The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-04-10
GENERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary Of the
Weeks Events.

Prince Bismarck celebrated hi.
82d birthday April 1st. Emperor
William wired his congratulations
The mother of Minnie Williams
one of the girls murdered by Dur
rant has gone insane from grief over
the horrible fate of her daughter
Captain ]. B. DeLamar when sail
ing for Paris from New York last
week cabled to his banker in Salt
Lake to offer 81 100000 cash fol
the Mercur mine. The offer was
refused.
Hundreds of Cheyenne and Arap-
ahoe Indians, who are visiting their
brethren in Oklahoma, engaged in
ghost dances last week. Four Chey-
ennes are reported to have died
from exhaustion.
J. K. Clark, of Butte City, Mont,
has just purchased 5000 acres Of
rich tobacco land near Tuxtla, Mex,
and will engage in the culture Of
tobacco on an extensive scale. He
paid 100000 in gold for the tract
Hailstones fell at Mount Vernon,
Mo-, April LIST, weighing ten and
twelve ounces. 1t is said that they
varied in size from an egg to base.
ball. All the buildings were dam
aged but no fatalities were reported
Ira Hurst, an old resident of Ali.
ance, Ohio, died recently of hydro
phebia, at the Northern Ohio Insane
Asylum. Itnow develops that Hurst
was bitten by mad dog forty years
ago, and his death is attributed to
that cause.
William Edison, who shot Miss
Lily OFT at Ogden, Utah, several
months ago, was tried for the crime
last week and convicted of assault
to murder. He was sentenced Mon
day to serve ten years in the state
prison.
The 17-year-old son of Governor
Atkinson of Georgia eloped with a
12-year-old girl last week. The
Juveniles were married, but were ar
rested on their bridal trip and taken
back to face the groom's irate faith
er, who took possession of the boy
husband and locked him up.
At Chicago, Tuesday night, a 10,
month-old baby had both it's eyes
burned out by a 3-year-old brother
The children were playing together
in the basement, and the little boy
brother procured a poker and hold
ing it in the stove until it was red
hot, poked it into the infants eyes
Eighteen young girls, members o
a fashionable seminary at Athens
Ca, have been expelled for indulg
ing in clark" After breakfast, sew
eral mornings ago, the gay schoo
girls slipped away from the ground:
and began at once to enjoy thu
novelty of breaking in on the usua
quiet of the dignified and classic
town of Athens. Some had thei
hats on and some were bareheaded
All of them were evidently bent or
having a good time, and while on thu
business streets INDUCED in shout
ing and singing. They went into
cafe and ordered refreshments, ane
perpetrated an April joke on th'
clerk. Then they got tally.ho ane
took a ride. Altogether they hao
big time. Mrs. Lipscomb, prin
cipal of the institute, when she dis
covered their absence did not senC
after them, but sat down and wrote
letters to their parents, asking then
to withdraw their daughters frou
the institute at once. The eighteen
young ladies we're furnished trans
portation home the next day.
Feared Being Buried Alive.
A dispatch from Marion, Ind.
March 3lst Gays: A gruesome deco
was performed at the National Sol
dier's Home to-day when DR.. Chsrle'
H. Eckert, with a long and keer
surgical needle, four times pene
trated the heart of the dead man
Charles Comston, who had dice
the Saturday previous, of clot o
the brain. The dead mans fathe
had been buried alive and this fac
so preyed on Comston's mind tina
he lived in dread of meeting TIT
same fate. Years ago when Com
ston was a wealthy property owne
and DR.. Eckert was a young medl
cal practitioner, in Fort Wayne
the two entered into an agreement
that in case of Comston's deatf
Eckert was to perform this pos
mortem service for him, that b.
might not have to undergo the tor
lures suffered by his father in the
grave.
Haunted!