The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-01-23

An Interesting Summary Of the
Weeks Events.

An XuC6r0BCluk summary VI tAs
| Weeks Events. !.
An English Earl recently pait
$1,000 for q game cock.
| A Indignant form of Ia grippe il
raging in portions of Kentucky.
| A lady undertaken is doing 9
thriving business in Alameda, Cal
George G. Vest dem has been
reelected United States Senator
from Missouri.
Senator James K. Jones, of Ark.
ansas, has been reelected to the
! Un tied States Senate.
United States Senator Wolcott is
| the guest of Baron Rothschild al
his country-house in Hertfordshire
Fifteen little girls and boys were
cremated as the result Of the burn.
ing of an Orphans Asylum at Dali
las, Tex, last Saturday night.
Nearly 100, 900 horses are said to
be starving to death in eastern
Washington, and, strange as it may
seem, their owners are reported glad
of it. Whole bands have been sold
lately at from 81 to 50 per head.
H. NJ. Teller was reelected Tues
day to the United States Senate by
the Colorado legislature, receiving
81 votes out of 50. He received
unanimous vote of popuist, silver
republican, democratic and nation
al silver parties.
Albert S. Willis, United States
Minister to Hawaii, died at Homo
lulu on January 9Th of pneumonia
The remains were brought TO this
country on the steamer Australia
which arrived at San Francisco last
Monday.
Harry Hays, who was convicted
of the murder of his step-son at
Pelican Point, Utah, last fall and
sentenced to be hung, has had his
sentence committed by the State
Board of Pardons to Imprisonment
for life.
During the year 1896 51,723 fam.
lilies were evicted in New York City
for non payment of rent. Reckon.
ing four persons to family, more
than 2OO, 900 men, women aud chill.
dren were forcibly elected by the
strong arm Of the law.
Arthur Duestrow, the st. Louis
millionaire who murdered his wife
and child, must hang. The Su
preme court in session at Jefferson
City, Mo-, handed down a decision
Tuesday affirming the decree of the
lower court, in which Duestrow was
convicted and sentenced to hang.
In the vicinity of Ouray, Col, one
day last week, Mrs. Frank A. Haine
and u lady friend were caught by
snowslide near the Congress mine
and carried down the mountain for
a thousand feet. When rescuers
reached the foot of the mountain
Mrs. Haine was dead, but the other
lady escaped unhurt.
A dispatch from Carson Jan. Is
says: A joint caucus for United
States Senator was held here in the
Nevada Legislature this evening.
Out of 80 votes cast Senator J. P.
Jones received IS and George s.
Nixon 3. Nixon was Jones only
opponent, and his votes came from
the Assemblymen and Senator from
his own county.
Ex-Assistant Postmaster Frank
P. Mcbride and Stamp Clerk J. w.
Cunningham of the Salt Lake post
office are under arrest charged with
embezzlement. Mcbride is charged
with the embezzlement of $4,000, and
Cunningham with having embez-
zled 1868. Mcbride is highly con-
nected. His father, Judge Mcbride,
is one of the most prominent law
yers of Spokane, Wash, and his
uncle represents Oregon in the
United States Senate. Cunningham
is also a member of prominent
Salt Lake family, and has been con.
nected with the postofce since 1890
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