The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-04-02
ENERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary OF the
Weeks Events.

General Weyler sailed from Mad.
rid las: Saturday for Havana.
Acorps of Salvation Army nurse,
left New York this week to care 70,
the sick in Cuba.
! The British Government is mass.
ing powerful feet in Chinese
waters.
Mrs. Almeric Hugh Paget, daugh.
ter of ex Secretary Whitney, had a
narrow escape from death in a rum
away in New York. Wednesday.
Her footman was seriously injured,
but she was unhurt-.
The Spaniards in Havana are wild
over the findings of the court of in
quiry. They declare that the court
has thus insulted Spain for the pur-
pose of shielding Capt. Sigsbee from
the consequence of his careleslness.
A dispatch from London, March
25th, says Mr.. Gladstone is dying,
of a cancerous growth involving the
bone tissues back of the nasal pas.
sages. The melancholy truth is now
admitted privately by his son, Mr..
Herbert Gladstone, and other men,
bers of his family.
Mrs. Della Parnell, daughter of the
celebrated American naval officer,
Rear Ad .niral Charles Stewart, and
mother of the late Charles Stewart
Parnell, died at Avondale, Ireland,
last Saturday from the effects of
burns received from the igniting of
her clothing while she was sitting
before a FIRE.
John NJ. Keenan,, who was 50
desperately gored by a mad bull at
his farm 10 miles north of Spokane
Saturday, died yesterday morning |
from the effects of the wounds, says
the Spokesman Review. Mr.. Kee-
mans wife saved him from instant
death by driving the bull away from
him with pitchfork.
The Carson News is authority
for the statement that in repairing
the mud baths at Valleys Springs,
near Genoa, the ground was found
to be saturated with quicksilver,
The deposit having accumulated
there from the bathing of quartz
mill employees whose system had
become impregnated with mercury.
Mrs. D. H. Seaver was drowned
at Spokane last Saturday while res
;uing her child. The boy, aged 6,
ELL into a little stream swollen by
nigh water. The mother dashed
INTO the stream and caught the
child, but was swept down the
strong current and carried beneath
!. bridge. Mr.. Seaver ran to the
creek and dragged his wife from
he water. The child was tightly
'lasped in her arms and was quick
y revived. but the mother never
recovered consciousness.
A Fathers yengeance.
, A dispatch from Seattle, March
9TH, says: s
N. F. Schelderup, we'll known insur-
nee solicitor, was shot and killed this
fternoon by E. NJ. Bradley, prominent
ontractor. on the corner of Third and
cherry street, in the presence of large
rowd of theatre goers. Schelderup was
landing on the corner waiting for Miss
Bessie Bradley, whom he WAS going to
axe to band concert at the theatre.
instead of being met by the young lady,
e was met by her father, who, without
aging q word, drew an old fashioned
'olt's revslver and shot Schelderup
trough the body. 1.
At the station he would make no state
,ent beyond saying that he shot Schel-
erup because he had ruined three of his
aughters.
Scheldcrup was married man. That
,orning he had telephoned to Miss Brad.
y to meet him. The father received the
lessage and appointed the place Of
,eeting.
To Cure Constipx ton Forever.