The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-09-10
GENERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary OF the
Weeks Events.

General Shafter is now in full
command at CampWikoff, Montaul
Point.
Fifty persons died and 100 were
FRUSTRATED from the effects of heat
in New York last Saturday. At
o'clock the mercury registered 81
grees.
Dawson City now has two news.
papers-The Yukon Midnight Sun
and the Klondike Nugget. Both
are weeklies and are sold at SOC per
copy.
Over 800 delegates, representing
16, 600 newspapers, we're present at
the opening session of the thirteenth
annual convention of the National
Editorial Association Tuesday at
Denver.
San Francisco now has a law by
which peddler who rings the door
bell of 2 house where the sign mo
peddlers" is displayed 10 liable to q
fine of 500, or six months impris.
onment, or both fine and imprison.
ment.
The hot weather is increasing the
death rate among the sick soldiers
in the hospitals at Camp Wikoff to
an alarming degree, besides pros
trating many men who have not
been on the sick list. There were
Is deaths reported last Saturday.
General Cassius M. Clay, distin-
guished veteran of the Mexican and
Civil War, whose sensatioal mar
riage with Dora Richardson several
years ago is still fresh in the minds
of the people of Kentucky, has filed
suit against his "child wife" for alb
solute divorce.
Major Russell Thorpe, one of the
prominent figures of the western
country, was killed near Lusk ,Wyo.,
Sunday, as result of a runaway
accident. He was interested in
Black Hills mining enterprises and
owned some of the large cattle
ranches in Wyoming.
Captain Duncan of the Twenty
second Kansas has been found
guilty by a court martial Of the
charge made against him of desc
Grating the grave of confederate
officer on the Bull Run battlefield
and sentenced to five years impris-
onment.
There are over 1900 sick soldiers
at Montauk Point. Long Island,
500 cases of typhoid fever among
the troops at Chicamauga, and ESQ
fever patients at the Presidio hos
pital, San Francisco. The latter
contrated the fever at Camp Merritt
which the San Francisco Repor,
says was located on ground former
ly used as Chinese cemetery.
An appalling disaster occurred
at Cohoes, N. Y, Monday night
A trolley car crowded with young
people was struck by an express
train at grade crossing. Eighteen
people were mangled to death and
ten fatally injured. The bodies
were hurled into the air and some
oftheir headless and limbless trunks
were found fifty feet from the cross.
ing. The passengers on the train
suffered no injury except a shock
Five members of a farmers fam
lily in Grant County, Ind, are crit
ically i'll with typhoid fever from
eating pears that had been gathered
before they were ripe and allowed
to ripen in sack. The tree which
bore the fruit grew close by public
wagon road, and it is the opinion
of the State Board of Health tina
the fruit was infected with the germs
of the disease by dust from th'
road along which diseased persons
passed, probably barefooted.
| Gen. Wbeeler's Son Drowned.
| A dispatch from Camp Wikoff
Montauk Point, Sept. 7th, says
Thomas H. Wheeler, son of Genera
Wheeler, and Second Lieutenan
Newton D. Kirkpatrick of the FRS
cavalry, were drowned while bath
ing here this afternoon.
President Woodruff Dead.
MILFORD Woodruff, President o
the Mormon Church, died in Sal
| Francisco the End inst. He was il
his 92nd year. President Woodruff
was one of the original 147 pioneer
who settled in Salt Lake valley il
1847. He had four wives and H.
children, and "a grandchildren. Hi
remains reached Salt Lake Sunda.
morning. The funeral took plac
Thursday.
i Boise Statesman: The demo
cratic, silver republican and popu
list county conventions will be hell
in this citv on Wednesday,. SeDtem