Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-03-22
Current News.
CALIFORNIA.

CALIFORNIA.
| ALAMEDA.
Henry NJ. Schuster, the Berkeley
student who was injured while prac-
tlclng pole-vaulting, died FROM his in
Jurles. Immediately after the accident,
which happened on the college grounds,
the injured student was removed to a
sanitarium, where he was attended by
three physicians, who diagnosed his
injury as being fracture of two of the
vertebrae just above the shoulders. The
patient was completely paralyzed.
The members of st. Paul's Swedish
Evangelical Lutheran Church dedi-
Gated their new house of worship at the
corner of Tenth and Grove streets, Oak
land, with impressive ceremonies The
dedicatOry address in Swedish was de-
livered by Rev. C. J. E. Hauterius of
San Francisco, president of the Califor-
mia Conference, and III English by DR..
G. NJ. Esbjorn of Kingsburg, Cal. The
new building cost S7100.
! BUTTE.
Hugh Turner, young farmer of
Nord, met death in peculiarly distress
ing manner. He had been driving a
disc harrow on the COosel place, near
NOrd, and failed to return to the farm
house. Other men went to look for
him and found him lying across the
tongue of the harrow with his left leg
under the machine The unfortunate
man had evidently fallen and Just as
the sharp disk passed over the calf of
his leg his team stopped. The blade
had cut the leg almost entirely off and
| the heavy machinery held the man in
that position until he bled to death.
He had been dead some hours when
found. Turner was well known and
highly respected young farmer of Butte
county.
CALAvERAS.
Two hold-ups took place on the coun-
ty road near Wallace, and in attempt
ing to capture the robbers Samuel J.
Holman of Calaveras county, one of the
men who was held up, was fatally shot.
Holman conducted a saloon in the small
mining town of Comanche, and re-
turned to his home at Wallace every
night with the receipts of his days
Calaveras county and a constable of
Jenny Lind township, and was noted
for his courage. He was So years old
KERN.
L. G. Johnson, laborer at ranch
twelve miles south of Bakersfield, at
tempted to take knife away from Gee
Corey, Chinese cook, and IN the scuf-
file that ensued the Chinese was fatally
cut in the chest. After the occurrence,
johnson, who saws he came from San
Francisco, gave himself up to the Off
GERS. The trouble grew out of COM
plant made by johnson about the poor
quality of the tea served at dinner. The
Chinese became enraged and went to
his room and secured two knives.
Johnson took one of the knives away
from the Chinese, but in the attempt to
secure the second knife he inflicted
wound in the chest that proved fatal.
LOS ANGELES.
Frank Barton, who came to Los An
geles recently from Carson, New, at
tempted to board Southern Pacific
train in the city and was crushed to
death under the wheels.
Curtis J. Austin, % years old, bar
tender, was crushed to death by the
Southern Pacific overland from San
Francisco at Los Angeles. Six coaches
passed over his body. He was the son
of a wealthy ranch owner at Camp
BELLS, Santa Clara county.
MERGED.
Quite sensation was created at Los
Banos by the announcement of the
capture of three young men who are
accused of robbing the grave of Chi
nese. At their preliminary examine
ton they were held to answer before
the Superior Court. Two of them, En-
NETT and Julian Rhew, stepsons of
Professor w. J. Haggard, formerly of
Volga, begged for mercy on the part of
the Court on account of their parents,
who are highly esteemed and worthy
people. The third man, Dungarner,
has been in California about a year
from the East.
A man who was riding the break
beam of freight train was run over
and. killed near Ingomar. The body
was horribly mutilated, one arm being
cut off and the head and lace being
crushed beyond recognition. The re-
mains were brought to Los Banos and
a coroner's jury held an investigation.
1t was learned from men who were
in company with him that the dead
man was a coal miner, who formerly
lived in Scranton and Wilkesbarre, Pa.
He recently returned from Samoa, to
which place he had gone as hOstler in
the employment of the German Gov
eminent.
MARIN.
Louis Gioli, a cattleman, owning 81
ranch near Sausalito, missed pair of
prize heifers from his corral Upon
making inquiry he learned that Will
lam BettincOurt, a rancher located in
the neighborhood, had driven two sim
liar appearing animals in the direction
of the San Rafael slaughter-house. Gil
oil lost no time in boarding San Ra-
fael bound train and upon arriving ut
| that place hired team and started on
gallop toward the slaughter-house in
the hope of preventing the execution.
When he reached the scene of slaughter
one of his prize heifers was already
slain, and the butcher was preparing
to kill the other. Gioli begged franti-
cally for its life, exhibiting the prize
ribbons it had won and eXpounded its
pedigree The heifer has been turned
out to pasture to await the result of the
dispute.
MONTERREY.
A mixed freight and passenger train
was wrecked between Pacific Grove
and Monterey, two loaded flat cars be-
ing smashed and the track badly torn
up. The engine and passenger cars
were uninjured. A broken fiange on a
wheel of the forward truck caused the
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