The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-08-18
General News.

Peaches arc selling It @15 per ton
il 9onoma county, California.
Patti Rosa. the dead singer VA
laid TO rest in Chicago Thursday.
President Cleveland sent . formal
letter of recognition and greeting to
Hawaii.
A firm 1t Sioux City, Ia, is en-
gagged in slaughtering horses and
selling their flesh az "dried beef"
Cholera is still raging in Russia.
There we're 500 new cases and over
100 deaths in st. Petersburg last
week.
Louis Brugdell, . well-known
brewer, died at Philadelphia few
days ago leaving an estate worth
$50, OOO, 900.
Santo, the slayer of President
Carnot, was guillotined at Lyons
Thursday morning at 4 :55. He be-
trayed the greatest cowardice at the
end.
When the Committee on Foreign
Affairs met in Washington, Aug.
9th Chairman Nc reary announced
that the President had recognized
the Hawaiian Republic.
The Nevada building at the Mid
winter Fair, which cost 10000, is
offered for sale for $3.50, but there
are no takers. It is worth that for
firewood. So says the Carson APP
peal.
Mrs. Frank ]. Cory, wife of the
editor and one Of the publishers of
the Public Opinion, . daily paper
published at WATERFOWL s. D., has
eloped with T. p. Bender, q wealthy
elevator man of Spencer, Ia.
France has just launched the
most powerful battle-ship in the
world, and has given to it the hon.
ored name of LIE Carnot. Her
length is 8O7 feet and her armor of
steel is over seventeen inches thick.
While some small boys were
playing ball near DeKalb, Tex,
they sought refuge under a tree
from . thunder shower. which was
struck by lightning and seven were
killed. AS many more were badly
injured.
Russia has dispatched a feet Of
eight vessels to Corea, and Russian
regiments in Siberia are getting
ready to march to the Corean from
tier, ostensibly for the protection of
the Coreans. It is rumored she
will be supported by France.
James Hardy, colored, died at
Columbus, Ind, Aug. 9, aged 100
years. He was a relic of the con-
federacy, having been valet to ex-
President Jefferson Davis during
The war of the rebellion. He had
been married six times and was the
'ather Of forty-six children.
General Coxey cost the govern
nent of the United States about
100000. This represents the fees
md expenses of special United
States deputy marshals and the
cost of arresting the marauders who
,araded under his name in different
parts of the country.-Chicsgo
Record.
The religious bodies of Mortified,
Mimi, comprising Catholics, Meth
'dists, Baptists and Congregation
lists, have been in constant session
# prayer since July 18th for rain,
Without success. In a section 100
niles square not a drop of rain
las fallen since June Is, and then
My one inch.
The great engine in the Pullman
hops is again in operation after
'eing idle for three months. About
so men are now at work. The
trike leaders have sent kilograms
0 almost every labor organization
n the country stating that the strike |
Till be won 1t 1t can be continued
while. but they are starving.
An inhuman act is reported from
be backwoods of West Virginia. A
married man with a large family |
ell in love with a widow who had a |
title four-year-old daughter. The
owe was..reclprocated and the guilty
ouple concluded to elope. The
hid was hindrance to their plans
o they set to work to rid them
elves of her. They took the little
,irl to the woods, tied her feet to a
rec and sat the brush about her on
ire, then they disappeared and have
lot been heard from since. The
bid was found by the neighbors
md was released before the fire
cached her.
l9reement Betvean MINI Ovnars and