The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-05-09

General News.
Over $4,000 letters, many con-
tanning cheoks. we're destroyed By
the burning Of the post Office u
Cripple Greek.
Vim. 81. Doble, the oldest driver
of trotting horses in the world and
tho father Of Budd Doble, died in
Philadelphia last Saturday aged 50
yeare.
Robert Campbell. respondent
over the loss of his property in the
Cripple Greek fire, shot himself
through the heart 1t Denver the
next day. His wife attempted to
kill herself, but was prevented.
Mrs. Kate st. Charles Stetson,
widow Of the millionaire theatrical
manager and real estate dealer, died
in Boston, Monday, of grief. She
has been prostrated since the death
of her husband two weeks ago.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has affirmed the judgment
of the lower court in the case of F.
A. Coffin, convicted of wrecking
the indianapolis National Bank.
Coffin was sentenced to FIVE years
imprisonment.
Mrs. II. Easily and her daughter
Clara. Of Spokane, started from
there Tuesday to walk to New York.
They live on a farm near Spokane,
and hope to make enough money
on the venture to lift q mortgage.
They are under contract to a man.
ufac:urer of q health costume.
The sentence of John Hayes
Hammond to death at Johannes
burg has been committed to five
years of penal servitude and at the
expiration of that time to Danish
ment for life from that country.
Burghers are focking into the city
begging President Kruger to totally
abolish the sentence imposed on
the so.called reformer.
William Taylor, one of the MUIR
derers of the Meeks family was
hung at Carrollton, Mo-, Thursday.
April 3Oth. Taylor embraced the
Catholic faith the night before his
execution and on the scafold hand
ed letter to the Sheriff in which
be claimed he had been convicted
on prejudice and perjury.
John T. Jones ex- Assistant Meter,
and Refiner of the Carson Mint,
has been found guilty of stealing
bullion and sentenced to eight
years at hard labor in the Nevada
State prison and to pay q fine of
5000. The bondsmen of Mr..
Jones, when he was an officer in
the mint, will have to pay $1,000
also to the Government.
The Johannesburg News says !:
Barney Barnato, the Kaffir King, is
very bitter concerning the sentences
imposed upon Rhodes, Hammond
and others at Pretoria, and is show
ing his resentment by closing all
his mines and selling all his landed
properties in the Rand. The peo-
pie are paralyzed at the prospect.
as the closing of the Barnato mines
will throw thousands of men into
the already overlooking ranks of
the unemployed.
It is said that q company of
which NJ. R. Arnot, president Of the
Chernung Canal bank of Elmira,
N. Y. a man worth $2O,OOO.OOO, is
treasurer, has purchased 5000 acres
of land located twelve. miles from
New York City, between Orange,
N. j., and Elizabeth, n J and tina,
q manufacturing plant with homes
capable of sustaining a population
of 10000 inhabitants will be con-
structed at once, the intention being
to erect model city in much the
same manner that Pullman, H.,
was built.
A dispatch from Philadelphia
May 4th says: FL. H. Holmes, the
convicted murderer, has now less
than three days to live. Sheriff
Clement says the execution will
occur about 10 clock on Thursday
morning. The Sheriff asserts that
there will be no sensational scene
on the gallows. If Holmes has
anything to say, it may be said
from the cell. About fifty persons,
including officials and newspaper
men, will witness the hanging, al
though thousands are straining
every nerve to be present, and as
high as $500 has been offered for a
single ticket.