The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-02-26
GENERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary OF the
Weeks Evente.


Weeks Events.
The National Congress of Motl
ers will bold it's second annual cor
vention in Washington, D. c., il
May.
Assistant Secretary Davis ha
decided that men who were cadet
at West Point during the war ar
not pensionable.
! The London Review says MI
| Gladstone's trouble is necrosis o
the nasal bone. 1t is feared tina
the root of his malady is cancer.
| Lord William Neville, fourth so,
Of Marquis Abergavenny, was sen
fenced at London last week to five
years penal servitude for forgery
| Rev. Sam Jones has announced
himself an independent candidate
for Governor OF Georgia on plat
form of his own which he will an
nounce shortly.
t Bryan's book has made a fortune
for both himself and his publishers
More than 2OO,0 900 copies were sold
at 81 per copy netting Mr.. Bryan
the neat sum of $40, 900.
The Spanish cruiser Vizcaya, is
anchored in New York harbor.
She came on a friendly visit to
American ports and is closely
guarded by navy tugs and police
patrol hosts.
Howard Gould, owner of the
$500, 900 pleasure craft Niagara, F"
which has been launched at Will
mington, Del, says that, if neces-
sarh, he will gladly turn it over to
the Government.
Mrs. Mary Nc Bride, who recently
died at St. Joseph, Mo-, weighed
$50 pounds. A casket large enough
could not be secured and i. was nee
essxry to encase the body 10 a pine
box and convey it to the grave in q
dray. ...--......
Nearly 300, 900 people have starved
TO death in Cuba since the rebellion,
and yesterdays dispatches state
that there are in the town, of Mat
anzas on that island, ii 900 women
and children slowly dying from
hunger.
Five hundred reindeer for the
War Department Klondike relief
expedition are due to arrive in New
York from Norway. Several Lap
landers will accompany the reindeer
and lot Of harness and sledges
have also been sent.
Joseph Letter is reported to have
deposited $6,OOO.oOO in the bank
controlled by 2. d. Armour, his
market opponent. He is conteIn-
plating the erection of the largest
grain elevator in the world at kan-
sas City, Mo.
There are no fish in Crater lake,
Oregon, the deepest fresh water lake
in the world, and the Government
has decided to stock it with trout.
The natives used to cay that the
lake is bottomless, but soundings
have shown its greatest depth to be
1000 feet.
Bank of England notes are made
from new white linen cuttings.
never from anything that has been
worn. So carefully is the paper
prepared that even the number of
dips into the pulp made by each
workman is registered on a dial by
machinery.
Mrs. William C. Whitney. wife
of ex-Secretary Whitney of the ..
S. Navy, was thrown from her horse
near Anken, S. c., several days ago
while following the hounds in a
deer hunt and injured her spine,
which has resulted in paralysis.
She is said to be in a very critical
condition.
Charles L. Fair. the California
has for the second time
been an inmate of KeeIey-cure es-
adjustment at White Plains. n. Y.
He was discharged from that insti-
tuition last wesk, pronounced cured
by the doctors. The next day he
sailed for Europe with his wife.
The smallest mite of humanity
probably that ever drew breath in
the world Was born in St. Louis last
week. At birth it weighed only 3
ounces, but in three days following
it gained 2 ounces, with fair pros
poets of living, when some one gave
it a little slice Of bacon to suck
and the following morning it was
dead.
A party of French miners and
aeronauts have started by steamer
for Canada, en- route to the Klondike.
They bring with them balloons,
which they will use for crossing
over difficult passes, provided with
drag ropes ut the end Of which will
be steel shovel to dredge snow or
earth to enable them to sail near
The ground.
Miss Francis E. Willard, president
Of the Woman's Christian Temper
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