The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-17

GEN ERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary Of the
Weeks Events.

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/. Mrs. ]. r. Walker died suddenly q
Salt Lake, July 9th, of heart failure.
j The Minnesota state board of pardon
has refused to pardon the Younge
brothers.
i Mrs. Teresa Clawson Wells, wife of Gov
Wells of Utah, died in Salt Lake on tn
9th inst. after an illness of several months
Five year old Lillian Ross, who fel
and broke her neck at her home in New
York City recently, is rapidly recovering
Nearly every train from Spokane
Wash, for British Columbia carries frou
100 to 200 passengers for the gold mines
| A marriage license was issued at Sal
Lake, Monday, to John Rose and Char.
lotte Hoskins. The groom Is II and the
bride 50 years of age.
During the past six months nearly sixty
companies have been formed in London
for mining, exploration and smelling
purposes in British Columbia.
Machinery, tools, etc, on an abandoned
| mine are not "lOcatable.' Failure to com
ply with any Government. requirement,
affects only title to the mine itself.
The Commissioner of Pensions has be-
fore him the case of about 100 veterans
dismissed from the pension office during
| the last Cleveland administration, and
who seek reinstatement.
Among tue bills recently passed by the
Massachusetts, Legislature was one max
ing it crime to sell or wear birds feath-
Skof fho ofo
and nearly every woman, is liable to ar
rest aud punishment.
The identity of the young lady who has
been chosen to personify Utah during the
Pioneer Jubilee will be kept secret until
the morning of the Goth, when she will be
unveiled in public. She is said to be one
of the most beautiful Of lions daughters
Nicholas C. Creedc, the millionaire
mine-0wDer, after whom the town of
Creole, Colo, was named, committed
suicide with morphine Monday evening
at his home in Los Angeles because his
wife, from whom he had separated, in
sisted upon renewing their marital rela-
tons.
The Salt Lake Tribune says the prospect
of \ bountiful crop from the wheat fields
has induced the miilers of Utah to reduce
the price Of -four 10 cents per hundred
pounds. The reduction became effective
last Monday. Tnls applies to all stand
ard brands.
Philip I. Ashley, convicted of killing
John Sanders, United States soldier at
Huachuaca, Ariz., year ago, WAS hanged
ut Tucson July 9th. He made = jocuiar
remark, danced jig and said, "Let her
90, Gallagher" His neck was broken
aud he died without culver.
The mystery of the disappearance of
Charley Ross from his home in Philadel-
delphia twenty three years ago is at last
cleared up by the confession of brother
of one OF the 6ends who kidnapped him.
The child was murdered in the house 55
Grand street, New York City, to prevent
his rescue by the police. The Child steal
ers we're killed while committing another
crime.
Mrs. Hay, the wife of the United States
ambassador, had a narrow escape from Sc
rious accident in London recently. While
driving with Col. Hay, the pole of an ON
nibus penetrated the panel OF the carriage
at a point where Mrs. Hays head had
rested only a moment before. Had she
not shifted her position when she did
fatal injury would have been almost I'M
avOidable.
The police department of Kansas City,
Kan, have commenced working women
prisoners at breaking stone, the same as
the male prisoners. Il is argued that
women prisoners kept in idleness were
not sufficiently punished. "They do not
object to going to Jail at all; in fact they
seem to like it, said the chief of police.
The women will wear coarse Overalls the
same as the men.
Count Bonitace de Csstellane, who
married Anna Gould, has been black
balied by the Jockey club of Paris. One
black ball is sufficient to exclude, but no
less than twenty-eight were counted in
the FIRST vote on the counts application
for membership. 1t is said that Recount
spent $500, 900 last year alone in the pur
chase of art treasures. This year he can
get nothing on credit without his wife's
signature.
Lady Robbed On = Train.
a ulSp6tCu IEOM Odu + IuuCiSCt, July
10th, says: Mrs. Swift, lady from the
East who has just arrived on the train,
reports the loss of small fortune, She
was on the regular overland train. and
when the sleeping car in which she had q
berth came to stop ut the Oakland mole
her purse and all her jewelry were gone.
She informed the police that her purse,
$270O in greenbacks, two ear
rings, in each of which was q diamond
two carats, and diamond
brooch valued at $3.50, was taken from
under her pillow during the night.
Children Mutilated by Beggars.
The discovery has been made recently !
Of hideous practices among the beggars
Of South Russia, who muti!ate children |
with the object of rendering their ap-
pearance such that it will excite pity and
thus draw money from the charitable.
A case is stated of girl 8 years old who
was stolen from her parents by beggars.
The child was gagged and taken to
cellar, where her captors discussed the
method to be employed in mutilating her.
Finally her face was smeared with pitch,
which was then set on fire. The flames
scared her face and blinded her. Then
the beggars disjointed her fingers and
afterward cut her feet to make her limp.
The girl, who was rescued from her cap
tors, says she saw the corpses of two boys
in the cellar who had presumably sue