The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-01-02
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
An Interesting Summary OF the
| Weeks Events.
| Harry Hayes was sentenced at
Salt Lake last week to be hanged
on January 22nd for the murder Of
his step-son, Albert Ernestrom. ut
Pelican Point last February.
| Fifteen Texas sharpsbooters who
enlisted in the Cuban cause we're
killed at Pinar del Rio province in
an engagement with the Spanish
troops. They were surrounded but
fought to the end killing more than
twice their number before the last
man persisted.
A passenger train was wrecked
lin Alabama last Sunday by three
fends for the sake Of plumber.
The train was thrown from q bridge
and twenty-one people killed. The
cars caught on fire and the greater
portion of the passengers were lit
orally roasted to death.
| At Stamford, Conn, Monday Mrs.
Henry Ward Beecher, who had
been recovering from q recent acci-
dent, was seized with fit of dizzi-
ness when rising from her bed, and
fell to the floor, breaking her hip.
She will have to use crutches for
the rest Of her life. Mrs. Beecher
is 81 years of age.
Mrs. George Coulter, while dec
Grating a Christmas tree for her four
little children in San Francisco,
fell over dead. The children thought
she was tired and had fallen asleep,
and not until her husband arrived
at home and entered the parlor was
it known that she was dead. Heart
disease was the cause.
Governor Morton, of New York,
has refused to pardon or commute
the sentence of John j. McKane.
A delegation of McKane's friends,
headed by his blind son, George.
and his youngest daughter, waited
on the Governor to plead in behalf
of their father for Executive clem-
ency.
Helen Cole, 17-year.old daughter
| of wealthy parents, at Geneva, Iowa,
was sentenced Monday to six
months imprisonment at Anamosa
by Judge Birdsall for burglary.
She entered a plea of guilty, and
stated that she was trying to get
| money enough to get a bicycle.
The burglary was committed in the
summer.
One hundred convicts in the
Frankfort, KY, penitentiary filed
petition with the the governor for
pardon. They stated in the petition
that if pardoned they would all 60
to Cuba and fight with the insur-
gents to free the island. The gov
ernor could not see it that way and
was inclined to think they might
work for freedom inside the walls,
and their expected Christmas gift
has gone glimmering.
A dispatch from Denver, Colo,
Dec. 9th says: For ten days Miss
Annie N. Stephens, step-daughter
of ]. L. Hodges, deputy county
collector, has been lying speechless
and paralyzed. Shortly after dark
on the evening of the 10th inst.
Miss Stephens was found by two
passing strangers, lying at the edge
Of the pavement in front of the
residence. 1t is supposed that the
young lady was sandbagged as she
was entering her home.
The Secretary of State of Califor-
MIA reports to the Board of Exam
liners that the Soldiers Home at
Yountsville ia not a State institu-
ton, and that thousands of dollars
have been illegally paid it by the
State. The State Controller, who
is responsible for all the moneys
paid out, excerpts to the Secretary's
statement. and says the Legislature
in 1886 passed an act placing the
Soldiers Home entirely under
State control, and the fact that the
State has never taken possession,
and that the Governor has not at
tempted to appoint directors of the
home, does not change the effect of
the act.
The st. Louis Republic says
Judge Adams, of the Federal Court.
yesterday awarded judgment for
81, 1886 to Mrs. Sarah Smith
against the Western Commercial
Travellers association on an accident
policy of Mrs. Smiths late husband.
The ground of complaint wac that
the skin was accidentally rubbed
off Mr.. Smiths toe while breaking
in new pair of shoes; that blood
poisoning set in causing Smiths
death. The Judge held the ground
of complaint. valid, saying. that it
was evident that the skin was rubbed
off Smiths toe without his consent,
was therefore accidental and that
blood poison and death were direct