The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-06-13
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General News.

! James J. Corbett, the pngilist il
visiting his parents in San Fran
cieco.
| There we're several deaths a
Chicago last week from the effects
of heat.
Henry Irving. the acter has sen
bis check for $1,000 to the st. LOui!
sufferers.
St. Louis has IS miles of street.
filed with debris, the result of tn,
tornado. Nearly 100000 has al
ready been received as contribu'
tons for the relief of the sufferers
Frank Mayo, the actor, died
Monday. while asleep on the over
land train, near Omaha. Fatty de-
generation of the heart was the
cause of his death.
| Mrs. Annie Dyer, the baby farme,
of Rudbig, England, arrested March
9th on charge of numbering many
infants intrusted to her care, was
hanged in Newgate prison Wednes.
day morning.
One of the big chicken raisers Of
Petaluma, Cal, is buying aged
horses and killing them for food
for his fowls. Horses are very
cheap and their flesh is probably
less expensive than wheat.
1t is now believed that Durham,
the wholesale murderer for whom
California offers reward of $1O,O
dead or alive, is making his escape
on a bicycle. His wheel, which he
had before the murders is missing.
An English syndicate has bought
the DeLamar (Nev. mines for the
sum of $6,O0O.OOO. The property
was purchased by Captain DeLamar
in April, 1894, for $4,000. Three
hundred men are employed at the
mine and mill.
Harry Hynds, who has been on
trial at Salt Lake for the murder
of Walter Dinwoody, his wife,
paramount, was acquitted last Sat-
urday. The jury, after being out
over sixteen hours, returned YER
diet Of mot guilty."
At Oakland last week Judge
Greene sentenced John Alsop to
fifteen years in the penitentiary for
robbing a man of $40, and twenty
five years was given John Green
back for robbing man of a silver
watch and 81 in money.
William Simmons, a prominent
and wealthy citizen of Wilmington,
Del, was adjudged insane a few
days ago and while being conveyed
to the asylum became a raving
maniac, and, breaking the manacles
which held his arms, he tore out
both his eyes.
The city of Johnstown, Pa, which
was overwhelmed by the waters of
broken dam May 81, 1889, engulf-
ing several thousand people, is now
handsome and thriving place of
10000 inhabitants. having added
10000 to its population since that
calamity.
Edward Perry, the Sawyer FAM
lily murderer, has been sentenced
to hang July 21st. This breaks the
record in Missouri for speedy JUS
tice. The discovery of the crime
and the arrest, trial and conviction
of one of the murderers covered
only ten days.
Mrs. J. P. Ramsey, sister-in-law
of D. G. Ramsey, ex-chief of the
Order of Telegraphers, died in East
St. Louis Saturday night as result
Of her heroic efforts in rescuing her
husband from the ruins of the Van
dalia freight-house the night of the
recent tornado. Mr.. Ramsey is
not expected to live.
John w. Hay, assistant editor Of
the San Francisco Journal of Com
MERGE, was killed Sunday night by
Mrs. Kittie MacDougall, wife of a
Chicago drummer, who afterwards
shot herself through the heart. The
couple had been living together and
her paramour's threats to leave her
caused the woman to- commit the
double tragedy.
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