The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-12-05
GEN uRAL NDWs.


An Interesting Summary Of thu
Weeks Events.
Famous Trinity church ia New
York 10 slowly sinking into the
earth. The wallis ars cracking and
the plaster falling off.
William Day was sentenced a
Butte, Mont. last Saturday to
servo sixty years in the penitsntiary
for murder in the second degree.
Under the influence Ut fright the
ostrich can beat the most reckless
'scorcher." It can cover Is milea
an hour and clear IL to IA feet at 4
stride.
The Salvation Army will give 4
tremendous Christmas feast 1t st.
Louis on Christmas day. Prepara-
tions are being made to feed :, 600
people.
President Cleveland has purchased
q residence in Princeton, N. J., and
will make that city his permanent
home soon after the expiration Of
his term 10 president.
Filled teeth, crown and bridge
work, exhumed in various parts OF
Italy, Greece and Egypt, with an
cisnt instruments, were shown in
large numbers 1t the Columbia ex-
position.
Benjamin Apthorp Gould, q ia
NOUS scholar and astronomer, when
ascending the stairs of his residence
at Cambridge, Mass, Saturday
night, fell and struck his head. He
vac rendered unconscious aud died
in q few hours.
Mrs. Phoebe ]. Clymer. of San
francisco, who has been totally
blind for thirty-six years, last week
recovered her sight. Her family
believes that this was Z divine dis
pensation granted them in response
to constant prayers.
There will be = grand concert
given at the Salt Lake Tabernacle
Christmas night. Mime. Nordica.
the world-renowned operate singer,
will render some Of her superb ora
torio solos, besides taking part in
numbers with q choir of 500 voices.
A Denver nurse, by presence of
mind, saved 22-months old baby's
life. The little fellow was left with
his sick mother, aud, becoming
thirsty, slipped from a glass in
which chloride of mercury had
been dissolved. The nurse ran
four blocks with him to the police
surgeon.
At = fashionable wedding party
in 4 Pennsylvania town last Satur-
day, forty Of tho guests were poi.
soned by eating ham sandwiches
which were infected with trichina.
A later dispatch states that upon
investigation the presence of arsenic
had been detected in the chicken
salad and that sixty persons we're
reported to be in critical condi-
tion from tho effects of the poison.
Col. D. W. Hughes, Of Vandalia.
No., proposes to launch an K ray
contrivance that will not only count
chickens before they are hatched.
but discern whether "a egg will
bring forth Z hen or = rooster, and
tell What color the fowl will DO.
He has already patented what he
pleases to call Hughes Patent
Magic X Ray Egg Tester" By
the use Of which one can, ct =
glance look through = dozen eggs
It once and tell the good from the
bad ones The good ones are clear
and bright, and the bad ones dark
and cloudy. Il dispenses with the
old candle prscess and does the
work Of four men. 1t 10 believed
to be valuable invention.
A dispatch from Grand Rapids,
Mich, Nov. Oath, says: The six
hunters who returned to-day from
the Upper Peninsula toll of terri
flying experience which O. G. Wood
worth had while with tho party.
Woodwork shot 4 buck and started
to cut its throat. At the prick Of
tho knife the deer sprang to his
feet and made off With Woodwork
astride Of ito back and clinging to
the antlers. The buck ran through
the woods and brush until Wood.
clothing was torn of: Ow-
ing to the weight on it, back tho
buck ran in circle, and whom near
Lhs place Of starting Woodwork
to throw it. Court Officer
reached the spot just in
lime to save Woodwork and kill
.he deer.
asanes Evu rye.
A rscent dispatch from Philadel.
phia says: Howard Perkins, super
Of Moysmensing Prison,
Who committed suicide By shooting
bimself, had charge OF Il. II.
Holmes. shs murdessr, during hisin-I
;arcefation IA 4oynnnsnsine Prison, |
md superin tend tho arrangements
'or biz hanging. Superstition per-
IONS aTs speaking 81 bis being an
,thsr victim q the arch-erimiDals