Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1891-01-31
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We find the following among the
press dispatches:
SAN Francisco, Jan. %. John
w. Msckey made the following state
ment to-day when spoken to in regard
to the encounter which occurred yes
terday in the Nevada Bank between
himself and 9. w. Benninge, . CAPT
talist and formerly a member of the
San Francisco Stock Exchange and
OF late years . resident of London:
Long ago | suspected Benninge was
the instigator of certain attacks on
Mrs. Mackey which appeared in GER
tain papers in New York and London.
Having procured proof that this was
true. determined to punish him the
FIST time | met him. Yesterday when
entering the Presidents room in the
Nevada Bank saw Benninge sitting
at the desk with Mr.. Hell,nan. As
entered Benninge turned and saw me.
He had a malignant smile on his face
and made threatening movement.
| struck out with my right and hit
him in the left eye. Then hit him
again and called on him to put up his
fists and fight like man. Instead of
doing SO he fell and clasped me about
the knees like coward. The blood
which was flowing from his nose
poured all over my pants and upon
the floor. My clerk then rushed and
removed him. The sound thrashing
he received he we'll deserved for Cir
culating those stories about Mrs.
Mackey."
Benninge is confined to his room
nursing black and swollen eyes and
several Commissions elsewher on the
face.
The man whipped is undoubtedly
G. w. Bonynge, Of San Francisco,
nicknamed "Balaklava" because he
participated in the battle of that
name, be being an Englishman by
birth. There has been long. standing
grudge between the two, which origi-
mated years ago when "Balaklava"
led an onslaught of the bears against
the bonanza stocks because Mackey
had refused to longer give him conf.
dental "inside" points as to the future
rise and fall of the stocks which he
controlled.
A couple Of years ago very read
able article relating to Mrs. Mackey
was published and widely copied in
Europe and America. It was very
artfully gotten up, and While pur-
porting to be highly Mandatory Of Mrs
Mackey, stated that she was the
daughter of French barber Of Down.
ieville, Cal, and that she at one time
washed miners clothes for living.
This, while not true and not con.
sidered disgraceful or even discredit-
able in the West, any way, is, it
seems, highly so among the mobility"
of Europe and the ultra fashionable
of the East; and as Mrs. Mackey had
already had that royal reprobate. the
heir presumptive to the throne Of
England, as one of her guests, and
seemed to be fairly we'll established
among the creme de la creme, she
must naturally have felt the slight
thus put upon her. Tier husband,
therefore, who has just arrived from
the East, took the first favorable op-
portunity that offered to give his wife's
detractor a thrashing.
John Mackey is a square, stocky.
built Iriskman who has taken lessons
in boxing, fencing, and shooting, in
various gymnasiums, and is much
above the average in strength; and
although between So AMI 63 years Of
age, he is better preserved than many
another man is at 35. Bonynge is
not his equal physically; but as he
was the detracto, there will be very
few to blame Mackey for the punish
ment inflicted. In fact, all right
minded persons will be glad to see
that even the possession Of millions
has not saved a cowatdly scruh-for
no man who willfully ISLANDERS a
woman can have spark of manhood
in him, even though he may have es
capped killing in battle while serving
during war-from merted ply steal
chgstise ment
The World Enriched.