The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-04-03
GENERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary OF the
Weeks Events.

$zU,UVU,0UV In gOIu TINS year.
WIN. Adams, oliver Optic" the
famousswriter. Of stories for boys,
died in Buston March 81, at the
age Of IS years.
Governor Adams of Colorado
has signed the bill recently passed
by the State legislature aboiishing
capital punishment.
A cyclone struck a little village
near Pine Bluff, Ark, Tuesday night,
destroying all tie buildings and
killing several persons.
A proposal is before the New
York legislature to establish the
state of Manhattan out OF the ter
ritory included in Greater New
York.
Some mischievous boys distrib-
uted lighted cigars among the mon
keys in a Paris zoo the other day
and the animals pulled away until
they all got sick.
Two. feet of snow fell at Carson,
New, last Sunday. Such u snow
storm SO late in the season is said
to be unprecedented in the history
of the capital city.
Oscar Wilde has located at Passy,
little town in France, and resumed
his literary work under an assumed
name. He is contributor to one
of the leading Paris journals.
There are thousands Of sons of
ex-Confederates living in New York
and they propose to organize a
mounted battalion and ride in the
Grant memorial parade in that city
on April 18th.
Six children of John McGrath, a
farmer residing in Nehama county,
Kan, were drowned near their
home on Sunday evening while at
tempting to ford q creek which was
running over its banks.
Since the change of Administra-
ton, over $4,000 applications for
postotfices have been filed at the
Postotfice department. The num-
Der is said to be somewhat smaller
than the applications four years
ago.
A terrible cyclone visited Chand-
Ter, a town in the interior of Okla
homa, Tuesday night, and swept it
off the earth. Abou. 80 persons
were killed outright and large in
jured. The remainder of the pop
ulation-over 1,OOO-are homeless.
A dispatch from London March
25th says: Bicycle enthusiasts are
greatly cheered by receipt of the
news that Mr.. Gladstone, notwith.
standing his great age, has joined
the ranks of the wheelmen. He
has written to friend in London
that he has fairly mastered the ma
chine.
Two ladies, daughters of Judge
Gregory of the Supreme court o.
Indiana, are about to establish q
factory in Atlanta, Ga, for the man
ufacture of bicycle tire they have
patented. The tire was begun by
their brother and has been com.
pleted by the two ladies after two
years of close application to the
idea and unfaltering faith in it,
value.
A bill to prohibit prize-fghtine
has been introduced in the Penn
sylvania legislature. 1t provides
that whenever any prize-fght shall
take place within :he limits of thu
state of Pennsylvania and either
one of the contestants therein shall
be so severely injured that deatt
! ensues, the remaining contestan
shall be indicted for murder of thu
first degree and if convicted shall
suffer the penalty of death.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts
, has presented bill in the United
States Senate prohibiting vitascop'
and kindred exhibitions of priz
fights in the District of Columbia
and the territories, and forbiddinl
the shipment of pictures of thes
exhibitions by mail or through 40!
: Interstate means. The bill i
: aimed against the vitascope or kin
, etoscope exhibition of the recen
Carson City fight, although genera
in its provisions.
], A dispatch from Berlin, Marcl
} 31st, says: at is semi-officially an
, nounced here this evening that tn
! powers have arrived at the convic
: ton that the situation in Crete an
/ on the Thessalian frontier must no
5 be allowed to continue and tina
! steps must forthwith be taken t
: stop the aggressive attitude G
. Greece. The blockade of Greece ha
D therefore been decided upon wit
, the consent of all the powers an
: will be enforced at an early date"
A dispatch from Boston Marc
s Goth says that the steamer MA
3 chooche,' which arrived last nigh
from Savannah, reports that whe
passing Cape Hatteras she wa
: hailed by two men in an open boa
: Capt. Smith, supposing they wei
ship.wrecked, stopped his steame
The men rowed alongside and calm
!. ly asked who won the fight at Ca
= son City, saying they had been OF