Amador ledger., 1901-04-19
UNITED STATES.

| 'itCo DaIlcf WAS SnOC ana Killed Oy
ms wife at lndianola, Miss, the result
Jail.
| The Indians and traders say that
large numbers of cattle died on the Pine
Ridge Indian reservation during the
last storm.
Sparks FROM a switch engine set fire
TO the big elevator owned by the ST.
Louis Elevator and Storage Company,
causing loss of $3.50, 600.
Sabbatha Piginoli wounded his father
and shot and killed his brother at Pat
erson, n. j. The trouble was caused
py quarrel over game of cards.
There is intense excitement in Tekoa,
wash, over the discovery of rich placer
dlgglngs ON Santa creek, about twenty
miles east of that town, in Idaho.
A Central Pacific flyer was ditched
and burned near Wells, New. Two fire
men were killed and the costly Pull
man cars that made up the vestibuled
train were burned.
Kansas City has been ANNOYED by
footpads. Mrs. Isabella Thompson, 81
years of age, fatally wounded, her
skull being crushed with coupling pin
in attempting to rob her.
AT Grace Church, New York, on Palm
Sunday S107, 900 was the amount re-
ceived at the regular collection for the
| erection of more buildings desired by
the church. DIR. Huntington is the
pastor.
The largest sale ever consummated in
the Beaumont oil district, is when the
sum OF 81, 25O, 600 was paid for the prop
erty of the Texas Western Oil Conn
pany of Coriscana.
There are now nearly 100 patients
suffering from smallpox in the pest
house at Kansas City, Mo. Of the 915
sufferers since the outbreak of the cpl
demic only four have died.
1t has been announced that syndi-
cate has been formed in New York to
control the five leading wire glass COM
panies in the United States. The stock
will not be put on the market, but will
be held by the constituent companies.
The combined capital of the companies
represents 81, 100000.
A syndicate of Eastern capitalists,
headed by Albert johnson and Martin
Mullen; are seeking to establish rival
street-car system in Cleveland, D. Their
purpose is to parallel the present routes
and bid for patronage with a three-cent
fare as an inducement. Mullen is a
wealthy coal dealer in Cleveland.
Augustus B. Moulder and George S.
Chessman, composing the well-known
and hitherto leading brokerage COM
pany of Moulder & Chessman, of Colo
RADIO Springs, are missing. Their very
sudden disappearance has startled Colo
RADIO Springs mining circles with SEN
sational story of alleged defalcations
that have already reached $4,000.
William Williams, aged II, died from
wound received in fight which took
place over Is cents in a crap game at
Carbondale, mining camp near Des
Moines, la. Henry Hollins fired six
shots into the crowd of crap-shooters,
wounding Sam Johnson, Henry Brown
and William Williams. Rollins has
not yet been apprehended. johnson
and Brown will recover. All are col
ored.
Burglars at Michigantown, Indiana,
wrecked the safe in brick building
occupied by G. A. Marshall, merchant,
and after a desperate running battle
| with citizens, in which Marshall was
| slightly wounded and one of the rob-
bers probably fatally shot, escaped with
a small amount of booty. The safe
contained several hundred dollars in
cash and many valuable papers, and all
were practically destroyed by the force
of the explosion. The property damage
was $1,000
This summer an equestrian statue in
honor of General Slocum will be erected
on the Gettysburg battlefield by the
State of New York. The Women's Re
lief Corps of Ohio will erect monu-
ment in honor of Jennie Wade, the only
woman killed during the battle. A
monument will also be erected in honor
of cold John Burns.n A bill appropri-
ating 100000 for the erection of a mon
ument on the center square of Gettys-
burg has been presented to the Penn
sylvania Legislature.
The police are looking for the ex-
pugilist, Mike Conley, who is wanted
on charge of being implicated in the
murder of Charles Gildea, telegraph
operator, who died from injuries re-
ceived in a saloon fight. Conley was
the doOrkeeper of the place. The police
refuse 10 say what information they
have to connect Conley with the affair.
Mike Conley, or the Ithaca GIANT
as he was known throughout the coun
try, was the sparring partner at differ
ent times of both Jim Corbett and Bob
Fitzsimmons.
Alexander Sena, an italian contractor
of 95 Livingston street, Newark, N. j.,
is at private sanitarium in Brooklyn
recovering from an unusual operation.
Sena was seized with pleurisy eleven
months ago and empyema developed.
The pus which gathered in the pleural
cavity formed gas in the cellular It's
sue. The lungs became ruptured and
he suffered greatly. An incision about
four inches square was made in the
right side and about three inches of two
ribs were cut away. The wound was
sewed up after tube had been inserted
to carry off the gas. Sena was con-
scious throughout the operation, having
declined to take anesthetics. No groan
escaped him while the surgeons were
using the knife, but when the operation
was finished it was found that he had
almost bitten off the end of his tongue