The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-08-08
GENERAL NEWS.
Summary Of Events That Have Hap
pened During tho Week.

; Summary Of Events That Have Hal
pensd During tho Week.
Bland has been nominated fo
congress in the eighth district {
Missouri.
w. R. Hearst. Of the San Fran
cisco Examiner. will start silve
daily for Chicago next week to b
called the Enquirer.
| Three hundred and ninety me,
are employed at the DeLamar min
and mill at DeLamar, New. an,
until quite recently $50 woodchop
pers have been given employment
/ Abram Tinkey, postmaster, anc
Robert Stark, merchant, died a
Sequoin, Wash, one day last weel
/, from the effects of drinking a de
coction of alcohol made from wood
Returns from the Alabama cleo
ton indicate Democratic majority
of not less than 10000. It is the
greatest majority since 1910. All
the white counties gave increased
Democratic majorities.
All of the personal effects of Rev
Francis Hermans, the homicidal
pastor Of the Scandinavian church,
are being sold at Salt Lake. His
library, desks, typewriter, all are be-
ing disposed of 10 collectors of the
gruesome relics of murderers.
A magnificent reception will be
rendered William J. Bryan on the
occasion of his visit to Chicago
Monday. A committee of twenty
five composed of representatives of
Democrats and Populists and from
the trade and labor assemblies, will
go out and meet Bryan's train and
act as an escort to the city.
An Oakland Zeal. girl in a climb
ing feat at Skaggs Springs, near
Santa Rosa, beat the Others in get
ting to the top of very precipitous
rock, 100 feet above the ground.
Once there she became dizzy and
hysterical, and was rescued with diff
6culty by means of a rope carrying
a basket, being thrown over the rock.
A dispatch from Birmingham.
Ala, August I'd. says: AT Columbus
City. Maynard Covans was escort.
ing Misses Dovie Proctor and Della
Bishop, daughters of prominent
families, out for q walk when a cloud
gathered. A heavy rain and wind
storm came up when the trio stepped
into an old building to keep from
getting wet. The storm increased
in fury until the building collapsed
and all three were caught in the
debris. Covans and Miss Proctor
were instantly killed and Miss
Bishop so badly injured that death
will result.
A dispatch to the New York
World from Newport says: Miss
Virginia Fair, daughter of the late
Senator Fair of California, narrow
y escaped drowning to-day. She
vent in bathing at Bailey's beach
'or the first time this season. Peo-
pie who were watching her say that
The was about to dive from a raft
when she slipped, lost her balance
md fell. Her head struck the edge
# the raft and she was stunned for
moment. The surf was heavy
nd the undertow stronger than
Usual. Miss Fair, almost senseless,
vas being carried out, when the
ife guard caught her and took her
shore. She was taken to the villa
f her sister where she soon recov-
red.
A terrible railroad accident oc-
urred about four miles from Allan
lc City, N. j., on the evening of
uly Both. An excursion train col
ded with the regular express and
,as literally cut in two. There
,ere A killed and over SO wounded.
. passenger who told the story of .
is awful experience said: "When
Q saw that a collision was una
the scene in our car was
'rrible. Women tainted and men :
1shed in mad panic before the /
DOR. But it came almost before I
9 knew it. The third car was cut 1
ght in two and the lower portion l
it lifted bodily from the track
Id tumbled over. The roof of one
the cars fell in and everybody in q
10 car was buried under it," O
My little boy, when two years of age, p
- taken very i'll with bloody fux. l
u advised to use Chamberlain Collie,
L.