The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-02-25
Brief News Items.

The Missouri legislature refuses
constitutional amendment allow.
ing women to vote.
Lieutenant Reynolds of the Navy
was run over and killed by a street
car in Washington few days ago
Edwin Booth proposes to return
to the stage in the fall for farewell
tour. He will perform for ten weeks
and then retire.
The confirmation Of Judge Jack
son of Tennessee as Justice of the
Supreme Court was made without
a single objection.
A young lady in Dover, England
who had been Tilted by her lover,
committed suicide by jumping from
a cliff 300 feet high.
The Kentucky legislature has
elected Judge William Lindsay, an
ex-Confederate officer, U. S. Sena-
tor to succeed Hon. J. G. Carlisle.
Governor Mckinley Of Ohio has
lost his entire fortune through the
failure of his lifelong friend, Robert
L. Walker, the former banker and
capitalist of Youngstown, Ohio.
The voice of Gladstone, the Grand
Old Man, was heard ini parliament
Monday, the 18th inst, in an elo-
quent appeal for Irish home rule.
1t was one of the greatest efforts OF
his life.
The east bound Atlantic express
and west bound Utah express col
lided on the midland road, about
twenty miles from Leadville, Feb
ruary 18th. Three men were killed
and several severely injured.
One day last week a woman in
Oakland, CAL, who had been nurs-
ing her sick husband, fell down
stairs and broke her neck. Her hus-
band was so shocked by his wife's
death that he only survived her
lew moments.
An entertainment was given at
the Lakewood Hotel one evening
last week, under the patronage of
Mrs. Grover Cleveland. for the ben
eft of the New York Free Kinder
garten Association. It was great
financial success.
A train consisting Of a baggage
car, five coaches and two engines
was derailed and thrown down an
embankment eighteen feet high,
near Palmyra, N. Y, on the 21st
inst. Several were killed and a
number badly injured.
Russia has decided to despatch a
large squadron of warships to the
United States to take part in the
naval display in Hampton Roads
to celebrate the opening of the Chi
cago Exposition. The squadron will
be under the command of Grand
Duke Alexis, Lord High Admiral
of Russia.
A series of earthquakes has been
felt during the last few weeks at the
Yellowstone National Park. The
main road south of Norris Geyser
basin is caved in for long distance
and to an unknown depth. In one
place there is huge gap in the
earth seventy-fvc feet wide and
several hundred feet long.
President-elect Cleveland has re-
ceiyed a letter from President Har-
rison, couched in the most friendly
terms, offering the Inequalities of
the White House before the inaugu-
ration. Mr.. Harrison also offers
TO assist Mr.. Cleveland in every way
in his power in regard to public
business and matters of state.
Recent dispatches give an ac-
count of the terrible death of Rev.
Mr.. Woodhall of Goldendale, Wash.
During storm he left home intend
ng to 60 to Arlington, but lost his
way in the binding snowstorm and
wandered on the banks of the Co. |
umbia river, where he persisted.
When the snow melted away, his
body, partly devoured by coyotes,
vas found.
An eastern syndicate, with Wall
street broker backing it, has OBJ
aimed ten years. lease from the
indians at the Ouray agency in Col
,rado of all mineral lands belonging
O the Uintah and Uncompahgre
reservations. The Indians are to
eceive a royalty of 81 per ton on
Ill ores of every description taken
rom the reservation lands for the
period Of ten years. The reserva-
ion comprises about 10, square
niles, or an area almost as large
IS Delaware, Rhode Island and
Massachusetts, combined.
A POPULAR COMPETITION.