Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-03-22
UNITED STATES.

The Standard Glass Company's plant,
south of Greensburg, Pa, was totally
destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Fire at the Iowa State University
caused a loss of $250,0OO. The college
OF medicine and literary department
were destroyed.
Tom Sharkey seems to be anxious for
another meeting with Jim Jeffries, and
intends to do everything in his power
to bring it about
Jessie Morrison, whose first trial
last fall for the murder of Mrs. DIN
Castle resulted in no verdict, has been
committed to the Ell Dorado, Kas., Jail
IN default of $1,000 bail to await second
trial.
The jury in the Mrs. Nation case
failed to agree and they have been dis
charged. 1t is said they stood seven TO
five for conviction. Mrs. Nation OBJ
tanned bonds again and was released
from Jail.
Charles Rogers, in a Jealous quarrel,
shot and fatally injured his wife and
stepfather-in-law, William E. Beattie,
at Terre Haute, Ind. He later gave
himself up and was taken to Indianap-
oils to escape mob violence.
The building occupied and owned by
the New York and Hartford Railway
for the general offices of the several de-
partments on Willis avenue was dam
aged by fire. The loss is placed at
S25O, 900. Thirty clerks escaped with
difficulty.
Rufus Cummins Garland. son of the
late Acknowledgement of the United
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OF sacred music, died at Fort Worth.
AT the time of his death he was en-
gagged in the legal department of the
Dawes Commission to the five civilized
| tribes.
"Specie" Marsh, cowboy of Helena,
Mont, shot and wounded Dick Har-
blnson and Smith White, the latter Sc
rlously, and was about to fire at Frank
Howard when the latter killed him at
the first shot. Howard gave himself
up and was taken to Glendive.
Robbers blew open the safe in Walter
Hill d Co.'S wholesale fruit house at
Phoenix, A. t. They fired two blasts,
and, although the safe was torn beyond
repair, the thieves failed to get through
the inner doors. The second explosion
wrecked the front part of the building.
The Odds Motor Works, manufacture
ers of gas engines, automobiles and of
other vehicles, on Jefferson avenue, De-
troit, Mich, was completely destroyed
by hire entailing loss of 5000. In
surance, 1000. The entire seasons
output of the Olds Works was destroyed.
A severe storm has swept over the
Mississippi valley. Many lives were
lost and the damage to property is
! enormous. 1t was the most severe gale
in years on Lake Michigan. The dam
age will amount to about 800, 900. Ken
lucky, Illinois and Missouri We're the
center of the storm.
1t has been announced that the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company is inn
| porting japanese miners to fill the
! places of strikers in their New Mexico
mine. Forty have arrived at Gallup,
and 210 are expected in a few DAYS. 1t
is stated that the company will also
employ Japanese to work in Colorado.
They are brought from the Pacific
coast.
Nelson Morris, the millionaire packer,
is planning the erection of a $2,000,000
packing-house at Honolulu. The pro-
posed house is for the purpose of sup
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cent islands with fresh meat without
being compelled to use the present sys-
tenn of refrigeration. The idea is to
transport the live stock to Honolulu
and slaughter there.
Mrs. Majors, mother of Abe Majors,
is at Ogden, Utah, and is soliciting fl
nancial aid for her boy, who is to have
a second trial on the charge of killing
Captain Brown of the Ogden police
force on May l, 1899. With her is Miss
Johnson of Iowa. The women visited
the Courthouse, where are employed
several relatives of Captain Brown and
also two officers with the force when he
was killed.
Edwart Butt Jr., prominent young
business man who holds high office in
various local secret societies in Phoenix,
A. t., has been arrested by the officers
of the Grand Lodge of the knights of
Pythias of Arizona and charged with
misappropriating $S7, and it is under
stood that there are other and larger
charges to be preferred. The total
amount of shortage is about $500 mis-
used by him during one years incum-
bency of the office, he being grand
keeper of the records.
| The private bank of j. H. Springer,
at Argonia, Kas., was broken into by
three men and $1,000 in cash and $4,000
in registered Government 8 per cent
bonds secured. About $40 in gold and
$4,000 in bonds was left untouched. The
robbers secured their tools from the
Santa Fe section-house near by. The
vault was entered through the brick
wall and the safe was blown open with
nitroglycerine. The robbery was not
known until morning.
Rumors of the consolidation of three
of the largest industrial corporations in
the South, with combined capital of
nearly $100,000,000, are current in Bir-
mingham, Ala. The three companies
are the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail-
road Company, the Sloss Sheffield Steel
and Iron Company and the Republic
Steel and Iron Company, which to-
gether own twenty-eight pigiron fur
naces, one steel mill and two rolling
mills in Alabama and Tennessee, and
make the bulk of their iron in these
two States. The combined capital and
bonded debt of the three companies is
500, 100000