The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-04-04
General News.

Doctor Howard Crosby, cele-
brated New York divine, is dead.
Arkansas has passed q law PEN
sioning her disabled Confederate
soldiers.
Two dollar counterfeit silver GER
tificates are in circulation that defy
detection.
The average running speed Of the
Michigan Central railroad is 454
miles an hour.
Italy will exhibit at Chicago, not
withdrawing the late Malta episode
at New Orleans.
Senator Palmer says he would
not accept the second place on the
presidential ticket.
Snow in Pennsylvania on the 2Sth
Of March was nineteen inches deep
in places, on the level.
The cruiser San Francisco is to
be sent to Chill to look after Amer
lean interests in that quarter.
Arkansas and Tennessee have
each failed to make appropriations
for Worlds Fair exhibition at
Chicago.
The Gould roads have cut on
sugar rates, which action it is
thought will dissolve the presiden. s.
agreement.
Short hand is said to impair the
intellect by superinducing in some
obscure way, a sort of atrophy Of
the memory.
The civil war in Chill is q butch
cry on the part Of the government
authorities that enlightened nations
should forbid.
Another Indian outbreak at the
Pine Ridge agency is feared unless
the money due the Indians is
promptly paid.
Senator Teller is emphatic in his
opinion that the next Congress will
pass silver bill, and that the Pres
ident will sign it.
The largest cargo of sugar ever
received at San Francisco, 200
tons-arrived on the 2Sth of March
last from Honolulu.
Germany has 100000 working
women. England 100000, France
3,75O,0OO. Austria 100000; the
United States 100000.
Calnphor trees are being cultiva-
ted in Florida, and it is predicted
that the camphor will take the place
OF the orange tree in that state.
William Garner died of hydro
phobia at Mexico, Missouri, one day
last week. caused by having been
bitten by rabid dog Is years ago.
The Trinidad, Colorado, iron-roll-
ing mill has been leased by an Ohio
company, and will be in operation
rolling out iron by the first of May.
The Bulgarian Minister of finance,
Baltchief, was assassinated on the
28th of March. 1t is believed he
was mistaken for the PRIMER STAN
bulotf.
W. H. Mills, land agent for the
$. P. r. R., says he has reliable in
formation that a syndicate has been
formed to buy up timber lands on
the Pacific coast.
Chauncey NJ. Depew thinks in
ten years railroad trains in the
United States will be making an
average speed of IS miles an hour
between the big cities.
Zoe Clayton, the actress, who un-
dertook to walk from San Francisco
to New York in six months, reached
the latter city March 2Sth thirteen
days ahead of time.
A number of Italian contract la
borers were arrested at New York
few days ago disguised as sailors.
They had been engaged in Italy to
work in Connecticut lumber yard
1T 81 % a day.
A prominent merchant of Vienna
was assassinated by an Italian in
broad daylight. The assassin was
arrested and proved to be Malta, |
who mistook the MERCHANT for a !
man he had been detailed to kill.
A Connecticut bootblack named |
Silver, entered Wall street recently |
with an original sort of finacial |
tactics, and has cleaned up $780,
300, and the returns are not all in. |
Was it success, genius or rascality7
Senator Paddock thinks Presi-
dent Harrison contemplates issuing
an order prohibiting the admission
Of German beet sugar into the
United States, if German restric-
lions on American pork are not
soon withdrawn.
La grippe is epidemic in Chicago
and is as fatal as cholera or yellow
fever in its southern haunts. Nine
hundred and twenty deaths occur
red there last week, and the terrible
malady is gaining in virulence and
frequency of attack.
On March 28th gambler named
Charles Elliott shot two actresses
1t Spokane Falls. One Miss Mabel
Debavian was killed instantly. and
The other, Miss Carrie Smith, fatally
wounded. He then shot and killed |
The shots were aimed at
another actress with whom he was
in love.