The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-08-22

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Weeks Events.
/ Eight hundred dead horses wer
carried off the streets of Chicago
last week, killed by the terrible
heat.
VIM. Jennings Bryan, the nomi
nee for president on the Democrat
populist and free silver Republican
tickets, has retired from the editor
ship of the World Herald.
Alfred Griffith, young Critic,
the prize fighter, has been sent tt
the penitentiary in New York fol
one year for assaulting William
Gottlied.
The theory is now advanced by
Durrant's counsel that he was in.
sane at the time he murdered Min.
ME Williams and Blanche Lamont
at the Baptist Church, San Fran.
cisco.
Mr.. Kohlsaat of the Chicago
Times Herald, has offered to defray
all expenses for the burial Of Miss
Kate Field at Honolulu, and will
have a monument erected to the
memory of the authoress.
Arrangements have been COM
pleted for the reception of Ii Hung
Chang. The President will receive
the distinguished guest in New York
harbor upon the dolphin" or some
other naval vessel, on August 31st.
Miss Abigail Dodge, (Gail Ham
ilton) the noted writer, died at
Hamilton, Mass, Monday morning
of paralysis. Miss Dodge was a
cousin of Mrs. James G. Blaine,
and wrote Blaine's biography.
Five thousand dollars were ap-
propriated by New York city last
Saturday with which to buy ice for
distribution among the poor. At
the police stations crystal blocks
were cut up and the pieces presented
to the crowds.
Mena, is the name of new town
in Arkansas. Four weeks ago there
was not q house or inhabitant in
that place. Today, on the com.
mencement of q second month,
there are over 5000 people, seventy
business houses completed and un-
der construction, two saw mills,
one planning mill and Eve lumber
yards, besides dozens of homes.
Rev. Gardner C. Tucker, one of
the most prominent Episcopal
clergyman of Mobile. Ala, returned
to that city last Saturday from a
little town on the eastern shore
where his family have been for the
summer and told of the horrible
treatment which his little fve.year-
old daughter received from the
hands of a white man, who took the
little girl from her bed in the mid.
die of the night and carried her into
the woods where he assaulted her.
The wretch then took the child back
TO the house and laid her uncon:
scious little form on the front porch
where she was found by her father
soon afterwards. A large posse of
men started out at once heavily
armed and with dogs in pursuit of
the brute in human shape.
About year ago report reached
w. J. and Frank Norton of White
Pine, Nevada, that their father J.
R. Norton, had been murdered in
Mexico by band of renegade In
dams. The report proved to be un.
true; it was another man of the
same name who met such tragic
fate at the hands of the Indians
The sons, however, kept up the
search for their father and finally
found him in Mexico, where he has
been mining for the last twenty
years, and accumulated a fortune
of several million dollars. A few
days ago they met in San Francisco.
The father at once gave the two
sons one-half interest in all bis. vast
possessions, consisting of mines.
mills and supply stores in Mexico,
together with vast real estate inter-
ests in California, all of value Of
about IS, 100000.