's implied
rebuke to the United States for dis
missing Lord Sackville, by leaving
itssWashington Legation in charge
Of third secretary, and at the same
time to keep Mr.. Phelps in London.
At any rate it throws on the State
Department or on Minister Phelps
personally the onus of leaving Lon
don before next March, for the slight
to the United States is only implied,
and not officially expressed. Mr..
Phelps has informed the home gov
erment of the awkward situation
and is waiting anxiously to hear
from Washington. But while the dip
lomatic relations are thus strained,
the members of both the govern
ment and the opposition party take
pains to attest Mr.. Phelps personal
popularity in every possible man
ner.
In speaking Of Edison's wonder
full inventions, an eastern paper
says that the great question that is
agitating the British postoffice au-
thorities is, whether the wax record
of the phonograph shall be mailed
on book postage or at letter charges |
The interesting point connected
with this discussion is that the use
of the phonograph is becoming suf-
ficiently large in great Britain to
make the question one of some i'm
portance. The phonograph has at
tracted much more attention in
England than it has in the United
States, and Britons have for some
time been in mild state of wonder
ment that we make so little of what
is really a remarkable invention.
Mrs. Jay Gould, who has been very
dangerously i'll for several weeks,
has so farimproved that on the 31st
ult. she was able to leave her bed
for the first time since her illness.
Her improvement is rapid, and it is !,