The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-12-14

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ST. Louis gets tho republican na-
tional convention.
Indiana Populists are booming
Debs for Governor.
California has shipped nine mill
lion gallons Of wine this year, which
sold for @3,500,000.
Mrs. Martha White, So years Of
age, Of Unadilla, n. T., recently
took . two-mile spin on bicycle.
The new gun for tho United
States cruiser, Oregon, 10 tifty feet
long and will throw several pounds
Of steel ten or twelve miles.
The Arkansas Supreme Court
has confirmed the sentence Of death
paced upon Cherokee Bill, the
noted outlaw. The day for his ex-
ecution has not been set.
The report of Los Angeles Health
Officer shows that there were so
births and 129 deaths in that city
during November. Consumption
was the principal cause of death.
Lewis Asker, 4 neighbor Of VIM.
Hinshaw, the minister convicted of
numbering his wife and sentenced
to life imprisonment, has made
statement that may clear the pris-
oner.
Over 100 workmen are engaged
in the construction of an ice palace
at Leadville, COL, which will be
opened to the public on Christmas
day. Fifteen thousand tons Of ice
will be used.
Harry Hayward was hung at
Minneapolis Wednesday morning
at 2:1O for the murder of Miss
Catharine Cling. He laughed on
the way to the scaffold as if going
to q picnic and died with light
words on his lips.
John W. Mackay has ordered
mausoleun to be erected in Green
wood cemetery, New York. He paid
$50, 900 for the ground and the mon
ument will cost $3.50, 900. It will
rest upon granite platform and
will contain twenty chambers.
Miss Mills Viola, formerly an
actress, but now an aeronaut, says
she has travelled from Australia to
the United States for the purpose
of going over Niagara Falls in
barrel. To make the feat more
difficult, she says she will have the
barrel dropped from q balloon.
Dr.. ]. B. Darlington, of Brigham
City, Utah, who is charged with
the death of Mrs. Ida Paige at Salt
Lake recently from the effects of
u criminal operation performed by
him, was arrested on the train at
Provo last Saturday as he was fee
ing from the country. He was
taken back to Salt Lake for trial.
Judge Murphy denied Theodore
Dusrant's motion for new trial, ia
the Superior court at San Francis
co Dec. 9th. The same day he
sentenced Durrant to be hanged for
the murder of Blanche Lamont.
The sheriff was instructed to take
the prisoner within ten days to San
Quentin prison. His case will be
appealed to the Supreme court.
Grant Hibbs fatally shot bis wife
and committed suicide at Dexter,
Iowa, Sunday night. When neigh
bors entered the houee Mrs. Hibbs
was holding her husbands head in
her lap aud year-old babe on one
arm, the baby playing in the blood
that flowed from his fathers wounds.
Hibbs had been released from the
insane asylum as cured several
weeks ago.
A late dispatch from London
says: A sentence of two years i'm
prisonment at hard labor has been
passed upon Richard Stephens,
10 year-old millionaire Of Winches-
ter, and for over 80 years a member
of the bench of magistrates of that
city, who was recently convicted
upon two indictments charging
offenses similar to those which re-
suited in Oscar Wilde's downfall.
The jury in the trial Of Mrs.
Emma g. Hanna for the murder of
Mrs. Lottie Hiatt, at Jordan, Ore.
gon, on September 26, returned a
verdict of murder in the second de-
gree. The Hannas and HATS lived
on farms near one another. Mrs.
Hanna was jealous because of her
husbands attentions to Mrs. Hiatt,
and on several occasions threatened
to do her bodily harm. On the
day the murder took place Mrs.
Hanna, wearing mans clothing
and false moustache, went to
Mrs. HATS home, where she was
cooking supper. After short con-
versation she drew q revolver and
shot the woman dead.
Ex Governor James B. Grant Of
the Omsha & Grant Smelling com
pany, who has just returned to
Denver from tour of inspection
among the mining camps Of Col
orado says: Il am compelled to be-
lieve that the future Of Cripple