The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-04-18
General News.

General News.
Governor Jones, of Nevada, died
at the Palace hotel, San Francisco.
April 10th after an illness Of several
months.
The state of Ohio has adopted
electrocution for capital punish
ment. The law to take effect after
July 1st.
Ex-Consul Waller arrived at
New York last Saturday and was
met at the wharf by his wife and a
large delegation of friends.
Col. John A. Cockrell, the noted
newspaper correspondent, died at
Cairo, Egypt, April 18th of apo
plexy. He was 81 years of age.
The Daily Nevada Tribune of
Carson City. E. ]. Parkinson pro-
prietor, has suspended after an ex-
istence of about twenty-four years.
Six miners lost their lives Satur-
day morning in the St. Lawrence
mine, one Of the Anaconda prop
critics in Butte City, by an explo-
sion of giant powder.
Nikola Tesla, the famous cleo
trician, says that the transmission
| Of news about the earth by electric
waves in the place Of wires is no
longer dream, that it is one Of
the possibilities of the near future.
Gov. Mcconnell has granted a
reprieve of thirty days in the case
of Frank Smith, sentenced to be
hanged at Moscow on May lst for
the murder Of Emmett Fox. The
reprieve is to enable his counsel TO
make application for rehearing
A dispatch from St. Louis April
18th says: J. Milton Turner, ex-
Minister to Liberia, a politician and
lawyer of National celebrity, is at
the city hospital with a fractured
skull. A fight with his stepdaugh-
ter, Mrs. William Mason last night
is the cause.
The free silver men captured
everything in the county conven-
ton at St. Joseph, Mo-, held Mon
day to select delegates to the Sedalia
convention. Fourteen delegates
were selected who were ordered to
vote as a unit for free silver dele
gates only.
Mrs. Mary Harlan of Coxville,
Ind, mother Of ex-United States
States Senator Harlan Of Iowa and
grandmother of Mrs. Robert 7.
Lincoln. was 100 years old on March
Goth. At the birthday reception
there were present daughter 70
years old and a son rs.
Some figures have recently been
given out regarding the Uinta Yer
lie copper mines at Jerome, Arizona.
The property has long been recog
nized as one Of the richest in the
world, but the report of experts
who recently examined it almost
stsggers belief. They reported the
ore in sight amounted to the fabu-
lous sum Of $75O.OOO,OOO. If it is
one.half of this its owner, w. A.
Clark, of Butte, is one of the rich
est men in the world. The yearly
output of the mine is given as $751;
900. 900.
George and William Taylor, the
condemned murderers of the Meeks
family broke Jail at Carrolton, Mo-,
Saturday night. George Taylor
made his escape, but Bill was re-
taken. The two brothers were to
hang on April 30th. The escape
was made by breaking off bar
from the west side of their cell and
making their exit through the gar
ret to the roof and letting them
selves down to the ground by
means of pieces of hose, which had
been used in cleaning the cells.
just as Bill Taylor had reached the
ground, the Deputy Sheriff 8 little
girl heard a noise, and gave the
alarm, and before he could make
his escape, the Deputy covered him
with gun and put him back into
a cell. A posse with bloodhounds
started in pursuit of George Taylor
and threats being made to lynch
Bill be was taken to the Jail at
Kansas City for safe keeping.