The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15
GIN ERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary OF the
Weeks Events.

! President Harper, Of the Unive
sity Of Chicago. says that three stv
dents have died of starvation With
!. the past five years.
!, II is said that the Rothschilds vi
build . railroad into the Yoko
! country over the Dalton trail.
{ will be 400 miles long.
4 Fort Smith, Ark. Was swept b
. deadly tornado Tuesday nigh
! Forty people were killed and man
others injured. $1,000, 900 wort
of property was destroyed.
Heirs Of Robert Morris, WHIT
they claim, loaned 81 100000 t
the Continental Government durin
the revolution, have demanded iron
the United States payment Of SAM
with interest.
! William J. Bryan wore an i'm
mcnse sombrero trimmed with golt
and silver when he returned from
his tour through Mexico It wa
presented to him by one of hi
Mexican admirers.
A man refused $500 at Dawson
City recently for 200 pounds of sup
plies. Fresh meat is selling there
for 81 per pound. 1t is said thai
claims worth working are selling
for 5000 for twenty square feet.
Marcus A. Hanna was elected
Wednesday United States Senator
from Ohio for both short and long
term. His time as senator will
expire in March, 1905. He received
seventy-three votes, a majority OF
one.
Mrs. Augusta Mack, jointly
charge d with N lrtin Thorn with
the murder of William Gulden-
suppe, bath rubber, at Woodside,
L. l., in juno vf last year, has been
sentenced to Is years in the state
prison at Auburn. The good time
allowance attainabls would reduce
the term to ten years, five months.
At the doll show given in Phila-
delphia recently was an old time
doll upon which George Washing
ton is said to have dotted in his baby
days, and it kept company with ono
that was cherished by Fanny Kem-
BILE, the famous actress, aud which
has been handed down - an heir
loom through several generations.
The Senate Committee on Judi
ciary have the nomination Of At
torney- General McKenna to be JUS
tice Of the Supreme court under
consideration. There is a large
number Of protests against the NOM
ination from branches of the Ameri-
can Protective Association and also
from some members of the bar from
the Pacific coast.
Miss Ida NJ. Wright of Nephi,
Utah, has been awarded 10000
damages from J. A. Hyde, Jr., whose
father is prominent and wealthy
man Of that place, for seduction
under promise of marriage and then
refusing to keep his promise to
make her his wife. The jury agreed
upon the verdict for the plaintiff
after being out only 80 minutes.
A London paper says that arrange
ments have been made to preserve
permanently the tones of Queen
s voice. The latest type of
photograph will be sent to Windsor
castle, and into this instrument her
Majesty has consented to speak a
certain message, which will be per-
preserved on the cylinder
and kept in the British museum.
Mineral County, w. Va, claims
70 have furnished tho record for
he marriage of the oldest couple
N the country. In the village Of
Preston one day last week, John ].
)verton, aged 100 years and one
month, was united in the bonds Of
vedlock to Mrs. Mary ]. Henderson,
lged II. After the ceremony had
,een performed, the happy old
couple drove 20 miles to the groom's
residence.
Action has been taken in Port
and, Ore, looking to the union of
III the free silver forces at tho com
ng State election in June. The
State Central committees of the
Democrats aud the free silver Re-
,ublicans have decided to hold
state conventions in Portland on
darch %. 1t is understood that
he Populists and the Union party
sill also call their State conventions
. this city for the same date.
The leaders Of the various parties
dvocating the free coinage of silver
net in conference in Washington.
}. G., Saturday to devise plans for
consolidation Of the silver forces
Or the congressional campaign. this
Ill. 1t was agreed that all silver
artisans of whatever party a6ilia-
on should be urged to maintain {
olid front against the Republican
arty, a. that party advocated the
olicy Of maintainin: the gold
Eandard.