The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-06-06
0enikal News.

NU0RA GvOW0s
The los u properly b The s..
Loais cyclone i estiuaasd y ne
00o eco. Outside help i solicited
for the sufferers.
The hottest place in tho United
States il said to b 1t Bagdad, Arts.
At that plaoe tho thermometer often
registers no degrees in tho shade
for days together.
John Hays Hammond, who has
been Imprisoned 1t Pretoria, has
been granted = parole to visit his
wife at Johannesburg, on account
Of her serious illness.
Mark NJ. Pomeroy, better known
~ Brick" Pomeroy, died at his
home in Brooklyn. N. T., last Sat
urday, from Bright's disease. Mr..
Pomeroy Was born in Elmira in
1888.
Three weeks ago, At Fishers Cor
ners, near Ottawa Lake, Mich, Mrs.
Chas. Comstock gave birth to seven
children. All are now living but
ono, and tho mother and six chill
dren are doing we'll.
A car crowded with excursionists
while crossing q bridge at Van
couver, B. c., May Goth, by the
middle span, about $50 feet in
length giving way, the car plunged
into the water below, and sixty-one
persons were drowned.
A dispatch from New York June
l says: Two young men from Can
ton, O., Norman peVaux and joni
La Chance, left tho city hall to-day
on bicycles to ride to San Francisco.
They expect to arrive in San Fran
cisco in about 40 days.
Salt Lake Tribune: Warren Fos-
ter has received q telegram an
nouncing that Gen. Jacob s. Coxey,
the original keep-off-the-grass man,
will deliver an address vt Saltair
June 10th. The Populists of the
city will give him a warm reception.
At free feast of hungry peasants
during the coronation exercises at
Moscow May Both, while a rush
was being made for the table thous-
ands were knocked down, 1900
people were trampled to death and
l 200 injured, the majority of them
fatally.
Carson Appeal: The rumor that
N. H. DeYoung, of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. ia to be the Score
tary of the Navy if Mckinley is
elected has already caused cold
ness toward Mckinley in the Golden
State that is frosty enough to nip
all the fruit in the citrus belt.
The work of clearing up Che debris
and repairing damages done by the
St. Louis tornado is being pushed
with vigor. Mayor Swift Of Chi
cago, has issued an appeal to the
people of that city and to the
storm sufferers. Supplies of cloth
ing, bedding and tents are pouring
in from all quarters for the Victims
Of the terrible disaster.
It is announced that negotiations
between the English syndicate and
the Anaconda company of Butte,
Mont, have reached such q stage
that the purchase of a controlling
interest in the great property by the
syndicate is rs good as settled, and
that within few days the deal will
be closed whereby another quarter
interest will pass to the Rothschilds
on a basis Of $45,OOO,OO0 for the
whole.
A distressing accident occurred at
Anaconda, Mont, Monday evening
which resulted in the instant death
Of Robert Nickel, the twelve-year.
old son of Robert Nickel. With
half a dozen playmates the boy
bad constructed a steam boiler out
of plumbers gasoline tank and
built q FIRE under it. Steam was
from it when the boy ran
to turn off an escape valve. The
can exploded and a piece of it
struck him between the eyes, killing
him instantly. His comrades had
fed and escaped injury. The grief
stricken mother, carried him into
the house in her arms. The boy
died without speaking. Fragments
of the can, which was made Of
heavy tin, were hurled 100 feet from
the spot.
Warden Campbell Of the Idaho
State prison returned Wednesday
from Deer Lodge, Mont, with H.
L. Hardy, . convict who escaped
from the Idaho penitentiary Octo-
Der 18. 1891. Hardy was sent up
from Bear Lake county July 80,
1889, for four years for grand lar