Amador ledger., 1901-06-28
UNITED STATES.

Heat and humidity caused seven
deaths in Chicago.
A small tornado in Lyon county, Ia,
demolished number of houses. The
three-year-old son of J. A. Armstrong
was killed.
Ysmael Morales, aged so years, was
killed at Florence, A. IT,, by the caving
in of well. The body was covered
with twenty feet of earth.
The wife and infant son of Barney
Vercolgio, all Italian miner, were
struck by passenger train at Castle
Gate, Utah, and both were probably
fatally injured.
There is great restitution among the
Pima Indians on the Sacaton reserva-
ton, A. L. Their crops are an entire
failure on account of a lack of water.
The Government appropriation for their
maintenance is exhausted.
The Huntley Oil and Refining Conn
pany, with capital stock of $4,000,
has been chartered. 1t is to prospeetin
twenty-five Texas counties for oil. The
board of directors includes Charles A.
Towne of Minneapolis and Governor
Benton McMillin of Tennessee.
Rev. William Fawcet, a pioneer min
ister and pastor of the River Forrest
Methodist Episcopal Church. died sud-
denly in the hospital at Albert Lea,
Mlnn., at the age of SO years. PtOma-
nile poisoning, resulting from eating
canned salmon, is supposed to have
caused his death.
The dreaded San Jose scale pest has
already made its appearance in Box
Elder county, one of the richest fruit
regions of Utah, where the State au-
thorltles are endeavOring to stamp it
out. Rigid inspection will be made of
every box of fruit coming into the State.
George M. Pullman, son of the late
palace car magnate and founder of the
model town of Pullman, has been sued
for divorce by his wife, Mrs. Lynne H.
Pullman. The latter prefers charges
against her husband Of desertion, fail
ure to contribute to her support while
enjoying an income of $4,000 year,
and other charges.
The largest cyanide plant in the
world has been put into operation in
the HOmestake mine in South Dakota.
There are fourteen steel ore tanks hold
ing 800 tons of tailings each, and as the
material remains in the solution seven
days, two tanks holding 1900 tons are
emptied daily. the tailings average
S1.5O per ton in value.
Sharp Nose, chief of the Northern
ArapahOes of the Wind River reserva-
ton, is dead, aged 66 years. He was
considered one of the most bloodthirsty
Indians in the West, and many muir
ders have been traced to him. Sharp
Nose is said to have been the leading
spirit in the recent difficulty with the
Indian agent at Fort Washable.
Arthur Kline, a welI-known stock
man of Roosevelt, N. NJ, shot and killed
his wife, Beatrice Kline, dangerously
wounded Marshall Maddux and prob
ably fatally wounded the landlady with
whom Mrs. Kline was living, and who
attempted to interfere, and then COM
mitted suicide. Kline was craZed by
jealousy, his wife having deserted him.
Evelyn B. Baldwin, the explorer,
has started from New York on the first
stage of his journey in quest of the
North Pole. He will go to England,
complete his preparations and meet
there the three vessels with which he
will sail for Franz Josef Land. Bald
win expects to have everything in
readiness to begin his trip to the pole
the latter end of June, when he intends
to sail from Tromsoe, Norway.
Elizabeth Doyle, Ia young married
woman of New York, will be released
from the House of Refuge at Hudson as
soon as possible, after an Incarceration
of five years for crime which she did
not commit. In 1896, when Mrs. Mary
OBrien lost valuable gold ring, Mrs.
Doyle was arrested for stealing the trim
ket. She was convicted on circumstan-
tial evidence and sentenced to five
years. The real thief has confessed.
By stopping runaway team, Bishop
Nicholson, of the Episcopal church,
saved the lives of the two little children
of Rev. M. Moller, rector OF Christ
Church, La Crosse, Wis. The horses
were dashing toward the railroad track
on which cars were passing, when the
Bishop, who was about to take the
train, saw the danger and ran in front
of the frightened team. Bishop Mich
olson is tall and powerful man and
he seized the horses at the risk of his
own life.
California, which is generally con-
CCU0u W have ny ldT U10 ulOSI IuUcTcSJ-
ing and attractive exhibit in a horticul-
taral way at Buffalo, has been honored
by the election of Secretary James A.
Filcher of the State Board of Trade, in
charge of the California exhibit, as the
president of the newly organized Hor-
ticultural Building Association, soci-
ETY. of national scope. California was
nominated for this honor by Missouri,
the nomination being seconded by
Florida and Canada, while it was unani-
nous ON the motion of Illinois.
Heavy financial losses incurred in
speculation, it is asserted, caused the
suicide in Pittsburg of DIR. William
Hudson DAILY, formerly surgeon in the
United States army, personal friend of
General Miles, and author of the "em-
balmed beef" charges. 1t was given
out that the suicide was the result of
melancholia, brought on by the death
of his wife. From the most reliable
sources it is learned, however, that the
unfortunate man had invested largely
in local securities and lost heavily. DR..
Daly's losses are said to have reached
SIS, 900.