Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-04-05
UNITED STATES.

An effort is to be made to Danish vice
from the tenement houses of New York.
| Mrs. Whitelaw Reid has offered 5000
10 aid in building a civil hospital In
Manila.
In Kansas there is a bill before the
Legislature to take census of the prai-
RE dogs of the State, with view Of ex-
terminating them.
Because she was not allowed to as
sumo control of the household funds.
Mrs: Elizabeth Preble, but one week
the bride of Frank Preble, 1928 Wood
street, Chicago, committed suicide. She
was % years old.
Il. M. Knox and his sister of New
York city have given $4,000 for the
erection of Methodist church in Ma
Mia, to be memorial of their deceased
father. A fine site has been procured
and work will soon begin.
A fearful tornado swept over the
southern part of Birmingham, Ala.
The number of killed is estimated at
twenty-five, of whom five are white.
The destruction of property is estimated
at quarter of a million dollars.
Mrs. Nathan Townsend, who lives
near Cass City, Mich, poisoned herself
and her two children, girl aged 8 years
and boy aged 10, with laudanum. All
three died. Family difficulties are be-
lieved to have been the cause of the
poisoning.
In the first mine explosion to occur
in the new Klondike region of Fayette
county, Pa, one man was killed in
stantly, five will die, and ten were
burned and crushed so terribly that it
Is doubtful If they will recover. The
dead man is an unknown italian.
w. A. Streator, grading contractor,
who ten days ago moved into the Mel
rose Hill house in which young Edward
Cudahy was held a prisoner awaiting
the payment of $4,000 ransom by his
father, shot at and, it is thought, fatally
wounded one of party of four or five
men who attempted to enter the house
supposedly for robbery.
Frank Juardo, former deputy con-
stable, was shot and killed at Bisbee,
a. T., by Deputy Constable johnson,
who was endeavoring to arrest him.
Juardo, who was under the influence of
liquor, was disturbing the peace and
furnishing his pistol in negro dive,
when Officers Foster and Johnson were
A robber who entered the residence
of the late Vice-President Hobart and
departed without any booty on finding
the silverware marked, left the follow
ing note in loving cup which had
been given to Mrs. Hobart by the Old
Ladies' Home Society for charitable
work: 81 humbly beg your pardon. 1
do not want to rob good people"
Charles Lattimer went into his wife's
millinery store at 506 West Sixty-third
street, Chicago, walked up behind Mrs.
Lattimer, who was examining q hat
preparatory to delivering it to Gus
toner, and without word shot her in
the head, killing her instantly. Lat
timer then placed the weapon to his
own head and fired, infiicting fatal
wound. Mr.. and Mrs. Lattimer had
been living apart for some time.
A cyclone struck the town of Pavilion,
Mich, a small village about twenty
miles southeast of Kalamazoo, which
wrecked couple of houses, uprooted
trees, tore down telegraph poles and
did much other damage. The storm
passed through Vicksburg and Scott's
Station, both small towns, doing great
damage. Nearly every building in the
path of the storm was wrecked. Large
orchards were destroyed and fences
were thrown down everywhere.
Twelve men assaulted in Chicago
each day for no other reason than that
they are Jews, with the average of one
death year growing out of these as
saults, were figures presented recently
at an Indignation meeting of Jewish
peddlers at Chicago. The police, the
speakers declared, made little effort to
protect members of their race from the
attacks of hOodlums. In several in
stances, it was said, the police had
looked on when such attacks were be-
ing made and had failed to interfere.
Arthur NJ. Tree, son of Lambert M.
Tree, former United States Minister to
Russia, began suit in the Superior Court
for an absolute divorce from Ethel F.
Tree, daughter of Marshall Field, head
of the house of Marshall, Field & Co.,
and the richest man in Chicago. The
suit is brought on the ground of deser-
ton. The parties were married Janu-
airy l, 1891, and lived together until
March l, 1899, when, plaintiff asserts,
defendant left his home and has since
refused to return.
With the aid of Louisville detectives
man was arrested ut Pineville, KY,
who is said to be ]. G.. Durham, who
is wanted in Santa Clara county, Cal,
on charge of wholesale murder. The
man is said to have killed Mrs. r. p.
McGlincy, Hattie Durham, Minnie
Schlessley, Colonel McGlincy, James
Wills and Robert Brisco ON the night
of May 26, 1896. The man arrested ans
wers fully the description of Durham,
although he maintains stolid indif-
ference aside from denying that he is
the man wanted.
The tallest chimney ON this continent
is being erected at Constable Hook,
Bayonne, n. j., whence come the
smoke and gases of which the people of
Staten island, the Jersey coast ada
cent and navigators of the harbor have
been complaining for the last five years.
The stack is being put up by the Ok
ford Copper Company, whose plant adj
joins that of the Standard Oil Company,
to carry off the smoke and gases from
its furnace which have been the chief
source of complaint.