Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-06-07
UNITED STATES.

Charles Mckinney, a son of Police
man Mckinney, of Carrollton, Mo.
was shot and killed while helping his
father arrest gang of tramps.
A. Scott, an old resident of Reno,
New, who was lost in the desert north
ct Phoenix, Arizona, has reached that
place after all hope for him had been
abandoned.
t. Edgar Baucleigh shot and killed
Miss lnez Leonard, his fiance, and sub
sequently took his own life, at Key
west, Fla. Both were actors belonging
to the same troupe.
Harry Norman, aged Is years, and
Todd Blakey, aged II years, were both
drowned near Pleasanton, Kas. BIak-
ey got in over his head, Norman tried
to rescue him and both were drowned.
Spreading rails on the Santa Fe Road
at Braddon, small station eight miles
south of Pueblo, Col, caused a freight
wreck, which resulted in the death of
Head Brakeman E. J. Washeaton of
Pueblo and j. w. Holt of Newton, Kas.
The Supreme Court at Wasllngton
has decided that Charles w. Nordstrom
who is under sentence of death in the
State of Washington for murder, who
has escaped the gallows for nearly ten
years, must hang.
At the Richmond mine of the Day
ton Coal and Iron Company near Day
ton, O., terrific explosion of coal dust
resulted in the death of twenty-One
men, all white and most of them mar
ried and with families. Eight were Sc
riously injured.
The marriage of James G. Blaine, son
of the late Secretary of State, and Miss
Martha Hichborn, daughter of Rear
Admiral Hichborn, will occur in Wash
ington on June 4th. There have been
reports that the wedding was opposed
by Admiral and Mrs. Hichborn, but
this report has been denied.
Clarence Mackay's great racer Ban
aster had tendon in his off hind leg
severely injured just after the start in
the Brooklyn handicap, running all his
chances to win. Trainer Hill said that
only the horses great gameness allowed
him to finish at all. He will not race
till the fall, and possibly never again.
Robert Hayden Moulton of Tennes-
see, the Columbia University student
who shot at May Buckley, the actress,
in the Pabst Rathske1ler on the night
of March oath and hit John B. Letting
well and A. w. Dingwall, who We're
her escorts, is a hopeless lunatic, and it
is not probable that he will ever be
brought to trial.
Lieutenant-Governor Martin F. AL
len, vice-president and director of the
Farmers National Bank of Vergennes,
VT, and j. w. Ketcham, q representa-
70 lo+,
have been arrested under indictments
charging them with completely with
Cashier ID. o. Lewis in wrecking the
bank and classifying the accounts.
Albert P. Dow, proprietor of the Fer
tile Valley Creamery Company at Chi
cagO, was fined $4,000 and sentenced
to six months in the county Jail by
Judge Kohlsaat in the Federal Court.
Dow is said to have cheated the Gov
eminent out of $500 in revenue pay
ment, which he evaded. This is said
to be the heaviest fine ever imposed in
a Federal Court.
A fire broke out III the residence OF
Rev. /. II. Osborn, two miles north of
Haley, Idaho, resulting in the death
of Mrs. Osborn and her young son.
Mrs. Osborn's life was lost in an effort
to save her boy, the burning roof crash
ing down upon her. The charred re-
mains have been recovered. Mr.. Os-
born was in Shoshone, where he con-
Quoted religious services.
At Nardin, Okla, a party of society
young ladies and gentlemen went pic
nicking and when picture was being
made of the group Miss Nora Wolfrum
asked Miss Bishop to point rifle at
her to add to the romance of the scene.
Miss Bishop did so. The rifle was dis
charged accidentally and Miss Wolfrum
was killed instantly, the bullet pierre
ing her heart.
Governor Nash's physician admits
that he was suffering from the rupture
of blood vessel in the spine. This is
the accident which the Governor sus-
tanned in the high attitudes while re-
turning from San Francisco. The ply
sicians claim that, with absolute rest,
the rupture may heal. The injury has
affected the lower limbs, and that eX-
plains the fact that the Governor had
to be supported in walking.
Christian Stahl, farmer living near
Navarro, o., was brutality murdered by
two masked burglars, who broke into
the house and demanded his money.
Upon beng refused the burglars bound
Stahl and the other members of his
family with ropes. After beating Stahl
until he was unconscious the men left.
StahPs sister managed to free herself
and gave the alarm. Stahl died soon
after being freed from his bonds. There
is no clew to the murderer.
Little Madeleine Edison, the pretty
twelve-year-old daughter of Thomas A.
Edison, is the latest proposed victim of
kidnapers. About two weeks ago Edi-
son received letter, in which demand
was made for very large sum of money
to be placed in lonely spot in the
Orange mountains. The result of re-
fusal to comply with the demand was
to be that, at the earliest opportunity,
Mandelein, the youngest of the family,
and her fathers especial pet, would be
kidnapped and held for ransom many
times the sum first demanded. That
some serious peril threatened the Edi-
son family is shown from the fact that
for two weeks past Menlo Park has
been carefully guarded.