Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-05-10
UNITED STATES.

O,OAhVi Oucll udS SlSneu the Dill
which authorizes New York city to ac-
cept the So, 200, 900 gift of Andrew Car
negle for free library system.
The grain elevator owned by John ].
Badenough at Rockwell and West Mad
lson streets, Chicago, was DESTROYED by
t1re. Loss on building and contents,
$500, 600.
Hilery Dockson and Jacob Bush, two
prospectors who went into the Navajo
reservation when it was opened to min
ers two months ago, have found the
famous lost mine of Bald rock.
The largest Baptist seminary in the
world is located in Louisville, XIV. 1t
was founded in 1859. Since that time
1t has graduated 5475 students. There
are now 200 students in attendance.
A sensation has been caused at Que
bee by the discovery of an alleged
shortage of about $4,000 in the books
OF A. Picard, confidential clerk of d.
Arcand, broker and Harbor Commits
sioner.
The Abbott woman suffrage bill.
granting women the right to vote in
township elections, was killed in the
lower house of the Illinois legislature.
the enacting clause being stricken out
by viva voce vote.
Fire destroyed the four-story building
at 123 Broadway, Cincinnati, and re.
suited In the death of Fred Metzger
and Lena Metz, his housekeeper, who
were found suffocated on the fourth
floor. Loss on the building, $4,000.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s control of the Pa
clflc Coast express business is leopard
lied by the Pacific Express Company,
which good authority says has closed a
favorable contract with the Southern
Pacific for easy terms on all trains.
A rogues' gallery of card sharps is to
be provided by the New York police, to
be hung in the card room of each of the
big transatlantic liners running out of
that port. This action is the result of
the alleged swindling of DR.. Joseph
Muir out OF $4,000 on recent voyage
The position of general superintend-
ent OF normal schools for the Philip
pines at salary of $4,000 year has
been offered to Elmer Burnett Bryan,
professor of philosophy and pedagogy
at Indian University, Bloomington.
The offer comes from Fred w, Afkin-
son, Dlrector-General of Education at
Manila. Professor Bryan will accept.
The Connellsville, Pa, coke region
is stirred over the deeds of gang of ne
groes who attacked Hiram Mcmillan,
white man, and his wife, in a lonely
house near Oliphant, and shot the man
twice, probably MORALLY wounding
him, and brutally assaulted the wom-
an, who also is in a serious condition
from the abuse. Two of the gang of
negroes were women.
Carefully prepared estimates show
that the total immigration for this
year will exceed 100000, or more than
twice as many as last year. Between
February 18th and April LIST, two of
the severest months of winter, $4,000
homeseekers passed through st. Paul,
Minn., en- route for the West. Of that
number at least 10000 have found
homes.
Protesting that it was case of mis-
taken Identity, James Paxton Voor-
bees, son of "The Tall Sycamore of the
Wabash, who represented Indiana in
the United States Senate for many
years, was recently held in $1,000 bail in
the Jefferson Market Court, New York,
on charge of robbery. He would have
spent the night in Jail had not Patrick
Farrelly of the American News Com
pany become his bondsman.
Negotiations have been completed in
Chicago for the formation of the largest
beet-sugar concern in the world. A
company has been Incorporated under
the laws of New Jersey, with capital
stock of $4,000, 900, to be known as the
Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irri-
cation Land Company. The plant of
the new company is to be located in
Colorado, in the famous Rocky Ford
fruit district.
Alonzo J. Cutler, a Chicago Board of
Trade broker, was awarded a verdict of
So, 900 against G. w. Partridge. The
amount of the verdict represents losses
which Mr.. Partridge was accused of
refusing to pay on the ground that they
were gambling debts, having resulted
from speculation ON the Board of Trade.
The action of the jury is also victory
for the Board, unfolding as it does the
validity of contracts made ON change
for future delivery of grain or provi-
sions.'
Lightning set fire to Nebraska stock
ranges, and the ranchmen have been
unable thus far to stop the flames. A
district of about 100 miles in length
and from ten to forty miles in width
has been totally swept of hay and the
dry prairie grass that for month to
come would serve as the only food for
cattle. 1t is impossible to estimate the
damage that has been done. Many
ranchmen have no feed left for their
cattle and it is thought a heavy loss of
stock will be the consequence.
Harry Rubens, the Chicago corpora
ton lawyer, is forming a syndicate to
control all of the salmon canning and
packing plants of the United States.
According to the report the money is to
be furnished by New York and Chicago
capitalists. One-half has already been
pledged. The salmon industry of the
United States is limited to three States
of the Union-Oregon, Alaska and
Washington. The largest salmon cam
ming plant is in Washington and is in
corporated for $5,OO0,0O0. Last year
this company paid a dividend of 20 per
cent on the capital invested.