The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-15
Brief News Items.

Enoch Davis, the Provo (Utah)
wife murderer. has been sentenced
to be shot to death May 9th.
The descendants of Christopher
Columbus have sailed from Europe
to be present at the opening Of the
Worlds Fair.
The Right Rev. William In
graham Kip, Bishop of California,
died in San Francisco, April 7th,
aged 80 years.
The daughter of William Walter
Phelps, ex-minister to Germany, is
soon to wed the Under Secretary of
the State of Germany.
Minister Lincoln will sail for the
United States April 22d. Secretary
White will be in charge of the lega-
ton until Mr.. Bayard arrives.
Miss Bessie Mitchell has arrived
home in Chicago, after three weeks
travel of 10000 miles by rail with
out touching her feet to earth.
The New York Assembly passed
the bill abolishing capital punish
ment, to take effect, should it be-
come law, September LIST, too late
to save Carlyle Harris.
Mrs. John w. Mackay is in San
Francisco with her husband. As
soon as Mr.. Mackay's health will
permit they will leave for Chicago
to attend the Worlds Fair.
The famous Sioux chief, Ono
Water" who was the centre in the
ghost dancing two years ago, which
preceded the Pine Ridge war, died
at Sioux Falls, S. D., April 10th.
A petition has been presented to
Governor Flower, with 80, 600 sigma
lures, asking clemency for Carlyle
Harris. His counsel have demanded
absolute pardon for him from the
Governor.
The White Star Steamship Com
pany of New York has officially
recognized at last the loss of the
vessel Naronic. She is supposed
to have gone down in mid ocean
with every soul on board.
J.W. Flood, for twenty five years
cashier of the Donahue-Kelly Bank
ing Company of San Francisco,
has been arrested for embezzling
1854 900 of the banks funds. He
threatens to commit suicide.
A large portion of Idaho's agri-
cultural exhibit was burned while
en- route to Chicago. in Union
Pacific wreck. Two oil paintings of
Shoshone Falls were also destroyed,
and some of the taxidermy exhibits.
Mrs. Cleveland will touch an
electric button in the White House.
connected by direct wire with the
furnace at Troy, N. Y, at the open
ing of the Columbian Exposition.
which will release the melted mate
rial from the furnace into the mold
casting the Columbian Liberty Bell.
Ex-Governor Caleb W. West has
been appointed by President Cleve-
land to again be Governor of Utah.
The appointment is regarded with
much favor by the people of the
territory. Governor West is an ex-
Confederate and was a member of
General Morgan's staff at the close
of the war.
A dispatch from London says the
property of George Abingdon Baird
will not go intact to the family as
reported. A will has recently been
found which the Squire made on
the steamer Majestic during his last
voyage to the United States, and
under its provisions Mrs. Langtry
will receive large portion of his
estate.
The Sultan of Johore, who is a
ruler of country in the southern
part of Asia, is en- route to the
Worlds Fair. He will be accom-
panied by his private secretary,
about twenty native princes, and a
retinue of servants. When the Sui
tan appears in full court regalia, he
wears 100000 worth of dia-
monds upon his person. What a
picnic it will be for Chicago crooks
when the Sultan arrives.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, Ambassa-
dor from Great Britain, attended
by all the British representatives in
court uniform, called upon Presi-
dent Cleveland Tuesday and pre-
scented his credentials with brief
and formal address. The President
replied with appropriate and grace
full remarks, and closed by rendering
the Ambassador his hearty personal
congratulations. 1t was distin-
guished but unusual ceremony.
Mrs. Anna Potts, one of the can
didates for mayor of Kansas City,
was defeated by a large majority.
The women did not like her style
of campaigning, which was rather
loud, and voted against her. The
fair candidate made her rounds at
the polls seated in a handsome car
riage, drawn by pair of pretty
black horses, and followed by two
full brass bands. Mr.. Potts, attired
in Prince Albert and tall silk hat,