Amador ledger., 1901-05-24
UNITED STATES.

The mother of Ira d. Sankey died at
Newcastle, Pa, May I'd, at the age of
so years.
California is likely to succeed in Sc
curing the Presbyterian General AS
sembly for 1902.
The Lucky Boy group of mines at
White Rock, New, have been bonded
to a Mexican syndicate for $4,000.
Engineer McAllister, who shot his
fellow workman, Yoho, in self-defense,
near Prescott, Ariz., was exonerated by
the coroner's jury.
The boiler at Kiley's sawmill, near
Stroud, Ok. t., blew up killing Oscar
McAlley, the engineer, and fatally
scalding Solomon Rieley.
Fire destroyed Vaughan & Sons
church furniture plant, livery stable
ana several smaller buildings at Parker
City, Ind. The total loss was $50, 600.
Charles Clabaugh and William Nor
rison were killed and John Paxton was
seriously injured by an explosion at the
Pleasant Valley mines, near Carthage,
Mo. The men were drilling and struck
an unexploded shot.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts
mas rendered decision upholding the
constitutionality of the law which pre-
scrlbes execution by electricity in capt.
tai cases. The issue was raised in be-
half OF Luigi Storti, the murderer of
Michael Calucci.
liz desperate battle with a deputy
sheriff, George Reeves was shot to death
near Huntington, Ind, while being
taken from Jacksonville reformatory
TO Jasper, where he and his brother
John were to be placed on trial for the
murder OF two deputies committed six
teen years ago.
Tucker Woodson Taylor, aged 46,
committed suicide at Greencastle, Ind,
by taking heavy dose of chloroform
and then shooting himself through the
head. Taylor was for years contiden-
tial secretary of John Clark Ridpath,
the historian. He was also poet of
some reputation.
Mrs. Mertie Berger, schoolteacher
whose disappearance April 2Sth was
the cause of much alarm at Pueblo,
Col, was not murdered. She was in
San Jose, Cal, May eth, and wrote
that day to a friend in Wymore, Neb.
This letter is expected to unravel the
mystery of her departure.
Of twenty-six young people who
started from College Point, l.. l., on
what is locally known as a starlight
ride" two were carried home dead,
five are in the hospital, four were al
lowed to leave the hospital after having
their wounds dressed, and every one of
the remainder was more or less bruised.
A collision with a trolley car caused
the accident.
Alice Nelson has signed a contract
placing her under the American The
atrical Trusts management for a long
term. The announcement of the fact
caused surprise in the American theat-
rical colony in London. The trust will
first exploit her in the opera edition of
"Mme. Sans Gene" The trust has
merely secured the American rights.
Frank Perley, Nelson's present man.
ager, is said to have been after this
piece, and there was lively bidding be-
fore it was knocked down to the trust.
81 have got another girl, and don't
care for you any more.n Title Fink, a
nineteen-year-old Russian girl of New
York, received this message from
sweetheart left behind in her old home
in the village of Munsck. She had
been saving every cent she could to pay
his way to this country, and his mes
sage upon receiving the ticket for his
passage ended her little dream of hap
piness. They found her with an empty
carbolic acid bottle beside her in the
hallway at $3.50 Scannell street, and two
hours later she died in hospital.
The wife of merchant at Yonkers,
b
breaking by the craze to speculate. Her
husband is in Europe. In his safe were
500 shares of Northern Pacific. The
him rushed to the wife and offered her
$4,000 for the bunch, which repre-
sented a profit of $4,000. The wife
protested, but the Wall-street man
finally induced her to consent to the
burglary, and she got the stock. The
wife spent SIS cabling the news of the
transaction to her husband and got this
reply: "Good! Give him the safe, too"
Winona Kilgore, Anna Peoples and
Jamesmine Without, three young girls,
the latter daughter of Lucy Without,
the colleague of Mrs Nation, smashed
the Summit saloon at Wichita, Kas.
They entered with stones and the bar
keeper. did not know that an attack
was threatened until the glass began to
crash about his ears. Fred Wolf, the
proprietor, defended his place, knock
ing the girls down with his fist and
pitching them, one after another, into
the street. In the melee the wrist of
Miss Peoples was broken. The police
made quick run for the scene, arrested
all three of the smashers and lodged
them in the city Jail.
A great shortage in the supply of salt
Goldfish is reported, both on the Pacific
Coast and in the East, and the price
has already advanced 70 cents a box.
Advices received by the Union Fish
Company and other wholesale dealers
in fish in San Francisco show that
there is a Goldfish famine at Gloucester,
Mass, where the New England cod
fish industry is now concentrated. For
the first time in two or three hundred
years there is no Goldfish at Gloucester,
owing to bad season last year, which
lessened the catch. A letter just-re-
ceived relates that the entire stock in
the town is thirty-threequintals or less
than two tons.