The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-04
Brief News Items.

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DEATH" is raging in Russia.
Three democratic senators are op.
posed to the annexation of Hawaii
Gen. Butler contributed $500 to
the ex-Confederate's Home at Rich
mond, Va.
A New York millionaire son is
in Jail in Chicago for robbing his
fellow students.
The newly-appointed Secretary of
the Navy, Mr.. Herbert of Alabama,
is an ex-confederate officer
Bills have been introduced both
in the legislature of California and
Idaho to make prize fighting high
crime.
The wife of Harry Jacobs, editor
of the Tacoma News, was arrested
in Brooklyn, N. Y. one day last
week, on charge of swindling.
A five-story building collapsed
during heavy gale in Chicago,
Thursday morning, and buried ten
persons in the ruins.
Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Ayres, the
we'll known manufacturer of toilet
articles in New York city, has been
adjudged insane and committed to
an asylum.
Miss Julia Ford, sister of lead
ing merchant of Atlanta, Ga, shot
and killed her two young lady Sis
tiers the 25th ult. The tragedy was
the result OF quarrel.
John w. Mackay, the famous bo-
nanza king who was shot Feb. Oath
by crank, is improving. The
would-be assassin is sinking rapidly
from the effects of his self-intiicted
wound.
Mr.. Morton, of Nebraska, Sec
rotary of Agriculture in Cleveland's
cabinet, is the author of Arbor Day
observances. Tree culture on the
Nebraska prairies was his hobby.
Since the killing in San Francis
co, last Friday night, Of pugilist
in a prize fight at the Pacific Ath-
letic Club, the different prize fight
ing clubs have declared prospective
matches off, and the fighters have
stopped training.
Carlyle Harris. the young medi-
cal student who has been sentenced
to be electrocuted for poisoning his
schoolgirl wife, is hopeful of new
trial. Some new testimony is offered
which can prove, it is said, that his
wife was addicted to the opium
habit.
Miss Grace Stevens, the daughter
of u. S. Minister Stevens of Hawaii,
met with tragic death recently.
She had been on a visit to friends
on an island some distance from
Honolulu, and was on the point of
returning home, when the small
boat that was conveying her to the
steamer was capsized. The young
lady was very popular in San Fran
cisco and Oakland society.
It looks very much as if thous-
ands Of Chinese would soon be de-
ported from California on account
Of their obstinate refusal to register
according to the provisions which
are now laid down to them. The
collector of internal revenue at
San Francisco, who is in charge of
Chinese registration, expresses the
opinion that il will only be mat
ter of time when this country will
be freed from them.
A reproduction in salt of the God
dess of Liberty in Bedlow's Island
is being sculptured at the Offices Of
the Salt Union, in Winsford, Eng. ;,
for exhibition at the Chicago FAIR.
The statue itself is five feet six
inches high, and it will stard on a
base seven feet in height. 1t will
be carved out Of solid white salt,
and the sub-rosa base will be Of
amber-colored rock salt, to initiate
the rocks Of the island. The base
will be highly ornamented with
holdings, panels and inscriptions,