Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-05-31
UNITED STATES.

The Pacific Unitarian claims that
$4,000 would release from debt every
Unitarian church property west of the
Rocky Mountains.
George D. Golden, grand master of
| the Masons of Idaho, died suddenly at
Idaho Falls, May 18th. Death was due
to neuralgia of the heart.
The biggest plant of the International
Manufacturing Company, makers of
terra Gotta, at Perth Amboy, n. j., has
been destroyed by fire; loss $175, 900.
Mrs. Lyman ]. Gage, wife of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, died at her resi-
dence in Washington, May 18th, after
an illness of nine weeks duration fol-
lowing an attack of grip.
The American Smelling and Refining
Company has filed certificate with
the Secretary of State of Colorado, in
creasing its capital stock from S65, 0OO,-
600 to $100,000,00O. The fee for filing
the papers was SIC, 500.
In the last act of Frank E. Frans-
worth's company in the opera house at
Woonsocket, r. l., Thomas Bolton of
Fitchburg, Mass, hypnotic Subject"
travelling with that company, had his
life crushed out by 600-pound stone
which fell on his head.
The banking firm of Blair & Co. of
New York and the Illinois Trust and
Savings Bank of Chicago have under
written an issue of $10,0O0,OOO of 5 per
cent convertible debenture bonds, the
proceeds of which will be used in build
ing additional plants at Pueblo, Colo.
A mirage that brought into view at
the same time the cities of Chicago and
st. Joseph, Mich, was the remarkable
sight witnessed by passengers on a
| steamer in the middle of Lake Michi-
gan, about thirty miles from Chicago
and the same distance from st. Joseph.
Edwin F. Uhl, former Assistant Sec
rotary of State and ambassador to Ger
many under the Cleveland Admins
tration, died at Grand Rapids, Mich,
on the 18th inst. He had been ill nearly
a year, suffering from a complication
of diseases, among them Bright's dis
ease.
Water has been turned into the I'M
perial canal from the west side of the
Colorado river, some distance below
Yuma The canal has a carrying ca
pacity to irrigate $4,000 acres of land,
and the water will be used to irrigate q
large acreage of land adjoining the col
ony town of Imperial.
Mystery shrouds the death of Rev.
Edward s. Phillips, priest of Hazel
ton, Pa, whose body was found in a
Ninth-avenue lodging house at New
York. The cause of death was not re-
vealed even by the autopsy, no signs of
violence being found and the condition
of the organs such that he may have
died natural death.
Major ]. s. Penn, proprietor of the
Daily Times, MORALLY wounded w. r.
Pace, vice-president of the Texas Real
Estate Association, at Laredo, Texas,
during fit of recurring insanity, and
then killed himself. Deceased was a
brother-in-law of the late Governor
Ireland of Texas and was well known
throughout the West.
The total contributions received by
the relief association of Jacksonville,
Fla, are $113, 300. The number of peo-
pie being fed daily is about 5000. An
appeal has been sent to Mayors of cities
in the United States having popula-
ton of 10000 or over. The total force
engaged in cleaning the streets is 525,
and good progress is being made.
The South Bisbee Copper Mining
and Townsite Improvement Company
has given bond on all its copper prop
critics near Bisbee, A. t., to Glasgow
syndicate, the price named for the pur-
chase being $2,225, 900 and the bond to
run until September LIST next. The
property comprises forty-seven patented
claims in one group, covering about 66l
acres.
The celebrated Itata case, involving
claim of 1920, 900 against the Govern
ment of the United States, is about to
be determined by the Chilean Claims
Commission. The sailing of the Itata
| from California with cargo of arms
and ammunition for Chile and her sub
sequent surrender to the United States
cruiser Charleston constituted one of
the most stirring events of the Chilean
trouble of 1891.
AT the American Congress of Tuber-
culosis and the Medico-Legal Society,
in New York, DIR. M. r. Leverson of
Brooklyn read paper in which he de-
nicd that there were any infectious dis
eases; smallpox was not contagious,
and certainly not tuberculosis. He ar
gued that the real cause of the spread
of the disease was not infection, but
fear, and scored the doctors.
The largest cyanide plant in the
world is that of the Homestake at Lead,
S. D. 1t has capacity of 1900 tons of
ore per day. The mill possesses 900
stamps, which is larger complement
than that of the Treadwell mine, in
Alaska. Twenty-three years ago the
mine was started with mill of fifty
stamps. The ore body is said to be
practically inexhaustible. The prop
erty is owned by Californians.
The suit of Giddings, Lennox and
others against Sam Strong for 500, 900
damages has been decided in favor of
the defendant. The plaintiffs alleged
that Strong caused the destruction OF
the shafthouse at the Strong mine in
Cripple Creek, Colo, during the miners
strike in 1894, his object being to induce
them to surrender a bond which they
held on the property, as he had ascer-
tanned that the mine was worth much
more than the price at which he had
agreed to sell.