The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-10-01
aRNERAL NEWS.


Thomas +. Bayaro, - 1am0uS
Democratic statesmen i dead.
The queen Of Denmark, mother
81 the Princess Of Wales. died
Thursday morning.
The Republicans Of New York
have nominated Col. Theodore F.
Roosevelt for governor.
The small ~pox has broken out
among members of the California
regiment at Manila.
Among the Chinese . coffin il
considered = neat and appropriate
present for an aged person, especi-
ally if in bad health.
The pupil of the eye is 80 called
because when looking in it very
small image Of the observer may
be seen, hence the term from the
Latin ''pupillus," or little pupil.
A EARLY Winter.
Portland Telegram: Flocks Of
geese were observed winging their
way south last night. 1t means
that the grim ice king 10 closing in
on the domains of the earth and
gives evidence of an early winter.
A dispatch from Seattle Sept.
26th says: The steam schooner
Excelsior arrived this afternoon
from Copper river, Alaska, with 200
prospectors who failed to find gold.
They report that the gunboat
Wheeling will bring about ESQ des-
titute men from Copper river.
George Mulligan, a miner, who
recently returned from the Klon-
dixie, lost a purse containing SCI, :
600 on q San Francisco street car
a few days ago. 1t was found and
returned by John Donahue, the
gripman Of the car. With the ex-
ception of $40 in currency the
money was in checks, one Of which
was a draft for $57, 900, issued at
Dawson City on the Bank of Brit
ish Columbia in San Francisco.
Mulligan, who was so lucky as to
recover his fortune intact, left the
paltry sum of $40 at the carhouse
for the honest gripman.
Bossomlsss Bog.
A trestle spanning part of q
swamp traversed by the Philadel-
phia, Reading & New England rail-
road, mile east of Pine Plains, in
Duchess county, N. Y, has sunk
completely out Of sight in the bog.
In another part Of the swamp tel
egraph pole alongside the track has
disappeared.
Sixty men are at work with gravel
trains piling 120 cars of gravel and
stone a day upon the roadbed
which sinks faster than it can be
filled in. On Sunday night the road.
bed was IA inches lower TINA on
Saturday night, and on Monday
night eight inches lower than Sun.
day night.
A piece of pipe used for sounding
has been driven 100 feet into this
bog and no bottom was found.
Il is said that the roadbed looks
as if twisted by an earthquake
Residents for miles around flock t.
the scene of this phenomenon and
speculate upon the possibilities o.
their houses also sinking into the
swampy land.
Grief Wa Tee Great.
A dispatch from Patterson, N. j.
Sept. 28th says:
A horee trampled a six-year-olc
boy to death in this city early las
night. and when the little fellows
father, Charles Hopper, discovered
his mangled remains he became
violently insane.
During momentary absence from
his wagon the child caught up the
lines which caused the horse to rur
away. It had gone but short dis
lance when the boy was thrown on
under the horses hoofs. His heae
was crushed, and death was instan
taneous.
The father was the first to reacl
the mangled body and he was fran
tic with grief. Taking the deat
boy in bis arms he dashed upor
the railroad track and threw him
self upon the rails. A train wa
approaching and bystanders hat
the greatest difficulty in removing
the frantic man.
The assistance of several mel
was necessary to control him after
ward and he was taken in charg
by the police for the night that b
might do himself no injury. II
is raving maniac to-day.
How to Prevent Croup.