Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-04-26
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recently been imported from California
and Australia into Chile. This is a
marked increase over former imports.
Seventy-one new banking institutions
have been authorized to do business in
Missouri in the last two years, and a
large number of banks have increased
their capitalization.
Harvard has a total enrolment of
42So for the present academic year. The
University of Michigan is the second
largest university in the United States.
having a registration of 800.
A party of four people, while crossing
the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road at South Wilkesbarre, Pa, were
run down by the Buffalo express going
north. Three of the party were killed
and one injured.
Colonel John R. Musick, author.
journalist and politician, died of heart
failure at his apartments in Omaha.
Mr.. Musick devoted the greater part of
his life to writing historical stories for
young people.
Carrie Scott, aged s years, is dead,
and her sister Edna, aged 4, of Denver,
is In critical condition, and County
Physician Harry c. Brown attributes
their sickness to eating three or four
candy Easter eggs which had been col
ored with dyes containing arsenic.
Bert Cassidy, one of the best known
newspaper men and artists in the west,
shot and fatally wounded himself while
standing in the local room of the CHI
cago Daily News, with which paper he
was connected. Family troubles are
believed to have caused the deed.
Arizona officers are searching for Ray
Brown, miner of Deming, N. Nj.
A few days ago he made desperate at
tempt to kill his wife. He stabbed her
in the breast and cut her face and neck
in fearful manner. The woman is
still alive and Brown escaped into Ari-
IONA.
The Government has granted con-
cession to Captain Charles Shillaber of
Chicago, an engineer and capitalist, to
open waterway between the cities of
Tampico and Tuxpan, on the gulf coast
OF Mexico for distance of lbs miles,
and establish line of fast modern
steamers between those cities.
Since petroleum was struck in the
Lucas well at Beaumont, Tex, January
10th, ninety-siX oil companies have
been chartered in Texas and four in
other States for the purpose of develop
ing the Texas oil fields, a great ma
jority of them intending to operate in
Beaumont.
Raymon Manso, sheepherder en-
ployed on the ranch of o. T. Smith,
near johnson, A. t., was burned to
death while sleeping in his camp. He
had built big fire and lay down to
sleep beside it. During the night the
fire spread and reached his blankets.
His clothing was burned entirely from
him and his body was half consumed.
The main building of the extensive
blower works of the B. F. Sturtevant
Company in the Jamaica Plain district,
Boston, was burned, causing loss of
$350,000. All patterns and plans were
destroyed. A large number of engines
and blowers for the Government for
use on battleships and cruisers in course
OF construction were destroyed.
One of the first rules which the new
Health Commissioner, DIR. Clough of
Denver, Colo, will introduce will be
the exclusion from the public schools
of all teachers and children who are
suffering from tuberculosis. Where the
disease is known to be in family the
child must present a certificate from
the family physician declaring there is
no danger of contagion.
The death at Phoenix, A. T., of Mrs.
Robin Iche, at her temporary home
north of that city, reveals the fact that
unconcealed and unguarded in the
house was immense wealth in jewels
or cfO 6n -
the woman is in Jail awaiting trial for
insanity, and the sheriff has taken
charge of the jewelry, the estimated
value of which is not less than $4,000.
Mrs. Iche has sister in Birmingham,
England, the wife of great coal man.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, who was arrested
at Kansas City and charged with OBJ
structing the street, was arrsigned be-
fore Police Judge McAuley, fined $500
and given until O'Clock IN the evening
to leave town. The judge warned Mrs.
Nation that if she was found in the
city after that hour she would be ar
rested and placed in jail. She agreed
to leave town, and fifteen minutes later
boarded street car for Kansas City.
A report from Philadelphia says the
famous chat trimming" cases, involv-
ing about $20,000,000 and which since
1884 have been the subject of bitter
legal battle between the Government
and number of merchants, have at
last been settled. 1t is stated on high
authority that compromise has been
effected through which the merchants
interested will receive about 81, 100000
from the United States Treasury in full
settlement of the much larger amount
they claim to have been forced to pay
in excess of legal duties.
In sight of hundreds of pedestrians,
and while on the rear platform of a
limited cable car passing the Randolph
street entrance to detective headquar-
tiers in the City Hall at Chicago, Will
lam ]. Castle, well known in musical
circles throughout the country, was
robbed by two men of his gold watch,
valued at S400. This was in full day
light. Castle was taken completely by
surprise, and almost before he realized
that he was the victim of robbers the
pickpockets had secured his timepiece
and escaped by mingling in the crowds
on the sidewalk.