Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-03-29
UNITED STATES.

OF California oranges and lemons were
disposed of by auction in New York
during one week.
The Meinicke Toy Company's five
story brick structure, Al to 50 Oneida
street, Milwaukee, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss $4,000.
1t is authoritatively announced that
SpeXer d Co. have purchased the total
amount of Mexican national stock and
income bondhOldings of the Mexican
National Construction Company.
At Olive station, forty-five miles west
the Ed Davis "Uncle Toms Cabinn
company was burned, four members of
the company losing their lives
Congressman Marriott Brosius, chair
man of the Committee on Banking and
Currency, died from stroke of apo
plexy at Lancaster, Pa. He had been
a member of Congress for twelve years
in succession.
a fire was discovered on the roof of
st. Peters Hospital, at Helena, Mont,
and for IA time there was great alarm.
The patients were all removed from the
threatened portions of the building with
no great Inconvenience. The loss will
De ABOUT 9oUUO.
The explosion of an ammonia tank
and broken shaft on the steamship
City of New York caused loss of life
and much damage to the vessel. Fiji
teen men were overcome by the fumes
of the ammonia and two deaths oc-
Cured.
Joe Howell, a miner in the West Yam
kee shaft at Clifton, A. r., was killed
by blast. Both eyes were blown from
their sockets, his arms were torn off
and several pieces of rock were blown
into his body. He lived for two days,
however.
In the Kansas State Penitentiary
at Lansing 2S4 prisoners, who went
down into the coal mine mutinied, and
held fifteen guards as hostages. They
refused to let the guards come to the
surface until Warden Tomlison agreed
to give them better food and threatened
to kill the guards if their demands
were not complied with.
If New York will provide the sites
and the maintenance, Andrew Carne-
gle has promised to give 100000 to
establish siXty-five branch libraries in
that city. He will also give S25, 000, 900
for the erection of buildings and for the
endowment of a proposed technical
school at Pittsburg, Pa. He has also
offered to donate $1,000,0O0 for the
building of new library in st. Louis.
a special from Guthrie, o. T., says
that j. Fl. Richards, the man who has
been fasting since January 9th, is very
weak and cannot possibly live more
than afew days. He was afflicted with
stomach troubles, and travelling doc
tor told him that he could be relieved
by fasting. He will not taste anything
but the juice of an orange. The au-
thorities are urged by the physicians to
take hold of the matter.
A carload of California oranges was
sold at Pier 20, North river, New York,
for the benefit of the Children's Home
Society of California. 1t was donated
by California fruit growers. Robert H.
Thomas was the auctioneer and there
was a big crowd. The highest price
for single boX<was $40. Some of the
boxes were resold time and time again.
There were 3S6 boxes and the amount
realized was $747.52.
A great cake of ice fioated down the
Hackensack river, struck the Jersey
City pier, and, opening, released a
corpse. The body resembles in every
respect that of John Astor Chanler,
the millionaire, who disappeared from
Bloomingdale Asylum last November.
The clothing is different from that
worn by Chanler when he disappeared,
and the body has moustache of recent
growth, but it was clothed in outer and
under garments of the same texture as
CHAMBERS.
A career of prosperity was the lot of
Henry Alexander and William Cough
lin, who came to Chicago from San
Francisco a few weeks ago and were
arrested for attempting to pass coun-
terfeit silver dollars. Police officers
who raided their rooms seized a COM
plete counterfeiter's outfit and placed
the two men under arrest. In the pile
of cOnfiscated goods were 1873 bogus
dollars. Secret Service Operative Gal
lagher secured a full confession from
the men.
By his presence of mind Conductor
Harris Purple saved from death or Sc
we're injury 800 passengers on the Della
ware, Lackawana and Western train
which was wrecked at Portland, Pa.
Engineer Lyman Chase had died in
his cab with the throttle wide open
and the train rushing on at seventy
five miles an hour. Conductor Purple,
fearing that something was wrong by
the mad flight of the train around
curves, etc, applied the air breaks,
throwing the passengers in heaps, but
it saved their lives.
Mrs. Carrie Cobus, living on West
Eighteenth street, New York, met
death in shocking manner, being
killed by her dog while she was in an
epileptic fit. The pet terrier, seeing his
mistress in agony, appears to have gone
mad He flew at the PROSTATE woman
as she writhed ON the floor and repeat
edly attacked her, burying his teeth in
her throat and severing the iugular
vein. When gentleman tried to tear
the brute away it chung to the dying
woman with terrible tenacity. He
finally got the animal loose. 1t then
attacked the mother and the man, but
they beat it off. A physician was sum-
moned but Mrs. Cobus had bled to
death. The dog disappeared IN the
| streets.