The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-02-12
GEN ERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary OF the
Weeks Events.

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1 Weeks Events.
/ An Ohio legislator has introduce,
a bill to make candidates for matri
mony undergo medical examina
sion 40 prerequisite to issuance o
a license.
A young woman who was arrested
for theft in New York store say
she committed the crime in orde
to get into prison because she wa,
starving.
A score of persons were drowned
and $4,000, 900 of property destroy
ed by the storm which swept ovel
Eastern Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island last week.
Warrants have been issued fol
the arrest of forty San Francisco
druggists. charged with selling pills
under counterfeit labels. which they
knew to be bogus.
Recently there died at Blum, Tex,
q historic mule. He was AZ years
of age and saw service in the Con-
federate army. For years he was q
feature of ex-Confederate reunions.
The Hawaiian Congress will pass
a bill to abolish the contract labor
system. This action, which is fav-
ored by the American planters, is
expected to aid the cause of annex.
alton.
The bodies of 800 murdered in
fants have been found within the
past couple of weeks at Wehawken
and West Hoboken, NJ. The po-
lice are trying to capture the MUIR
derers.
Late advices from the Klondike
say that Chilkoot Pass, from Dyea
to Lake Linderman, is strewn with
bodies of men and horses, hundreds
having persisted with hunger and
cold during the winter.
A terrific blizzard, accompanied
by heavy fall of snow and velocity
of wind about forty miles an hour,
swept over Michigan, Wisconsin,
Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania
the latter part of Last week.
Miss Helen NJ. Gould, who has
not been in society since the death
of her father, Jay Gould, has re-
opened her town house at Fifth
avenue and Forty-seventh street,
and will entertain there this winter,
for the first time in seven years.
The bones of George Wilkes, the
famous sire of trotting horses, have
been presented to the Kentucky
State College by Col. w. L. Sim
mons. He died over sixteen years
ago, but recent examination of
his grave shows the bones to be in
good condition. They will be
mounted and placed in the college
museum.
A child with two heads has been
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ulmer,
in Cincinnati. 1t is we'll formed in
body and limbs, but the neck is so
short that the heads, it is said, pro-
trude from the shoulders, and each
head is complete in every detail.
The organs of hearing, sight, smell
and taste are believed to be perfect,
but no sound has ever passed its
lips.
Mrs. Luella Day, of Goshen, Ind,
a leading physician of that city, re-
Gently gave up lucrative practice
and started out for Alaska. She will
locate at Dawson City, and besides
engaging in the practice of her pro-
will take up claim and
operate it. She was provided with
= sealskin cap, sealskin jacket and
sealskin pajamas a sort of panta-
Ioon and told her friends that there
was no danger of her being frozen
out by the chill blasts of the Klon-
like.
Chamberlatn's Cough Remedy Always
Proves Effectual.
There are no better medicines on the |
market than CHARACTERISTICS. We have
Used the Cough Remedy when all others
allied, and in every instance it proved
.fectual. Almost daily we hear the vir |
ues Of Chamberlain remedies extoIled |
~ those who have used them. This is
rot an empty puff, paid for at 20 much
Inc, but is voluntarily given in good
aith in the hope that suffering humanity
nay try these remedies, and, like the
writer, be benefited.-From the Glenville
W. Va.) Pathfinder. For sale by l. l.
lewis, druggist.
Robbed Of . Fortune.
At Delaware, Ohio, Tuesday night
Miss Nancy Fix was tortured by
our robbers to force her to reveal
no hiding place of her money.
When almost dead from her suffer
ng she showed the ruffians where