The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-03-27
GEN ERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary Of the
Weeks Events.


Horace Porter to France.
Owing to the overflow of the
Mississippi river nearly 1000 square
miles of the state of Arkansas is
under water.
Postmaster General Gray an
nounces that the four-year tenure
of office rule will apply to post
masters Of all classes.
It is said that several hundred
thousand horses are running wild
in the state of Washington on &C.
count of the introduction of electric
cars and bicycles. The horses are
being sold for 81 apiece.
1t is estimated that 100000
were wagered on the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons fight. The cash value of
the fight to the winner, including
$4,000 purse, 5000 wager and
$4,000 for the photo privilege
$50, 900.
The Reno Journal says Martin
Julian. manager of Fitzsimmons,
and Wheeklock, manager for Dan
Stuart. presented George Siler, the
referee Of the late fight. $500 note
on the train between Carson and
| Reno on Saturday evening.
DR.. Darlington of Bingham, Utah,
| who was sentenced last week to ten
years in the penitentiary at hard
labor for causing the death of Mrs.
Ida Paige by abortion, was released
Tuesday on a 81 800 bond, pending
his appeal to the supreme court.
A man was killed in Philadelphia
last Saturday from blow received
| over the heart while engaged in a
friendly pugilistic encounter. The
same day, another man while box
ing lust for fun with friend, re-
ceived a blow on the head which
caused his death few hours after
wards.
Last Saturday two boys aged ten
and twelve respectively living near
Bedford, Ind, were playing William
Tell, and in the absence of an apple
one boy placed corn cob on the
others head and shot at it with a
revolver. The ball struck the boy
in the forehead killing him in
stantly.
The Reno Journal says it was re-
marked by an attendant at the Cor
bett- Fitzsimmons fight that the
most gentlemanly persons present
were the two principals and the ref
cree. The audience can be briefly
described as a bowling mob, that
in comparison a band Of Apache
Indians would have been digni6ed.
The disastrous floods along the
Mississippi still continue. The
river is rising and people are panic
stricken. The loss of life aud
property is enormous. At Memphis,
Tennessee, the great river steamers
are giving excursions 40 miles into
Arkansas, and their course is over
tree tops, cabins, and telegraph
poles.
The DeLamar mine in Lincoln
county, Nevada. has been started
up again, and the great gold mine
is running to its fullest capacity
with nearly a complete new force ol
men. The men and the manage
ment arrived at an understanding
, by which there will be no danger o.
strikes. The output of the mine IL
: nearly 800 tons daily.
The San Francisco hoard of health
has secured evidence through Chic
Food Inspector Dockery agains
} twenty-five local grocers charging
them with selling adulterated fruits
A chemical analysis of the .curran'
Jelly sold by the grocers agains
whom the complaints are made
shows that it has not particle 9
currant fruit in it, but made fron
apple jelly and starch paste. /
contains acetic acid AID is coloree
with aneline dye. The strawberry
! Jelly is made also from apple jelly
with glucose, cane sugar, and col
) ored with coal tar colors.
Theodore Durrant has by nj
means given up the fight for hi
. life. George A. Knight has beer
added to his counsel and is nov
E preparing a petition asking tn
! Supreme court for a rehearing o
! the application previously mad
I and denied, for a new trial. If thi
: petition, which will be submitted
without argument, be denied, a
}. the District Attorney anticipates
D there will then only remain tn
e possibility of securing the inter
: ference of the Federal courts il
e Durrant's behalf. Failing in that
!, only the action of the Governo
v can step between the CONDEMNED
e man and the gallows.
! A daring robbery was COMMITTEES
a in Spokane on ST. Patrick's da.
when tray containing about $3.50
< worth of diamond rings was stole1
a from the jewelry store of l. Dorm
G berg, situated on a popular thor
Y oughfare, and at time when tn
6 :il,,s wara linaA with nedee