The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-12-22
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General n ews.

Cashier Mckewn, OF the NaLlonai I
Bank at Nashua, n H., is defaulter
to the amount Of 100000.
Robert Louis Stevenson, the pop |
ular novelist. died suddenly Of apo ,
plexy at his home in Apia, Samoa, !
Dec. 9Th.
The Ute Indians have been or
dered out of Utah through instruc-
tons from Secretary Hoke Smith,
and are on the way back TO their
Colorado hunting grounds.
Claus A. Blixt, the self-confessed
murderer of Miss Catherine Cling.
was arraigned in the district cour,
at Minneapolis, Monday, and plead !
not guilty.
Wm Fl. Schriber, young man
"a years of age, has been sentenced
at indianapolis, Ind, to twelve
years Imprisonment for embezziing
funds of the First National Bank of
Columbus.
Alva Johnson, the old rancher
who pleaded guilty to completely IN
the two train robberies near Roscoe,
Cal, in which brakeman and pas
senger were killed, was sentenced
at Los Angeles, December 18th, to
life Imprisonment at San Quentin.
Miss Virginia Mosby, daughter Of
Colonel Mosby, the famous Confed-
crate raider during the Civil War,
and in recent years resident OF
San Francisco, was married IN
Washington City Dec. 18th to Wat
son E. Coleman, private secretary
to Congressman Pence of Colorado.
Frank LEM, the Pittsburg bicy-
cIist, who started out to girdle the
! globe on his wheel, is supposed to
+ have been murdered by brigands in
the eastern portion of Asiatic Tur-
key, as nothing has been heard from
? the adventurous young wheelman
since the 9TH of May, when he was
$50 miles from Tabreez on the Per
{ sian border.
I'll Four men attempted to hold uI
e the north bound train on the South
b cru Pacific near Grants Pass, Ore
r gon, one day last week. The engi
o neer saw the red light ahead and In
stead of slowing up opened th'
throttle and flew past. He noticed
Al the men wore masks and he wa
IS of the opinion that they were arme'
lie but no shots we're fired.
le George Lavigne and Andy Bower
ID fought at New Orleans in the Audi
a forum Club, Dec. 14th, for purs
lie of $1,000. Bowen was knoeke'
lg out in the eighteenth round by
lie blow from Layigne on the point G
l. his jaw. He fell back, his hea'
ne striking the floor with full force
1t. Bowen died the next morning from
u conclusion of the brain. Lavign
was arrested on the charge of muir
" der and released on bail.
lg As the result of race war in th
Us Oak Grove school at Guthrie, Okla
homa, a negro girl attacked a twelve
&c year-old boy one day last week tea
p ing out his eyes and biting off OF
u ear. The savage young hend 70
lie lowed this BY crushing the boy
skull with a rock, producing h
g, death few hours afterwards. Tt
~ ne girl escaped. When caught, the Ell
iio ragged citizens are determined
; lynch the virago.
-, Samuel C. Seely, the abscondir
7 book keeper of the National ShC
and Leather Bank of New Yor
On who, together with Frederick Bake
-, embezzled 1851, 900 of the bank
- funds, was arrested in Chicago la
"a week and taken back to New Gor
- where he was confined in the Lu
lie low-street jail in default of s25 On
t. bail. He was arraigned in cou
yht Tuesday and plead guilty. He "
ore be sentenced to-day.
too The House Committee on Col
age, Weights and Measures REFER
" the bill introduced by Delega
ust RawIins, providing for the ests
rod llshmeut of mint at Salt Lake,
sub. committee, which decided
give favorable report of the b
Mr.. Rawlins expressed the no
ews that the bill will pass the Hou
be and says that If . mint is not
ses. lowed, he feels pretty confident
ter. securing at least an assay office.