The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-05-29
GEN ERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary OF the
Weeks Events.

Weeks Events.
Miss Francis E. Willard, presi-
dent of the national w. c. T. ..
association, is critically i'll in Chi
cago.
William Waldorf Astor has dona-
ted $4,000 to the Prince of Wales
fund for providing dinners for the
poor in London during jubilee week.
Governor Black. of New York,
has approved the bill making train
wrecking punishable by elecrocu-
ton when death results from the
wreck.
At Rochester, N. Y, last Sunday
a young man while racing on bis
bicycle with a train, caught his
pedal on the step of q car and was
thrown under the wheels and killed.
Professor Falb of Vienna pre-
diets that on November 13, 1899,
the earth will collide with comet.
The earth will not suffer, but all
living beings will be suffocated by
poisonous gases.
A 15-year-old boy of Stockton,
N. j., committed suicide Sunday
because his father reproved him for
smoking cigarettes. 1t is believed
that he could not break off the
habit and in despair took bis life.
In the u. S. court at Helena, Mont.
last week, John Kearney was fined
81 900 for sending by express six
sticks of dynamite to his divorced
wife for the purpose of blowing her
up. The man pleaded guilty and
said he sent the explosives while
drunk.
Cyclone cellars are being built in
| many school districts in Kansas as
means of protecting the children
from the dreaded tornado. In one
town last summer 40 children were
turned out upon the prairie upon
the approach of cyclone to seek
shelter where best they could.
A farmer living near Carthage.
ILL.,, having no faith in banks, kept
his money hidden about the farm.
Recently he hid it in a chimney Of
his house, and on the day following
his wife put up a stove, kindled q
fire and burned up $1,000 in green
backs and melted $500 in gold.
A great sensation Was created in
Sandusky, O., Monday, by the ar
rest of the wives of tive Of the
wealthiest farmers in that section
Tor shoplifting. The women were
caught in the act, and the stolen
goods we're found ON their persons
and in the carriage in which they
went to the city.
| Oscar Wilde went to Paris imme-
Iiately upon his release from prison.
He stated his intentions to return
to London after u few weeks rest
and engage in literary work, and
will write over his own signature.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that
one of the FIRST acts of Oscar Wilde
on regaining his freedom was to
refuse $1,000 for story OF bis
prison experiences. ,
! Gov. Budd stated Monday after.
noon that he would not make an
announcement in the cases of The.
odore Durrant and S. D. Worden
petitioners for Executive clemency
before Thursday or Friday of this
week, and that he would then make
his decision known in both cases
Worden's sentence is for train
wrecking, during the railway strike
there three years ago.
The body of the late millionaire
banker, VIM. 8. Ladd, which was
stolen from the grave at Portland
Or, last week, was recovered five
days afterwards. Daniel G. Magone
a middle-aged farmer living neal
Oregon City, and Charles Montgom
cry, a young man who also resides
near Oregon City, were arrested or
suspicion. Montgomery made 9
confession duplicating Magone and
two other men who are yet at large
After Montgomery had made his
confession be took the officers te
where the body was buried. Tht
body was found practically in tht
same condition as when raised
from the grave.
Determined To Die.
Sunday night a young man named
Louis Cline appeared at the SAINTS
Rita mine at Victor, Colo, and tell
ing the engineer that boulder hae
, fallen upon the track, borrowed
stick of giant powder, fuse and
cap. Then, taking piece Of candle
!, he climbed up the bill a few hun
bred feet to the track, laid his heae
upon the powder and awaited th'
, result. The explosion scattered
brains and blood all around ane
threw the body distance of eigh
feet. The entire top and back o
: his head were blown of, leaving
only his chin and one jaw. On BIZ
bod Y was found q letter in which
he told of his many futile attempt
at suicide. He said: II have tries
: nrussic acid in all its strongest di