The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-12

An Interesting Summary OF the
Weeks Events.

An Interesting Summary OF the
Weeks Events.
| William ]. Bryan will give a lee
ture in Salt Lake on the evening Of
July LIST on the subject of bimetal
lism.
A 15-year-old boy at Greene, Ia.
while attempting to unload q CUR
discharged the weapon, killing bis
two sisters.
Governor Budd granted Salter
D. Worden, the condemned train
wrecker, who was to have been
hung at Folsom Friday June 4th,
reprieve until July 9Th.
A London dispatch to the New
York Journal says that Signor
Nicolini, husband of Adelini Patti,
is not expected to live. The diva
has gone to his bedside in Wales.
The Middle-of-the. Road Populists
of the South, led by Tom Watson,
have joined in a movement to over
throw Marion Butler of the national
committee to prevent any further
fusion.
One of the receiving tellers of
the German National bank at st.
Paul has been arrested on a charge
of grand larcency, $4,000 in cash
having disappeared from the bank
last Saturday.
Charles Price, farmer near JEFF.
fersonville, Ind, while killing po-
tato bugs, was covered with swarm
Of the beetles and his face and
hands impregnated with their poi.
son, from which he died soon after
wards, in great agony.
A cyclone swept over Westmore.
land, a small town near Utica, N.
Y, last Saturday. destroying sew
eral buildings and injuring a num-
Der of persons. A woman and her
8-year-old son took refuge in a barn
which was blown down crushing
both to death.
r. B. Mcconnell, the defaulting
president of the defunct Merchants
National bank at Ocala, Fla, CON-
mitted suicide Sunday evening,
shooting himself when an officer
appeared at his home to arrest him
on a warrant sworn out by the re-
ceiver of the bank.
The question of opening the I'm.
compahgre reservation has been dis
posed of. The house concurred in
the amendment adopted by the
senate TO throw open to settlement
all lands on the reservation, except
the mineral lands, which are to re-
main in government ownership.
The Silver Democrats of Ken
lucky at their state convention last
week adopted the Chicago Demo
cratic platform. They Endorsed the
canvass of Bryan and pledged him
the support of the Kentucky Dem
ocracy. There was one dissenting
vote out of 1000 on the adoption
of the resolutions.
Capitalist w. B. Bradbury, the
San Francisco capitalist, who re-
Gently paid fine for violation Of
the anticipating ordinance, was ar
rested and convicted since on
second charge and sentenced to
twenty-four hours Imprisonment in
the city prison. He will appeal his
case to the Supreme court.
Francis Schlatter, who claimed
to perform miraculous cures by d.
vine power, was recently found
dead in the foothills of Sierre Madre,
30 miles south of Casa Grande, in
the state of Chihauhau, Mexico.
He had been fasting and apparently
starved to death. While in Denver,
from August % to November Is.
1895, about 100000 people visited
Schlatter to receive treatment.
The rule announced shortly after
the administration assumed power
that postmasters would be allowed
to serve out their full terms unless
removed for cause, has been modi-
fed and it is expected that whole
sale appointments to postoffices
will be made soon. It is the desire
of the postof1ice department to fill
as many offices as possible before
the expiration of the fiscal year,
July LIST. in order that appointments
may begin with the new quarter.
C.. L. Jensen, station agent for
the Rio Grande Western at River
ton. Utah: has been arrested by the
Postoffice Inspector on a charge of
using cancelled postage stamps.
Jensen, it is charged, sent letter
to q party in Salt Lake, placing
upon it postage stamp that bad
been Cancelled and was likewise
badly torn. When the letter reached
the postoffice at Salt Lake it was
turned over to the Inspector.
Benjamin Rule, q young miner,
was killed and John Rippingham,
his partner, seriously injured BY the
tardy explosion of blast 10 the
Massachusetts mine at Grass Val
ley, CAL, last Saturday. Ten holes
were charged, nine of which ex-
ploded, but the tenth hung fire, and