The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-19
GEN ERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary Of the
Weeks Events.

1 A9AoZ1AS
An Interesting Summary Of tn
Weeks Events.
Thursday Charles Hennesy was release
from San Quentin, where he had spen
two years for . crime recently discovers
evidence shows he never committed.
James P. Harlan, brother of Associat
Justice Harlan, was accidentally kille,
BY train on the Louisville, Henderson
q st. Louis railway Tuesday afternoon
There is talk of forming . vigilanc
COMMITTEES at Cripple Creek. Crimes o
ell kinds are frequent and the people ar
becoming tired and have about determine.
to take the law into their own hands.
A late dispatch from Sydney, n s. W
says the trial Of Frank Butler, charges
with the murder of Captain Lee Welie
while the two were on gold prospecting
trip, has been concluded and the jur!
rendered . verdict of guilty.
At Bellaire, Ohio, Sunday three younS
ladies while returning home from church
were struck BY lightning and instantly
killed. 1t 10 believed that the steel cor.
sets worn by the three that were killed
Was the chief cause of their death, e. one
young lady in the party, who was only
stunned, wore none.
Mrs. John Cameron, wife of the super
intendent of the Victor coal mines, .,
Pueblo, COL, and q prominent society
lady of that city, was fatally burned one
day last week by the explosion of Can
of benzine with which she WAS cleaning
furniture. She died few hours after.
ward in terrible agony.
Durrant has been reprieved until July
9th by Governor Budd. It Is claimed
that the reprieve was granted to avoid
future complications. A writ of mandate
has been prepared by Attorney General
Fitzgerald in which Governor Budd ap-
pears as petitioner and asks that the War
den 1T San Quentin be compelled to carry
out the laws of the State and execute
Durrant on July 9th.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, one day last week
. constable elected the family Of Bert
Crowley because the rent was not paid,
and of the six children who were down
with measles, five have died and the other
was not expected to live. A relapse fol
lowed on account of exposure, and whoop-
ing cough, pneumonia and tuberculosis
attacked the children. The City physi
clan did all he could for the sufferers and
even called to his aid other doctors, but
oil they could do was unavailing.
w. B. Bradbury, the San Francisco
millionaire, who contends that he has q
constitutions! right to spit when and
wherever he pleases. will have to'serve
the sentence Of "a hours imprisonment
in the county Jail imposed upon him By
Police Judge Low recently on the con.
viction for the second time of spitting
in the street cars. Bradbury appealed
from this judgement to the superior court
but Judge Wallace decided that his appli-
cation for writ of habeas corpus was
without merit and affirmed the judgment
o. Barney Barnato, the South African dia
mond king, who was among the passen
gers on q British steamship which left
Cape Town June end for Southhamp ton.
committed suicide on the voyage by leap
ing overheard. His body was recovered.
Barnsto was an English Jew and reputed
to be one of the richest men in the world.
His real name was Barnett Isaacs and
Barnsto was an assumed name, q sort OF
stage name, for he began his life IN South
Africa by exhibiting a trick donkey some
twenty five years ago. He was then about
20 years of age. He made the foundation
of his immense fortune in the Kimberly
diamond mines of South Africa. He was
reputed to be worth $15O,OO0 900. Re
Gently it was reported that his health WA
suffering from the severe tension of late
speculatlons, in which he lost . great
part of his fortune. In the latter part OF
May it was reported from Cspetown tina,
he was suffering from nervous prostration
and had been placed by bis friends under
restraint.
To Walk on Water.
Robert Cook of Boston, doesn't claim
to be smphibious, but proposes to make
the trip from Pittsburg to Cincinnati
distance of 400 miles, by walk
ing on the water. A wager of 5000 is
made that he cannot accomplish the feat
within fifteen days. Cook is now at New
Orleans training on the surface of Lake
The shoes he wears are real water shoes,
4 feet long, 6 inches wide and inchee
deep, invented by himself. There are
ins on either side of them, and there are
Ems on the bottom. When he takes
step forward with one foot the fms close
when he takes step with the other foo,
the 6ns on the shoe remaining still are
opened and form resistance to the water,
him from slipping backward
He will he followed down the Ohio while
his feat by launch and press
boat.