Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-05-17
UNITED STATES.

The ocean liners arriving of late at
New York are averaging 1000 immi-
grants each.
Miss Frances Raymond, an actress,
committed suicide by inhaling gas in
her home at New York
Saloons in Kansas City were closed as
tight as drum Sunday, May 9Th, for
the first time in six years.
Two steamers, the first of number
to be operated by the Mexican Colorado
Navigation Company, have been
launched at Yuma.
A Burlington passenger train was
wrecked while passing Thayer, small
town in Iowa, causing the death OF En-
gineer S. d. Brown, of Burlington, and
injuring over score of passengers.
The Sunday-closing orders were for
the most part observed at Omaha May
9th. Two saloon-keepers were arrested
for failing to bolt their side doors, and
half dozen bOotblacks were arrested.
The Chicago Homeopathic Medical
College has determined to admit women
on an equal footing with men. Here
tOfore this has been the only home
opathic college in Chicago and the West
to exclude women.
A cloudburst at Fort Madison, Iowa,
flooded the streets to depth of five
feet. Mrs. Mary Carter, an aged wom-
an, was drowned in the cellar of her
home. The city was left in darkness,
the gas mains being filled with water.
AS the result of pitched battle be-
tween American and Mexican small
boys at Ell Paso, Tex, Anastacio Pailen,
8 years of age, is dead from the effects
of rifie-ball wound, and three Ameri-
can lads, whose ages range from II to
IA, are in Jail.
Four beautiful and valuable turquoises
from the Porterfield mines, in the Burro
mountains, New Mexico, were present.
ed to President Mckinley by Governor
Otero at Deming. The largest stone
weighed twenty carats and was superb
specimen.
Jesse r. King, living near Millheim,
Pa, shot and fatally wounded his bride
of two months and shot himself through
the heart, dying almost instantly. The
couple had quarreled and Mrs. King
decided to leave her husband. Unable
to persuade her to remain King shot
her and then killed himself.
A double murder has occurred in the
town of Warren, near Richfield Springs,
N. Y. The victims were Benjamin
Hoyt and Mrs. John c. Wallace. Hoyt
murdered Mrs. Wallace and was after
ward shot by Mr.. Wallace. Wallace is
ployed by him as hired man.
The Treasury Department has given
out that on or about June LIST, siren
operated by compressed air will be es-
tablished at Point Arguello light station
on the extreme outer end of Point Ar
guello, CAL, to sound during thick or
foggy weather blasts of two seconds du-
ration separated by silent intervals of
% seconds.
Anew departure in the basis of church
membership has been made by the
Maplewood Congregational Church of
Maiden, Mass. The change provides
for the enrolment of all baptized chill
dren upon the membership book of the
church with the understanding that
such relation shall be continued until
they indicate desire for formal ac-
ceptance or dissolution of the relation.
Winfield J. Hunt, said to be the son
of a wealthy contractor of Decatur, ILL.,,
and Miss Clara A. Rogers of the same
city were married in the County Jail of
Salt Lake by Justice Lochrie. Hunt,
who has been known in Salt Lake City
as Harry Wilson, was found guilty of
highway robbery, and, pending SEN
tence, was committed to jail. Miss
Rogers, who is said to have been
schoolmate of young Hunt in Decatur,
was in constant attendance on the trial.
Ten thousand clerks in Chicago are
specializing in stocks and grain. Most
of them are the class employed in La
Sale street and the adjacent neighbor-
hood, where the epidemic spreads easily
from employerto employe. Thousands
of clerks have become so absorbed in
the craze that they have bargained all
of their wages for weeks ahead to "loan
sharks" and are playing chance with
their yet unearned salaries. Some of
them are winning, others are not; still
others will be on the wrong side of the
ledger when final accounting comes.
Emil Mohr and Charles Refs were in
stantly killed at Davenport, Ia, while
pretending to hang August Bunk on a
pulley rope outside the Independence
Mailing Company's building. Mohr
and Refs with Gus Stems were teasing
Bunk and wound up by tying a rope
around his waist with the avowed in
tention of hanging him. The strain on
the rope caused the fastenings, sixty
feet above, to give way. An iron pull
lev struck Refs ON the head, crushing
his skull into shapeless mass. A fall
ing scantling Drained Mohr. Bunk was
slightly injured.
The Gardo House, known as came
LAS mansion" built by Brigham Young
for his favorite wife, Amelia Folsom
Young, and for years occupied by her,
has passed out of the hands of the
church. The property was sold to Col.
F. E. S. Holmes, of Salt Lake, and will
probably be occupied by him as resi-
dence. The historic mansion was built
when palatial residences were novelty
in Salt Lake. 1t was vacated by Anne
liza Folsom Young after the death of
Brigham Young, and for time was oc-
cupied by the late President Wood
ruff. The property was sold in the
name of President Snow, as trustee for
the church.