Amador ledger., 1901-06-14
UNITED STATES.

James A. Herne, the well-known
actor and playwright, died at his home
IN New York, June I'd, of acute bron-
chltls and pneumonia, after an Hines of
eight weeks.
John Bezlinski, William Greeing and
Peter Sesky, bridge carpenters, were
drowned at Chicago in the Calumet
river at Ninety-fifth street by the cap
sizing of a ferryboat.
The Republic Steel Company volun-
tarily advanced the wages of all labor
ers at its Bonnie Bell and Valley plants
in Youngstown, o., 10 per cent. The
advance affects 800 men.
Fire in the four-story building at 413
Delaware avenue, Kansas City, occupied
by the Western Stores Company, deal
ers in dry goods, furnishings and no
lions, caused loss of $4,000
Lieutenant E. Barker of the revenue
cutter service, now stationed on the
revenue cutter Galveston, has forwarded
his resignation to the Secretary of the
Treasury, after six years service.
A memorial has been erected by the
Jewish women of Cincinnati over the
grave of Felix Moses, of whom John
Uri Lloyd has given an interesting pic
ture in his novel. "Springtown on the
Pike. "
Fred Pinger, well-known young
man OF st. Joseph. Mo-, attacked Fred
Smith, Henrietta Miller and Fred Mil
Ter with knife, and fatally wounded
the first named, and the others may die
He was intoxicated and can give no
reason for the assault.
While driving across the tracks -ofthe
Lake Shore Railroad sixteen miles east
of Erie, Pa, Hugh Walters and Mi
chael Findley were killed and Bruce
Hazfett fatally injured. Their rig was
struck by the fast mail going at ter
rifle speed. The men lived at Findleys
Lake, New York.
Evidence is at hand that the Ameri-
can ship John Mcdonald, now out 257
days from Baltimore to San Francisco,
with cargo of Cumberland coal, was
blown up at sea on or about January
18th last, and that the crew was prob
ably lost.
Cadets Birchie o. Mahaffey of Texas,
Henry l.. Bobby of Nebraska, John A.
Cleveland of Alabama, L. F. Keller of
New York and r. A. Linton of Michi-
gan, recently dismissed from West
Point as insubordinate, are to go to
Ecuador to serve as engineers in the
building of railroad across the Andes.
In Covington, KY, Mrs. Kate Hestor,
aged 80, after quarrel with her hus-
band, Ottie, aged 42, at the supper table,
shot and killed him, as well as their
three-year-old daughter, after which she
put the revolver to her own head and
blew ont her brains. The cause of the
trouble is not known.
The comparative statement of the
Government receipts and expenditures
just issued, shows that during the
month of May the total receipts were
$50, sc, 440 and the expenditures $42,-
136, $50, leaving surplus for the month
of $40, 49,, $50 and a surplus for the
eleven months of the present fiscal year
of sos, 5S7, 135.
After five years of rivalry between
the famous breach between General
William Booth, founder and head of
the Salvation Army of the world, and
his SOD, Ballington Booth, head of the
Volunteers of America, is to be healed.
Ballington Booth will then return to
the Salvation Army.
A. w. Walker of Maryville, Mo-, Oh
jected to Owen Logan, a prominent
young stockman, calling on his daugh-
ter, and, coming upon the couple sud-
denly, as they stood at the Walker gate
emptied load of buckshot into Logan's
breast, fatally wounding him. Walker
gave himself up. He had, it is said, fire.
quently threatened to kill Logan if he
did not desist from paying attentions to
his daughter.
Miss Bishop, the young lady who &C
cidently killed a lady friend named
Nora Wolfrom, near Nardin, o. t.,
while at a picnic, has become a raving
maniac from brooding over the tragedy.
1t required the utmost vigilance Of her
friends to prevent her from committing
suicide, as that, she says, is the only
thing which will avenge the horrible
deed which she committed. She will
be taken to the asylum at Norman for
treatment.
Dogs digging in a ravine mile north
of Holton, Kas., few rods from the
house of w. II. Klausmire, unearthed
the body of Mrs. Klausmlre. Her hus-
band, who went to Texas recently, after
telling his children that their mother
had gone to that State, is charged with
the murder. He is also charged with
the murder of Paul Swetlick, a brother
of Mrs. Klausmire, in the same town
several years ago, to secure life insur-
ance. The dead woman's head was
found to have been crushed with club,
the skull being fractured in several
places. Near the spot where the body
was found was club marked with
blood stains.
Seventy-two pieces of old silverware,
believed to be the proceeds of a robbery
which occurred at Lyons, n. Y, over
fifty years ago, have been unearthed on
the Oliver Horn farm by Fred Wilk,
who was grubbing out weeds. Wilk
first unearthed a big silver knife, later
finding spoons, knives and forks. The
stuff was buried not over six inches in
the ground, along the road to Sodus
Point, in the outskirts of the village.
The silverware was in good state of
preservation and was marked up. Pier
son, Hyde" and GA. NJ. and NJ. ]. L."
The representatives of the Hyde and
Pierson family examined the silverware
and recalled the robbery of the Arte-
mus Hyde residence fifty years ago, in
which similar silverware was carried off
and never recovered.