Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-03-22
heavy man, and for that reason the re-
suits of his fall are particularly serious.

suits OF his fall are particularly serious.
Henry Donnelly, an employee of the
California Winery, 453 Brannan street,
was horribly scalded by falling into a
tub OF boiling water. He will probably
not survive his injuries. Donnelly was
at work cleaning filters aud tubs of hot
water had been placed on the floor for
that purpose. Donnelly stumbled over
one of them and fell backward into the
scalding water. He was alone in the
room and threw himself out of the tub.
The whole of his back and arms were
literally boiled.
A Greek leper, Nicholas Cachalas by
name, has been removed from his candy
stand at First and Market streets by
the Health Board officials. Although
suffering from anaesthetic leposy in an
advanced form, Cachalas has been car
rying on prosperous candy trade since
last November and has made and mixed
many of his own wares. He was for
merly a sailor, and has resided in this
country for fifteen out of the forty-five
years of his life. He admitted that he
had been suffering from the disease for
many years, but protested not to know
that it was leprOsy. Cachalas was re-
moved to the pesthouse by Health
Officer O'Brien. 1t was found that
several of his toes and some of his fin
ger joints had dropped off owing to the
action of the disease.
The lives of three human beings and
slXty-fOur horses were sacrificed in the
flames and smoke of fire in the stable
of former Supervisor Morton at the
southeast corner of Geary and Leaven-
worth streets. The three men who
lost their lives were employees of the
stable and slept in room off the loft.
They were: Charles White, native
of Philadelphia. He had relatives liv-
ing in Chicago, from which city he
came here last May. He was unmar-
ried. James Richard White, known as
'Dick" White, native of England,
where his parents are now living. He
has brother in San Francisco and an
other in Santa Clara. He was single.
Charles Young, who came to the city
recently from San Jose, where he has a
wife and children.
SHASTA.
Benjamin +. Bennett, son of Trim
ity county miner, was found dead in
the forests of Coffey creek. He was en-
gagged in logging for the Headlight
mine, and failing to return for dinner a
search was made. His lifeless body
was found, his head being crushed by a
heavy sawlog.
A new business block, to cost $4,000
or more, is to be built in Redding i'm
mediately on the fifty-foot lot on the
east side of Market street, between
Yuba and Butte. The building will be
two stories high, of brick, with IRON
and plate-glass front. The owner Will
occupy the lower floor with grocery
store. The lot was purchased for $4,000.
During the seventies it sold for 500.
During the twenty-five years its recent
owner held it he received $4,000 income
from it, as his books show.
SAN JOAQUIN.
An agent of California capitalists is
in Stockton looking up a suitable site
for large paper mill, and, while the
deal has not been closed for the prop
erty, it is believed that in a few days
the papers will be signed. 1t is the in
tentiOn of the company, which will be
incorporated, to erect a $15O,OOO mill at
Stockton to make straw paper and
material, straw, be obtained any cheap
such quantities. The transportation
facilities could not be excelled, and
several sites convenient to railroad and
wharf are obtainable.
SANTA CLARA.
For the first time in five years the
water in the sub-strata of the Santa
Clara valley has reached the high-water
mark and the artesian wells have be-
gun to flow. 1t seems probable that
the previous soaking that the valley
has received brought the water nearly
up to the mark, and the last rain COM
pleted it. All the agricultural and
horticultural interests of the valley are
highly elated as the prospects for the
last spell was IS of an inch, making a
total of q inches for the season.
SANTA CRUZ.
General Dickinson and Adjutant-
General Seaman have arrived at Santa
Cruz to arrange for the transfer of part
of Laveaga Heights to the State and to
arrange for the survey of the site for
the division encampment.
STANISLAUS.
HI. j. Severns of Modesto stabbed his
wife with a pocket knife at the Alta
clearinghouse at Stockton. The blade
narrowly missed the .jugular vein. He
was eighty intoxicated. He was ar
rested, and it was found that his own
neck had been cut, but the long gashes
had not struck vital spot. He refused
to tell how the wound was inflicted.
Last May he shot his wife with a shot
gun in Modesto, but claimed it was an
accident. He was not prosecuted for
that shooting.
SANTA BARBARA.
The new Washington school in the
Seventh ward at Santa Barbara, for the
construction of which $4,000 bonds
were voted when the former building
was burned down several months ago,
has been completed. 1t contains six
large recitation rooms, all well lighted
and heated, together with storerooms,
basement playrooms and offices. There
is complete heating plant.
PACIFIC COAST.