The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-10-15
GENERAL NEWS.
An Interesting Summary OF the
Weeks Events.

General Lee says the United
States forces in Cuba will be used
merely to preserve order.
Great alarm has been caused in
Havana by the wholesale pardon of
criminals BY the Spanish officials.
The English sparrow which is
sold for reed bird in Philadelphia,
is dyed and sold for q canary in
Boston.
The yellow fever situation in
Miss ssippi is growing worse. Thou
sands OF people are fleeing from the
scourge.
A balloon line from Europe to
America is the projected enterprise
of Vienna company headed by
Count Zeppelin.
The government has placed an
order for smokeless powder at Santa
Cruz, CAL, which will keep the
plant busy for two years.
Forest fires near Wichita, Kan,
drove clouds of insects and birds
from their hannts in such vast num-
bers as to darken the sky.
Edward Tomkins, of Camden,
N. j., had himself locked up in the
Camden Jail to prevent himself
from obeying an impulse to kill his
family.
Mrs. Annie Kline Rickert, once
a famous confederate spy, is now
president of the Stockton and Two
lumne County Railroad, a sixty
mile track in California.
Rev. A. S. Orne, of Syracuse, O.,
who has made observations in nine
teen states, says that IS to SO per
cent of criminals confined in pris-
ons were neglected children.
George D. Saxton, brother Of
Mrs. President Mckinley, was shot
dead about 6 o'clock last Friday
evening in Canton, 0. Mrs. Anna
C. George has been placed under
arrest on suspicion Of the murder.
Postmasters are now authorized
to issue money orders payable at
their own Offices. Practically, this
establishes the postal savings sys-
tenn, except that no provision Tor
interest is made.
The Red Lake reservation in
Minnesota has just been thrown
open to settlement under the Nelson
act, which requires five years resi-
dence and the payment of $1.25 an
acre at the end of that period. The
territory includes 367 600 acres.
A desperate fight occurred at the
stockade around the Chicago Vir-
den coal company's mines in lii
nois last Wednesday between union
miners and 200 imported negroes
from the South, in which seven
were killed and eighteen wounded.
/ Major A. Oakley Hall died on The
night of the 7th. inst of heart failure
at his home at 68 Washington
Square, South New York, aged 76
years. Mr.. Hall was for Is years
district attorney Of New York City
and mayor during the Tweed re-
gime.
the total mortality from the war
with Spain from bullets and disease
up to October 8, is shown by the
official records of the Adjutan'
General to be less than 5000. The
figures are much smaller than could
reasonably have been anticipated
| in so important conflict.
Jimmie" Stevens, girl, IA years
old, committed suicide at Dallas
Tex, by eating the heads of matches
When the poison began to take
effect, she regretted her rash act
and drank a large quantity of melt
ed lard believing it to be an anti
dote, but it practically ignited the
r phosphorus in her stomach, and sht
died in few minutes in great agony
General Merritt sees no practica
solution of the Philippine question
+ except government of the islands
by this country. He regards al
, absurd the joint control of any
: nature, and says the Filipinos arr
not difficult to govern, and add
that all the foreigners residing IL
the islands, "Spaniards, Americans
Portuguese, English and Germans
favor the annexation of the archi
. pelago by the United States"
The United States Mint at Sal
t Francisco and the Canadian official
. at Ottawa, now agree in placing tb
8 WELD of gold in Alaska for 1898 q
: 100000. A year ago the golt
e syndicate estimated that the Alask
. gold product for 1898 would exceed
$5O, 1000. OOO. This was done to dis
credit the use of silver and silenc
the demand for free coinage on tn
J ground that the gold product woul'
be large enough to enable the civ
; ilized world to adopt and maintain
; the single gold standard.
Three Doctors in Consultation.