The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-29
News and Gossip.


The widow of General w. S. Han
cock died in New York last week.
General E. F. Beale, the intimate
friend Of General Grant, died in
Washington City last Saturday.
Five hundred college students, at
a small fee, will act as guides about
the grounds at the Worlds Fair.
Prince Napoleon Bonaparte. a
grand nephew of Napoleon /, is the
latest distinguished arrival in Salt
Lake City.
Electric wagons, and phaetons
propelled by electric power will be
seen at Jackson Park during the
Exposition.
A legislative investigation has
disclosed the most shocking cruel
ties practiced on convicts in the
Nebraska state prison.
John w. Mackay has recovered
from the effects of his wound and
with his family is sojourning in
Southern California.
Robert Louis Stevenson, the nov
elist, is the champion cigarette fiend
of the age. l is said that he smokes
200 cigarettes day.
Edwin Booth, the famous TRACE
dian who has been lying critically
i'll in New York City, is very much
better and the physicians say he
will recover.
The Duchess of Switzerland is
imprisoned in London for contempt
of court. As she suffers from heart
disease, it is feared that her punish
ment may prove fatal.
Asiatic leprosy has made its ap-
pearance in Fort Wayne, Ind. The
victim is Syrian woman, who ar
rived in that city several weeks ago
from the Hawaiian Islands.
One of the Dalton brothers and
the notorious Frank James will soon
open saloon in Chicago. They ere
we'll mated partners and will proba-
bly, draw an immense patronage.
A late dispatch furnishes the
statement that Governor Flower will
save Carlyle Harris from execution.
The decision of the governor has
been made known to both Harris
and his mother.
Stage coaches driven by genuine
western drivers will run out to tie
Exposition grounds from Chicago.
The coaches will accommodate forty
passengers. The horses and equip
ments will be superb.
The old Liberty Bell left Philadel-
phia Tuesday for the Worlds Fair,
under the watchful care of four
sturdy police officers. who will
guard the old relic until it once
more occupies its accustomed place
in independence Hall.
Thousands of stars and stri pes
and deafening roars of artillery will
fill the air next Monday in Chicago,
the moment when President Cleve-
land touches the button that will
start the stupendous machinery OF
the Exposition in motion.
The worst gale known for a mum.
Der of years swept over Lake Mich.
igan last Friday. Several vessels
were wrecked and fourteen lives lost
The sea was the most awful one
ever seen in that locality. The life
saving crew were unable to reach
the drowning men.
A frightful wreck occurred Tues
day evening on Pennsylvania
railway line. The train became un
manageable going down a steer
grade, and dashing along at a ire
mendous rate ran into train O
cars loaded with stock, at the foo
of the grade, with fearful velocity
A number were killed and buriee
in the wreck.
A sort of Cinderella competition
has been started by French paper
in search of q sensation. A shoe
seven and four-fifths inches long
has been especially made, and tn
lady who can succeed in putting il
on will receive handsome present
of plate. The ladies of China are
excluded in the competition.
! w. D. Grady, a leading lawyer o
the Pacific coast, went to Jail a
Fresno, CAL: in preference to payinl
fine for contempt of court. MI
Grady says he has passed through
many pleasant hour, but his pres
! ent circumstances afford him NOR
pleasure than anything he has eve
experienced before.
Elegant apartments were furn
ished at the London Jail for tn
J Duchess of Sutherland to occupy
while nobility languishes in Jail
Her ladyship's meals are served o!
4 fashionable caterer. The punish
ment evidently lies only in the con
, 6nement and the disgrace attached
to the unfortunate episode.
It is ruuored in the high circle
of Washington City that secretar
of the Navy Herbert will soon lea
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