Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-03-01
UNITED STATES.

A powder magazine exploded at the
commerce mining camp, A. T., killing
several miners.
Rudolph Smith, railroad laborer,
shot and fatally wounded Marie Bell in
resort at Great Falls, Mont.
Pugilism is barred in Minneapolis
Governor Van SAINT has put stop to
the proposed pugilistic carnival.
Four men were killed and one fatally
injured in fire that destroyed an un-
occupied factory on Westminster ave-
nue., New Haven, Conn.
Ed. Brown, one of the best known
gamblers in the West for quarter of a
century. died at Phoenix, A. T., from
hemorrhage caused by sneeze.
In the first game for the worlds pool
championship at the Hub rooms, Bos-
ton, Frank Sherman of Washington
defeated Irving Long of Boston by $50
to los.
Former Lieutenant-Gov Bates,
of Jonesbury, VT, has been offered the
position of Judge in the Philippines,
and he will accept the appointment.
The salary will be $500 per year.
There is an oil well on the Joseph
Beard farm near Hartford, Ind, that
has flow of more than 1000 barrels per
day and has already inundated five
acres of land with petroleum. Every
body is oil mad.
A single order from one London firm
amounted to twenty-eight tons of april
cot pulp from California. Plums, pine
apples, ounces, apples and peaches are
also largely utilized in this way, as well
as strawberry pulp.
Colonel w. H. Pope of Beaumont,
Tex, Judge o. M. Carter of Fort Worth
and Others, have received permission
from the Secretary of War to sink oil
wells in the Gulf of Mexico, in the
vicinity of what is known as "the oil
pool, near Sabine pass.
Pearce Chiles, one of the leading
players in the Philadelphia League
baseball team was arrested with a
young man named Sherwood on the
Southern Pacific passenger train on the
charge of robbing a discharged soldier
OF sos and is now in Jail at Ell Paso.
George w. Kehr, senior at Prince
ton, to whom the Mclean prize of 800
was awarded in the junior oratorical
contests last June, has confessed to the
charge of plagiarism and has been dis
missed from the university. He used
an grafton delivered at Pennsylvania
college and was awarded the prize
Another of Carnegie's dreams is near
ing realization. That is the establish
ment of the greatest shipbuilding plant
in the world right alongside the largest
iron and steel works ever projected.
Staten island is the place named for
these industries, and some recent pur-
chases of several hundred acres of shore
land are said to have been made with
this object finally in view.
The trustees of the Boston Museum
of Fine arts, through their art commits
sion, have authorized the purchase for
$780, 900 of the large painting by Velas-
queZ, entitled "The Prince Balthazer
Carlos and His Dwarf The painting
comes from the private collection of the
Earl of Carlisle, in York, England.
Velasquez painted fourteen pictures of
the Prince, whose chief aim to distinc-
ton is in those paintings, and they
seldom come into the market.
The body of little James Monahan,
the seven-year-old Mount Auburn boy,
who has been missing since February
Sth, was found in an empty barrel on
Pleasant street, Waterbury, Mass. The
body was in crouching position in the
bottom of the barrel. He had turned
up his coat collar and, clasping his
hands over his knees, sat there and
froze to death. The lad persisted within
fifty feet of house where he might
have received assistance. He was on
his way home after having carried din
ner to his father
Warren Springer, wealthy real es-
tate dealer at Chicago was swindled
out of $500 by Walter g. Furnald, who
is well known to, the San Francisco DO
lice through his connection with the
jacobson diamond robbery, for his part
in which Furnald was sentenced to four
years in San Quentin in 1894. Furnald,
with the aid of a young and beautiful
woman, said to be his wife, and of one
Thomas Connors, alias Eel Fleming,
alias Carroll, sold Springer certificate
of so, 600 shares in the Fortunatus Gold
Mining and Leasing Company.
1t is reported that dealers in bananas
in Louisiana have entered into an
agreement to keep Hawaiian bananas
out of the San Francisco market by
flooding that city with their own prod
uSbI uIbll lIC liz SlOmClo,
BILE to get anything for what they ship,
become discouraged and withdraw.
The report received at Honolulu re-
garding the alleged deal states that as
many as $4,000 punches week are to
be sent to San Francisco from New Or
leans, to be sold for anything or nothing
as the case may be.
Johnson and O'Neal, who have been
held in Joplin, Mo-, for several days,
suspected of completely in the Cudahy
kidnapping case, have been identified as
the men who killed the Marshal while
robbing bank at Bronaugh, Mo-, sew
eral months ago. At the time of the
robbery the MarshaPs daughter saw the
two men through window. She has
positively identified them as the men
who killed her father. At the time of
robbery $4,000 was taken and $4,000
was destroyed by the explosion that
wrecked the safe. When arrested, the
men carried several thousand dollars.